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Duff Cooley

Duff Gordon Cooley (Sir Richard or Dick)

Positions: Outfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 158 lb.

Born: March 29, 1873 in Leavenworth, KS (All Transactions)
Debut: July 27, 1893 (Age 20)
Teams (by GP): Beaneaters/Phillies/Browns/Tigers/Pirates 1893-1905

Final Game: August 25, 1905 (Age 32)
Died: August 9, 1937 in Dallas, TX
Buried: Grove Hill Memorial Park, Dallas, TX
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Fine Details  · Last updated May 15, 2013 10:17PM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #1080. Dick Stuart… #1081. George Wood… #1082. Steve Buechele… #1083. DUFF COOLEY… #1084. Rennie Stennett… #1085. Matt Lawton… #1086. Pete Ward… 

Standard Batting

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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
1893 20 STL NL 29 115 107 20 37 2 3 0 21 8 8 9 .346 .391 .421 .812 116 45 0 O2/6
1894 21 STL NL 54 224 206 35 61 3 1 1 21 7 12 16 .296 .335 .335 .670 62 69 0 6 O5/36
1895 22 STL NL 133 609 567 108 194 9 20 7 75 27 37 29 .342 .386 .466 .851 119 264 3 2 *O/562
1896 23 TOT NL 104 492 453 92 139 11 7 2 35 30 25 19 .307 .343 .375 .718 91 170 0 14 *O
1896 23 STL NL 40 178 166 29 51 5 3 0 13 12 7 3 .307 .335 .373 .709 90 62 0 5 O
1896 23 PHI NL 64 314 287 63 88 6 4 2 22 18 18 16 .307 .348 .376 .724 91 108 0 9 O
1897 24 PHI NL 133 629 566 124 186 14 13 4 40 31 51 39 .329 .386 .420 .807 115 238 2 10 *O/3
1898 25 PHI NL 149 692 629 123 196 24 12 4 55 17 48 38 .312 .364 .407 .771 124 256 4 11 *O
1899 26 PHI NL 94 445 406 75 112 15 8 1 31 15 29 22 .276 .330 .360 .690 91 146 4 6 3O/4
1900 27 PIT NL 66 275 249 30 50 8 1 0 22 9 14 21 .201 .243 .241 .484 34 60 0 12 3
1901 28 BSN NL 63 263 240 27 62 13 3 0 27 5 14 16 .258 .302 .338 .639 79 81 1 8 O3
1902 29 BSN NL 135 596 548 73 162 26 8 0 58 27 34 35 .296 .339 .372 .711 119 204 2 12 *O/3
1903 30 BSN NL 138 600 553 76 160 26 10 1 70 27 44 33 .289 .342 .378 .720 108 209 0 3 *O3
1904 31 BSN NL 122 494 467 41 127 18 7 5 70 14 24 34 .272 .312 .373 .684 114 174 3 0 *O/3
1905 32 DET AL 97 420 377 25 93 11 9 1 32 7 26 55 .247 .297 .332 .629 99 125 1 16 O
13 Yrs 1317 5854 5368 849 1579 180 102 26 557 224 366 366 .294 .342 .380 .722 103 2041 20 100
162 Game Avg. 162 720 660 104 194 22 13 3 69 28 45 45 .294 .342 .380 .722 103 251 2
BSN (4 yrs) 458 1953 1808 217 511 83 28 6 225 73 116 118 .283 .328 .369 .697 109 668 6 23
PHI (4 yrs) 440 2080 1888 385 582 59 37 11 148 81 146 115 .308 .361 .396 .757 109 748 10 36
STL (4 yrs) 256 1126 1046 192 343 19 27 8 130 54 64 57 .328 .368 .421 .789 103 440 3 13
PIT (1 yr) 66 275 249 30 50 8 1 0 22 9 14 21 .201 .243 .241 .484 34 60 0 12
DET (1 yr) 97 420 377 25 93 11 9 1 32 7 26 55 .247 .297 .332 .629 99 125 1 16
NL (12 yrs) 1220 5434 4991 824 1486 169 93 25 525 217 340 311 .298 .345 .384 .729 104 1916 19 84
AL (1 yr) 97 420 377 25 93 11 9 1 32 7 26 55 .247 .297 .332 .629 99 125 1 16

