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Frank Ellerbe

Francis Rogers Ellerbe (Governor)

Positions: Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: December 25, 1895 in Marion County, SC
Schools: University of the South (Sewanee, TN), Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC) (All Transactions)
Debut: August 28, 1919
Teams (by GP): Browns/Senators/Indians 1919-1924

Final Game: September 27, 1924
Died: July 8, 1988 in Latta, SC
Buried: Haselden Family Cemetery, Sellers, SC
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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
1919 WSH AL 23 SS 28 27 27 145 63 74 8 6 .945 4.89 .942 5.24
1920 WSH AL 24 3B 75 68 67 287 101 167 19 10 .934 3.57 .946 3.59
1920 WSH AL 24 SS 19 17 15 77 25 43 9 2 .883 3.58 .944 5.21
1920 WSH AL 24 OF 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 2.20
1920 WSH AL 24 RF 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 1.90
1921 SLB AL 25 3B 105 105 103 403 158 226 19 9 .953 3.66 .952 3.41
1922 SLB AL 26 3B 91 91 87 378 137 224 17 23 .955 3.97 .950 3.45
1923 SLB AL 27 3B 14 10 9 30 11 18 1 2 .967 2.07 .945 3.45
1924 TOT AL 28 3B 60 50 40 184 69 109 6 9 .967 2.97 .951 3.26
1924 SLB AL 28 3B 21 20 13 64 27 34 3 7 .953 2.90 .951 3.26
1924 CLE AL 28 3B 39 30 27 120 42 75 3 2 .975 3.00 .951 3.26
1924 CLE AL 28 2B 2 1 0 4 2 1 1 0 .750 1.50 .965 5.75
5 Seasons 3B 345 324 306 1282 476 744 62 53 .952 3.54 .950 3.44
2 Seasons SS 47 44 42 222 88 117 17 8 .923 4.36 .943 5.23
1 Season 2B 2 1 0 4 2 1 1 0 .750 1.50 .965 5.75
1 Season OF 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 2.20
1 Season RF 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 1.90
6 Seasons TOT 395 370 349 1509 567 862 80 61 .947 3.62 .949 3.66
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
1919 WSH AL 23 28 27 28 28 0 0 0 0 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1920 WSH AL 24 101 86 101 95 0 0 0 0 73 21 0 0 1 1 0 6 0
1921 SLB AL 25 105 105 105 105 0 0 0 0 105 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1921 WSH AL 25 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1922 SLB AL 26 91 91 91 91 0 0 0 0 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1923 SLB AL 27 17 10 17 14 0 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1924 CLE AL 28 46 31 46 41 0 0 0 2 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
1924 SLB AL 28 22 20 22 22 0 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 420 370 420 396 0 0 0 2 344 49 0 0 1 1 0 23 1
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 3B s c a p y
1920 AL  75 (5th)
1922 AL  91 (5th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1921 AL  158 (5th)
1922 AL  137 (3rd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1921 AL  226 (5th)
1922 AL  224 (5th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1920 AL  19 (3rd)
1921 AL  19 (5th)
1922 AL  17 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1921 AL  3.66 (2nd)
1922 AL  3.97 (1st)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1921 AL  .953 (5th)
1922 AL  .955 (3rd)

                           

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