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Joe Collins

Joseph Edward Collins
born Joseph Edward Kollonige

Positions: First Baseman and Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: December 3, 1922 in Scranton, PA
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1939. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 25, 1948
Team: Yankees 1948-1957

Final Game: September 29, 1957
Died: August 30, 1989 in Union, NJ
Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Westfield, NJ
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Standard Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1939	16	NYY-min	D	14	45	45		6	2	1	0						.133	.133	.222	.356		10							EAS,BUT · ESHL,PASA
1940	17	NYY-min	D	99	381	381		122	16	5	9						.320	.320	.459	.780		175							BUT · PASA
1941	18	NYY-min	C	116	459	459		114	27	10	4						.248	.248	.377	.625		173							AKR · MATL
1942	19	NYY-min	C,B	96	360	360		104	18	5	6						.289	.289	.417	.706		150							AMS,NFK · CAML,PIED
1943	20	SFG-min	A	70	254	254		66	12	6	0						.260	.260	.354	.614		90							SPF · EL
1946	23	NYY-min	AAA,AA	119	449	427	29	108	16	6	7	31	4	3	18	25	.253	.285	.368	.652		157	7	1	3				NWK,BMT · IL,TL
1947	24	NYY-OAK-min	AAA,AA	146	594	553	52	167	23	11	23	53	5		39	52	.302	.349	.508	.857		281		1	1				NWK,BIR · IL,SOUA
1948	25	NYY-min	AAA	139	579	512	84	140	25	6	23	76	5		59	67	.273	.349	.480	.829		246		0	8				NWK · IL
1948	25	NYY	AL	5	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.400	.600	58	2	0	0	0
1949	26	NYY-min	AAA	146	621	530	104	169	25	18	20	83	6		82	82	.319	.410	.547	.957		290	7	0	9				KCY · AA
1949	26	NYY	AL	7	16	10	2	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	6	2	.100	.438	.100	.538	46	1	0	0	0			/3
1950	27	NYY	AL	108	238	205	47	48	8	3	8	28	5	0	31	34	.234	.335	.420	.754	95	86	4	0	3			3/O9
1951	28	NYY	AL	125	299	262	52	75	8	5	9	48	9	7	34	23	.286	.368	.458	.826	126	120	6	0	2			*3O9
1952	29	NYY	AL	122	489	428	69	120	16	8	18	59	4	2	55	47	.280	.364	.481	.845	140	206	11	1	5			*3	MVP-33
1953	30	NYY	AL	127	450	387	72	104	11	2	17	44	2	6	59	36	.269	.365	.439	.805	120	170	6	0	4			*3/O9
1954	31	NYY	AL	130	399	343	67	93	20	2	12	46	2	2	51	37	.271	.365	.446	.812	125	153	5	0	4	0		*3
1955	32	NYY	AL	105	330	278	40	65	9	1	13	45	0	2	44	32	.234	.339	.414	.753	103	115	7	2	3	3	2	39
1956	33	NYY	AL	100	303	262	38	59	5	3	7	43	3	1	34	33	.225	.313	.347	.661	77	91	5	1	1	3	2	379/8
1957	34	NYY	AL	79	174	149	17	30	1	0	2	10	2	1	24	18	.201	.310	.248	.559	56	37	4	0	0	1	2	39/87
10 Yrs				908	2703	2329	404	596	79	24	86	329	27	21	338	263	.256	.350	.421	.771	111	981	48	4	22	7	6
162 Game Avg.				162	482	416	72	106	14	4	15	59	5	4	60	47	.256	.350	.421	.771	111	175	9	1	4

