Woody English

Elwood George English

Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 155 lb.

Born: March 2, 1906 in Fredonia, OH (All Transactions)
Debut: April 26, 1927
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Dodgers 1927-1938

Final Game: July 1, 1938
Died: September 26, 1997 in Newark, OH
Buried: Fredonia Cemetery, Fredonia, OH
Relatives: Nephew of Paul Carpenter
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All-Star

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
1927	CHC	NL	21	SS	84	81	79		487	177	281	29	47	.940		5.45	.944		5.50
1927	CHC	NL	21	3B	1	1	1		6	2	4	0	0	1.000		6.00	.945		3.00
1928	CHC	NL	22	SS	114	113	105		663	245	382	36	85	.946		5.50	.950		5.61
1928	CHC	NL	22	3B	2	1	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			3.05
1929	CHC	NL	23	SS	144	144	142		868	332	497	39	107	.955		5.76	.950		5.61
1930	CHC	NL	24	3B	83	83	74		224	83	135	6	19	.973		2.63	.950		2.85
1930	CHC	NL	24	SS	78	73	73		440	173	251	16	57	.964		5.44	.952		5.78
1931	CHC	NL	25	SS	138	138	134		791	322	441	28	75	.965		5.53	.954		5.53	MVP-4
1931	CHC	NL	25	3B	18	18	18		60	18	41	1	3	.983		3.28	.944		2.85	MVP-4
1932	CHC	NL	26	3B	93	103	95		281	96	173	12	13	.957		2.89	.945		2.88
1932	CHC	NL	26	SS	38	23	23		176	66	102	8	17	.955		4.42	.946		5.50
1933	CHC	NL	27	3B	103	101	100		260	80	173	7	9	.973		2.46	.949		3.00	AS
1933	CHC	NL	27	SS	1	0	0		1	0	1	0	0	1.000		1.00	.950		5.40	AS
1934	CHC	NL	28	SS	56	54	53		175	61	109	5	22	.971		3.04	.951		5.34
1934	CHC	NL	28	3B	46	43	40		211	74	132	5	5	.976		4.48	.945		2.96
1934	CHC	NL	28	2B	7	6	4		33	10	19	4	4	.879		4.14	.965		5.89
1935	CHC	NL	29	3B	16	14	13		38	8	25	5	2	.868		2.06	.941		2.86
1935	CHC	NL	29	SS	12	9	8		51	21	29	1	4	.980		4.17	.947		5.27
1936	CHC	NL	30	SS	42	37	34		207	75	127	5	27	.976		4.81	.945		5.43
1936	CHC	NL	30	3B	17	14	12		35	14	21	0	3	1.000		2.06	.947		2.67
1936	CHC	NL	30	2B	1	1	1		7	3	4	0	0	1.000		7.00	.963		5.90
1937	BRO	NL	31	SS	116	111	88		547	220	303	24	51	.956		4.51	.951		5.29
1937	BRO	NL	31	2B	11	11	5		42	19	21	2	3	.952		3.64	.959		5.70
1938	BRO	NL	32	3B	21	14	14		48	16	30	2	4	.958		2.19	.945		3.03
1938	BRO	NL	32	2B	3	2	2		14	7	7	0	1	1.000		4.67	.969		5.73
1938	BRO	NL	32	SS	3	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		0.33	.940		5.33
	12 Seasons			SS	826	783	739		4407	1693	2523	191	492	.957		5.10	.950		5.52
	10 Seasons			3B	400	392	367		1163	391	734	38	58	.967		2.81	.947		2.91
	4 Seasons			2B	22	20	12		96	39	51	6	8	.938		4.09	.963		5.77
	12 Seasons			TOT	1248	1195	1118		5666	2123	3308	235	558	.959		4.35	.950		4.69
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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1927	CHC	NL	21	88	82	88	85	0	1	84	0	3
1928	CHC	NL	22	116	114	116	115	0	2	114	0	1
1929	CHC	NL	23	144	144	144	144	0	0	144	0	0
1930	CHC	NL	24	156	156	156	156	0	83	79	0	0
1931	CHC	NL	25	156	156	156	156	0	18	138	0	0
1932	CHC	NL	26	127	126	127	126	0	103	29	1	0
1933	CHC	NL	27	105	101	105	104	0	103	1	0	1
1934	CHC	NL	28	109	103	109	109	7	46	56	0	0
1935	CHC	NL	29	34	23	34	28	0	16	12	4	2
1936	CHC	NL	30	64	52	64	58	1	17	42	6	0
1937	BRO	NL	31	129	122	129	125	12	0	115	2	2
1938	BRO	NL	32	34	16	34	27	3	21	3	7	0
	12 Seasons			1262	1195	1262	1233	23	410	817	20	9

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

All-Star Games 1933 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1931 NL (4, 38%) 0.38 Career Shares (525th)	Assists† s c a p y 1931 NL 482 (3rd)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1928 NL 36 (5th) 1929 NL 39 (2nd)
Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1932 NL 93 (5th)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1932 NL 96 (3rd)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1929 NL 144 (4th) 1931 NL 138 (2nd)	Putouts as SS s c a p y 1929 NL 332 (2nd) 1931 NL 322 (1st)
Assists as SS s c a p y 1929 NL 497 (4th) 1931 NL 441 (2nd)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1927 NL 29 (5th) 1928 NL 36 (5th) 1929 NL 39 (2nd) 1931 NL 28 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1930 NL 2.63 (5th) 1932 NL 2.89 (4th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1930 NL .973 (1st) 1932 NL .957 (2nd) 1933 NL .973 (1st)
Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1927 NL 5.45 (3rd) 1928 NL 5.50 (4th) 1929 NL 5.76 (3rd) 1931 NL 5.53 (3rd) Career 5.10 (54th)	Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1929 NL .955 (4th) 1930 NL .964 (3rd) 1931 NL .965 (3rd) 1937 NL .956 (4th)

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