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Gavvy Cravath    \cruh-VATH\

Clifford Carlton Cravath (Cactus Gavvy)

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 186 lb.

Born: March 23, 1881 in Poway, CA
High School: Escondido HS (Escondido, CA)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1908 (Age 27)
Teams (by GP): Phillies/RedSox/WhiteSox/Senators 1908-1920

Final Game: October 2, 1920 (Age 39)
Died: May 23, 1963 in Laguna Beach, CA
Buried: Melrose Abbey Cemetery, Anaheim, CA
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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
1908 BOS AL 27 OF 77 146 128 7 11 3 .925 1.75 .954 1.84 62-0-15
1908 BOS AL 27 1B 5 8 6 0 2 0 .750 1.20 .984 11.36
1909 TOT AL 28 OF 19 38 35 1 2 0 .947 1.89 .951 1.85 0-18-1
1909 CHW AL 28 OF 18 36 34 0 2 0 .944 1.89 .951 1.85 0-18-0
1909 WSH AL 28 OF 1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .950 1.80 0-0-1
1912 PHI NL 31 OF 113 234 200 26 8 5 .966 2.00 .956 2.24 30-14-73
1913 PHI NL 32 OF 141 238 208 20 10 1 .958 1.62 .960 2.21 3-7-133 MVP-2
1914 PHI NL 33 OF 143 257 205 34 18 7 .930 1.67 .957 2.13 1-0-142 MVP-22
1915 PHI NL 34 OF 149 276 233 28 15 2 .946 1.75 .959 2.12 0-0-149
1916 PHI NL 35 OF 130 130 116 206 182 17 7 2 .966 1.53 .967 2.15 0-0-130
1916 PHI NL 35 RF 130 130 116 206 182 17 7 2 .966 1.53 .964 1.75
1917 PHI NL 36 RF 140 139 134 239 209 17 13 4 .946 1.61 .955 1.86
1917 PHI NL 36 OF 139 139 134 239 209 17 13 3 .946 1.63 .963 2.20 0-0-139
1918 PHI NL 37 OF 118 118 114 218 184 19 15 3 .931 1.72 .962 2.26 7-0-110
1918 PHI NL 37 RF 113 113 109 213 180 18 15 2 .930 1.75 .962 1.86
1918 PHI NL 37 LF 6 5 5 6 5 1 0 1 1.000 1.00 .965 2.22
1919 PHI NL 38 OF 56 54 54 105 89 7 9 2 .914 1.71 .964 2.26
1919 PHI NL 38 RF 53 53 53 103 89 7 7 2 .932 1.81 .959 1.99
1919 PHI NL 38 LF 2 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 .000 0.00 .965 2.20
1919 PHI NL 38 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.60
1920 PHI NL 39 OF 5 3 2 3 2 0 1 0 .667 0.40 .963 2.34
1920 PHI NL 39 LF 3 2 1 2 1 0 1 0 .500 0.33 .965 2.17
1920 PHI NL 39 RF 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .960 2.10
11 Seasons OF 1090 444 420 1960 1675 176 109 28 .944 1.70 .960 2.16 114-40-1330
5 Seasons (incomplete) RF 438 436 413 762 661 59 42 10 .945 1.64 .960 1.84
3 Seasons (incomplete) LF 11 8 7 10 6 1 3 1 .700 0.64 .965 2.20
1 Season 1B 5 8 6 0 2 0 .750 1.20 .984 11.36
1 Season (incomplete) CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.60
11 Seasons TOT 1095 444 420 1968 1681 176 111 28 .944 1.70 .960 2.20 114-40-1330
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
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1908 BOS AL 27 94 94 0 0 5 0 0 0 62 0 15 77 0
1909 CHW AL 28 19 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0 18 0
1909 WSH AL 28 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
1912 PHI NL 31 130 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 14 73 113 0
1913 PHI NL 32 147 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 133 141 0
1914 PHI NL 33 149 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 142 143 0
1915 PHI NL 34 150 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 149 149 0
1916 PHI NL 35 137 137 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 130 130 0
1917 PHI NL 36 140 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 139 139 0
1918 PHI NL 37 121 121 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 110 118 0
1919 PHI NL 38 83 54 83 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 53 56 0 27 0
1920 PHI NL 39 46 3 46 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 5 0 41 0
11 Seasons 1220 57 1220 61 0 0 5 0 0 0 108 40 947 1090 0 68 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

Hall of Fame
1937 BBWAA ( 1.0%)
1938 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1939 BBWAA ( 0.7%)
1946 Nominating Vote ( 0.5%)
1947 BBWAA ( 1.2%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1913 NL (2, 63%)
1914 NL (22, 2%)
0.65 Career Shares (369th)

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1916 NL  130 (4th)
1917 NL  140 (2nd)
1918 NL  113 (4th)

Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1917 NL  209 (3rd)
1918 NL  180 (4th)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1916 NL  17 (3rd)
1917 NL  17 (3rd)
1918 NL  18 (2nd)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1916 NL  7 (5th)
1917 NL  13 (2nd)
1918 NL  15 (1st)
Career  42 (85th)

Double Plays Turned as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1917 NL  4 (2nd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1912 NL  26 (1st)
1914 NL  34 (1st)
1915 NL  28 (1st)
1918 NL  19 (3rd)
Career  176 (74th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1914 NL  18 (3rd)
1915 NL  15 (3rd)
1918 NL  15 (3rd)

Double Plays Turned as OF s c a p y
1914 NL  7 (4th)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1916 NL  .966 (4th)
1917 NL  .946 (3rd)
1918 NL  .930 (5th)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1912 NL  .966 (5th)

Oldest s c a p y
1917 NL  born 1881-03-23 (7th)
1918 NL  born 1881-03-23 (5th)
1919 NL  born 1881-03-23 (1st)
1920 NL  born 1881-03-23 (1st)

                                         

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