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Sam Bowens

Samuel Edward Bowens

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 188 lb.

Born: March 23, 1938 in Wilmington, NC
High School: Williston HS (Wilmington, NC)
School: Tennessee State University (Nashville, TN)
Signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent in 1960. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 7, 1963
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Senators 1963-1969

Final Game: July 26, 1969
Died: March 28, 2003 in Wilmington, NC
Buried: Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, Wilmington, NC
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1963 BAL AL 25 OF 13 13 11 107.2 21 20 0 1 0 .952 -4 -46 1.67 1.54 .981 2.16 2.16
1963 BAL AL 25 RF 13 13 11 107.2 22 21 0 1 0 .955 -4 -46 1.76 1.62 .980 2.01 2.01
1964 BAL AL 26 OF 135 132 104 1166.1 262 249 8 5 1 .981 4 4 1.98 1.90 .980 2.04 2.03
1964 BAL AL 26 RF 121 116 92 1008.1 216 203 8 5 1 .977 -1 -1 1.88 1.74 .984 1.88 1.87
1964 BAL AL 26 LF 32 16 12 158.0 42 42 0 0 0 1.000 5 36 2.39 1.31 .975 1.81 1.80
1965 BAL AL 27 OF 68 53 49 496.2 113 108 3 2 1 .982 5 12 2.01 1.63 .978 2.04 2.03
1965 BAL AL 27 RF 58 44 41 406.2 93 88 3 2 1 .978 4 11 2.01 1.57 .978 1.85 1.84
1965 BAL AL 27 LF 11 9 8 90.0 20 20 0 0 0 1.000 1 17 2.00 1.82 .979 1.87 1.86
1966 BAL AL 28 OF 68 56 45 545.0 126 114 7 5 2 .960 1 3 2.00 1.78 .982 2.10 2.10
1966 BAL AL 28 RF 41 28 27 271.1 64 57 3 4 1 .938 0 2 1.99 1.46 .979 1.94 1.94
1966 BAL AL 28 LF 32 24 17 245.2 50 47 2 1 0 .980 1 5 1.80 1.53 .980 1.83 1.82
1966 BAL AL 28 CF 4 4 1 28.0 10 8 2 0 1 1.000 -0 -9 3.21 2.50 .986 2.51 2.52
1967 BAL AL 29 OF 32 26 22 237.0 44 41 2 1 0 .977 1 7 1.63 1.34 .980 2.05 2.06
1967 BAL AL 29 LF 16 11 8 106.1 24 21 2 1 0 .958 2 21 1.95 1.44 .976 1.87 1.87
1967 BAL AL 29 RF 16 15 14 130.2 22 22 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -5 1.52 1.38 .981 1.82 1.82
1968 WSA AL 30 OF 27 20 19 197.1 46 42 2 2 0 .957 -1 -8 2.01 1.63 .981 2.08 2.07
1968 WSA AL 30 RF 14 11 11 107.2 21 20 0 1 0 .952 -1 -9 1.67 1.43 .977 1.88 1.87
1968 WSA AL 30 LF 11 6 6 65.2 17 15 1 1 0 .941 -1 -15 2.19 1.45 .978 1.85 1.84
1968 WSA AL 30 CF 3 3 2 24.0 6 5 1 0 0 1.000 0 15 2.25 2.00 .987 2.51 2.53
1969 WSA AL 31 OF 30 13 9 148.0 34 32 1 1 0 .971 1 11 2.01 1.10 .978 2.13 2.13
1969 WSA AL 31 RF 22 9 7 113.0 22 20 1 1 0 .955 1 8 1.67 0.95 .974 1.91 1.91
1969 WSA AL 31 LF 6 2 1 19.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0 32 2.37 0.83 .978 1.99 1.98
1969 WSA AL 31 CF 3 2 1 16.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 2.81 1.67 .982 2.48 2.50
7 Seasons OF 373 313 259 2898.0 646 606 23 17 4 .974 7 3 1.95 1.69 .980 2.06 2.06
7 Seasons RF 285 236 203 2145.1 460 431 15 14 3 .970 -2 -1 1.87 1.56 .981 1.89 1.88
6 Seasons LF 108 68 52 684.2 158 150 5 3 0 .981 9 15 2.04 1.44 .978 1.84 1.84
3 Seasons CF 10 9 4 68.0 21 18 3 0 1 1.000 0 2 2.78 2.10 .985 2.50 2.52
7 Seasons TOT 373 313 259 2898.0 646 606 23 17 4 .974 7 3 1.95 1.69 .980 2.06 2.06
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
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
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1963 BAL AL 25 RF -4 -46 -3 -2 -1 -1
1964 BAL AL 26 RF -1 -1 1 0 0 -2
1964 BAL AL 26 LF 5 36 5 0 4 0
1965 BAL AL 27 RF 4 11 2 -1 3 2
1965 BAL AL 27 LF 1 17 1 -0 2 0
1966 BAL AL 28 RF 0 2 2 1 0 -1
1966 BAL AL 28 LF 1 5 0 -1 1 1
1966 BAL AL 28 CF -0 -9 -0 0 -0 0
1967 BAL AL 29 LF 2 21 1 2 -1 1
1967 BAL AL 29 RF -0 -5 -0 1 -1 0
1968 WSA AL 30 RF -1 -9 -1 -1 -0 0
1968 WSA AL 30 LF -1 -15 0 -0 0 -1
1968 WSA AL 30 CF 0 15 -1 0 -1 1
1969 WSA AL 31 RF 1 8 -0 -0 -0 1
1969 WSA AL 31 LF 0 32 0 1 -0 0
1969 WSA AL 31 CF 0 0 0 0 -0 0
7 Seasons RF -2 -1 -1 -2 1 -1
6 Seasons LF 9 15 8 1 7 1
3 Seasons CF 0 2 -1 0 -1 1
7 Seasons TOT 7 3 6 -1 7 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1963 BAL AL 25 15 13 15 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 0 2 0
1964 BAL AL 26 139 132 139 135 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 121 135 0 6 1
1965 BAL AL 27 84 53 84 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 58 68 0 16 0
1966 BAL AL 28 89 56 89 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 4 41 68 0 22 2
1967 BAL AL 29 62 26 62 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 16 32 0 29 3
1968 WSA AL 30 57 20 57 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 3 14 27 0 31 3
1969 WSA AL 31 33 13 33 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 22 30 0 4 6
7 Seasons 479 313 479 373 0 0 0 0 0 0 108 10 285 373 0 110 15
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.

