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Lave Cross

Lafayette Napoleon Cross

Positions: Third Baseman, Catcher and Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 155 lb.

Born: May 12, 1866 in Milwaukee, WI (All Transactions)
Debut: April 23, 1887
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Phillies/Senators/Browns/Superbas/... 1887-1907

Final Game: June 6, 1907
Died: September 6, 1927 in Toledo, OH
Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, OH
Relatives: Brother of Amos Cross and Brother of Frank Cross
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1887 LOU AA 21 C 44 346 251 66 29 7 .916 7.20 .893 6.26 54
1887 LOU AA 21 OF 10 20 16 1 3 1 .850 1.70 .898 2.04 3-1-6
1888 LOU AA 22 C 37 282 202 60 20 3 .929 7.08 .914 7.13 22
1888 LOU AA 22 OF 11 18 14 2 2 1 .889 1.45 .907 1.83 2-0-9
1888 LOU AA 22 SS 2 8 3 5 0 0 1.000 4.00 .862 4.60
1889 PHA AA 23 C 55 407 278 102 27 7 .934 6.91 .917 6.26 28
1890 PHQ PL 24 C 49 295 191 70 34 7 .885 5.33 .901 5.36 13 93 65 41% 37%
1890 PHQ PL 24 OF 15 29 25 0 4 0 .862 1.67 .904 2.11 0-5-10
1891 PHA AA 25 C 43 266 212 38 16 5 .940 5.81 .929 6.19 16 76 32 30% 38%
1891 PHA AA 25 OF 43 68 56 10 2 4 .971 1.53 .908 1.88 0-0-43
1891 PHA AA 25 3B 24 86 28 49 9 2 .895 3.21 .872 3.63
1891 PHA AA 25 2B 1 6 1 4 1 1 .833 5.00 .913 5.40
1891 PHA AA 25 SS 1 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.00 .880 5.10
1892 PHI NL 26 3B 65 266 97 148 21 5 .921 3.77 .879 3.58
1892 PHI NL 26 C 39 196 158 32 6 5 .969 4.87 .936 5.87 12 44 23 34% 37%
1892 PHI NL 26 OF 25 47 39 3 5 0 .894 1.68 .912 1.89 8-17-0
1892 PHI NL 26 2B 14 68 29 37 2 5 .971 4.71 .928 5.63
1892 PHI NL 26 SS 5 21 4 16 1 2 .952 4.00 .897 5.36
1893 PHI NL 27 C 40 195 144 46 5 4 .974 4.75 .936 4.78 6 56 41 42% 37%
1893 PHI NL 27 3B 30 154 44 98 12 10 .922 4.73 .893 3.79
1893 PHI NL 27 OF 10 29 27 0 2 0 .931 2.70 .915 2.18 0-9-1
1893 PHI NL 27 SS 10 54 16 33 5 6 .907 4.90 .897 5.54
1893 PHI NL 27 1B 6 68 60 5 3 7 .956 10.83 .978 10.58
1894 PHI NL 28 3B 103 463 181 243 39 24 .916 4.12 .878 3.48
1894 PHI NL 28 C 16 42 36 5 1 0 .976 2.56 .924 4.60 6 21 5 19% 37%
1894 PHI NL 28 SS 7 31 10 19 2 4 .935 4.14 .897 5.70
1894 PHI NL 28 2B 1 4 3 1 0 1 1.000 4.00 .928 5.80
1895 PHI NL 29 3B 125 531 191 308 32 23 .940 3.99 .872 3.46
1896 PHI NL 30 3B 61 239 88 136 15 9 .937 3.67 .892 3.46
1896 PHI NL 30 SS 37 224 77 134 13 17 .942 5.70 .903 5.58
1896 PHI NL 30 2B 6 28 10 17 1 4 .964 4.50 .940 5.53
1896 PHI NL 30 OF 2 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 3.50 .933 2.15 0-2-0
1896 PHI NL 30 C 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .940 4.60 0 0 0
1897 PHI NL 31 3B 47 181 71 94 16 5 .912 3.51 .892 3.35
1897 PHI NL 31 2B 38 195 68 120 7 10 .964 4.95 .936 5.61
1897 PHI NL 31 OF 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .935 2.10 0-0-2
1897 PHI NL 31 SS 1 5 2 3 0 0 1.000 5.00 .908 5.80
1898 STL NL 32 3B 149 599 215 351 33 20 .945 3.80 .902 3.48
1898 STL NL 32 SS 2 12 3 7 2 2 .833 5.00 .913 5.65
1899 TOT NL 33 3B 141 606 223 358 25 32 .959 4.12 .902 3.59
1899 CLV NL 33 3B 38 154 66 81 7 7 .955 3.87 .902 3.59
1899 STL NL 33 3B 103 452 157 277 18 25 .960 4.21 .902 3.59
1900 TOT NL 34 3B 133 523 173 321 29 11 .945 3.71 .895 3.82
1900 STL NL 34 3B 16 52 11 39 2 1 .962 3.13 .895 3.82
1900 BRO NL 34 3B 117 471 162 282 27 10 .943 3.79 .895 3.82
1901 PHA AL 35 3B 100 409 140 236 33 7 .919 3.76 .899 3.59
1902 PHA AL 36 3B 137 521 185 306 30 18 .942 3.58 .912 3.57
1903 PHA AL 37 3B 136 400 152 228 20 14 .950 2.79 .922 3.15
1903 PHA AL 37 1B 1 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 7.00 .981 10.80
1904 PHA AL 38 3B 155 439 164 247 28 15 .936 2.65 .931 3.13
1905 PHA AL 39 3B 147 447 163 252 32 6 .928 2.82 .923 3.14
1906 WSH AL 40 3B 130 419 157 242 20 9 .952 3.07 .920 3.22
1907 WSH AL 41 3B 41 139 38 98 3 2 .978 3.32 .913 3.14
17 Seasons 3B 1724 6422 2310 3715 397 212 .938 3.49 .902 3.42
