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John Clapp

John Edgar Clapp

Positions: Catcher and Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 194 lb.

Born: July 15, 1851 in Ithaca, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: April 26, 1872
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Blues/BrownStockings/Reds/Bisons/... 1872-1883

Final Game: September 28, 1883
Died: December 18, 1904 in Ithaca, NY
Buried: Lake View Cemetery, Ithaca, NY
Relatives: Brother of Aaron Clapp
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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
1872 MAN NA 20 C 19 103 66 21 16 1 .845 4.58 .847 5.45 10
1872 MAN NA 20 SS 2 8 2 5 1 2 .875 3.50 .774 4.80
1872 MAN NA 20 1B 1 7 6 0 1 2 .857 6.00 .930 10.40
1872 MAN NA 20 OF 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .820 1.90 0-1-0
1873 ATH NA 21 C 43 243 182 35 26 2 .893 5.05 .841 5.06 53
1873 ATH NA 21 SS 6 23 1 15 7 0 .696 2.67 .779 5.07
1873 ATH NA 21 2B 1 4 0 2 2 0 .500 2.00 .830 5.80
1873 ATH NA 21 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00 0-1-0
1874 ATH NA 22 C 27 173 126 23 24 3 .861 5.52 .801 5.48 11
1874 ATH NA 22 OF 15 30 19 1 10 1 .667 1.33 .802 2.02 0-1-14
1874 ATH NA 22 SS 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .790 4.70
1875 ATH NA 23 C 60 420 305 62 53 4 .874 6.12 .823 5.71 19
1876 STL NL 24 C 61 445 333 56 56 5 .874 6.38 .805 5.81 52
1876 STL NL 24 OF 4 3 2 0 1 0 .667 0.50 .847 2.10 0-1-3
1876 STL NL 24 2B 1 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 .860 5.70
1877 STL NL 25 C 53 353 269 44 40 2 .887 5.91 .876 6.13 45
1877 STL NL 25 OF 10 9 7 0 2 0 .778 0.70 .831 1.88 2-0-9
1877 STL NL 25 1B 1 10 9 1 0 0 1.000 10.00 .951 10.90
1878 IND NL 26 OF 44 73 60 5 8 0 .890 1.48 .834 1.77 44-0-0
1878 IND NL 26 1B 12 150 143 2 5 6 .967 12.08 .956 11.51
1878 IND NL 26 C 9 43 29 11 3 0 .930 4.44 .891 7.09 10
1878 IND NL 26 SS 3 12 1 8 3 0 .750 3.00 .877 4.30
1878 IND NL 26 2B 1 10 1 7 2 0 .800 8.00 .874 6.40
1879 BUF NL 27 C 63 382 286 60 36 4 .906 5.49 .889 6.45 56
1879 BUF NL 27 OF 7 15 11 0 4 0 .733 1.57 .838 1.89 0-0-7
1880 CIN NL 28 C 73 603 420 121 62 5 .897 7.41 .894 6.88 56
1880 CIN NL 28 OF 10 17 16 0 1 0 .941 1.60 .855 1.85 1-9-0
1881 CLV NL 29 C 48 319 211 73 35 8 .890 5.92 .912 6.21 55
1881 CLV NL 29 OF 21 52 37 6 9 2 .827 2.05 .871 2.06 15-6-0
1883 NYG NL 31 C 16 124 80 31 13 1 .895 6.94 .884 6.36 26
1883 NYG NL 31 OF 5 10 7 1 2 0 .800 1.60 .849 1.96 0-3-2
11 Seasons C 472 3208 2307 537 364 35 .887 6.03 .861 6.07 393
10 Seasons OF 118 210 160 13 37 3 .824 1.47 .841 1.90 62-22-35
3 Seasons 1B 14 167 158 3 6 8 .964 11.50 .955 11.39
4 Seasons SS 12 44 4 29 11 2 .750 2.75 .805 4.80
3 Seasons 2B 3 15 1 9 5 0 .667 3.33 .861 5.97
11 Seasons TOT 619 3644 2630 591 423 48 .884 5.20 .863 5.37 62-22-35 393
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
1872 MAN NA 20 19 19 0 19 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0
1873 ATH NA 21 45 45 0 43 0 1 0 6 0 1 0 1 0
1874 ATH NA 22 39 39 0 27 0 0 0 1 0 1 14 15 0
1875 ATH NA 23 60 60 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1876 STL NL 24 64 64 0 61 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 4 0
1877 STL NL 25 60 60 0 53 1 0 0 0 2 0 9 10 0
1878 IND NL 26 63 63 0 9 12 1 0 3 44 0 0 44 0
1879 BUF NL 27 70 70 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0
1880 CIN NL 28 80 80 0 73 0 0 0 0 1 9 0 10 0
1881 CLV NL 29 68 68 0 48 0 0 0 0 15 6 0 21 0
1883 NYG NL 31 20 20 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 5 0
11 Seasons 588 588 0 472 14 3 0 12 62 22 35 118 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

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1880 NL  63 (4th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1873 NA  43 (4th)
1875 NA  60 (3rd)
1876 NL  61 (2nd)
1877 NL  53 (3rd)
1879 NL  63 (3rd)
1880 NL  73 (2nd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1873 NA  182 (3rd)
1875 NA  305 (3rd)
1876 NL  333 (1st)
1877 NL  269 (3rd)
1879 NL  286 (5th)
1880 NL  420 (2nd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1873 NA  35 (5th)
1875 NA  62 (3rd)
1876 NL  56 (2nd)
1877 NL  44 (3rd)
1880 NL  121 (2nd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1875 NA  53 (5th)
1876 NL  56 (4th)
1877 NL  40 (2nd)
1880 NL  62 (2nd)
1881 NL  35 (4th)
Career  364 (12th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1873 NA  53 (2nd)
1876 NL  52 (1st)
1877 NL  45 (3rd)
1879 NL  56 (5th)
1880 NL  56 (4th)
1881 NL  55 (4th)
Career  393 (11th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1873 NA  5.05 (2nd)
1875 NA  6.12 (2nd)
1876 NL  6.38 (1st)
1877 NL  5.91 (3rd)
1880 NL  7.41 (2nd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1873 NA  .893 (4th)
1875 NA  .874 (3rd)
1876 NL  .874 (2nd)
1877 NL  .887 (3rd)
1879 NL  .906 (3rd)
1880 NL  .897 (5th)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1878 NL  .890 (3rd)

                                         

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