Abner Dalrymple

Abner Frank Dalrymple

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: September 9, 1857 in Gratiot, WI (All Transactions)
Debut: May 1, 1878
Teams (by GP): WhiteStockings/PittsburghAlleghenys/Grays/Brewers 1878-1891

Final Game: October 2, 1891
Died: January 25, 1939 in Warren, IL
Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Warren, IL
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G
1878	MLG	NL	20	OF	61	167	128	11	28	3	.832	2.28	.834	1.77	61-0-0
1879	CHC	NL	21	OF	71	147	103	4	40	1	.728	1.51	.838	1.89	66-1-4
1880	CHC	NL	22	OF	86	205	157	19	29	4	.859	2.05	.855	1.85	86-0-0
1881	CHC	NL	23	OF	82	188	143	14	31	1	.835	1.91	.871	2.06	82-0-0
1882	CHC	NL	24	OF	84	220	185	8	27	4	.877	2.30	.855	1.93	84-0-0
1883	CHC	NL	25	OF	80	195	149	12	34	3	.826	2.01	.849	1.96	80-0-0
1884	CHC	NL	26	OF	111	220	176	18	26	5	.882	1.75	.867	1.79	111-0-0
1885	CHC	NL	27	OF	113	223	180	16	27	2	.879	1.73	.881	1.85	112-1-0
1886	CHC	NL	28	OF	82	148	126	15	7	1	.953	1.72	.890	1.75	82-0-0
1887	PIT	NL	29	OF	92	220	184	14	22	1	.900	2.15	.883	1.97	92-0-0
1888	PIT	NL	30	OF	57	99	81	9	9	0	.909	1.58	.906	1.91	56-0-1
1891	MIL	AA	33	OF	32	55	44	6	5	1	.909	1.56	.908	1.88	32-0-0
	12 Seasons			OF	951	2087	1656	146	285	26	.863	1.89	.866	1.88	944-2-5
	12 Seasons			TOT	951	2087	1656	146	285	26	.863	1.89	.866	1.88	944-2-5

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	LF	CF	RF	OF
1878	MLG	NL	20	61	61	61	0	0	61
1879	CHC	NL	21	71	71	66	1	4	71
1880	CHC	NL	22	86	86	86	0	0	86
1881	CHC	NL	23	82	82	82	0	0	82
1882	CHC	NL	24	84	84	84	0	0	84
1883	CHC	NL	25	80	80	80	0	0	80
1884	CHC	NL	26	111	111	111	0	0	111
1885	CHC	NL	27	113	113	112	1	0	113
1886	CHC	NL	28	82	82	82	0	0	82
1887	PIT	NL	29	92	92	92	0	0	92
1888	PIT	NL	30	57	57	56	0	1	57
1891	MIL	AA	33	32	32	32	0	0	32
	12 Seasons			951	951	944	2	5	951

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

Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1878 NL 61 (5th) 1880 NL 86 (1st) 1882 NL 84 (1st) 1884 NL 111 (5th) 1885 NL 113 (1st)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1878 NL 128 (1st) 1880 NL 157 (2nd) 1882 NL 185 (3rd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1878 NL 28 (1st) 1879 NL 40 (1st) 1880 NL 29 (3rd) 1881 NL 31 (1st) 1883 NL 34 (3rd) Career 285 (12th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1878 NL 2.28 (1st) 1882 NL 2.30 (5th)
Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1886 NL .953 (2nd)	Oldest s c a p y 1891 AA born 1857-09-09 (9th)	Youngest s c a p y 1878 NL born 1857-09-09 (10th)

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