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
1948	25	NYY	AL	5	5	-0	-0	0	0	0	-0	-0.1	0	-0	0.0	.490	.500	0.0	0.0	-0	$
1949	26	NYY	AL	7	16	-0	0	0	-1	-0	-1	-0.1	0	-1	-0.1	.481	.499	0.0	-0.1	0	$	/3
1950	27	NYY	AL	108	238	-3	2	0	-1	-3	-4	-0.4	6	2	0.3	.496	.497	0.3	-0.3	3	$	3/O9
1951	28	NYY	AL	125	299	10	-2	1	2	-4	6	0.6	8	14	1.4	.504	.503	1.1	-0.2	12	$	*3O9
1952	29	NYY	AL	122	489	22	0	1	1	-6	18	2.0	13	32	3.3	.516	.512	3.2	-0.5	30	$	*3	MVP-33
1953	30	NYY	AL	127	450	12	-0	2	-2	-5	7	0.7	12	19	1.9	.506	.504	2.1	-0.7	21	$	*3/O9
1954	31	NYY	AL	130	399	14	1	2	2	-4	15	1.6	11	26	2.7	.512	.510	2.4	-0.2	23	$	*3
1955	32	NYY	AL	105	330	-1	2	1	5	-5	1	0.1	9	10	1.0	.501	.501	0.5	0.0	5	$	39
1956	33	NYY	AL	100	303	-5	0	0	13	-5	4	0.4	8	12	1.2	.504	.502	-0.2	0.9	-1	$	379/8
1957	34	NYY	AL	79	174	-8	-0	1	2	-2	-8	-0.9	5	-3	-0.4	.489	.494	-0.6	-0.1	-5	$	39/87
10 Seasons				908	2703	40	2	6	21	-34	36	3.9	73	108	11.3	.504	.502	8.8	-1.2	87	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1948	25	NYY	AL	5	4	0	0.0	105	.250	.200	.272	.200	.357	.400	.393	.600	.750	58	.000	-0.3	-0.0	.500	.200	.200
1949	26	NYY	AL	16	9	0	0.0	107	.125	.100	.271	.438	.363	.100	.393	.538	.756	46	.000	-0.2	-0.0	.778	.600	.000
1950	27	NYY	AL	238	164	30	4.8	111	.245	.234	.275	.335	.361	.420	.412	.754	.773	95	.490	-2.3	-0.2	.758	.361	.185	6.2
1951	28	NYY	AL	299	202	43	5.7	99	.287	.286	.263	.368	.343	.458	.385	.826	.729	126	.607	9.0	0.9	.780	.309	.172	9.0
1952	29	NYY	AL	489	326	75	6.2	91	.281	.280	.253	.364	.332	.481	.369	.845	.701	140	.676	21.6	2.2	.822	.334	.201	6.5
1953	30	NYY	AL	450	299	60	5.4	99	.260	.269	.265	.365	.340	.439	.390	.805	.730	120	.586	11.3	1.1	.763	.313	.171	3.6
1954	31	NYY	AL	399	261	56	5.8	96	.276	.271	.262	.365	.337	.446	.383	.812	.720	125	.635	12.3	1.2	.794	.324	.175	3.4
1955	32	NYY	AL	330	228	40	4.7	102	.220	.234	.265	.339	.345	.414	.395	.753	.740	103	.512	1.4	0.1	.716	.331	.180	.0
1956	33	NYY	AL	303	213	30	3.8	104	.231	.225	.264	.313	.345	.347	.402	.661	.748	77	.390	-9.0	-0.9	.612	.260	.122	4.2
1957	34	NYY	AL	174	125	12	2.6	99	.215	.201	.262	.310	.334	.248	.396	.559	.729	56	.276	-8.6	-0.9	.500	.215	.047	2.0
10 Yrs				2703	1831	346	5.1	99	.257	.256	.263	.350	.341	.421	.389	.771	.730	111	.557	35.1	3.6	.738	.313	.165	41.1
162 Game Avg.				482	327	62	5.1	99	.257	.256	.263	.350	.341	.421	.389	.771	.730	111	.557	6	1	.738	.313	.165	7

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1950	27	NYY	AL	WS	PHI	W	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
1951	28	NYY	AL	WS	NYG	W	6	20	18	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	0	2	1	.222	.300	.389	.689	7	1	0	0	0	0
1952	29	NYY	AL	WS	BRO	W	6	13	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.077	.000	.077	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953	30	NYY	AL	WS	BRO	W	6	27	24	4	4	1	0	1	2	0	0	3	8	.167	.259	.333	.593	8	0	0	0	0	0