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 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
1893 20 STL NL 29 115 2 -0 0 -2 0 0 0.0 4 4 0.4 .501 .500 0.6 -0.2 6 O2/6
1894 21 STL NL 54 224 -15 -1 0 -3 -2 -21 -1.5 8 -13 -0.8 .472 .491 -0.5 -0.4 -10 O5/36
1895 22 STL NL 133 609 16 -2 0 8 -8 15 1.1 20 35 3.2 .509 .507 2.6 0.0 27 $1,200 *O/562
1896 23 STL NL 40 178 -2 0 0 1 -3 -4 -0.3 6 2 0.3 .493 .498 0.2 -0.1 1 O
1896 23 PHI NL 64 314 -4 -0 0 -6 -4 -14 -1.2 10 -4 -0.2 .482 .493 0.3 -0.8 2 O
1897 24 PHI NL 133 629 14 -1 0 3 -7 9 0.7 20 29 2.8 .506 .505 2.5 -0.3 26 *O/3
1898 25 PHI NL 149 692 20 -1 0 -3 -7 9 0.8 22 31 3.1 .506 .505 3.4 -1.0 34 *O
1899 26 PHI NL 94 445 -5 -1 0 -2 -2 -9 -0.9 14 5 0.6 .491 .495 0.8 -0.3 7 3O/4
1900 27 PIT NL 66 275 -24 0 0 1 -1 -24 -2.3 9 -15 -1.3 .465 .486 -1.4 -0.0 -16 3
1901 28 BSN NL 63 263 -7 -0 0 3 -3 -6 -0.7 9 2 0.2 .489 .496 -0.0 0.0 -1 O3
1902 29 BSN NL 135 596 11 -0 0 0 -6 4 0.5 19 23 2.6 .504 .503 2.6 -0.8 23 *O/3
1903 30 BSN NL 138 600 7 -1 0 -2 -7 -2 -0.2 19 17 1.7 .498 .498 1.8 -0.8 19 *O3
1904 31 BSN NL 122 494 7 -1 0 -4 -6 -4 -0.4 16 12 1.3 .496 .497 1.7 -1.1 16 *O/3
1905 32 DET AL 97 420 -2 -1 0 2 -3 -3 -0.4 14 12 1.2 .497 .498 1.0 -0.1 10 O
13 Seasons 1317 5854 20 -9 0 -4 -57 -50 -4.8 190 140 14.9 .497 .498 15.5 -5.9 144 $1,200
BSN (4 yrs) 458 1953 19 -2 0 -3 -22 -8 -0.8 63 54 5.8 .498 .499 6.1 -2.7 57
PHI (4 yrs) 440 2080 25 -4 0 -8 -19 -6 -0.6 66 60 6.2 .499 .499 7.0 -2.5 68
STL (4 yrs) 256 1126 1 -3 0 4 -12 -9 -0.7 38 29 3.1 .498 .499 2.8 -0.6 25 $1,200
PIT (1 yr) 66 275 -24 0 0 1 -1 -24 -2.3 9 -15 -1.3 .465 .486 -1.4 -0.0 -16
DET (1 yr) 97 420 -2 -1 0 2 -3 -3 -0.4 14 12 1.2 .497 .498 1.0 -0.1 10

