Tim Donahue

Timothy Cornelius Donahue (Bridget)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: June 8, 1870 in Raynham, MA (All Transactions)
Debut: July 28, 1891
Teams (by GP): Orphans/Colts/Reds/Senators 1891-1902

Final Game: May 17, 1902
Died: June 12, 1902 in Taunton, MA
Buried: St. Joseph Cemetery, Taunton, MA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
1891	BOS	AA	21	C	4	6	4	1	1	0	.833	1.25	.928	6.20	0	2	1	33%	38%
1895	CHC	NL	25	C	63	305	234	45	26	8	.915	4.43	.938	4.63	16	119	46	28%	37%
1896	CHC	NL	26	C	57	317	236	60	21	7	.934	5.19	.943	4.59	11	117	67	36%	37%
1897	CHC	NL	27	C	55	297	218	64	15	2	.949	5.13	.948	4.73	13	99	61	38%	37%
1897	CHC	NL	27	SS	2	6	1	4	1	0	.833	2.50	.907	5.75
1897	CHC	NL	27	1B	1	4	3	0	1	0	.750	3.00	.980	10.20
1898	CHC	NL	28	C	122	579	450	107	22	16	.962	4.57	.953	4.82	12	88	93	51%	44%
1899	CHC	NL	29	C	91	425	304	100	21	13	.951	4.44	.952	4.59	6	119	98	45%	44%
1899	CHC	NL	29	1B	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.980	10.50
1900	CHC	NL	30	C	66	318	232	63	23	6	.928	4.47	.949	4.98	12	98	59	38%	44%
1900	CHC	NL	30	2B	1	4	2	1	1	0	.750	3.00	.938	5.30
1902	WSH	AL	32	C	3	11	8	3	0	0	1.000	3.67	.957	4.90	1	3	3	50%	44%
	8 Seasons			C	461	2258	1686	443	129	52	.943	4.62	.948	4.74	71	645	428	40%	41%
	2 Seasons			1B	2	5	4	0	1	0	.800	2.00	.980	10.35
	1 Season			SS	2	6	1	4	1	0	.833	2.50	.907	5.75
	1 Season			2B	1	4	2	1	1	0	.750	3.00	.938	5.30
	8 Seasons			TOT	466	2273	1693	448	132	52	.942	4.59	.948	4.77	71	645	428	40%	41%

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.
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	SS
1891	BOS	AA	21	4	4	4	0	0	0
1895	CHC	NL	25	63	63	63	0	0	0
1896	CHC	NL	26	57	57	57	0	0	0
1897	CHC	NL	27	58	58	55	1	0	2
1898	CHC	NL	28	122	122	122	0	0	0
1899	CHC	NL	29	92	92	91	1	0	0
1900	CHC	NL	30	67	67	66	0	1	0
1902	WSH	AL	32	3	3	3	0	0	0
	8 Seasons			466	466	461	2	1	2

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 1898 NL 122 (1st) 1899 NL 91 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1898 NL 450 (3rd) 1899 NL 304 (5th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1898 NL 107 (4th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1895 NL 26 (2nd) 1896 NL 21 (5th) 1898 NL 22 (4th) 1899 NL 21 (4th) 1900 NL 23 (3rd)
Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y Career 645 (98th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1898 NL 93 (4th) Career 428 (91st)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1898 NL 51.4 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1898 NL .962 (5th)

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