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Sam Crawford

Samuel Earl Crawford (Wahoo Sam)

Positions: Rightfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: April 18, 1880 in Wahoo, NE(All Transactions)
Debut: September 10, 1899 (Age 19)
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Reds 1899-1917

Final Game: September 16, 1917 (Age 37)
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Player in 1957.
   View Sam Crawford Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
Died: June 15, 1968 in Hollywood, CA
Buried: Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
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Hall of Fame

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
1899 CIN NL 19 OF 31 67 56 9 2 2 .970 2.10 .944 2.15 9-22-0
1900 CIN NL 20 OF 95 269 237 18 14 2 .948 2.68 .940 2.17 70-12-12
1901 CIN NL 21 OF 127 248 209 20 19 6 .923 1.80 .942 2.06 1-0-126
1902 CIN NL 22 OF 140 249 208 24 17 5 .932 1.66 .945 1.97 7-0-133
1903 DET AL 23 OF 137 251 225 16 10 3 .960 1.76 .952 1.95 45-0-92
1904 DET AL 24 OF 150 255 230 18 7 8 .973 1.65 .954 1.86 1-0-149
1905 DET AL 25 OF 103 172 152 18 2 3 .988 1.65 .953 1.86 0-0-103
1905 DET AL 25 1B 51 530 478 41 11 22 .979 10.18 .982 10.78
1906 DET AL 26 OF 116 193 171 19 3 2 .984 1.64 .963 1.89 0-2-116
1906 DET AL 26 1B 32 306 287 17 2 10 .993 9.50 .982 10.85
1907 DET AL 27 OF 144 345 311 22 12 2 .965 2.31 .959 1.85 0-144-0
1907 DET AL 27 1B 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 11.15
1908 DET AL 28 OF 134 269 252 9 8 2 .970 1.95 .954 1.84 0-134-0
1908 DET AL 28 1B 17 195 176 13 6 12 .969 11.12 .984 11.36
1909 DET AL 29 OF 139 315 297 7 11 2 .965 2.19 .951 1.85 0-139-0
1909 DET AL 29 1B 18 205 189 10 6 2 .971 11.06 .985 11.13
1910 DET AL 30 OF 153 242 223 10 9 2 .963 1.52 .954 1.83 0-26-127
1910 DET AL 30 1B 1 12 11 1 0 0 1.000 12.00 .983 11.10
1911 DET AL 31 OF 146 202 181 16 5 3 .975 1.35 .950 1.99 0-0-146 MVP-14
1912 DET AL 32 OF 149 188 169 16 3 5 .984 1.24 .951 2.04 0-0-149 MVP-14
1913 DET AL 33 OF 140 223 201 14 8 5 .964 1.54 .953 2.01 0-0-140 MVP-14
1913 DET AL 33 1B 13 169 156 7 6 6 .964 12.54 .986 10.85 MVP-14
1914 DET AL 34 OF 157 216 193 18 5 4 .977 1.34 .956 2.00 0-0-157 MVP-2
1915 DET AL 35 OF 156 233 219 8 6 1 .974 1.46 .958 2.05 0-0-156
1916 DET AL 36 OF 79 78 78 93 85 6 2 2 .978 1.15 .963 2.12 1-0-78
1916 DET AL 36 RF 79 78 78 92 84 6 2 2 .978 1.14 .960 1.69
1916 DET AL 36 1B 2 2 2 19 19 0 0 1 1.000 9.50 .988 11.00
1917 DET AL 37 1B 15 15 15 162 158 2 2 5 .988 10.67 .989 11.07
1917 DET AL 37 OF 3 2 2 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 2.33 .967 2.23 0-0-3
1917 DET AL 37 RF 3 2 2 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 2.33 .961 1.80
19 Seasons OF 2299 80 80 4037 3626 268 143 59 .965 1.69 .952 1.96 134-479-1769
9 Seasons 1B 151 17 17 1600 1476 91 33 58 .979 10.38 .984 10.95
2 Seasons (incomplete) RF 82 80 80 99 91 6 2 2 .980 1.18 .960 1.69
19 Seasons TOT 2450 97 97 5637 5102 359 176 117 .969 2.23 .961 2.51 134-479-1769
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
1899 CIN NL 19 31 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 22 0 31 0
1900 CIN NL 20 101 101 0 0 0 0 0 0 70 12 12 95 0
1901 CIN NL 21 131 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 126 127 0
1902 CIN NL 22 140 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 133 140 0
1903 DET AL 23 137 137 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 0 92 137 0
1904 DET AL 24 150 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 149 150 0
1905 DET AL 25 154 154 0 0 51 0 0 0 0 0 103 103 0
1906 DET AL 26 145 145 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 2 116 116 0
1907 DET AL 27 144 144 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 144 0 144 0
1908 DET AL 28 152 152 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 134 0 134 0
1909 DET AL 29 156 156 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 139 0 139 0
1910 DET AL 30 154 154 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 26 127 153 0
1911 DET AL 31 146 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 146 146 0
1912 DET AL 32 149 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 149 149 0
1913 DET AL 33 153 153 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 140 140 0
1914 DET AL 34 157 157 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 157 157 0
1915 DET AL 35 156 156 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156 156 0
1916 DET AL 36 100 100 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 78 79 0
1917 DET AL 37 61 61 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0
19 Seasons 2517 2517 0 0 151 0 0 0 134 479 1687 2299 0
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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
1936 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1937 BBWAA ( 2.5%)
1938 BBWAA ( 4.2%)
1939 BBWAA ( 2.2%)
1942 BBWAA ( 0.9%)
1945 BBWAA ( 1.6%)
1946 Nominating Vote ( 4.5%)
1957 Veterans (inducted)
Selected to HOF in 1957
by Veteran's Committee

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1911 AL (14, 6%)
1912 AL (14, 6%)
1913 AL (14, 8%)
1914 AL (2, 55%)
0.75 Career Shares (324th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1902 NL  140 (2nd)
1909 AL  139 (4th)
1910 AL  153 (2nd)
1911 AL  146 (3rd)
1914 AL  157 (1st)
1915 AL  156 (1st)
Career  2,299 (21st)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1907 AL  311 (2nd)
1909 AL  297 (3rd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1901 NL  20 (4th)
1902 NL  24 (2nd)
1904 AL  18 (5th)
1905 AL  18 (4th)
1907 AL  22 (5th)
Career  268 (16th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1901 NL  19 (4th)
1902 NL  17 (5th)
Career  143 (79th)

Double Plays Turned as OF s c a p y
1901 NL  6 (5th)
1904 AL  8 (1st)
Career  59 (21st)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1900 NL  2.68 (2nd)
1907 AL  2.31 (2nd)
1909 AL  2.19 (5th)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1904 AL  .973 (5th)
1905 AL  .988 (1st)
1906 AL  .984 (3rd)
1908 AL  .970 (2nd)
1910 AL  .963 (5th)
1911 AL  .975 (2nd)
1912 AL  .984 (2nd)
1914 AL  .977 (2nd)

Oldest s c a p y
1915 AL  born 1880-04-18 (7th)
1916 AL  born 1880-04-18 (10th)
1917 AL  born 1880-04-18 (5th)

Youngest s c a p y
1899 NL  born 1880-04-18 (2nd)
1900 NL  born 1880-04-18 (2nd)
1901 NL  born 1880-04-18 (5th)

             

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