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Larry Doyle

Lawrence Joseph Doyle (Laughing Larry)

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: July 31, 1886 in Caseyville, IL (All Transactions)
Debut: July 22, 1907
Teams (by GP): Giants/Cubs 1907-1920

Final Game: October 2, 1920
Died: March 1, 1974 in Saranac Lake, NY
Buried: St. Bernard's Church Cemetery, Saranac Lake, NY
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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 Awards
1907 NYG NL 20 2B 69 312 128 158 26 7 .917 4.14 .952 5.23
1908 NYG NL 21 2B 102 504 180 291 33 28 .935 4.62 .954 5.13
1909 NYG NL 22 2B 144 654 292 323 39 51 .940 4.27 .938 4.87
1910 NYG NL 23 2B 151 754 313 388 53 62 .930 4.64 .952 5.23
1911 NYG NL 24 2B 141 648 272 340 36 46 .944 4.34 .952 5.21 MVP-3
1912 NYG NL 25 2B 143 730 313 379 38 68 .948 4.84 .955 5.33 MVP-1
1913 NYG NL 26 2B 130 691 315 345 31 55 .955 5.08 .955 5.27 MVP-17
1914 NYG NL 27 2B 145 715 307 379 29 61 .959 4.73 .949 5.21
1915 NYG NL 28 2B 147 749 313 396 40 66 .947 4.82 .955 5.05
1916 TOT NL 29 2B 122 703 289 387 27 63 .962 5.54 .951 5.12
1916 NYG NL 29 2B 113 648 270 352 26 53 .960 5.50 .951 5.12
1916 CHC NL 29 2B 9 55 19 35 1 10 .982 6.00 .951 5.12
1917 CHC NL 30 2B 128 681 300 348 33 54 .952 5.06 .956 5.33
1918 NYG NL 31 2B 73 70 66 353 121 221 11 28 .969 4.68 .957 5.45
1919 NYG NL 32 2B 100 99 86 549 214 311 24 48 .956 5.25 .960 5.43
1920 NYG NL 33 2B 133 131 117 690 278 389 23 61 .967 5.02 .963 5.73
14 Seasons 2B 1728 300 269 8733 3635 4655 443 698 .949 4.80 .953 5.25
14 Seasons TOT 1728 300 269 8733 3635 4655 443 698 .949 4.80 .953 5.25
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
1907 NYG NL 20 69 69 0 0 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1908 NYG NL 21 104 104 0 0 0 102 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1909 NYG NL 22 147 147 0 0 0 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1910 NYG NL 23 151 151 0 0 0 151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1911 NYG NL 24 143 143 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1912 NYG NL 25 143 143 0 0 0 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1913 NYG NL 26 132 132 0 0 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 NYG NL 27 145 145 0 0 0 145 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 NYG NL 28 150 150 0 0 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 NYG NL 29 113 113 0 0 0 113 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 CHC NL 29 9 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 CHC NL 30 135 135 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1918 NYG NL 31 75 75 0 0 0 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1919 NYG NL 32 113 99 113 99 0 0 0 99 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
1920 NYG NL 33 137 131 137 133 0 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
14 Seasons 1766 230 1766 232 0 0 0 1727 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 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
1937 BBWAA ( 1.0%)
1938 BBWAA ( 1.5%)
1939 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

Awards (yr lg award)
1912 NL MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1911 NL (3, 36%)
1912 NL (1, 75%)
1913 NL (17, 8%)
1 MVP
1.19 Career Shares (203rd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1910 NL  53 (3rd)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1909 NL  144 (2nd)
1910 NL  151 (2nd)
1911 NL  141 (3rd)
1912 NL  143 (3rd)
1913 NL  130 (5th)
1914 NL  145 (3rd)
1915 NL  147 (3rd)
1916 NL  122 (3rd)
1917 NL  128 (3rd)
1919 NL  100 (4th)
1920 NL  133 (3rd)
Career  1,728 (23rd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1909 NL  292 (1st)
1910 NL  313 (5th)
1912 NL  313 (4th)
1913 NL  315 (2nd)
1914 NL  307 (3rd)
1915 NL  313 (2nd)
1916 NL  289 (2nd)
1917 NL  300 (3rd)
1919 NL  214 (3rd)
1920 NL  278 (5th)
Career  3,635 (27th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1909 NL  323 (4th)
1910 NL  388 (4th)
1912 NL  379 (4th)
1915 NL  396 (3rd)
1916 NL  387 (3rd)
1917 NL  348 (3rd)
1919 NL  311 (4th)
1920 NL  389 (5th)
Career  4,655 (32nd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1908 NL  33 (1st)
1909 NL  39 (2nd)
1910 NL  53 (1st)
1911 NL  36 (5th)
1912 NL  38 (2nd)
1913 NL  31 (4th)
1915 NL  40 (2nd)
1916 NL  27 (3rd)
1917 NL  33 (1st)
1919 NL  24 (2nd)
1920 NL  23 (5th)
Career  443 (14th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1915 NL  4.82 (4th)
1916 NL  5.54 (2nd)
1918 NL  4.68 (5th)
1919 NL  5.25 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1909 NL  .940 (5th)
1914 NL  .959 (4th)
1915 NL  .947 (5th)
1916 NL  .962 (2nd)
1918 NL  .969 (1st)
1920 NL  .967 (5th)

Youngest s c a p y
1907 NL  born 1886-07-31 (8th)

             

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