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Babe Dahlgren

Ellsworth Tenney Dahlgren

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

Born: June 15, 1912 in San Francisco, CA
High School: Mission HS (San Francisco, CA)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1935
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Pirates/RedSox/Phillies/Cubs/... 1935-1946

Final Game: September 3, 1946
Died: September 4, 1996 in Arcadia, CA
Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1935 BOS AL 23 1B 149 148 137 1520 1433 69 18 109 .988 10.08 .992 10.16
1936 BOS AL 24 1B 16 16 16 147 136 8 3 10 .980 9.00 .991 9.93
1938 NYY AL 26 3B 8 6 6 23 11 8 4 0 .826 2.38 .941 3.14
1938 NYY AL 26 1B 6 0 0 28 26 2 0 2 1.000 4.67 .990 9.77
1939 NYY AL 27 1B 144 144 143 1384 1303 68 13 140 .991 9.52 .990 9.64
1940 NYY AL 28 1B 155 155 153 1578 1488 75 15 143 .990 10.08 .989 9.80
1941 TOT NL 29 1B 137 137 137 1414 1336 66 12 129 .992 10.23 .989 10.16 MVP-28
1941 BSN NL 29 1B 39 39 39 410 379 28 3 45 .993 10.44 .989 10.16
1941 BSN NL 29 3B 5 5 5 18 5 12 1 0 .944 3.40 .949 3.32 MVP-28
1941 CHC NL 29 1B 98 98 98 1004 957 38 9 84 .991 10.15 .989 10.16
1942 TOT NL 30 1B 24 14 14 199 183 14 2 13 .990 8.21 .989 10.18
1942 CHC NL 30 1B 14 13 13 148 136 10 2 7 .986 10.43 .989 10.18
1942 BRO NL 30 1B 10 1 1 51 47 4 0 6 1.000 5.10 .989 10.18
1943 PHI NL 31 1B 73 73 72 769 714 46 9 66 .988 10.41 .992 10.48 AS,MVP-29
1943 PHI NL 31 3B 35 35 23 94 33 52 9 4 .904 2.43 .948 3.17 AS,MVP-29
1943 PHI NL 31 SS 25 25 24 112 53 53 6 11 .946 4.24 .954 5.30 AS,MVP-29
1943 PHI NL 31 C 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.70 0 0 0 AS,MVP-29
1944 PIT NL 32 1B 158 158 150 1588 1440 128 20 105 .987 9.92 .990 10.04 MVP-12
1945 PIT NL 33 1B 144 142 133 1472 1373 93 6 115 .996 10.18 .990 10.17
1946 SLB AL 34 1B 24 23 16 209 187 18 4 16 .981 8.54 .989 9.58
11 Seasons 1B 1030 1010 971 10308 9619 587 102 848 .990 9.91 .990 10.02
3 Seasons 3B 48 46 34 135 49 72 14 4 .896 2.52 .947 3.18
1 Season SS 25 25 24 112 53 53 6 11 .946 4.24 .954 5.30
1 Season C 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.70 0 0 0
12 Seasons TOT 1104 1081 1029 10555 9721 712 122 863 .988 9.45 .989 9.61 0 0 0
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG 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
1935 BOS AL 23 149 148 149 149 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1936 BOS AL 24 16 16 16 16 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1937 NYY AL 25 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1938 NYY AL 26 27 6 27 14 0 0 6 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 8
1939 NYY AL 27 144 144 144 144 0 0 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1940 NYY AL 28 155 155 155 155 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1941 CHC NL 29 99 98 99 98 0 0 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1941 BSN NL 29 44 44 44 44 0 0 39 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1942 BRO NL 30 17 1 17 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1942 CHC NL 30 17 13 17 14 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1942 SLB AL 30 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1943 PHI NL 31 136 133 136 133 0 1 73 0 35 25 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1944 PIT NL 32 158 158 158 158 0 0 158 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1945 PIT NL 33 144 142 144 142 0 0 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1946 SLB AL 34 28 23 28 24 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
12 Seasons 1137 1081 1137 1101 0 1 1028 0 48 25 0 0 0 0 0 29 8
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

All-Star Games
1943 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1941 NL (28, 2%)
1943 NL (29, 1%)
1944 NL (12, 10%)
0.13 Career Shares (851st)

Putouts† s c a p y
1935 AL  1,433 (3rd)
1939 AL  1,303 (2nd)
1940 AL  1,488 (1st)
1941 NL  1,341 (5th)
1944 NL  1,440 (3rd)
1945 NL  1,373 (2nd)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1935 AL  149 (4th)
1939 AL  144 (2nd)
1940 AL  155 (1st)
1944 NL  158 (1st)
1945 NL  144 (2nd)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1935 AL  1,433 (3rd)
1939 AL  1,303 (2nd)
1940 AL  1,488 (1st)
1941 NL  1,336 (5th)
1944 NL  1,440 (3rd)
1945 NL  1,373 (2nd)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1944 NL  128 (2nd)
1945 NL  93 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1935 AL  18 (1st)
1939 AL  13 (1st)
1940 AL  15 (3rd)
1941 NL  12 (5th)
1943 NL  9 (3rd)
1944 NL  20 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1935 AL  10.08 (4th)
1939 AL  9.52 (5th)
1940 AL  10.08 (2nd)
1941 NL  10.23 (2nd)
1944 NL  9.92 (5th)
1945 NL  10.18 (4th)
Career  9.91 (71st)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1940 AL  .990 (3rd)
1941 NL  .992 (3rd)
1945 NL  .996 (1st)

                                         

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