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Bibb Falk

Bibb August Falk (Jockey)

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: January 27, 1899 in Austin, TX
High School: Stephen F. Austin (Austin, TX)
School: University of Texas at Austin (All Transactions)
Debut: July 17, 1920
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Indians 1920-1931

Final Game: September 23, 1931
Died: June 8, 1989 in Austin, TX
Buried: Austin Memorial Park, Austin, TX
Relatives: Brother of Chet Falk
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 11, 2012, 5:04PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #802. Roy Johnson… #803. Mike Stanley… #804. Larry Bowa… #805. BIBB FALK… #806. Joe Vosmik… #807. Butch Wynegar… #808. Casey Blake… 

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1920 21 CHW AL 7 19 17 1 5 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 5 .294 .294 .471 .765 100 8 0 2 /O
1921 22 CHW AL 152 648 585 62 167 31 11 5 82 4 4 37 69 .285 .330 .402 .732 87 235 2 24 *O
1922 23 CHW AL 131 534 483 58 144 27 1 12 79 2 6 27 55 .298 .335 .433 .768 100 209 0 24 *O
1923 24 CHW AL 87 316 274 44 84 18 6 5 38 5 5 25 12 .307 .367 .471 .837 120 129 1 16 O
1924 25 CHW AL 138 594 526 77 185 37 8 6 99 6 6 47 21 .352 .406 .487 .893 132 256 1 20 *O
1925 26 CHW AL 154 677 602 80 181 35 9 4 99 4 5 51 25 .301 .357 .409 .766 98 246 2 22 *O
1926 27 CHW AL 155 657 566 86 195 43 4 8 108 9 10 66 22 .345 .415 .477 .892 135 270 2 23 *O MVP-12
1927 28 CHW AL 145 613 535 76 175 35 6 9 83 5 7 52 19 .327 .391 .465 .856 123 249 4 22 *O
1928 29 CHW AL 98 321 286 42 83 18 4 1 37 5 1 25 16 .290 .347 .392 .739 95 112 0 10 O
1929 30 CLE AL 125 488 426 65 133 30 7 13 93 4 4 42 14 .312 .374 .507 .881 122 216 0 20 *O
1930 31 CLE AL 82 218 191 34 62 12 1 4 36 2 0 23 8 .325 .397 .461 .858 114 88 0 4 O
1931 32 CLE AL 79 179 161 30 49 13 1 2 28 1 1 17 13 .304 .371 .435 .806 107 70 0 1 O
12 Seasons 1353 5264 4652 655 1463 300 59 69 784 47 49 412 279 .314 .372 .449 .821 112 2088 12 188
162 Game Avg. 162 630 557 78 175 36 7 8 94 6 6 49 33 .314 .372 .449 .821 112 250 1 23
CHW (9 yrs) 1067 4379 3874 526 1219 245 50 50 627 40 44 330 244 .315 .370 .442 .813 112 1714 12 163
CLE (3 yrs) 286 885 778 129 244 55 9 19 157 7 5 82 35 .314 .379 .481 .860 117 374 0 25

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1920 21 CHW AL 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $ /O
1921 22 CHW AL 648 -16 -1 0 0 -6 -7 20 -10 -0.9 -4 -0.4 -0.5 $ *O
1922 23 CHW AL 534 -1 -3 0 0 -4 -6 17 3 0.3 7 0.7 -0.4 $ *O
1923 24 CHW AL 316 7 0 0 0 -3 -4 10 10 1.0 13 1.3 -0.3 $ O
1924 25 CHW AL 594 30 -1 0 0 0 -6 19 42 4.1 42 4.1 0.0 $ *O
1925 26 CHW AL 677 2 -1 0 0 -4 -7 21 11 1.1 15 1.5 -0.4 $ *O
1926 27 CHW AL 657 31 -3 0 0 8 -7 21 50 5.0 42 4.2 0.8 $ *O MVP-12
1927 28 CHW AL 613 17 -3 0 0 12 -7 19 38 3.8 26 2.5 1.3 $ *O
1928 29 CHW AL 321 -2 1 0 0 0 -4 10 5 0.6 5 0.5 0.1 $ O
1929 30 CLE AL 488 9 -1 0 0 -4 -6 16 14 1.3 18 1.8 -0.5 $ *O
1930 31 CLE AL 218 5 0 0 0 0 -2 7 10 1.0 10 0.9 0.1 $ O
1931 32 CLE AL 179 2 0 0 0 -2 -2 6 4 0.4 6 0.6 -0.2 $ O
12 Seasons 5264 84 -12 0 0 -3 -58 167 178 17.8 181 17.8 0.0 $
CHW (9 yrs) 4379 68 -11 0 0 3 -48 138 150 15.1 147 14.5 0.6 $
CLE (3 yrs) 885 16 -1 0 0 -6 -10 29 28 2.7 34 3.3 -0.6 $