1955	32	NYY	AL	WS	BRO	L	5	18	12	6	2	0	0	2	3	1	0	6	4	.167	.444	.667	1.111	8	0	0	0	0	0
1956	33	NYY	AL	WS	BRO	W	6	23	21	2	5	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	3	.238	.304	.333	.638	7	2	0	0	0	0
1957	34	NYY	AL	WS	MLN	L	6	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
7 Yrs (7 Series)							36	106	92	15	15	3	0	4	10	1	0	14	22	.163	.274	.326	.600	30	3	0	0	0	0
7 WS							36	106	92	15	15	3	0	4	10	1	0	14	22	.163	.274	.326	.600	30	3	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1948	25	NYY	AL	5	0.0%	20.0%	0.0%	20.0%	100%		5.0		2.5	0.50	80%
1949	26	NYY	AL	16	0.0%	12.5%	37.5%	0.0%	0%	0.33	5.0		2.5	0.40	50%
1950	27	NYY	AL	238	3.4%	14.3%	13.0%	8.0%	40%	1.10	6.0	25.6	7.3	1.13	68%
1951	28	NYY	AL	299	3.0%	7.7%	11.4%	7.4%	29%	0.68	11.4	29.1	5.5	0.78	77%
1952	29	NYY	AL	489	3.7%	9.6%	11.3%	8.6%	35%	0.85	9.1	23.8	7.3	0.89	74%
1953	30	NYY	AL	450	3.8%	8.0%	13.1%	6.7%	29%	0.61	10.8	22.8	8.8	0.91	74%
1954	31	NYY	AL	399	3.0%	9.3%	12.8%	8.5%	37%	0.73	9.3	28.6	7.5	0.74	74%
1955	32	NYY	AL	330	3.9%	9.7%	13.3%	7.0%	35%	0.73	8.7	21.4	6.2	0.93	72%
1956	33	NYY	AL	303	2.3%	10.9%	11.2%	5.0%	25%	0.97	7.9	37.4	6.1	0.86	74%
1957	34	NYY	AL	174	1.2%	10.3%	13.8%	1.7%	10%	0.75	8.3	74.5	14.9	0.79	75%
10 Yrs				2703	3.2%	9.7%	12.5%	7.0%	32%	0.78	8.9	27.1	7.1	0.86	74%
MLB Averages					2.1%	10.7%	9.6%	6.5%	28%	1.11	8.3	43.0	8.1	0.97	76%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1948	25	NYY	AL	-0.3	-0.0	5	-0.0	0.0	-0.1	.77	-0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	1.25	-0.2	0.77	5
1949	26	NYY	AL	-0.2	-0.0	16	0.2	0.3	-0.1	.82	0.1	0.1	2.8	0.3	1.26	1.1	1.82	0
1950	27	NYY	AL	-2.3	-0.2	206	-0.5	2.5	-3.0	.89	-0.4	-0.2	-3.1	-0.3	0.94	-6.4	1.47	4
1951	28	NYY	AL	8.6	0.8	293	1.6	5.7	-4.0	.88	0.5	1.4	15.2	1.5	0.96	4.9	2.79	6
1952	29	NYY	AL	21.0	2.2	453	1.3	8.4	-7.1	.99	1.9	-0.7	16.6	1.8	0.98	21.0	0.36	2
1953	30	NYY	AL	10.8	1.1	437	-0.4	6.7	-7.1	.93	1.3	-1.7	2.4	0.2	0.96	15.6	1.53	11
1954	31	NYY	AL	12.3	1.2	408	1.3	7.2	-5.9	.93	1.9	-0.5	16.5	1.7	0.98	20.3	1.23	27
1955	32	NYY	AL	1.4	0.1	333	0.4	6.1	-5.7	1.06	0.4	0.0	2.3	0.2	0.97	3.1	1.71	13
1956	33	NYY	AL	-9.0	-0.9	309	1.0	5.9	-4.9	1.03	0.0	1.0	6.1	0.6	0.99	3.5	1.30	17
1957	34	NYY	AL	-8.6	-0.9	178	-1.4	2.3	-3.7	1.11	-0.6	-0.6	-7.6	-0.8	0.99	-6.5	1.69	33
10 Yrs				33.6	3.4	2638	3.5	45.2	-41.7	.97	5.1	-1.5	51.6	5.3	0.97	56.4	1.50	118

