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Gil English

Gilbert Raymond English

Positions: Third Baseman, Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: July 2, 1909 in Glenola, NC
High School: Rancho Buena Vista HS (Vista, CA)(All Transactions)
Debut: September 20, 1931 (Age 22)
Teams (by GP): Bees/Giants/Dodgers/Tigers 1931-1944

Final Game: June 11, 1944 (Age 34)
Died: August 31, 1996 in Trinity, NC
Buried: Mount Vernon Methodist Church Cemetery, Archdale, NC
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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
1931 NYG NL 21 3B 3 0 0 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 1.33 .945 2.87
1932 NYG NL 22 3B 39 37 28 130 40 81 9 11 .931 3.10 .945 2.88
1932 NYG NL 22 SS 23 16 16 94 37 52 5 7 .947 3.87 .946 5.50
1936 DET AL 26 3B 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .945 3.10
1937 TOT MLB 27 3B 77 75 74 199 64 127 8 9 .960 2.48 .954 2.89
1937 DET AL 27 2B 12 10 10 53 23 28 2 5 .962 4.25 .972 5.64
1937 DET AL 27 3B 6 6 5 9 3 6 0 0 1.000 1.50 .946 3.15
1937 BSN NL 27 3B 71 69 69 190 61 121 8 9 .958 2.56 .954 2.87
1938 BSN NL 28 3B 43 38 32 113 33 75 5 3 .956 2.51 .945 3.03
1938 BSN NL 28 LF 3 3 3 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 1.67 .972 2.23
1938 BSN NL 28 OF 3 3 3 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 1.67 .976 2.33
1938 BSN NL 28 2B 2 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 .667 1.00 .970 5.75
1938 BSN NL 28 SS 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .940 5.35
1944 BRO NL 34 SS 13 9 9 49 12 33 4 6 .918 3.46 .954 5.41
1944 BRO NL 34 3B 11 11 8 36 16 18 2 2 .944 3.09 .948 3.29
1944 BRO NL 34 2B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.65
6 Seasons 3B 174 161 142 484 155 305 24 25 .950 2.64 .949 2.95
3 Seasons SS 38 25 25 144 50 85 9 13 .938 3.55 .949 5.46
3 Seasons 2B 16 10 10 56 24 29 3 5 .946 3.31 .972 5.66
1 Season LF 3 3 3 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 1.67 .972 2.23
1 Season OF 3 3 3 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 1.67 .976 2.33
6 Seasons TOT 231 199 180 689 233 420 36 43 .948 2.83 .951 3.54
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1931 NYG NL 21 3 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1932 NYG NL 22 59 53 59 57 0 0 0 0 39 23 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1936 DET AL 26 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1937 BSN NL 27 79 69 79 71 0 0 0 0 71 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1937 DET AL 27 18 16 18 17 0 0 0 12 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1938 BSN NL 28 53 41 53 49 0 0 0 2 43 2 3 0 0 3 0 4 0
1944 BRO NL 34 27 20 27 26 0 0 0 2 11 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
6 Seasons 240 199 240 224 0 0 0 16 174 38 3 0 0 3 0 15 1
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

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1931 NL  born 1909-07-02 (7th)

                                         

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