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Harry Danning

Harry Danning (Harry The Horse)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: September 6, 1911 in Los Angeles, CA
High School: Los Angeles HS (Los Angeles, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: July 30, 1933
Team: Giants 1933-1942

Final Game: September 25, 1942
Died: November 29, 2004 in Valparaiso, IN
Cremated
Relatives: Brother of Ike Danning
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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
1933 NYG NL 21 C 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .980 4.40 0 0 0
1934 NYG NL 22 C 37 14 13 92 78 13 1 1 .989 2.46 .985 4.85 0 5 6 55% 44%
1935 NYG NL 23 C 44 29 29 179 153 22 4 6 .978 3.98 .976 4.78 1 5 10 67% 44%
1936 NYG NL 24 C 24 15 14 81 70 10 1 2 .988 3.33 .979 4.96 0 10 4 29% 46%
1937 NYG NL 25 C 86 70 67 396 332 57 7 7 .982 4.52 .980 5.25 3 18 24 57% 46% MVP-14
1938 NYG NL 26 C 114 110 108 507 449 50 8 7 .984 4.38 .979 4.85 7 28 16 36% 45% AS,MVP-16
1939 NYG NL 27 C 132 131 124 636 550 80 6 13 .991 4.77 .982 4.81 8 45 35 44% 46% AS,MVP-9
1940 NYG NL 28 C 131 130 121 740 634 91 15 13 .980 5.53 .978 5.00 7 33 37 53% 45% AS,MVP-7
1941 NYG NL 29 C 116 109 107 611 530 77 4 8 .993 5.23 .983 5.04 3 32 33 51% 46% AS,MVP-35
1941 NYG NL 29 1B 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .990 10.20 AS,MVP-35
1942 NYG NL 30 C 116 106 102 525 459 55 11 7 .979 4.43 .979 4.95 3 29 24 45% 46%
10 Seasons C 801 714 685 3769 3257 455 57 64 .985 4.63 .980 4.95 32 205 189 48% 45%
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .990 10.20
10 Seasons TOT 802 714 685 3771 3259 455 57 64 .985 4.63 .980 4.96 32 205 189 48% 45%
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
1933 NYG NL 21 3 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1934 NYG NL 22 53 14 53 37 0 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1935 NYG NL 23 65 29 65 44 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 0
1936 NYG NL 24 32 15 32 24 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1937 NYG NL 25 93 70 93 82 0 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1938 NYG NL 26 120 110 120 114 0 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1939 NYG NL 27 135 131 135 132 0 132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1940 NYG NL 28 140 130 140 131 0 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1941 NYG NL 29 130 109 130 117 0 116 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
1942 NYG NL 30 119 106 119 117 0 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
10 Seasons 890 714 890 799 0 798 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 92 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

Hall of Fame
1958 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1960 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

All-Star Games
1938
1939
1940 *
1941 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1937 NL (14, 12%)
1938 NL (16, 4%)
1939 NL (9, 10%)
1940 NL (7, 19%)
1941 NL (35, 1%)
0.46 Career Shares (467th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1938 NL  114 (4th)
1939 NL  132 (1st)
1940 NL  131 (1st)
1941 NL  116 (4th)
1942 NL  116 (2nd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1938 NL  449 (4th)
1939 NL  550 (1st)
1940 NL  634 (1st)
1941 NL  530 (1st)
1942 NL  459 (3rd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1938 NL  50 (5th)
1939 NL  80 (1st)
1940 NL  91 (1st)
1941 NL  77 (2nd)
1942 NL  55 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1940 NL  15 (1st)
1942 NL  11 (3rd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1938 NL  7 (3rd)
1939 NL  8 (3rd)
1940 NL  7 (1st)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1938 NL  28 (3rd)
1939 NL  45 (1st)
1940 NL  33 (5th)
1941 NL  32 (5th)
1942 NL  29 (5th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1939 NL  35 (1st)
1940 NL  37 (1st)
1941 NL  33 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1937 NL  57.1 (4th)
1940 NL  52.9 (3rd)
1941 NL  50.8 (5th)
Career  48.0 (36th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1938 NL  4.38 (5th)
1939 NL  4.77 (2nd)
1940 NL  5.53 (1st)
1941 NL  5.23 (1st)
1942 NL  4.43 (5th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1937 NL  .982 (4th)
1938 NL  .984 (4th)
1939 NL  .991 (4th)
1940 NL  .980 (5th)
1941 NL  .993 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
1933 NL  born 1911-09-06 (6th)

                           

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