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1948	25	NYY	AL	0	0	0%	3	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949	26	NYY	AL	0	0	29%	4	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100%	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
1950	27	NYY	AL	2	0	55%	84	5	0	100%	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	60%	13	8	5	6	2	4	11	2	9
1951	28	NYY	AL	1	0	43%	136	9	7	56%	5	7	2	0	0	2	1	8	2	58%	16	8	7	5	4	1	10	0	10
1952	29	NYY	AL	6	0	32%	172	4	2	67%	4	2	0	0	0	3	0	7	6	33%	17	11	5	10	9	1	9	3	6
1953	30	NYY	AL	6	0	38%	163	2	6	25%	2	6	0	0	0	1	0	6	3	56%	26	15	10	9	4	5	13	1	12
1954	31	NYY	AL	7	0	42%	189	2	2	50%	2	2	0	1	0	2	1	3	7	64%	28	14	14	8	3	5	16	1	14
1955	32	NYY	AL	1	0	28%	120	0	2	0%	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	64%	16	7	9	3	1	2	9	1	7
1956	33	NYY	AL	9	2	36%	135	3	1	75%	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	5	4	42%	19	14	5	3	2	0	11	1	9
1957	34	NYY	AL	3	0	29%	55	2	1	67%	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	67%	7	3	4	5	2	3	3	0	3
10 Yrs				35	2	37%	1061	27	21	56%	20	22	3	2	1	9	2	35	32	55%	142	80	59	49	27	21	83	9	71

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1948	25	NYY	AL	5	100%	1			5	1	0	1	0.77	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	0	0%	1	0	0%	5	2	40%	0	0		1	1	100%	0
1949	26	NYY	AL	16	100%	1			0	0	0	0	1.82	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		5	0	0%	2	2	100%	20	4	20%	2	2	100%	1	1	100%	0
1950	27	NYY	AL	238	62%	48			4	0	0	0	1.47	8	0	2	5	1	5	3	0	1	3	300%	44	4	9%	20	4	20%	138	15	11%	13	4	31%	9	4	44%	0
1951	28	NYY	AL	299	77%	75			6	2	0	1	2.79	9	1	5	7	0	4	5	0	2	2	100%	58	6	10%	24	6	25%	166	36	22%	14	7	50%	8	5	63%	0
1952	29	NYY	AL	489	66%	120			2	0	0	0	0.36	18	0	6	12	3	13	5	0	7	5	71%	89	11	12%	41	9	22%	279	40	14%	24	12	50%	11	7	64%	0
1953	30	NYY	AL	450	68%	104			11	0	0	0	1.53	17	0	10	16	1	7	10	0	4	4	100%	100	6	6%	44	14	32%	271	32	12%	17	10	59%	12	8	67%	0
1954	31	NYY	AL	399	89%	93			27	6	2	4	1.23	12	0	9	12	0	7	5	0	4	4	100%	95	5	5%	43	11	26%	254	36	14%	12	5	42%	13	7	54%	0
1955	32	NYY	AL	330	86%	65			13	5	0	7	1.71	13	0	8	13	0	8	5	0	3	3	100%	68	7	10%	40	16	40%	216	33	15%	16	10	63%	13	5	38%	0
1956	33	NYY	AL	303	85%	59			17	4	2	5	1.30	7	0	11	6	1	5	2	0	1	1	100%	66	5	8%	31	11	35%	219	37	17%	25	13	52%	11	9	82%	0
1957	34	NYY	AL	174	89%	30			33	5	0	4	1.69	2	0	3	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	0%	38	4	11%	26	9	35%	116	8	7%	13	3	23%	10	3	30%	0
10 Yrs				2703	77%	596			118	23	4	22	1.50	86	1	55	73	6	50	36	0	23	22	96%	565	48	9%	272	82	30%	1684	243	14%	136	66	49%	89	50	56%	0
MLB Averages					50%																			91%			12%			32%			14%			50%			55%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1948	25	5	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.400	.600	58	2	0	0	0
1949	26	12	21	15	2	2	1	0	0	6	0	0	6	3	.133	.381	.200	.581	56	3	0	0	0
1950	27	120	259	220	49	50	9	3	8	34	5	0	37	37	.227	.339	.405	.743	92	89	4	0	3
1951	28	245	558	482	101	125	17	8	17	82	14	7	71	60	.259	.354	.434	.788	110	209	10	0	5
1952	29	367	1047	910	170	245	33	16	35	141	18	9	126	107	.269	.359	.456	.815	124	415	21	1	10
1953	30	494	1497	1297	242	349	44	18	52	185	20	15	185	143	.269	.361	.451	.812	123	585	27	1	14
1954	31	624	1896	1640	309	442	64	20	64	231	22	17	236	180	.270	.362	.450	.812	123	738	32	1	18	0
1955	32	729	2226	1918	349	507	73	21	77	276	22	19	280	212	.264	.358	.445	.803	120	853	39	3	21	3	2
1956	33	829	2529	2180	387	566	78	24	84	319	25	20	314	245	.260	.353	.433	.786	115	944	44	4	22	6	4
1957	34	908	2703	2329	404	596	79	24	86	329	27	21	338	263	.256	.350	.421	.771	111	981	48	4	22	7	6

