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William Fischer

William Charles Fischer

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 174 lb.

Born: March 2, 1891 in New York, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: June 9, 1913
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Whales/Cubs/Superbas/Robins 1913-1917

Final Game: September 29, 1917
Died: September 4, 1945 in Richmond, VA
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1913 BRO NL 22 C 51 265 193 65 7 2 .974 5.06 .970 6.29 6 57 43 43% 44%
1914 BRO NL 23 C 30 189 136 45 8 6 .958 6.03 .970 6.31 4 35 29 45% 44%
1915 CHI FL 24 C 80 436 324 100 12 9 .972 5.30 .975 6.29 7 75 65 46% 45%
1916 TOT NL 25 C 91 563 429 119 15 8 .973 6.02 .974 6.30 8 94 78 45% 44%
1916 CHC NL 25 C 56 328 246 73 9 3 .973 5.70 .974 6.30 7 54 47 47% 44%
1916 PIT NL 25 C 35 235 183 46 6 5 .974 6.54 .974 6.30 1 40 31 44% 44%
1917 PIT NL 26 C 69 363 272 77 14 8 .961 5.06 .975 5.98 4 82 45 35% 44%
1917 PIT NL 26 1B 2 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 3.50 .989 10.90
5 Seasons C 321 1816 1354 406 56 33 .969 5.48 .973 6.23 29 343 260 43% 44%
1 Season 1B 2 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 3.50 .989 10.90
5 Seasons TOT 323 1823 1361 406 56 33 .969 5.47 .973 6.26 29 343 260 43% 44%
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
1913 BRO NL 22 62 62 0 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 BRO NL 23 43 43 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 CHI FL 24 105 105 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 CHC NL 25 65 65 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 PIT NL 25 42 42 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 PIT NL 26 95 95 0 69 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 412 412 0 321 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1916 NL  91 (5th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1916 NL  429 (5th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1916 NL  119 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1916 NL  15 (3rd)
1917 NL  14 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1913 NL  6 (5th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1916 NL  94 (4th)
1917 NL  82 (3rd)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1916 NL  78 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1914 NL  45.3 (5th)
1915 FL  46.4 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1916 NL  6.02 (2nd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1916 NL  .973 (4th)

                           

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