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Doc Bushong

Albert John Bushong

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: September 15, 1856 in Philadelphia, PA
High School: Central HS (Philadelphia, PA)
School: University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) (All Transactions)
Debut: July 19, 1875
Teams (by GP): Browns/RubyLegs/Blues/Bridegrooms/Athletics/... 1875-1890

Final Game: September 9, 1890
Died: August 19, 1908 in Brooklyn, NY
Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
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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 G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1875 BRA NA 18 C 1 5 4 0 1 1 .800 4.00 .824 5.70 0
1876 ATH NL 19 C 5 39 24 6 9 0 .769 6.00 .805 5.82 12
1880 WOR NL 23 C 40 367 261 76 30 6 .918 8.43 .894 6.88 30
1880 WOR NL 23 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.50
1880 WOR NL 23 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.80 0-0-1
1881 WOR NL 24 C 76 536 368 124 44 10 .918 6.47 .912 6.21 53
1882 WOR NL 25 C 69 456 308 101 47 8 .897 5.93 .909 6.75 56
1883 CLV NL 26 C 63 504 370 88 46 5 .909 7.27 .884 6.36 47
1884 CLV NL 27 C 62 511 355 98 58 11 .886 7.31 .895 7.37 95
1884 CLV NL 27 OF 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .870 1.80 0-1-0
1885 STL AA 28 C 85 591 429 122 40 10 .932 6.48 .908 6.94 71
1885 STL AA 28 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00
1886 STL AA 29 C 106 829 647 134 48 14 .942 7.37 .910 7.19 70
1886 STL AA 29 1B 1 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 6.00 .968 10.30
1887 STL AA 30 C 52 317 201 93 23 3 .927 5.65 .893 6.26 41
1887 STL AA 30 3B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.35
1887 STL AA 30 OF 2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.50 .897 2.05 0-0-2
1888 BRO AA 31 C 69 494 347 105 42 8 .915 6.55 .914 7.13 47
1889 BRO AA 32 C 25 141 85 41 15 5 .894 5.04 .917 6.26 20
1890 BRO NL 33 C 15 104 82 13 9 1 .913 6.33 .926 6.10 11 38 12 24% 37%
1890 BRO NL 33 OF 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.90 0-2-0
13 Seasons C 668 4894 3481 1001 412 82 .916 6.71 .903 6.77 553 38 12 24% 37%
4 Seasons OF 6 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0.67 .890 1.92 0-3-3
3 Seasons 3B 4 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.30
1 Season 1B 1 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 6.00 .968 10.30
13 Seasons TOT 679 4904 3491 1001 412 82 .916 6.62 .903 6.71 0-3-3 553 38 12 24% 37%
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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
1875 BRA NA 18 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1876 ATH NL 19 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1880 WOR NL 23 41 41 0 40 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
1881 WOR NL 24 76 76 0 76 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1882 WOR NL 25 69 69 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1883 CLV NL 26 63 63 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1884 CLV NL 27 62 62 0 62 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
1885 STL AA 28 85 85 0 85 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1886 STL AA 29 107 107 0 106 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1887 STL AA 30 53 53 0 52 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0
1888 BRO AA 31 69 69 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1889 BRO AA 32 25 25 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1890 BRO NL 33 16 16 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0
13 Seasons 672 672 0 668 1 0 4 0 0 3 3 6 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1881 NL  76 (2nd)
1882 NL  69 (2nd)
1883 NL  63 (4th)
1885 AA  85 (1st)
1886 AA  106 (1st)
1888 AA  69 (2nd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1881 NL  368 (2nd)
1882 NL  308 (4th)
1883 NL  370 (3rd)
1885 AA  429 (1st)
1886 AA  647 (1st)
1888 AA  347 (5th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1880 NL  76 (5th)
1881 NL  124 (1st)
1882 NL  101 (2nd)
1883 NL  88 (5th)
1884 NL  98 (4th)
1885 AA  122 (1st)
1886 AA  134 (3rd)
Career  1,001 (46th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1881 NL  44 (1st)
1882 NL  47 (1st)
1883 NL  46 (5th)
1884 NL  58 (3rd)
1885 AA  40 (2nd)
1886 AA  48 (4th)
1888 AA  42 (2nd)
Career  412 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1881 NL  53 (5th)
1882 NL  56 (3rd)
1884 NL  95 (1st)
1885 AA  71 (3rd)
1886 AA  70 (5th)
Career  553 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1881 NL  6.47 (3rd)
1883 NL  7.27 (2nd)
1884 NL  7.31 (3rd)
1885 AA  6.48 (4th)
1886 AA  7.37 (2nd)
1888 AA  6.55 (3rd)
Career  6.71 (33rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1881 NL  .918 (4th)
1883 NL  .909 (3rd)
1885 AA  .932 (3rd)
1886 AA  .942 (1st)
1888 AA  .915 (3rd)

Oldest s c a p y
1889 AA  born 1856-09-15 (6th)
1890 NL  born 1856-09-15 (7th)

Youngest s c a p y
1875 NA  born 1856-09-15 (4th)
1876 NL  born 1856-09-15 (5th)

                                         

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