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1920 CHW AL 21 OF 4 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 1.25 .962 2.25
1920 CHW AL 21 RF 4 3 3 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 1.25 .958 1.90
1921 CHW AL 22 OF 149 310 288 9 13 5 .958 1.99 .960 2.33
1921 CHW AL 22 LF 149 148 145 312 290 9 13 5 .958 2.01 .958 2.38
1921 CHW AL 22 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.70
1922 CHW AL 23 OF 129 273 253 10 10 3 .963 2.04 .964 2.31
1922 CHW AL 23 LF 129 128 126 273 253 10 10 3 .963 2.04 .969 2.40
1923 CHW AL 24 OF 80 162 148 6 8 3 .951 1.93 .965 2.38
1923 CHW AL 24 LF 80 72 66 162 148 6 8 3 .951 1.93 .966 2.35
1924 CHW AL 25 OF 134 328 292 26 10 4 .970 2.37 .970 2.39
1924 CHW AL 25 LF 134 131 128 329 294 25 10 4 .970 2.38 .964 2.34
1925 CHW AL 26 OF 153 338 306 18 14 4 .959 2.12 .965 2.43
1925 CHW AL 26 LF 153 153 149 338 306 18 14 4 .959 2.12 .958 2.33
1926 CHW AL 27 OF 155 357 338 16 3 4 .992 2.28 .966 2.34 MVP-12
1926 CHW AL 27 LF 155 155 147 357 338 16 3 4 .992 2.28 .965 2.30 MVP-12
1927 CHW AL 28 OF 145 403 372 22 9 9 .978 2.72 .964 2.35
1927 CHW AL 28 LF 145 141 134 403 372 22 9 9 .978 2.72 .967 2.38
1928 CHW AL 29 OF 78 178 164 9 5 0 .972 2.22 .973 2.36
1928 CHW AL 29 LF 79 71 66 179 165 9 5 0 .972 2.20 .974 2.30
1929 CLE AL 30 OF 120 245 216 15 14 4 .943 1.93 .966 2.42
1929 CLE AL 30 RF 62 54 52 97 80 7 10 0 .897 1.40 .963 1.97
1929 CLE AL 30 LF 59 57 54 144 132 7 5 1 .965 2.36 .964 2.39
1930 CLE AL 31 OF 42 91 84 4 3 3 .967 2.10 .965 2.32
1930 CLE AL 31 LF 25 24 22 63 59 1 3 1 .952 2.40 .968 2.14
1930 CLE AL 31 RF 18 16 15 28 25 3 0 2 1.000 1.56 .961 1.96
1931 CLE AL 32 OF 33 59 55 1 3 0 .949 1.70 .969 2.38
1931 CLE AL 32 RF 31 30 23 57 53 1 3 0 .947 1.74 .964 2.11
1931 CLE AL 32 LF 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .965 2.20
12 Seasons OF 1222 2749 2521 136 92 39 .967 2.17 .966 2.37
11 Seasons LF 1110 1080 1037 2562 2359 123 80 34 .969 2.24 .965 2.35
4 Seasons RF 115 103 93 187 163 11 13 2 .930 1.51 .963 2.00
1 Season CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.70
12 Seasons TOT 1222 2749 2521 136 92 39 .967 2.17 .966 2.37
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
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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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1926 AL (12, 9%)
0.09 Career Shares (940th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1924 AL  4.1 (9th)
1926 AL  5.0 (8th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1924 AL  4.1 (7th)
1926 AL  4.2 (10th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1926 AL  0.8 (6th)
1927 AL  1.3 (3rd)

Batting Average s c a p y
1924 AL  .352 (3rd)
1926 AL  .345 (7th)
Career  .314 (75th)

On-Base% s c a p y
Career  .372 (239th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1924 AL  .893 (10th)
1926 AL  .892 (10th)

Games Played s c a p y
1925 AL  154 (3rd)
1926 AL  155 (2nd)

At Bats s c a p y
1925 AL  602 (7th)

Hits s c a p y
1926 AL  195 (6th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1926 AL  270 (10th)

Doubles s c a p y
1924 AL  37 (10th)
1926 AL  43 (6th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1922 AL  12 (8th)
1927 AL  9 (9th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1924 AL  99 (10th)
1925 AL  99 (9th)
1926 AL  108 (6th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1921 AL  69 (4th)
1922 AL  55 (7th)

Singles s c a p y
1924 AL  134 (10th)
1925 AL  133 (9th)
1926 AL  140 (5th)
1927 AL  125 (10th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1924 AL  132 (10th)
1926 AL  135 (9th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1924 AL  102 (10th)
1926 AL  109 (9th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1924 AL  25 (7th)
1926 AL  32 (8th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1924 AL  2.4 (7th)
1926 AL  3.1 (7th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1926 AL  263 (5th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1924 AL  .683 (9th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
Career  188 (93rd)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1926 AL  10 (9th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1926 AL  8.5 (10th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1929 AL  30.4 (5th)
Career  16.7 (213th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1922 AL  40.3 (9th)
1929 AL  32.8 (10th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1921 AL  446 (10th)
1925 AL  448 (6th)

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  1,110 (47th)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  2,359 (31st)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  123 (11th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  80 (15th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1921 AL  149 (4th)
1925 AL  153 (1st)
1926 AL  155 (1st)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1927 AL  372 (3rd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1924 AL  26 (2nd)
1925 AL  18 (4th)
1927 AL  22 (2nd)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1925 AL  14 (5th)
1929 AL  14 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1924 AL  2.38 (4th)
1926 AL  2.28 (2nd)
1927 AL  2.72 (1st)
1928 AL  2.20 (4th)
Career  2.24 (20th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  .958 (5th)
1924 AL  .970 (4th)
1925 AL  .959 (4th)
1926 AL  .992 (1st)
1927 AL  .978 (1st)
1928 AL  .972 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1927 AL  2.72 (3rd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1926 AL  .992 (1st)
1927 AL  .978 (4th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 38 (647), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 30 (604), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 24 (525), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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