Buzz Boyle

Ralph Francis Boyle

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 9, 1908 in Cincinnati, OH
High School: Elder HS (Cincinnati, OH)
School: Xavier University (Cincinnati, OH)(All Transactions)
Debut: September 11, 1929
Teams (by GP): Dodgers/Braves 1929-1935

Final Game: September 29, 1935
Died: November 12, 1978 in Cincinnati, OH
Buried: St. Joseph New Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH
Relatives: Brother of Jim Boyle
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	Awards
1929	BSN	NL	21	OF	17	15	14	33	32	1	0	0	1.000	1.94	.973	2.47
1929	BSN	NL	21	LF	16	15	14	32	31	1	0	0	1.000	2.00	.971	2.10
1929	BSN	NL	21	CF	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.980	2.90
1930	BSN	NL	22	CF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.80
1930	BSN	NL	22	OF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.40
1933	BRO	NL	25	OF	90	75	71	202	195	2	5	0	.975	2.19	.977	2.43
1933	BRO	NL	25	LF	48	36	33	81	77	2	2	0	.975	1.65	.976	2.29
1933	BRO	NL	25	CF	35	33	32	99	98	0	1	0	.990	2.80	.979	2.78
1933	BRO	NL	25	RF	10	6	6	22	20	0	2	0	.909	2.00	.975	2.23
1934	BRO	NL	26	OF	121	108	98	304	275	20	9	1	.970	2.44	.973	2.37	MVP-16
1934	BRO	NL	26	RF	84	76	73	221	199	14	8	1	.964	2.54	.970	2.22	MVP-16
1934	BRO	NL	26	CF	20	17	14	52	46	5	1	0	.981	2.55	.979	2.70	MVP-16
1934	BRO	NL	26	LF	20	15	11	31	30	1	0	0	1.000	1.55	.969	2.19	MVP-16
1935	BRO	NL	27	OF	124	119	106	272	244	18	10	5	.963	2.11	.971	2.42
1935	BRO	NL	27	RF	107	102	92	225	198	17	10	5	.956	2.01	.968	2.17
1935	BRO	NL	27	CF	17	17	14	47	46	1	0	0	1.000	2.76	.974	2.83
	5 Seasons			OF	353	317	289	811	746	41	24	6	.970	2.23	.973	2.41
	3 Seasons			RF	201	184	171	468	417	31	20	6	.957	2.23	.969	2.19
	3 Seasons			LF	84	66	58	144	138	4	2	0	.986	1.69	.973	2.23
	5 Seasons			CF	74	67	60	199	191	6	2	0	.990	2.66	.978	2.77
	5 Seasons			TOT	353	317	289	811	746	41	24	6	.970	2.23	.973	2.41

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1929	BSN	NL	21	17	15	17	17	16	1	0	17	0	0
1930	BSN	NL	22	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
1933	BRO	NL	25	93	75	93	90	48	35	10	90	3	0
1934	BRO	NL	26	128	108	128	121	20	20	84	121	7	0
1935	BRO	NL	27	127	119	127	124	0	17	107	124	2	1
	5 Seasons			366	317	366	353	84	74	201	353	12	1

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)) 1934 NL (16, 5%) 0.05 Career Shares (1113th)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1934 NL 199 (5th)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1934 NL 14 (3rd) 1935 NL 17 (2nd)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1934 NL 8 (2nd) 1935 NL 10 (2nd)
Assists as OF s c a p y 1934 NL 20 (1st) 1935 NL 18 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1934 NL 2.54 (1st)	Youngest s c a p y 1929 NL born 1908-02-09 (7th)

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