9 Seasons C 324 2030 1473 419 138 38 .932 5.84 .916 5.90 157 290 166 36% 37%
8 Seasons OF 118 220 186 16 18 6 .918 1.71 .909 1.95 13-34-71
8 Seasons SS 65 357 115 219 23 31 .936 5.14 .901 5.54
5 Seasons 2B 60 301 111 179 11 21 .963 4.83 .934 5.61
2 Seasons 1B 7 75 67 5 3 7 .960 10.29 .978 10.61
21 Seasons TOT 2298 9405 4262 4553 590 315 .937 3.84 .906 3.83 13-34-71 157 290 166 36% 37%
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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-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
1887 LOU AA 21 54 54 0 44 0 0 0 0 3 1 6 10 0
1888 LOU AA 22 46 46 0 37 0 0 0 2 2 0 9 11 0
1889 PHA AA 23 55 55 0 55 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1890 PHQ PL 24 63 63 0 49 0 0 0 0 0 5 10 15 0
1891 PHA AA 25 110 110 0 43 0 1 24 1 0 0 43 43 0
1892 PHI NL 26 140 140 0 39 0 14 65 5 8 17 0 25 0
1893 PHI NL 27 96 96 0 40 6 0 30 10 0 9 1 10 0
1894 PHI NL 28 122 122 0 16 0 1 103 7 0 0 0 0 0
1895 PHI NL 29 125 125 0 0 0 0 125 0 0 0 0 0 0
1896 PHI NL 30 106 106 0 1 0 6 61 37 0 2 0 2 0
1897 PHI NL 31 88 88 0 0 0 38 47 1 0 0 2 2 0
1898 STL NL 32 151 151 0 0 0 0 149 2 0 0 0 0 0
1899 STL NL 33 103 103 0 0 0 0 103 0 0 0 0 0 0
1899 CLV NL 33 38 38 0 0 0 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0
1900 BRO NL 34 117 117 0 0 0 0 117 0 0 0 0 0 0
1900 STL NL 34 16 16 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0
1901 PHA AL 35 100 100 0 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0
1902 PHA AL 36 137 137 0 0 0 0 137 0 0 0 0 0 0
1903 PHA AL 37 137 137 0 0 1 0 136 0 0 0 0 0 0
1904 PHA AL 38 155 155 0 0 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0
1905 PHA AL 39 147 147 0 0 0 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 0
1906 WSH AL 40 130 130 0 0 0 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0
1907 WSH AL 41 41 41 0 0 0 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Seasons 2277 2277 0 324 7 60 1724 65 13 34 71 118 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 1918 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
1939 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1942 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
Career  590 (51st)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
Career  138 (90th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1887 AA  54 (5th)
Career  157 (62nd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1895 NL  125 (4th)
1898 NL  149 (2nd)
1899 NL  141 (5th)
1900 NL  133 (2nd)
1902 AL  137 (1st)
1903 AL  136 (1st)
1904 AL  155 (2nd)
1905 AL  147 (1st)
1906 AL  130 (2nd)
Career  1,724 (24th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1894 NL  181 (3rd)
1895 NL  191 (2nd)
1898 NL  215 (3rd)
1899 NL  223 (2nd)
1900 NL  173 (3rd)
1901 AL  140 (5th)
1902 AL  185 (2nd)
1903 AL  152 (4th)
1904 AL  164 (4th)
1905 AL  163 (4th)
1906 AL  157 (2nd)
Career  2,310 (4th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1894 NL  243 (5th)
1895 NL  308 (1st)
1898 NL  351 (1st)
1899 NL  358 (2nd)
1900 NL  321 (2nd)
1902 AL  306 (4th)
1903 AL  228 (4th)
1904 AL  247 (4th)
1906 AL  242 (3rd)
Career  3,715 (16th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1902 AL  30 (5th)
1904 AL  28 (4th)
Career  397 (14th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1894 NL  4.12 (1st)
1895 NL  3.99 (2nd)
1898 NL  3.80 (3rd)
1899 NL  4.12 (2nd)
1900 NL  3.71 (5th)
1901 AL  3.76 (2nd)
1902 AL  3.58 (5th)
1906 AL  3.07 (5th)
Career  3.49 (13th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1894 NL  .916 (2nd)
1895 NL  .940 (1st)
1898 NL  .945 (1st)
1899 NL  .959 (1st)
1900 NL  .945 (1st)
1901 AL  .919 (3rd)
1902 AL  .942 (2nd)
1903 AL  .950 (3rd)
1905 AL  .928 (3rd)
1906 AL  .952 (2nd)

Oldest s c a p y
1902 AL  born 1866-05-12 (9th)
1903 AL  born 1866-05-12 (5th)
1904 AL  born 1866-05-12 (5th)
1905 AL  born 1866-05-12 (4th)
1906 AL  born 1866-05-12 (5th)
1907 AL  born 1866-05-12 (4th)

             

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