Harry Craft

Harry Francis Craft (Wildfire)

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: April 19, 1915 in Ellisville, MS
School: Mississippi College (Clinton, MS) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 19, 1937
Team: Reds 1937-1942

Final Game: July 14, 1942
Died: August 3, 1995 in Conroe, TX
Cremated
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1937	CIN	NL	22	CF	10	10	9	23	22	1	0	0	1.000	2.30	.977	2.63
1937	CIN	NL	22	OF	10	10	9	23	22	1	0	0	1.000	2.30	.974	2.24
1938	CIN	NL	23	CF	151	151	151	459	436	15	8	3	.983	2.99	.978	2.73
1938	CIN	NL	23	OF	151	151	151	459	436	15	8	3	.983	2.99	.976	2.34
1939	CIN	NL	24	OF	134	131	123	319	300	13	6	4	.981	2.34	.975	2.32
1939	CIN	NL	24	CF	133	130	122	312	294	13	5	4	.984	2.31	.977	2.70
1939	CIN	NL	24	LF	1	1	1	7	6	0	1	0	.857	6.00	.974	2.20
1940	CIN	NL	25	OF	109	106	104	292	284	7	1	2	.997	2.67	.977	2.32
1940	CIN	NL	25	CF	106	103	101	285	277	7	1	2	.996	2.68	.981	2.66
1940	CIN	NL	25	RF	3	3	3	7	7	0	0	0	1.000	2.33	.974	2.03
1940	CIN	NL	25	1B	2	0	0	17	16	1	0	1	1.000	8.50	.990	10.45
1941	CIN	NL	26	CF	115	112	108	291	280	6	5	1	.983	2.49	.980	2.63
1941	CIN	NL	26	OF	115	112	108	291	280	6	5	1	.983	2.49	.975	2.31
1942	CIN	NL	27	CF	33	29	27	77	72	4	1	3	.987	2.30	.978	2.62
1942	CIN	NL	27	OF	33	29	27	77	72	4	1	3	.987	2.30	.981	2.34
	6 Seasons			OF	552	539	522	1461	1394	46	21	13	.986	2.61	.976	2.32
	6 Seasons			CF	548	535	518	1447	1381	46	20	13	.986	2.60	.979	2.68
	1 Season			RF	3	3	3	7	7	0	0	0	1.000	2.33	.974	2.03
	1 Season			1B	2	0	0	17	16	1	0	1	1.000	8.50	.990	10.45
	1 Season			LF	1	1	1	7	6	0	1	0	.857	6.00	.974	2.20
	6 Seasons			TOT	554	539	522	1478	1410	47	21	14	.986	2.63	.976	2.35

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1937	CIN	NL	22	10	10	10	10	0	0	10	0	10	0	0
1938	CIN	NL	23	151	151	151	151	0	0	151	0	151	0	0
1939	CIN	NL	24	134	131	134	134	0	1	133	0	134	0	0
1940	CIN	NL	25	115	106	115	111	2	0	106	3	109	4	0
1941	CIN	NL	26	119	112	119	115	0	0	115	0	115	4	0
1942	CIN	NL	27	37	29	37	33	0	0	33	0	33	1	3
	6 Seasons			566	539	566	554	2	1	548	3	552	9	3

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

Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1938 NL 151 (1st) 1939 NL 133 (1st) 1940 NL 106 (4th)	Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1938 NL 436 (1st) 1939 NL 294 (1st) 1940 NL 277 (4th)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1938 NL 15 (2nd) 1939 NL 13 (2nd) 1940 NL 7 (3rd)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1938 NL 8 (3rd) 1939 NL 5 (3rd) 1941 NL 5 (5th)
Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1938 NL 151 (1st)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1938 NL 436 (1st) 1939 NL 300 (5th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1938 NL 15 (4th) 1939 NL 13 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1938 NL 2.99 (1st) 1939 NL 2.31 (5th) 1940 NL 2.68 (3rd) Career 2.60 (67th)
Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1938 NL .983 (3rd) 1939 NL .984 (4th) 1940 NL .996 (1st) 1941 NL .983 (3rd) Career .986 (84th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1938 NL 2.99 (1st) 1940 NL 2.67 (3rd) Career 2.61 (38th)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1940 NL .997 (1st) 1941 NL .983 (4th)

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