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Clint Courtney

Clinton Dawson Courtney (Scrap Iron or The Toy Bulldog)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: March 16, 1927 in Hall Summit, LA
High School: Hall Summit HS (Hall Summit, LA)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1947. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 29, 1951 (Age 24)
Teams (by GP): Senators/Orioles/Browns/WhiteSox/Yankees/... 1951-1961

Final Game: June 24, 1961 (Age 34)
Died: June 16, 1975 in Rochester, NY
Buried: Mount Zion Cemetery, Hall Summit, LA
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1951 NYY AL 24 C 1 1 1 9.0 5 3 1 1 0 .800 4.00 4.00 .982 5.00 5.00 0 0 0 1 100% 46% 0
1952 SLB AL 25 C 113 108 96 949.1 558 487 69 2 7 .996 5.27 4.92 .985 5.44 5.44 9 14 35 32 48% 46% 0 MVP-24,RoY-2
1953 SLB AL 26 C 103 93 82 825.2 493 436 47 10 7 .980 0 0 5.26 4.69 .985 5.18 5.15 4 20 29 32 52% 51% 2
1954 BAL AL 27 C 111 105 99 937.2 598 539 53 6 8 .990 2 3 5.68 5.33 .986 5.40 5.36 9 11 36 37 51% 48% 2
1955 TOT AL 28 C 84 71 64 625.1 339 301 33 5 6 .985 0 0 4.81 3.98 .988 5.58 5.54 6 16 25 18 42% 47% 5
1955 CHW AL 28 C 17 10 8 95.0 53 49 4 0 2 1.000 0 0 5.02 3.12 .988 5.58 5.54 2 1 3 1 25% 47% 1
1955 WSH AL 28 C 67 61 56 530.1 286 252 29 5 4 .983 0 0 4.77 4.19 .988 5.58 5.54 4 15 22 17 44% 47% 4
1956 WSH AL 29 C 76 66 58 583.1 332 290 35 7 7 .979 -2 -4 5.01 4.28 .988 5.91 5.86 3 20 22 17 44% 44% 1
1957 WSH AL 30 C 59 51 49 474.1 325 288 35 2 6 .994 1 3 6.13 5.47 .991 5.92 5.94 6 12 22 22 50% 47% 0
1958 WSH AL 31 C 128 122 113 1086.2 753 682 64 7 17 .991 -5 -6 6.18 5.83 .990 6.01 5.95 9 30 54 32 37% 47% 5
1959 WSH AL 32 C 53 48 35 410.2 227 213 11 3 2 .987 -7 -20 4.91 4.23 .989 6.08 6.04 5 10 28 2 7% 40% 2
1960 BAL AL 33 C 58 43 32 382.0 276 246 23 7 2 .975 0 0 6.34 4.64 .987 5.93 5.92 3 7 23 14 38% 40% 1
1961 BAL AL 34 C 16 10 6 111.1 79 71 8 0 1 1.000 -1 -11 6.39 4.94 .989 6.21 6.14 3 3 4 2 33% 36% 0
11 Seasons C 802 718 635 6395.1 3985 3556 379 50 63 .987 -12 -2 5.54 4.91 .988 5.67 5.65 57 143 278 209 43% 46% 18
11 Seasons TOT 802 718 635 6395.1 3985 3556 379 50 63 .987 -12 -2 5.54 4.91 .988 5.67 5.65 57 143 278 209 43% 46% 18
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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1951 NYY AL 24 C
1952 SLB AL 25 C
1953 SLB AL 26 C 0 0 0
1954 BAL AL 27 C 2 3 2
1955 CHW AL 28 C 0 0 0
1955 WSH AL 28 C 0 0 0
1956 WSH AL 29 C -2 -4 -2
1957 WSH AL 30 C 1 3 1
1958 WSH AL 31 C -5 -6 -5
1959 WSH AL 32 C -7 -20 -7
1960 BAL AL 33 C 0 0 0
1961 BAL AL 34 C -1 -11 -1
11 Seasons C -12 -2 -12
11 Seasons TOT -12 -2 -12

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1951 NYY AL 24 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 SLB AL 25 119 108 119 113 0 113 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1953 SLB AL 26 106 93 106 103 0 103 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1954 BAL AL 27 122 105 122 111 0 111 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
1955 WSH AL 28 75 61 75 67 0 67 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1955 CHW AL 28 19 10 19 17 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1956 WSH AL 29 101 66 101 76 0 76 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 0
1957 WSH AL 30 91 51 91 59 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 0
1958 WSH AL 31 134 122 134 128 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1959 WSH AL 32 72 48 72 53 0 53 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0
1960 BAL AL 33 83 43 83 59 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0
1961 BAL AL 34 22 10 22 16 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1961 KCA AL 34 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
11 Seasons 946 718 946 803 0 803 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 180 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.

Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1951 NYY AL 24 33 0.00 1.00 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 SLB AL 25 3399 4.00 4.69 53 94% 0 1 410 29 3 21 357 50 11 3 0 5 2 0 1 1 0 6 0 1 2 5 80%
1953 SLB AL 26 3357 4.96 5.66 54 91% 1 0 401 41 1 17 342 40 5 0 0 7 8 0 5 3 2 6 0 0 2 3 33%
1954 BAL AL 27 4032 3.85 4.29 78 92% 0 1 532 57 1 17 455 53 10 0 3 2 6 0 3 3 1 9 0 0 1 9 78%
1955 WSH AL 28 2367 4.58 5.36 38 92% 0 0 255 27 1 3 224 30 5 1 1 1 6 1 2 3 0 5 0 0 0 4 75%
1955 CHW AL 28 421 3.41 3.98 6 100% 0 0 49 3 0 4 42 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 100%
1956 WSH AL 29 2691 5.26 6.13 42 100% 0 0 292 31 4 13 244 34 11 1 0 2 7 0 1 6 0 7 1 1 2 5 100%
1957 WSH AL 30 2077 5.05 5.55 41 88% 0 1 286 28 0 9 249 33 8 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 6 0 0 0 7 43%
1958 WSH AL 31 4735 4.41 4.76 82 94% 0 0 686 61 5 14 606 63 17 0 0 6 7 1 5 1 1 17 0 3 4 5 80%
1959 WSH AL 32 1777 4.01 4.56 27 96% 0 0 215 22 1 8 184 11 4 0 0 2 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 100%
1960 BAL AL 33 1600 3.68 4.24 29 90% 3 0 249 22 0 9 217 22 4 0 0 6 7 1 6 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 100%
1961 BAL AL 34 483 4.04 4.77 12 100% 0 0 72 10 0 2 60 8 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
11 Seasons 26972 4.38 4.97 462 93% 5 3 3450 331 16 117 2983 350 78 6 4 35 49 3 26 20 4 63 1 5 11 44 75%
MLB Averages 3.95 4.46 95% 86%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1951 NYY AL 24 0 0 15 0 1 1 100% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1.77
1952 SLB AL 25 7 14 1338 34 26 25 43% 29 19 3 4 2 3 0 0 70 35 1.32 1.11
1953 SLB AL 26 4 20 1367 24 26 25 52% 21 21 3 4 0 1 2 1 63 28 1.57 1.00
1954 BAL AL 27 9 11 1574 36 37 35 51% 34 31 2 3 0 3 2 0 63 44 1.27 1.17
1955 WSH AL 28 4 15 983 22 17 17 44% 17 16 4 0 1 1 4 0 58 25 0.87 1.11
1955 CHW AL 28 2 1 172 3 1 1 25% 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 3 1.33 1.15
1956 WSH AL 29 3 20 1129 22 17 17 44% 17 13 3 2 2 2 1 0 67 23 0.71 0.69
1957 WSH AL 30 6 12 828 22 22 22 50% 19 16 2 6 1 0 0 0 47 24 1.37 1.31
1958 WSH AL 31 9 30 1811 54 32 30 37% 46 28 8 0 0 4 5 1 111 40 1.07 1.28
1959 WSH AL 32 5 10 697 28 2 2 7% 25 2 2 0 1 0 2 0 51 6 1.29 1.05
1960 BAL AL 33 3 7 574 23 14 11 38% 20 11 3 0 0 3 1 0 37 16 1.45 1.19
1961 BAL AL 34 3 3 185 4 2 2 33% 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 3 1.52 1.36
11 Seasons 55 143 10673 272 197 188 42% 235 161 30 19 7 17 18 2 590 248 1.22 1.13
MLB Averages 43% 1.18 1.16

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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

Hall of Fame
1967 BBWAA ( 0.3%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1952 AL (24, 2%)
0.02 Career Shares (1402nd)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1952 AL  113 (4th)
1953 AL  103 (5th)
1954 AL  111 (4th)
1958 AL  128 (2nd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1952 AL  487 (4th)
1953 AL  436 (5th)
1954 AL  539 (4th)
1958 AL  682 (2nd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1952 AL  69 (2nd)
1953 AL  47 (4th)
1954 AL  53 (4th)
1958 AL  64 (1st)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1953 AL  10 (2nd)
1954 AL  6 (4th)
1956 AL  7 (4th)
1958 AL  7 (3rd)
1960 AL  7 (3rd)

Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y
1952 AL  7 (3rd)
1953 AL  7 (5th)
1954 AL  8 (4th)
1958 AL  17 (1st)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1952 AL  9 (1st)
1954 AL  9 (2nd)
1955 AL  6 (5th)
1958 AL  9 (5th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1952 AL  35 (2nd)
1953 AL  29 (2nd)
1954 AL  36 (2nd)
1955 AL  25 (5th)
1958 AL  54 (1st)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1952 AL  32 (2nd)
1953 AL  32 (1st)
1954 AL  37 (1st)
1957 AL  22 (4th)
1958 AL  32 (1st)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1953 AL  52.5 (4th)
1954 AL  50.7 (5th)
1957 AL  50.0 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1954 AL  2 (4th)
1957 AL  1 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1954 AL  5.68 (4th)
1957 AL  6.13 (4th)
1958 AL  6.18 (4th)
1960 AL  6.34 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1952 AL  4.92 (4th)
1954 AL  5.33 (2nd)
1957 AL  5.47 (3rd)
1958 AL  5.83 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1952 AL  .996 (1st)
1954 AL  .990 (4th)
1958 AL  .991 (3rd)

             

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