Leo Durocher

Leo Ernest Durocher (Leo The Lip)

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: July 27, 1905 in West Springfield, MA (All Transactions)
Debut: October 2, 1925
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Reds/Dodgers/Yankees 1925-1945

Final Game: April 18, 1945
Died: October 7, 1991 in Palm Springs, CA
Buried: Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, CA
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Manager in 1994.
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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
1928	NYY	AL	22	2B	66	44	38		306	112	178	16	31	.948		4.39	.963		5.67
1928	NYY	AL	22	SS	29	27	27		151	46	96	9	11	.940		4.90	.938		5.11
1929	NYY	AL	23	SS	93	90	79		518	197	299	22	59	.958		5.33	.937		5.21
1929	NYY	AL	23	2B	12	7	6		61	32	28	1	7	.984		5.00	.968		5.91
1930	CIN	NL	24	SS	103	103	77		590	216	350	24	77	.959		5.50	.952		5.78
1930	CIN	NL	24	2B	13	9	5		54	24	30	0	5	1.000		4.15	.963		5.94
1931	CIN	NL	25	SS	120	114	75		576	212	344	20	86	.965		4.63	.954		5.53
1932	CIN	NL	26	SS	142	140	110		742	283	429	30	76	.960		5.01	.946		5.50
1933	TOT	NL	27	SS	139	137	111		726	275	422	29	74	.960		5.01	.949		5.40
1933	CIN	NL	27	SS	16	16	16		106	37	64	5	10	.953		6.31	.949		5.40
1933	STL	NL	27	SS	123	121	95		620	238	358	24	64	.961		4.85	.949		5.40
1934	STL	NL	28	SS	146	146	124		760	320	407	33	86	.957		4.98	.951		5.34
1935	STL	NL	29	SS	142	139	128		761	313	420	28	81	.963		5.16	.947		5.27
1936	STL	NL	30	SS	136	135	123		713	300	392	21	80	.971		5.09	.945		5.43	AS,MVP-10
1937	STL	NL	31	SS	134	132	121		688	279	381	28	72	.959		4.93	.951		5.29
1938	BRO	NL	32	SS	141	138	118		710	287	399	24	90	.966		4.87	.943		5.34	AS,MVP-18
1939	BRO	NL	33	SS	113	112	93		575	228	322	25	73	.957		4.87	.953		5.50	MVP-8
1939	BRO	NL	33	3B	1	0	0		2	0	2	0	0	1.000		2.00	.940		3.00	MVP-8
1940	BRO	NL	34	SS	53	49	36		243	102	131	10	22	.959		4.40	.950		5.50	AS
1940	BRO	NL	34	2B	4	1	1		14	6	7	1	2	.929		3.25	.964		5.60	AS
1941	BRO	NL	35	SS	12	9	6		48	16	28	4	3	.917		3.67	.951		5.17
1941	BRO	NL	35	2B	1	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.960		5.60
1943	BRO	NL	37	SS	6	6	4		34	23	11	0	5	1.000		5.67	.954		5.30
1945	BRO	NL	39	2B	2	2	1		7	3	4	0	1	1.000		3.50	.967		5.60
	15 Seasons			SS	1509	1477	1232		7835	3097	4431	307	895	.961		4.99	.948		5.41
	6 Seasons			2B	98	63	51		443	178	247	18	46	.959		4.34	.964		5.73
	1 Season			3B	1	0	0		2	0	2	0	0	1.000		2.00	.940		3.00
	17 Seasons			TOT	1608	1540	1283		8280	3275	4680	325	941	.961		4.95	.949		5.42
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR
1925	NYY	AL	19	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
1928	NYY	AL	22	102	71	102	95	0	0	0	66	0	29	0	0	0	0	0	4	3
1929	NYY	AL	23	106	97	106	105	0	0	0	12	0	93	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1930	CIN	NL	24	119	112	119	116	0	0	0	13	0	103	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
1931	CIN	NL	25	121	115	121	120	0	0	0	0	1	119	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1932	CIN	NL	26	143	140	143	142	0	0	0	0	0	142	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1933	STL	NL	27	123	121	123	123	0	0	0	0	0	123	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933	CIN	NL	27	16	16	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934	STL	NL	28	146	146	146	146	0	0	0	0	0	146	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935	STL	NL	29	143	139	143	142	0	0	0	0	0	142	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1936	STL	NL	30	136	135	136	136	0	0	0	0	0	136	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937	STL	NL	31	135	132	135	133	0	0	0	0	0	133	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
1938	BRO	NL	32	141	138	141	141	0	0	0	0	0	141	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939	BRO	NL	33	116	112	116	114	0	0	0	0	1	113	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1940	BRO	NL	34	62	50	62	57	0	0	0	4	0	53	0	0	0	0	0	2	3
1941	BRO	NL	35	18	9	18	13	0	0	0	1	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
1943	BRO	NL	37	6	6	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945	BRO	NL	39	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	17 Seasons			1637	1541	1637	1607	0	0	0	98	2	1507	0	0	0	0	0	16	14
Lg				G	GS	Batting	Defense	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR

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 1948 BBWAA ( 0.8%) 1949 BBWAA ( 0.7%) 1952 BBWAA ( 0.4%) 1956 BBWAA ( 0.5%) 1958 BBWAA (10.5%) 1960 BBWAA ( 3.7%) 1962 BBWAA ( 0.6%) 1964 BBWAA ( 7.5%) 1964 Run Off ( 1.0%) 1994 Veterans (inducted) Selected to HOF in 1994 by Veteran's Committee	All-Star Games 1936 (SS) 1938 (SS) 1940	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1936 NL (10, 10%) 1938 NL (18, 2%) 1939 NL (8, 15%) 0.27 Career Shares (641st)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1929 AL 93 (5th) 1932 NL 142 (2nd) 1934 NL 146 (2nd) 1935 NL 142 (2nd) 1936 NL 136 (3rd) 1937 NL 134 (3rd) 1938 NL 141 (2nd) 1939 NL 113 (5th) Career 1,509 (61st)
Putouts as SS s c a p y 1929 AL 197 (5th) 1932 NL 283 (3rd) 1934 NL 320 (3rd) 1935 NL 313 (3rd) 1936 NL 300 (4th) 1937 NL 279 (4th) 1938 NL 287 (3rd) Career 3,097 (39th)	Assists as SS s c a p y 1929 AL 299 (4th) 1932 NL 429 (3rd) 1934 NL 407 (5th) 1935 NL 420 (4th) 1936 NL 392 (3rd) 1937 NL 381 (4th) 1938 NL 399 (5th) Career 4,431 (66th)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1934 NL 33 (5th) 1937 NL 28 (5th) Career 307 (66th)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1929 AL 5.33 (2nd) 1935 NL 5.16 (4th) 1937 NL 4.93 (5th) Career 4.99 (69th)
Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1929 AL .958 (2nd) 1930 NL .959 (4th) 1931 NL .965 (2nd) 1932 NL .960 (3rd) 1933 NL .960 (1st) 1934 NL .957 (3rd) 1935 NL .963 (2nd) 1936 NL .971 (1st) 1937 NL .959 (2nd) 1938 NL .966 (1st)	Youngest s c a p y 1925 AL born 1905-07-27 (6th)

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