Silver Flint

Frank Sylvester Flint

Positions: Catcher and Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: August 3, 1855 in Philadelphia, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: May 4, 1875
Teams (by GP): WhiteStockings/Blues/RedStockings 1875-1889

Final Game: July 18, 1889
Died: January 14, 1892 in Chicago, IL
Buried: Bethany Cemetery, Pagedale, MO
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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	G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1875	SLR	NA	19	C	16				111	72	19	20	1	.820		5.69	.823		5.71		37
1875	SLR	NA	19	OF	2				3	2	0	1	0	.667		1.00	.817		1.90	1-0-1
1875	SLR	NA	19	3B	1				1	0	0	1	0	.000		0.00	.760		3.70
1878	IND	NL	22	C	59				426	285	102	39	7	.908		6.56	.891		7.09		55
1878	IND	NL	22	OF	9				16	11	0	5	0	.688		1.22	.834		1.77	5-0-4
1879	CHC	NL	23	C	78				492	341	109	42	6	.915		5.77	.889		6.45		59
1879	CHC	NL	23	OF	1				2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.840		1.90	0-0-1
1880	CHC	NL	24	C	67				562	408	117	37	4	.934		7.84	.894		6.88		66
1880	CHC	NL	24	OF	13				10	6	2	2	1	.800		0.62	.855		1.85	0-4-10
1881	CHC	NL	25	C	80				438	319	92	27	6	.938		5.14	.912		6.21		58
1881	CHC	NL	25	OF	8				3	3	0	0	0	1.000		0.38	.870		2.06	0-0-8
1881	CHC	NL	25	1B	1				4	4	0	0	0	1.000		4.00	.960		10.50
1882	CHC	NL	26	C	81				568	440	91	37	3	.935		6.56	.909		6.75		64
1882	CHC	NL	26	OF	10				7	6	0	1	0	.857		0.60	.856		1.93	0-0-10
1883	CHC	NL	27	C	83				462	301	104	57	4	.877		4.88	.884		6.36		76
1883	CHC	NL	27	OF	23				16	10	2	4	0	.750		0.52	.849		1.96	0-0-23
1884	CHC	NL	28	C	73				525	354	110	61	9	.884		6.36	.895		7.37		82
1885	CHC	NL	29	C	68				492	356	100	36	2	.927		6.71	.893		6.63		41
1885	CHC	NL	29	OF	1				0	0	0	0	0			0.00			1.80	0-0-1
1886	CHC	NL	30	C	54				440	300	93	47	2	.893		7.28	.918		7.16		41
1886	CHC	NL	30	1B	3				14	13	1	0	1	1.000		4.67	.968		10.33
1887	CHC	NL	31	C	47				361	255	73	33	3	.909		6.98	.906		6.12		30
1887	CHC	NL	31	1B	2				27	25	1	1	1	.963		13.00	.974		10.55
1888	CHC	NL	32	C	22				149	96	42	11	7	.926		6.27	.912		6.83		14
1889	CHC	NL	33	C	15				93	65	19	9	0	.903		5.60	.910		6.00		16
	13 Seasons			C	743				5119	3592	1071	456	54	.911		6.28	.898		6.66		639
	8 Seasons			OF	67				57	40	4	13	1	.772		0.66	.846		1.91	6-4-58
	3 Seasons			1B	6				45	42	2	1	2	.978		7.33	.971		10.43
	1 Season			3B	1				1	0	0	1	0	.000		0.00	.760		3.70
	13 Seasons			TOT	817				5222	3674	1077	471	57	.910		5.82	.898		6.30	6-4-58	639
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	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.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	C	1B	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF
1875	SLR	NA	19	17	17	16	0	1	1	0	1	2
1878	IND	NL	22	63	63	59	0	0	5	0	4	9
1879	CHC	NL	23	79	79	78	0	0	0	0	1	1
1880	CHC	NL	24	74	74	67	0	0	0	4	10	13
1881	CHC	NL	25	80	80	80	1	0	0	0	8	8
1882	CHC	NL	26	81	81	81	0	0	0	0	10	10
1883	CHC	NL	27	85	85	83	0	0	0	0	23	23
1884	CHC	NL	28	73	73	73	0	0	0	0	0	0
1885	CHC	NL	29	68	68	68	0	0	0	0	1	1
1886	CHC	NL	30	54	54	54	3	0	0	0	0	0
1887	CHC	NL	31	49	49	47	2	0	0	0	0	0
1888	CHC	NL	32	22	22	22	0	0	0	0	0	0
1889	CHC	NL	33	15	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13 Seasons			760	760	743	6	1	6	4	58	67

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

Hall of Fame 1936 Veterans ()	Errors Committed† s c a p y Career 471 (89th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1878 NL 59 (1st) 1879 NL 78 (2nd) 1880 NL 67 (3rd) 1881 NL 80 (1st) 1882 NL 81 (1st) 1883 NL 83 (1st) 1884 NL 73 (4th) 1885 NL 68 (2nd) 1886 NL 54 (4th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1878 NL 285 (2nd) 1879 NL 341 (2nd) 1880 NL 408 (3rd) 1881 NL 319 (3rd) 1882 NL 440 (2nd) 1883 NL 301 (5th) 1885 NL 356 (1st) 1886 NL 300 (5th)
Assists as C s c a p y 1878 NL 102 (1st) 1879 NL 109 (2nd) 1880 NL 117 (3rd) 1881 NL 92 (3rd) 1882 NL 91 (3rd) 1883 NL 104 (2nd) 1884 NL 110 (2nd) 1885 NL 100 (2nd) 1886 NL 93 (4th) 1887 NL 73 (5th) Career 1,071 (36th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1878 NL 39 (5th) 1879 NL 42 (5th) 1880 NL 37 (4th) 1882 NL 37 (3rd) 1883 NL 57 (3rd) 1884 NL 61 (2nd) 1886 NL 47 (1st) 1887 NL 33 (5th) Career 456 (3rd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1878 NL 55 (2nd) 1879 NL 59 (4th) 1880 NL 66 (2nd) 1881 NL 58 (2nd) 1882 NL 64 (2nd) 1883 NL 76 (2nd) 1884 NL 82 (2nd) Career 639 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1878 NL 6.56 (4th) 1880 NL 7.84 (1st) 1882 NL 6.56 (4th) 1885 NL 6.71 (3rd) Career 6.28 (65th)
Fielding % as C s c a p y 1878 NL .908 (3rd) 1879 NL .915 (2nd) 1880 NL .934 (1st) 1881 NL .938 (2nd) 1882 NL .935 (4th) 1885 NL .927 (1st)	Youngest s c a p y 1875 NA born 1855-08-03 (9th)

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