Standard Fielding

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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
1893 STL NL 20 OF 15 19 17 1 1 0 .947 1.20 .915 2.18 0-0-15
1893 STL NL 20 C 10 30 23 6 1 0 .967 2.90 .936 4.78 6 14 6 30% 37%
1893 STL NL 20 SS 5 13 6 5 2 2 .846 2.20 .897 5.54
1894 STL NL 21 OF 39 90 74 1 15 1 .833 1.92 .915 2.28 8-4-28
1894 STL NL 21 3B 13 43 10 21 12 1 .721 2.38 .878 3.48
1894 STL NL 21 1B 1 7 7 0 0 1 1.000 7.00 .976 9.80
1894 STL NL 21 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.70
1895 STL NL 22 OF 125 362 321 17 24 1 .934 2.70 .917 2.18 116-8-1
1895 STL NL 22 3B 5 21 10 10 1 2 .952 4.00 .872 3.46
1895 STL NL 22 SS 3 19 5 10 4 0 .789 5.00 .899 5.63
1895 STL NL 22 C 1 3 1 1 1 0 .667 2.00 .937 4.60 0 2 1 33% 37%
1896 TOT NL 23 OF 104 248 221 8 19 2 .923 2.20 .933 2.16 62-40-2
1896 STL NL 23 OF 40 97 91 2 4 0 .959 2.33 .933 2.16 40-0-0
1896 PHI NL 23 OF 64 151 130 6 15 2 .901 2.13 .933 2.16 22-40-2
1897 PHI NL 24 OF 131 352 322 16 14 6 .960 2.58 .936 2.09 0-108-23
1897 PHI NL 24 1B 2 19 19 0 0 1 1.000 9.50 .980 10.25
1898 PHI NL 25 OF 149 389 352 15 22 2 .943 2.46 .937 2.08 0-149-0
1899 PHI NL 26 1B 79 814 756 34 24 56 .971 10.00 .977 10.49
1899 PHI NL 26 OF 14 37 35 0 2 0 .946 2.50 .944 2.15 0-14-0
1899 PHI NL 26 2B 1 2 0 0 2 0 .000 0.00 .940 5.60
1900 PIT NL 27 1B 66 711 683 20 8 39 .989 10.65 .979 10.55
1901 BSN NL 28 OF 53 140 127 5 8 1 .943 2.49 .942 2.06 29-24-0
1901 BSN NL 28 1B 10 96 91 4 1 3 .990 9.50 .978 10.25
1902 BSN NL 29 OF 127 270 250 7 13 2 .952 2.02 .945 1.97 94-33-0
1902 BSN NL 29 1B 7 67 60 6 1 1 .985 9.43 .981 10.57
1903 BSN NL 30 OF 126 270 246 11 13 4 .952 2.04 .942 1.94 124-3-0
1903 BSN NL 30 1B 13 114 105 3 6 2 .947 8.31 .977 10.56
1904 BSN NL 31 OF 116 209 201 3 5 4 .976 1.76 .947 1.89 116-0-0
1904 BSN NL 31 1B 6 40 39 0 1 0 .975 6.50 .983 10.68
1905 DET AL 32 OF 96 245 223 12 10 5 .959 2.45 .953 1.86 0-96-0
12 Seasons OF 1095 2631 2389 96 146 28 .945 2.27 .937 2.04 549-479-69
8 Seasons 1B 184 1868 1760 67 41 103 .978 9.93 .978 10.51
2 Seasons 3B 18 64 20 31 13 3 .797 2.83 .876 3.47
2 Seasons C 11 33 24 7 2 0 .939 2.82 .936 4.76 6 16 7 30% 37%
3 Seasons SS 9 32 11 15 6 2 .813 2.89 .898 5.59
1 Season 2B 1 2 0 0 2 0 .000 0.00 .940 5.60
13 Seasons TOT 1318 4630 4204 216 210 136 .955 3.35 .952 3.29 549-479-69 6 16 7 30% 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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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 on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Games Played s c a p y
1895 NL  133 (2nd)
1897 NL  133 (10th)
1903 NL  138 (7th)

At Bats s c a p y
1895 NL  567 (2nd)
1897 NL  566 (1st)
1898 NL  629 (2nd)
1902 NL  548 (5th)
1903 NL  553 (4th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1897 NL  629 (4th)
1898 NL  692 (3rd)
1902 NL  596 (9th)
1903 NL  600 (8th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1897 NL  124 (9th)
1898 NL  123 (5th)

Hits s c a p y
1895 NL  194 (7th)
1897 NL  186 (9th)
1898 NL  196 (5th)
1902 NL  162 (8th)
1903 NL  160 (9th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1898 NL  256 (5th)
1902 NL  204 (8th)

Doubles s c a p y
1902 NL  26 (3rd)

Triples s c a p y
1895 NL  20 (4th)
1902 NL  8 (7th)
Career  102 (150th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1904 NL  5 (7th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1904 NL  70 (8th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1897 NL  39 (8th)

Singles s c a p y
1895 NL  158 (6th)
1897 NL  155 (4th)
1898 NL  156 (8th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1898 NL  92 (10th)
1902 NL  69 (9th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1902 NL  34 (7th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1898 NL  248 (9th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1904 NL  7.4 (9th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1904 NL  93.4 (9th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1897 NL  390 (6th)
1898 NL  444 (8th)
1902 NL  398 (5th)
1903 NL  396 (5th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1899 NL  24 (5th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1897 NL  131 (5th)
1898 NL  149 (5th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1895 NL  321 (5th)
1897 NL  322 (3rd)
1898 NL  352 (1st)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
Career  146 (70th)

Double Plays Turned as OF s c a p y
1897 NL  6 (3rd)
1905 AL  5 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1895 NL  2.70 (3rd)
1897 NL  2.58 (3rd)
1905 AL  2.45 (2nd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1904 NL  .976 (2nd)

Youngest s c a p y
1893 NL  born 1873-03-29 (7th)

                           

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 1 (757), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 41 (608), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 19 (839), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 17 (964), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Left Field (144th), 14.9 career WAR/15.8 7yr-peak WAR/15.3 JAWS
Average HOF LF (out of 19) = 64.9 career WAR/41.2 7yr-peak WAR/53.1 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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  5. Ginger Beaumont (952)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Willie Wilson (955)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Willie Wilson (947)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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  9. Ginger Beaumont (934)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Steve Brodie (943)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
189522St. Louis Browns$1,2003/7/1896 Sporting Life
Career to date (may be incomplete)$1,200
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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