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Les Fleming

Leslie Harvey Fleming (Mae)

Positions: First Baseman and Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 7, 1915 in Singleton, TX
School: Saint Mary's University (San Antonio, TX)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 22, 1939
Teams (by GP): Indians/Pirates/Tigers 1939-1949

Final Game: June 9, 1949
Died: March 5, 1980 in Cleveland, TX
Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, TX
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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
1939 DET AL 23 OF 3 3 3 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .968 2.43
1939 DET AL 23 RF 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 2.10
1939 DET AL 23 LF 1 1 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 4.00 .965 2.40
1941 CLE AL 25 1B 2 2 2 21 20 1 0 3 1.000 10.50 .990 9.90
1942 CLE AL 26 1B 156 156 154 1605 1503 90 12 152 .993 10.21 .989 10.08 MVP-25
1945 CLE AL 29 OF 33 33 15 65 59 2 4 2 .938 1.85 .978 2.40
1945 CLE AL 29 RF 33 33 15 65 59 2 4 2 .938 1.85 .974 2.15
1945 CLE AL 29 1B 5 5 5 37 32 4 1 2 .973 7.20 .989 10.10
1946 CLE AL 30 1B 80 76 74 680 607 62 11 60 .984 8.36 .989 9.58
1946 CLE AL 30 OF 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 .500 1.00 .975 2.40
1946 CLE AL 30 RF 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 .500 1.00 .970 2.10
1947 CLE AL 31 1B 77 75 68 733 662 63 8 78 .989 9.42 .990 9.64
1949 PIT NL 33 1B 5 3 3 43 43 0 0 4 1.000 8.60 .991 9.62
6 Seasons 1B 325 317 306 3119 2867 220 32 299 .990 9.50 .989 9.84
3 Seasons OF 37 37 19 73 66 2 5 2 .932 1.84 .977 2.40
3 Seasons RF 36 36 18 69 62 2 5 2 .928 1.78 .973 2.15
1 Season LF 1 1 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 4.00 .965 2.40
7 Seasons TOT 362 354 325 3192 2933 222 37 301 .988 8.72 .989 9.08
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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1939 DET AL 23 RF
1939 DET AL 23 LF
1941 CLE AL 25 1B
1942 CLE AL 26 1B
1945 CLE AL 29 RF
1945 CLE AL 29 1B
1946 CLE AL 30 1B
1946 CLE AL 30 RF
1947 CLE AL 31 1B
1949 PIT NL 33 1B
6 Seasons 1B
3 Seasons RF
1 Season LF
7 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1939 DET AL 23 8 3 8 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 0 5 0
1941 CLE AL 25 2 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1942 CLE AL 26 156 156 156 156 0 0 156 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1945 CLE AL 29 42 38 42 38 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 33 33 0 4 0
1946 CLE AL 30 99 77 99 81 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 18 0
1947 CLE AL 31 103 75 103 77 0 0 77 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0
1949 PIT NL 33 24 3 24 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0
7 Seasons 434 354 434 362 0 0 325 0 0 0 1 0 36 37 0 73 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.

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1949 PIT NL 33 128 63% 88% 27% 8 88% 0 32 2 30 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 128 63% 88% 27% 8 88% 0 32 2 30 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 61% 82% 27% 93% 88%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1942 AL (25, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1497th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1942 AL  1,503 (1st)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1942 AL  156 (1st)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1942 AL  1,503 (1st)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1942 AL  12 (5th)
1946 AL  11 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1942 AL  10.21 (4th)
1947 AL  9.42 (5th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1942 AL  .993 (1st)
1947 AL  .989 (5th)

             

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