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Larry Corcoran

Lawrence J. Corcoran

Positions: Pitcher, Outfielder and Shortstop
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Corcoran alternated arms during at least one game.
Height: 5' 3", Weight: 127 lb.

Born: August 10, 1859 in Brooklyn, NY(All Transactions)
Debut: May 1, 1880 (Age 20)
Teams (by GP): WhiteStockings/Nationals/Giants/Hoosiers 1880-1887

Final Game: May 20, 1887 (Age 27)
Died: October 14, 1891 in Newark, NJ
Buried: Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, East Orange, NJ
Relatives: Brother of Mike Corcoran
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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 Awards
1880 CHC NL 20 P 63 536.1 163 34 122 7 2 .957 2.62 2.48 .912 2.27 2.23
1880 CHC NL 20 OF 8 8 4 3 1 1 .875 0.88 .855 1.85 0-5-3
1880 CHC NL 20 SS 8 30 4 21 5 1 .833 3.13 .882 4.38
1881 CHC NL 21 P 45 396.2 103 29 63 11 0 .893 2.09 2.04 .896 2.25 2.22
1881 CHC NL 21 SS 2 9 2 7 0 0 1.000 4.50 .873 4.65
1881 CHC NL 21 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10 1-0-0
1882 CHC NL 22 P 39 355.2 94 22 64 8 1 .915 2.18 2.21 .906 2.18 2.16
1882 CHC NL 22 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.50
1883 CHC NL 23 P 56 473.2 138 37 88 13 3 .906 2.38 2.23 .892 2.20 2.15
1883 CHC NL 23 OF 13 18 13 0 5 0 .722 1.00 .849 1.96 8-4-1
1883 CHC NL 23 SS 3 13 5 5 3 0 .769 3.33 .853 4.57
1883 CHC NL 23 2B 1 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 2.00 .890 6.20
1884 CHC NL 24 P 60 516.2 203 47 132 24 5 .882 3.12 2.98 .892 2.29 2.24
1884 CHC NL 24 OF 4 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .865 1.80 0-0-4
1884 CHC NL 24 SS 2 13 2 10 1 0 .923 6.00 .864 4.30
1885 TOT NL 25 P 10 84.1 31 6 23 2 2 .935 3.09 2.90 .899 2.43 2.37
1885 CHC NL 25 P 7 59.1 21 6 13 2 0 .905 2.88 2.71 .899 2.43 2.37
1885 CHC NL 25 SS 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .870 4.60
1885 NYG NL 25 P 3 25.0 10 0 10 0 2 1.000 3.60 3.33 .899 2.45 2.37
1886 TOT NL 26 OF 12 22 9 4 9 1 .591 1.08 .890 1.75 0-0-12
1886 NYG NL 26 OF 1 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 .890 1.80 0-0-1
1886 WHS NL 26 OF 11 21 9 4 8 1 .619 1.18 .890 1.75 0-0-11
1886 WHS NL 26 SS 9 48 10 27 11 3 .771 4.11 .880 4.37
1886 WHS NL 26 P 2 14.0 6 2 2 2 0 .667 2.57 2.00 .915 2.25 2.15
1887 IND NL 27 OF 2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.50 .883 1.95 0-1-1
1887 IND NL 27 P 2 15.0 4 0 4 0 0 1.000 2.40 2.00 .902 2.04 1.95
8 Seasons P 277 2392.1 742 177 498 67 13 .910 2.54 2.44 .899 2.25 2.21
6 Seasons OF 40 53 31 7 15 2 .717 0.95 .869 1.86 9-10-21
6 Seasons SS 25 114 23 71 20 4 .825 3.76 .875 4.42
1 Season 2B 1 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 2.00 .890 6.20
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.50
8 Seasons TOT 344 2392.1 911 232 577 102 20 .888 2.54 2.35 .894 2.25 2.34 9-10-21
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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
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Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1880 CHC NL 20 72 72 63 0 0 0 0 8 0 5 3 8 0
1881 CHC NL 21 47 47 45 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0
1882 CHC NL 22 40 40 39 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1883 CHC NL 23 68 68 56 0 0 1 0 3 8 4 1 13 0
1884 CHC NL 24 64 64 60 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 4 0
1885 CHC NL 25 7 7 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1885 NYG NL 25 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1886 WHS NL 26 21 21 2 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 11 11 0
1886 NYG NL 26 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
1887 IND NL 27 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0
8 Seasons 326 326 277 0 0 1 1 25 9 10 21 40 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 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 P s c a p y
1880 NL  63 (5th)
1883 NL  56 (5th)
1884 NL  60 (5th)

Putouts as P s c a p y
1880 NL  34 (4th)
1881 NL  29 (3rd)
1882 NL  22 (5th)
1883 NL  37 (1st)
1884 NL  47 (1st)

Assists as P s c a p y
1880 NL  122 (4th)
1884 NL  132 (2nd)

Errors Committed as P s c a p y
1884 NL  24 (1st)
Career  67 (51st)

Range Factor/9Inn as Ps c a p y
1880 NL  2.62 (4th)
1884 NL  3.12 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as P s c a p y
1880 NL  2.48 (3rd)
1883 NL  2.23 (5th)
1884 NL  2.98 (2nd)
Career  2.44 (60th)

Fielding % as P s c a p y
1880 NL  .957 (4th)

Youngest s c a p y
1880 NL  born 1859-08-10 (8th)
1880 NL  born 1859-08-10 (8th)
1881 NL  born 1859-08-10 (7th)
1881 NL  born 1859-08-10 (7th)

                                         

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