Dave Eggler

David Daniel Eggler

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: April 30, 1849 in Brooklyn, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: May 18, 1871
Teams (by GP): Bisons/Mutuals/Athletics/Whites/Orioles/... 1871-1885

Final Game: June 9, 1885
Died: April 5, 1902 in Buffalo, NY
Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, Lackawanna, NY
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G
1871	NYU	NA	22	OF	33	100	88	3	9	1	.910	2.76	.832	1.98	0-33-0
1872	NYU	NA	23	OF	56	181	154	12	15	2	.917	2.96	.820	1.94	1-55-0
1873	NYU	NA	24	OF	53	146	119	6	21	1	.856	2.36	.803	2.00	0-53-0
1873	NYU	NA	24	3B	1	1	0	0	1	0	.000	0.00	.740	4.60
1874	PHI	NA	25	OF	57	159	135	9	15	3	.906	2.53	.802	2.02	7-50-0
1874	PHI	NA	25	2B	2	9	5	3	1	0	.889	4.00	.806	5.50
1875	ATH	NA	26	OF	66	151	132	7	12	3	.921	2.11	.818	1.88	2-65-0
1876	ATH	NL	27	OF	39	126	109	6	11	1	.913	2.95	.847	2.11	1-37-1
1877	CHC	NL	28	OF	33	79	60	8	11	3	.861	2.06	.831	1.88	0-33-0
1879	BUF	NL	30	OF	78	136	114	11	11	2	.919	1.60	.838	1.89	0-78-0
1883	TOT	MLB	34	OF	91	210	175	10	25	2	.881	2.03	.850	1.87	1-90-0
1883	BAL	AA	34	OF	53	107	92	6	9	1	.916	1.85	.851	1.80	0-53-0
1883	BUF	NL	34	OF	38	103	83	4	16	1	.845	2.29	.849	1.96	1-37-0
1884	BUF	NL	35	OF	63	133	104	14	15	1	.887	1.87	.867	1.79	2-61-0
1885	BUF	NL	36	OF	6	16	14	1	1	0	.938	2.50	.881	1.85	0-6-0
	11 Seasons			OF	575	1437	1204	87	146	19	.898	2.25	.831	1.92	14-561-1
	1 Season			2B	2	9	5	3	1	0	.889	4.00	.806	5.50
	1 Season			3B	1	1	0	0	1	0	.000	0.00	.740	4.60
	11 Seasons			TOT	578	1447	1209	90	148	19	.898	2.25	.831	1.94	14-561-1

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	2B	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF
1871	NYU	NA	22	33	33	0	0	0	33	0	33
1872	NYU	NA	23	56	56	0	0	1	55	0	56
1873	NYU	NA	24	53	53	0	1	0	53	0	53
1874	PHI	NA	25	58	58	2	0	7	50	0	57
1875	ATH	NA	26	66	66	0	0	2	65	0	66
1876	ATH	NL	27	39	39	0	0	1	37	1	39
1877	CHC	NL	28	33	33	0	0	0	33	0	33
1879	BUF	NL	30	78	78	0	0	0	78	0	78
1883	BAL	AA	34	53	53	0	0	0	53	0	53
1883	BUF	NL	34	38	38	0	0	1	37	0	38
1884	BUF	NL	35	63	63	0	0	2	61	0	63
1885	BUF	NL	36	6	6	0	0	0	6	0	6
	11 Seasons			576	576	2	1	14	561	1	575

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 OF s c a p y 1871 NA 33 (1st) 1872 NA 56 (1st) 1873 NA 53 (5th) 1874 NA 57 (3rd)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1871 NA 88 (2nd) 1872 NA 154 (1st) 1873 NA 119 (4th) 1874 NA 135 (5th) 1875 NA 132 (5th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1872 NA 12 (1st)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y Career 146 (70th)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1871 NA 2.76 (5th) 1872 NA 2.96 (2nd) 1876 NL 2.95 (3rd)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1871 NA .910 (3rd) 1872 NA .917 (2nd) 1873 NA .856 (3rd) 1874 NA .906 (1st) 1875 NA .921 (1st) 1876 NL .913 (3rd) 1879 NL .919 (2nd) 1883 AA .916 (3rd)	Oldest s c a p y 1879 NL born 1849-04-30 (8th) 1883 AA born 1849-04-30 (4th) 1883 NL born 1849-04-30 (5th) 1884 NL born 1849-04-30 (3rd) 1885 NL born 1849-04-30 (4th)

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