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Nick Etten

Nicholas Raymond Thomas Etten

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 198 lb.

Born: September 19, 1913 in Spring Grove, IL
School: Villanova University (Villanova, PA) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 8, 1938
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Phillies/Athletics 1938-1947

Final Game: May 9, 1947
Died: October 18, 1990 in Hinsdale, IL
Buried: Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, IL
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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
1938 PHA AL 24 1B 22 22 22 225 212 10 3 20 .987 10.09 .990 9.77
1939 PHA AL 25 1B 41 41 40 399 376 19 4 29 .990 9.63 .990 9.64
1941 PHI NL 27 1B 150 149 146 1398 1286 89 23 124 .984 9.17 .989 10.16 MVP-28
1942 PHI NL 28 1B 135 131 121 1254 1152 83 19 99 .985 9.15 .989 10.18
1943 NYY AL 29 1B 154 154 154 1506 1410 79 17 148 .989 9.67 .991 10.05 MVP-7
1944 NYY AL 30 1B 154 154 154 1504 1382 106 16 144 .989 9.66 .990 10.07 MVP-23
1945 NYY AL 31 1B 152 152 151 1512 1401 94 17 149 .989 9.84 .989 10.10 MVP-15
1946 NYY AL 32 1B 84 83 82 779 717 55 7 80 .991 9.19 .989 9.58
1947 PHI NL 33 1B 11 11 8 105 94 10 1 4 .990 9.45 .991 9.62
9 Seasons 1B 903 897 878 8682 8030 545 107 797 .988 9.50 .990 10.03
9 Seasons TOT 903 897 878 8682 8030 545 107 797 .988 9.50 .990 10.03
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
1938 PHA AL 24 22 22 22 22 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1939 PHA AL 25 43 41 43 41 0 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1941 PHI NL 27 151 149 151 150 0 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1942 PHI NL 28 139 131 139 135 0 0 135 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1943 NYY AL 29 154 154 154 154 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1944 NYY AL 30 154 154 154 154 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1945 NYY AL 31 152 152 152 152 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1946 NYY AL 32 108 83 108 84 0 0 84 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 0
1947 PHI NL 33 14 11 14 11 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
9 Seasons 937 897 937 903 0 0 903 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35 0
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
1945--not played

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1941 NL (28, 2%)
1943 AL (7, 18%)
1944 AL (23, 1%)
1945 AL (15, 6%)
0.27 Career Shares (641st)

Putouts† s c a p y
1942 NL  1,152 (5th)
1943 AL  1,410 (3rd)
1944 AL  1,382 (3rd)
1945 AL  1,401 (3rd)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1941 NL  150 (3rd)
1942 NL  135 (5th)
1943 AL  154 (2nd)
1944 AL  154 (2nd)
1945 AL  152 (2nd)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1942 NL  1,152 (5th)
1943 AL  1,410 (3rd)
1944 AL  1,382 (3rd)
1945 AL  1,401 (3rd)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1941 NL  89 (4th)
1942 NL  83 (4th)
1944 AL  106 (3rd)
1945 AL  94 (5th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1941 NL  23 (1st)
1942 NL  19 (1st)
1943 AL  17 (1st)
1944 AL  16 (3rd)
1945 AL  17 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1944 AL  9.66 (5th)
Career  9.50 (99th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1944 AL  .989 (4th)
1946 AL  .991 (3rd)

                                         

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