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Kitty Bransfield

William Edward Bransfield

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 207 lb.

Born: January 7, 1875 in Worcester, MA (All Transactions)
Debut: August 22, 1898
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Pirates/Beaneaters/Cubs 1898-1911

Final Game: September 14, 1911
Died: May 1, 1947 in Worcester, MA
Buried: St. John Cemetery, Worcester, MA
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1898 BSN NL 23 C 4 9 8 0 1 0 .889 2.00 .953 4.82 0 2 0 0% 44%
1898 BSN NL 23 1B 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 4.00 .978 10.30
1901 PIT NL 26 1B 139 1454 1374 52 28 72 .981 10.26 .978 10.25
1902 PIT NL 27 1B 101 1123 1064 41 18 40 .984 10.94 .981 10.57
1903 PIT NL 28 1B 127 1463 1347 88 28 82 .981 11.30 .977 10.56
1904 PIT NL 29 1B 139 1573 1454 89 30 70 .981 11.10 .983 10.68
1905 PHI NL 30 1B 151 1513 1398 92 23 75 .985 9.87 .981 10.76
1906 PHI NL 31 1B 139 1435 1318 88 29 57 .980 10.12 .984 10.79
1907 PHI NL 32 1B 92 936 862 53 21 46 .978 9.95 .984 10.58
1908 PHI NL 33 1B 143 1583 1472 89 22 67 .986 10.92 .986 11.07
1909 PHI NL 34 1B 138 1482 1377 89 16 71 .989 10.62 .985 10.83
1910 PHI NL 35 1B 110 1097 1026 51 20 82 .982 9.79 .984 10.40
1911 TOT NL 36 1B 11 107 101 5 1 8 .991 9.64 .985 10.23
1911 PHI NL 36 1B 8 79 74 4 1 2 .987 9.75 .985 10.22
1911 CHC NL 36 1B 3 28 27 1 0 6 1.000 9.33 .985 10.23
12 Seasons 1B 1291 13770 12797 737 236 670 .983 10.48 .982 10.66
1 Season C 4 9 8 0 1 0 .889 2.00 .953 4.82 0 2 0 0% 44%
12 Seasons TOT 1295 13779 12805 737 237 670 .983 10.46 .982 10.64 0 2 0 0% 44%
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 P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1898 BSN NL 23 5 5 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1901 PIT NL 26 139 139 0 0 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1902 PIT NL 27 102 102 0 0 101 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1903 PIT NL 28 127 127 0 0 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1904 PIT NL 29 139 139 0 0 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1905 PHI NL 30 151 151 0 0 151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1906 PHI NL 31 140 140 0 0 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1907 PHI NL 32 94 94 0 0 92 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1908 PHI NL 33 144 144 0 0 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1909 PHI NL 34 140 140 0 0 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1910 PHI NL 35 123 123 0 0 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1911 PHI NL 36 23 23 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1911 CHC NL 36 3 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Seasons 1330 1330 0 4 1291 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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

Putouts† s c a p y
1901 NL  1,374 (2nd)
1902 NL  1,064 (3rd)
1903 NL  1,347 (2nd)
1904 NL  1,454 (3rd)
1905 NL  1,398 (4th)
1906 NL  1,318 (5th)
1908 NL  1,472 (3rd)
1909 NL  1,377 (4th)
Career  12,805 (76th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1901 NL  139 (2nd)
1902 NL  101 (4th)
1903 NL  127 (3rd)
1904 NL  139 (4th)
1905 NL  151 (1st)
1906 NL  139 (3rd)
1908 NL  143 (4th)
1909 NL  138 (3rd)
Career  1,291 (86th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1901 NL  1,374 (2nd)
1902 NL  1,064 (3rd)
1903 NL  1,347 (2nd)
1904 NL  1,454 (3rd)
1905 NL  1,398 (4th)
1906 NL  1,318 (5th)
1908 NL  1,472 (3rd)
1909 NL  1,377 (4th)
Career  12,797 (68th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1902 NL  41 (5th)
1903 NL  88 (2nd)
1904 NL  89 (5th)
1905 NL  92 (2nd)
1906 NL  88 (3rd)
1908 NL  89 (4th)
1909 NL  89 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1901 NL  28 (2nd)
1902 NL  18 (4th)
1903 NL  28 (5th)
1904 NL  30 (1st)
1905 NL  23 (5th)
1906 NL  29 (2nd)
1907 NL  21 (4th)
1908 NL  22 (3rd)
1909 NL  16 (5th)
1910 NL  20 (4th)
Career  236 (20th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1901 NL  10.26 (4th)
1902 NL  10.94 (1st)
1903 NL  11.30 (1st)
1904 NL  11.10 (3rd)
1908 NL  10.92 (5th)
1909 NL  10.62 (5th)
Career  10.48 (39th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1901 NL  .981 (3rd)
1902 NL  .984 (2nd)
1903 NL  .981 (4th)
1905 NL  .985 (3rd)
1909 NL  .989 (2nd)

             

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