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Birdie Cree

William Franklin Cree

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 6", Weight: 150 lb.

Born: October 23, 1882 in Khedive, PA
School: Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 17, 1908
Teams (by GP): Highlanders/Yankees 1908-1915

Final Game: September 21, 1915
Died: November 8, 1942 in Sunbury, PA
Buried: Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Sunbury, PA
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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 NYY AL 25 OF 21 39 35 4 0 2 1.000 1.86 .954 1.84 0-21-0
1909 NYY AL 26 OF 79 137 121 9 7 2 .949 1.65 .951 1.85 24-32-25
1909 NYY AL 26 SS 6 30 7 21 2 2 .933 4.67 .925 5.35
1909 NYY AL 26 2B 4 13 6 7 0 0 1.000 3.25 .953 4.90
1909 NYY AL 26 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.40
1910 NYY AL 27 OF 134 223 202 11 10 3 .955 1.59 .954 1.83 49-85-0
1911 NYY AL 28 OF 132 274 245 19 10 2 .964 2.00 .950 1.99 122-7-3 MVP-6
1911 NYY AL 28 SS 4 24 7 13 4 1 .833 5.00 .926 5.58 MVP-6
1911 NYY AL 28 2B 2 2 0 1 1 0 .500 0.50 .950 5.15 MVP-6
1912 NYY AL 29 OF 50 135 123 5 7 1 .948 2.56 .951 2.04 50-0-0
1913 NYY AL 30 OF 144 259 239 17 3 5 .988 1.78 .953 2.01 144-0-0
1914 NYY AL 31 OF 76 205 190 10 5 4 .976 2.63 .956 2.00 0-76-0
1915 NYY AL 32 OF 53 109 97 6 6 1 .945 1.94 .958 2.05 0-37-16
8 Seasons OF 689 1381 1252 81 48 20 .965 1.93 .953 1.95 389-258-44
2 Seasons SS 10 54 14 34 6 3 .889 4.80 .925 5.44
2 Seasons 2B 6 15 6 8 1 0 .933 2.33 .953 4.98
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.40
8 Seasons TOT 706 1450 1272 123 55 23 .962 1.98 .952 2.03 389-258-44
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.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) 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 1948 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 NYY AL 25 21 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 21 0
1909 NYY AL 26 104 104 0 0 0 4 1 6 24 32 25 79 0
1910 NYY AL 27 134 134 0 0 0 0 0 0 49 85 0 134 0
1911 NYY AL 28 137 137 0 0 0 2 0 4 122 7 3 132 0
1912 NYY AL 29 50 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 50 0 0 50 0
1913 NYY AL 30 145 145 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 0 0 144 0
1914 NYY AL 31 77 77 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 0 76 0
1915 NYY AL 32 74 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 16 53 0
8 Seasons 742 742 0 0 0 6 1 10 389 258 44 689 0
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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1911 AL (6, 25%)
0.25 Career Shares (673rd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1911 AL  .964 (5th)
1913 AL  .988 (1st)

                           

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