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Bill Brubaker

Wilbur Lee Brubaker

Positions: Third Baseman, Second Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: November 7, 1910 in Cleveland, OH
High School: Fairfax HS (Los Angeles, CA)
School: University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)(All Transactions)
Debut: September 8, 1932
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Braves 1932-1943

Final Game: July 11, 1943
Died: April 2, 1978 in Laguna Hills, CA
Cremated
Relatives: Grandfather of Dennis Rasmussen
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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
1932 PIT NL 21 3B 7 6 6 22 7 13 2 2 .909 2.86 .945 2.89
1933 PIT NL 22 3B 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 3.00
1934 PIT NL 23 3B 3 1 1 6 1 5 0 1 1.000 2.00 .945 2.97
1935 PIT NL 24 3B 5 2 2 9 3 5 1 0 .889 1.60 .941 2.86
1936 PIT NL 25 3B 145 145 143 365 134 209 22 8 .940 2.37 .947 2.67
1937 PIT NL 26 3B 115 114 111 330 98 216 16 16 .952 2.73 .954 2.87
1937 PIT NL 26 SS 3 3 3 18 8 9 1 1 .944 5.67 .951 5.30
1937 PIT NL 26 1B 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .990 10.30
1938 PIT NL 27 3B 18 16 16 64 27 29 8 4 .875 3.11 .945 3.03
1938 PIT NL 27 1B 9 7 7 78 76 2 0 4 1.000 8.67 .992 10.47
1938 PIT NL 27 SS 3 2 2 13 7 5 1 2 .923 4.00 .943 5.33
1938 PIT NL 27 LF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.20
1938 PIT NL 27 OF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.30
1939 PIT NL 28 2B 65 61 59 383 162 202 19 43 .950 5.60 .968 5.69
1939 PIT NL 28 3B 32 29 26 112 21 84 7 4 .938 3.28 .942 3.00
1939 PIT NL 28 SS 1 1 1 5 0 4 1 0 .800 4.00 .952 5.50
1940 PIT NL 29 3B 19 15 14 66 23 40 3 4 .955 3.32 .948 3.01
1940 PIT NL 29 SS 8 2 0 8 4 4 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 5.50
1940 PIT NL 29 1B 4 2 2 27 25 2 0 1 1.000 6.75 .990 10.48
1943 BSN NL 32 3B 5 3 2 9 2 5 2 0 .778 1.40 .948 3.16
1943 BSN NL 32 1B 3 0 0 8 7 1 0 2 1.000 2.67 .992 10.47
10 Seasons 3B 350 331 321 984 316 607 61 39 .938 2.64 .949 2.82
1 Season 2B 65 61 59 383 162 202 19 43 .950 5.60 .968 5.69
4 Seasons 1B 17 9 9 115 110 5 0 7 1.000 6.76 .992 10.46
4 Seasons SS 15 8 6 44 19 22 3 3 .932 2.73 .949 5.43
1 Season LF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.20
1 Season OF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.30
10 Seasons TOT 448 409 395 1527 608 836 83 92 .946 3.22 .957 3.61
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% 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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1932 PIT NL 21 7 6 7 7 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1933 PIT NL 22 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1934 PIT NL 23 3 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1935 PIT NL 24 6 2 6 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1936 PIT NL 25 145 145 145 145 0 0 0 0 145 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1937 PIT NL 26 120 117 120 119 0 0 1 0 115 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1938 PIT NL 27 45 25 45 31 0 0 9 0 18 3 1 0 0 1 0 10 4
1939 PIT NL 28 100 91 100 95 0 0 0 65 32 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1940 PIT NL 29 38 19 38 31 0 0 4 0 19 8 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1943 BSN NL 32 13 3 13 8 0 0 3 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
10 Seasons 479 409 479 445 0 0 17 65 350 15 1 0 0 1 0 30 4
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

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1939 NL  19 (3rd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1936 NL  145 (1st)
1937 NL  115 (3rd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1936 NL  134 (1st)
1937 NL  98 (5th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1936 NL  209 (3rd)
1937 NL  216 (4th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1936 NL  22 (1st)
1937 NL  16 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1937 NL  2.73 (5th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1937 NL  .952 (4th)

Youngest s c a p y
1932 NL  born 1910-11-07 (8th)

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