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1963 BAL AL 25 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 4 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 4 1 0 20 7 35.0% 13 0 0.0% 0 484 52% 75% 25% 45 47%
1964 BAL AL 26 5 0 4 1 1 8 1 3 1 2 47 14 0 26 5 1 14 7 1 7 1 0 20 16 1 114 43 37.7% 68 3 2.6% 5 4147 62% 79% 28% 397 53%
1965 BAL AL 27 2 0 2 0 1 3 0 0 3 0 12 5 2 4 2 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 5 4 1 26 14 53.8% 9 3 11.5% 0 1655 64% 80% 30% 146 62%
1966 BAL AL 28 4 0 4 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 13 2 0 6 1 0 3 2 0 3 2 0 5 3 0 30 10 33.3% 20 0 0.0% 3 1126 61% 78% 26% 102 58%
1967 BAL AL 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 12 5 41.7% 7 0 0.0% 0 522 51% 79% 25% 45 49%
1968 WSA AL 30 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 6 4 66.7% 2 0 0.0% 0 454 63% 81% 25% 36 56%
1969 WSA AL 31 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 6 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 8 6 75.0% 1 1 12.5% 0 465 59% 80% 26% 42 50%
7 Seasons 14 0 13 1 4 15 1 4 6 2 97 35 3 43 9 1 22 14 1 15 3 0 39 28 2 216 89 41.2% 120 7 3.2% 8 8853 61% 79% 27% 813 54%
MLB Averages 40.1% 3.2% 64% 79% 27% 54%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1964 BAL AL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 13 12 92.3% 1 0 0.0% 0 636 52% 80% 30% 64 66%
1965 BAL AL 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 5 3 60.0% 2 0 0.0% 0 353 54% 80% 28% 36 56%
1966 BAL AL 28 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 12 9 1 8 3 0 4 4 0 3 0 0 5 5 0 32 21 65.6% 10 1 3.1% 1 1019 61% 79% 27% 99 49%
1967 BAL AL 29 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 6 5 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 11 7 63.6% 4 0 0.0% 2 436 60% 72% 22% 47 49%
1968 WSA AL 30 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 11 6 54.5% 5 0 0.0% 1 289 65% 81% 27% 32 50%
1969 WSA AL 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 78 68% 79% 32% 6 83%
6 Seasons 3 0 2 1 0 5 0 3 1 0 33 27 1 14 3 0 7 5 0 5 1 0 13 13 0 72 49 68.1% 22 1 1.4% 4 2811 58% 78% 27% 284 55%
MLB Averages 58.3% 2.7% 64% 79% 27% 48%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1966 BAL AL 28 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.0% 3 1 25.0% 1 119 74% 76% 24% 11 82%
1968 WSA AL 30 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 2 66.7% 0 1 33.3% 0 107 59% 74% 22% 14 43%
1969 WSA AL 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 50.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 70 59% 79% 27% 7 71%
3 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 2 0 9 3 33.3% 4 2 22.2% 1 296 65% 76% 24% 32 63%
MLB Averages 40.8% 2.4% 64% 79% 27% 56%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1964 AL  121 (5th)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1964 AL  8 (5th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1964 AL  5 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1964 AL  5 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1965 AL  4 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1964 AL  1.88 (5th)

                           

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