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Zeke Bonura

Henry John Bonura

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: September 20, 1908 in New Orleans, LA
High School: St. Stanislaus HS (Bay St. Louis, MS)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 17, 1934
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Senators/Giants/Cubs 1934-1940

Final Game: September 26, 1940
Died: March 9, 1987 in New Orleans, LA
Buried: Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, LA
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1934 CHW AL 25 1B 127 127 126 1321 1239 77 5 94 .996 10.36 .991 10.00
1935 CHW AL 26 1B 138 137 137 1513 1421 83 9 102 .994 10.90 .992 10.16 MVP-15
1936 CHW AL 27 1B 146 146 144 1614 1500 107 7 150 .996 11.01 .991 9.93 MVP-19
1937 CHW AL 28 1B 115 115 107 1190 1114 63 13 123 .989 10.23 .991 9.84
1938 WSH AL 29 1B 129 128 125 1311 1209 93 9 132 .993 10.09 .990 9.77
1939 NYG NL 30 1B 122 121 117 1306 1205 90 11 110 .992 10.61 .989 10.24
1940 TOT MLB 31 1B 123 122 121 1220 1120 82 18 104 .985 9.77 .989 10.04
1940 WSH AL 31 1B 79 79 79 768 712 42 14 70 .982 9.54 .989 9.80
1940 CHC NL 31 1B 44 43 42 452 408 40 4 34 .991 10.18 .990 10.47
7 Seasons 1B 900 896 877 9475 8808 595 72 815 .992 10.45 .991 10.00
7 Seasons TOT 900 896 877 9475 8808 595 72 815 .992 10.45 .991 10.00
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1934 CHW AL 25 127 127 127 127 0 0 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1935 CHW AL 26 138 137 138 138 0 0 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1936 CHW AL 27 148 146 148 146 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1937 CHW AL 28 116 115 116 115 0 0 115 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1938 WSH AL 29 137 128 137 129 0 0 129 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1939 NYG NL 30 123 121 123 122 0 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1940 WSH AL 31 79 79 79 79 0 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1940 CHC NL 31 49 43 49 44 0 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
7 Seasons 917 896 917 900 0 0 900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1935 AL (15, 9%)
1936 AL (19, 1%)
0.10 Career Shares (916th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1935 AL  1,421 (5th)
1936 AL  1,500 (1st)
1938 AL  1,209 (5th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1936 AL  146 (4th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1935 AL  1,421 (5th)
1936 AL  1,500 (1st)
1938 AL  1,209 (5th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1935 AL  83 (4th)
1936 AL  107 (1st)
1938 AL  93 (5th)
1939 NL  90 (4th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1937 AL  13 (2nd)
1940 AL  14 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1934 AL  10.36 (2nd)
1935 AL  10.90 (1st)
1936 AL  11.01 (1st)
1937 AL  10.23 (2nd)
1938 AL  10.09 (3rd)
1939 NL  10.61 (2nd)
Career  10.45 (41st)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1934 AL  .996 (1st)
1935 AL  .994 (2nd)
1936 AL  .996 (1st)
1938 AL  .993 (1st)
1939 NL  .992 (3rd)
Career  .992 (95th)

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