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1948	25	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	5
1949	26	7	16	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	.000	.375	.000	.375	0	7
1950	27	113	244	211	44	47	8	3	8	26	5	30	36	.223	.320	.403	.722	27	108
1951	28	131	314	276	54	79	8	5	9	50	9	36	24	.286	.369	.449	.818	46	125
1952	29	128	525	457	81	135	18	9	20	69	4	62	49	.295	.381	.505	.886	88	122
1953	30	133	474	407	78	111	12	2	18	47	2	63	38	.273	.370	.445	.815	67	127
1954	31	136	424	364	76	103	22	2	13	52	2	56	39	.283	.379	.462	.840	64	130
1955	32	110	345	291	42	68	9	1	14	47	0	46	33	.234	.339	.416	.755	41	105
1956	33	105	313	273	39	61	5	3	7	44	3	35	34	.223	.311	.341	.652	29	100
1957	34	83	184	157	19	32	1	0	2	11	2	26	19	.204	.315	.248	.564	13	79
10 Yrs		951	2844	2451	433	636	83	25	91	346	27	360	275	.259	.354	.425	.779	375	908
162 Game Avg.		162	484	418	74	108	14	4	16	59	5	61	47	.259	.354	.425	.779	64	908

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1952 AL (33, 1%) 0.01 Career Shares (1497th)	Defensive WAR† s c a p y 1956 AL 0.9 (10th)	Slugging % s c a p y 1952 AL .481 (6th)	On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y 1952 AL .845 (9th)
Triples s c a p y 1952 AL 8 (9th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1953 AL 17 (10th)	Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y 1952 AL 139 (6th)	Offensive Win % s c a p y 1952 AL .677 (7th)
Caught Stealing s c a p y 1951 AL 7 (7th)	SB % s c a p y 1951 AL 56.25 (9th)	Power-Speed # s c a p y 1951 AL 9.0 (7th)	AB per HR s c a p y 1952 AL 23.8 (9th) 1953 AL 22.8 (9th)**

A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order. Requirements to qualify for rate stats.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Batting - 8 (1540), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 4 (1669), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 10 (1592), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Similar Batters

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Chris Shelton (975) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Lee Stevens (950) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Lee Stevens (943) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Mitchell Page (953) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dick Gernert (945) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Gates Brown (950) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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