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Dick Culler

Richard Broadus Culler

Positions: Shortstop, Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 155 lb.

Born: January 15, 1915 in High Point, NC
High School: High Point School (High Point, NC)
School: High Point University (High Point, NC)(All Transactions)
Debut: September 19, 1936
Teams (by GP): Braves/WhiteSox/Cubs/Athletics/Giants 1936-1949

Final Game: May 25, 1949
Died: June 16, 1964 in Chapel Hill, NC
Buried: Floral Garden Park Cemetery, High Point, NC
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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 Awards
1936 PHA AL 21 2B 7 7 7 37 20 15 2 4 .946 5.00 .972 5.79
1936 PHA AL 21 SS 2 2 1 4 0 4 0 0 1.000 2.00 .950 5.35
1943 CHW AL 28 3B 26 23 20 80 31 45 4 8 .950 2.92 .951 3.17
1943 CHW AL 28 2B 19 18 16 111 36 71 4 16 .964 5.63 .969 5.57
1943 CHW AL 28 SS 3 0 0 9 4 5 0 0 1.000 3.00 .953 5.13
1944 BSN NL 29 SS 8 7 6 52 14 33 5 6 .904 5.88 .954 5.41
1945 BSN NL 30 SS 126 124 115 669 252 386 31 71 .954 5.06 .947 5.26
1945 BSN NL 30 3B 6 6 6 26 9 14 3 1 .885 3.83 .941 3.20
1946 BSN NL 31 SS 132 130 110 695 279 380 36 68 .948 4.99 .957 5.15
1947 BSN NL 32 SS 77 66 44 329 106 212 11 31 .967 4.13 .963 5.11
1948 CHC NL 33 SS 43 32 16 185 65 114 6 18 .968 4.16 .959 4.98
1948 CHC NL 33 2B 2 1 1 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .970 5.40
1949 NYG NL 34 SS 7 0 0 9 3 5 1 2 .889 1.14 .961 5.04
8 Seasons SS 398 361 292 1952 723 1139 90 196 .954 4.68 .955 5.16
2 Seasons 3B 32 29 26 106 40 59 7 9 .934 3.09 .949 3.18
3 Seasons 2B 28 26 24 152 59 87 6 20 .961 5.21 .970 5.61
8 Seasons TOT 458 416 342 2210 822 1285 103 225 .953 4.60 .955 5.05
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.
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  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
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  • 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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1936 PHA AL 21 2B
1936 PHA AL 21 SS
1943 CHW AL 28 3B
1943 CHW AL 28 2B
1943 CHW AL 28 SS
1944 BSN NL 29 SS
1945 BSN NL 30 SS
1945 BSN NL 30 3B
1946 BSN NL 31 SS
1947 BSN NL 32 SS
1948 CHC NL 33 SS
1948 CHC NL 33 2B
1949 NYG NL 34 SS
8 Seasons SS
2 Seasons 3B
3 Seasons 2B
8 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1936 PHA AL 21 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 7 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1943 CHW AL 28 53 41 53 48 0 0 0 19 26 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
1944 BSN NL 29 8 7 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1945 BSN NL 30 136 130 136 132 0 0 0 0 6 126 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
1946 BSN NL 31 134 130 134 132 0 0 0 0 0 132 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1947 BSN NL 32 77 66 77 71 0 0 0 0 0 71 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
1948 CHC NL 33 48 33 48 45 0 0 0 2 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
1949 NYG NL 34 7 0 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 472 416 472 452 0 0 0 28 32 392 0 0 0 0 0 7 14
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.

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1948 CHC NL 33 412 67% 82% 31% 44 84% 0 25 7 13 5 37 32 2 0 0 4 0 4 0 3 10 1 1 6 0 1 9 2 7 1 1 0
1949 NYG NL 34 35 51% 77% 23% 2 50% 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
2 Seasons 447 66% 82% 30% 46 83% 0 27 7 15 5 39 34 2 0 0 5 0 5 0 4 11 1 1 7 0 1 10 2 8 1 1 0
MLB Averages 61% 82% 27% 91%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1945 NL  34 (3rd)
1946 NL  36 (2nd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1945 NL  126 (2nd)
1946 NL  132 (3rd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1945 NL  252 (2nd)
1946 NL  279 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1945 NL  386 (2nd)
1946 NL  380 (4th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1945 NL  31 (4th)
1946 NL  36 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1945 NL  5.06 (3rd)
1946 NL  4.99 (4th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1945 NL  .954 (4th)

             

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