Tommy Clarke

Thomas Aloysius Clarke

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: May 9, 1888 in New York, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: August 26, 1909
Teams (by GP): Reds/Cubs 1909-1918

Final Game: August 21, 1918
Died: August 14, 1945 in Corona, NY
Buried: St. John Cemetery, Middle Village, NY
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	Awards
1909	CIN	NL	21	C	17			115	85	26	4	1	.965	6.53	.965	6.27	1	20	20	50%	45%
1910	CIN	NL	22	C	56			277	217	52	8	3	.971	4.80	.973	6.30	8	42	35	45%	44%
1911	CIN	NL	23	C	81			399	313	74	12	10	.970	4.78	.966	6.44	4	59	54	48%	44%
1911	CIN	NL	23	1B	1			6	5	0	1	1	.833	5.00	.985	10.20
1912	CIN	NL	24	C	63			302	239	58	5	7	.983	4.71	.969	6.31	2	58	45	44%	44%
1913	CIN	NL	25	C	100			520	378	131	11	5	.979	5.09	.970	6.29	8	112	80	42%	44%
1914	CIN	NL	26	C	106			596	448	132	16	12	.973	5.47	.970	6.31	13	107	77	42%	44%	MVP-22
1915	CIN	NL	27	C	72			372	294	71	7	7	.981	5.07	.975	6.20	3	64	45	41%	46%
1916	CIN	NL	28	C	51			254	187	58	9	3	.965	4.80	.974	6.30	2	61	34	36%	44%
1917	CIN	NL	29	C	29			117	93	23	1	2	.991	4.00	.975	5.98	3	25	13	34%	44%
1918	CHC	NL	30	C	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		5.20	0	0	0
	10 Seasons			C	576	0	0	2952	2254	625	73	50	.975	5.00	.971	6.29	44	548	403	42%	44%
	1 Season			1B	1			6	5	0	1	1	.833	5.00	.985	10.20
	10 Seasons			TOT	577	0	0	2958	2259	625	74	51	.975	5.00	.971	6.30	44	548	403	42%	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	Batting	C	1B
1909	CIN	NL	21	18	18	17	0
1910	CIN	NL	22	64	64	56	0
1911	CIN	NL	23	86	86	81	1
1912	CIN	NL	24	72	72	63	0
1913	CIN	NL	25	114	114	100	0
1914	CIN	NL	26	113	113	106	0
1915	CIN	NL	27	96	96	72	0
1916	CIN	NL	28	78	78	51	0
1917	CIN	NL	29	58	58	29	0
1918	CHC	NL	30	1	1	1	0
	10 Seasons			700	700	576	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)) 1914 NL (22, 2%) 0.02 Career Shares (1361st)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1913 NL 100 (5th) 1914 NL 106 (3rd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1914 NL 448 (4th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1914 NL 132 (4th)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1914 NL 16 (4th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1913 NL 8 (2nd) 1914 NL 13 (3rd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1913 NL 112 (4th) 1914 NL 107 (2nd)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1909 NL 50.0 (4th) 1911 NL 47.8 (4th)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1914 NL 5.47 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1911 NL .970 (5th) 1913 NL .979 (3rd) 1914 NL .973 (5th)

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