Jim Donahue

James Augustus Donahue

Positions: Catcher, Outfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: January 8, 1862 in Lockport, IL (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1886
Teams (by GP): Cowboys/Metropolitans/Solons 1886-1891

Final Game: October 2, 1891
Died: April 19, 1935 in Lockport, IL
Buried: South Lockport Cemetery, Lockport, IL
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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
1886	NYP	AA	24	OF	32				66	50	3	13	0	.803		1.66	.877		1.79	12-21-1
1886	NYP	AA	24	C	19				134	91	34	9	1	.933		6.58	.910		7.19		23
1887	NYP	AA	25	C	51				335	208	90	37	3	.890		5.84	.893		6.26		49
1887	NYP	AA	25	OF	5				9	6	1	2	0	.778		1.40	.898		2.04	0-2-3
1887	NYP	AA	25	1B	4				44	40	2	2	0	.955		10.50	.971		9.88
1887	NYP	AA	25	2B	1				7	2	1	4	0	.429		3.00	.906		6.00
1887	NYP	AA	25	3B	1				4	2	1	1	0	.750		3.00	.850		3.30
1888	KCC	AA	26	C	67				430	282	106	42	9	.902		5.79	.914		7.13		47
1888	KCC	AA	26	OF	18				36	29	5	2	1	.944		1.89	.907		1.83	12-5-1
1888	KCC	AA	26	3B	5				20	6	9	5	0	.750		3.00	.867		3.46
1888	KCC	AA	26	2B	1				7	3	2	2	0	.714		5.00	.916		5.60
1889	KCC	AA	27	C	46				265	158	77	30	4	.887		5.11	.917		6.26		31
1889	KCC	AA	27	OF	14				29	20	1	8	0	.724		1.50	.903		2.00	14-0-0
1889	KCC	AA	27	3B	10				39	9	22	8	3	.795		3.10	.857		3.56
1891	COL	AA	29	C	75				479	343	108	28	11	.942		6.01	.929		6.19		23		191	98	34%	38%
1891	COL	AA	29	1B	1				6	6	0	0	0	1.000		6.00	.977		10.30
1891	COL	AA	29	OF	1				3	3	0	0	0	1.000		3.00	.907		1.90	0-0-1
	5 Seasons			C	258				1643	1082	415	146	28	.911		5.80	.914		6.53		173		191	98	34%	38%
	5 Seasons			OF	70				143	108	10	25	1	.825		1.69	.892		1.86	38-28-6
	3 Seasons			3B	16				63	17	32	14	3	.778		3.06	.860		3.51
	2 Seasons			1B	5				50	46	2	2	0	.960		9.60	.972		9.96
	2 Seasons			2B	2				14	5	3	6	0	.571		4.00	.911		5.80
	5 Seasons			TOT	351				1913	1258	462	193	32	.899		4.90	.912		5.51	38-28-6	173		191	98	34%	38%
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

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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.
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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	C	1B	2B	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF
1886	NYP	AA	24	49	49	19	0	0	0	12	21	1	32
1887	NYP	AA	25	60	60	51	4	1	1	0	2	3	5
1888	KCC	AA	26	88	88	67	0	1	5	12	5	1	18
1889	KCC	AA	27	67	67	46	0	0	10	14	0	0	14
1891	COL	AA	29	77	77	75	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
	5 Seasons			341	341	258	5	2	16	38	28	6	70

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 C s c a p y 1888 AA 67 (4th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1891 AA 108 (3rd)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1888 AA 42 (2nd) Career 146 (81st)	Passed Balls s c a p y Career 173 (56th)
Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1891 AA 191 (2nd)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1891 AA 98 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1891 AA 6.01 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1891 AA .942 (3rd)

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