Dee Fondy

Dee Virgil Fondy

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: October 13, 1924 in Slaton, TX
High School: San Bernardino HS (San Bernardino, CA)
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 17, 1951
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Pirates/Redlegs 1951-1958

Final Game: September 21, 1958
Died: August 19, 1999 in Redlands, CA
Buried: Montecito Memorial Park, Colton, CA
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
1951	CHC	NL	26	1B	44	42	41	374.2	424	387	27	10	40	.976			9.94	9.41	.989	9.76	9.72
1952	CHC	NL	27	1B	143	141	138	1263.1	1374	1257	103	14	92	.990			9.69	9.51	.990	9.89	9.81
1953	CHC	NL	28	1B	149	146	141	1268.2	1407	1274	115	18	105	.987	-5	-5	9.85	9.32	.990	9.88	9.68
1954	CHC	NL	29	1B	138	133	132	1198.2	1356	1228	119	9	129	.993	5	5	10.11	9.76	.991	9.81	9.75
1955	CHC	NL	30	1B	147	147	146	1313.2	1424	1304	107	13	135	.991	-3	-2	9.67	9.60	.991	9.79	9.70
1956	CHC	NL	31	1B	133	132	130	1171.0	1159	1048	94	17	101	.985	1	1	8.78	8.59	.989	9.82	9.72
1957	TOT	NL	32	1B	84	82	81	749.1	876	801	60	15	73	.983	1	1	10.34	10.25	.990	9.67	9.73
1957	CHC	NL	32	1B	11	11	11	98.1	110	103	6	1	10	.991	-1	-9	9.98	9.91	.990	9.67	9.73
1957	PIT	NL	32	1B	73	71	70	651.0	766	698	54	14	63	.982	1	3	10.40	10.30	.990	9.67	9.73
1958	CIN	NL	33	1B	36	9	7	142.1	153	135	16	2	15	.987	1	12	9.55	4.19	.990	9.54	9.49
1958	CIN	NL	33	OF	22	11	8	110.0	25	25	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-3	2.05	1.14	.980	2.26	2.25
1958	CIN	NL	33	RF	15	7	5	69.0	15	15	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-3	1.96	1.00	.978	2.02	2.01
1958	CIN	NL	33	LF	7	4	3	41.0	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-3	1.76	1.14	.975	2.02	2.00
	8 Seasons			1B	874	832	816	7481.2	8173	7434	641	98	690	.988	-1	-0	9.71	9.24	.990	9.81	9.72
	1 Season			OF	22	11	8	110.0	25	25	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-3	2.05	1.14	.980	2.26	2.25
	1 Season			RF	15	7	5	69.0	15	15	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-3	1.96	1.00	.978	2.02	2.01
	1 Season			LF	7	4	3	41.0	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-3	1.76	1.14	.975	2.02	2.00
	8 Seasons			TOT	896	843	824	7591.2	8198	7459	641	98	690	.988	-1	-0	9.60	9.04	.990	9.70	9.54

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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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof
1951	CHC	NL	26	1B
1952	CHC	NL	27	1B
1953	CHC	NL	28	1B	-5	-5	-4	-1	-3	-1
1954	CHC	NL	29	1B	5	5	5	-0	5	0
1955	CHC	NL	30	1B	-3	-2	-3	-1	-1	0
1956	CHC	NL	31	1B	1	1	1	1	-1	0
1957	CHC	NL	32	1B	-1	-9	-1	-0	-0	0
1957	PIT	NL	32	1B	1	3	1	0	1	0
1958	CIN	NL	33	1B	1	12	1	1	0	0
1958	CIN	NL	33	RF	-0	-3	-0	2	-2		0
1958	CIN	NL	33	LF	-0	-3	-0	0	-0		0
	8 Seasons			1B	-1	-0	0	-0	1	-1
	1 Season			RF	-0	-3	-0	2	-2		0
	1 Season			LF	-0	-3	-0	0	-0		0
	8 Seasons			TOT	-1	-0	0	2	-2	-1	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1951	CHC	NL	26	49	42	49	44	44	0	0	0	5	0
1952	CHC	NL	27	145	141	145	143	143	0	0	0	2	0
1953	CHC	NL	28	150	146	150	149	149	0	0	0	2	0
1954	CHC	NL	29	141	133	141	138	138	0	0	0	4	4
1955	CHC	NL	30	150	147	150	147	147	0	0	0	1	2
1956	CHC	NL	31	137	132	137	133	133	0	0	0	5	0
1957	PIT	NL	32	95	71	95	73	73	0	0	0	24	0
1957	CHC	NL	32	11	11	11	11	11	0	0	0	0	0
1958	CIN	NL	33	89	20	89	59	37	7	15	22	26	36
	8 Seasons			967	843	967	897	875	7	15	22	69	42

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%
1951	CHC	NL	26	1441	66%	85%	29%	72	82%	1	344	8	335	1	30	22	16	3	0	2	9	0	9	0	8	38	0	0	0	35	0	3	0	3	7	57%
1952	CHC	NL	27	4177	61%	81%	26%	239	93%	1	980	70	904	7	84	76	47	24	0	4	12	1	9	2	10	84	1	0	4	71	6	13	3	9	20	85%
1953	CHC	NL	28	4717	62%	83%	26%	291	92%	0	1035	85	934	13	105	91	62	18	1	3	16	1	12	3	14	91	0	1	1	78	4	13	4	7	23	78%
1954	CHC	NL	29	4214	64%	81%	27%	284	95%	4	983	56	913	15	121	106	78	19	1	2	9	2	6	1	6	105	1	0	2	89	4	16	4	11	22	95%
1955	CHC	NL	30	4414	64%	79%	25%	238	91%	2	996	75	904	19	74	76	50	20	0	3	12	3	9	0	8	106	4	1	2	91	7	13	2	11	17	76%
1956	CHC	NL	31	4444	62%	79%	24%	251	93%	0	929	66	852	11	99	79	49	22	0	2	11	0	9	2	7	91	4	0	3	87	7	4	1	3	19	89%
1957	PIT	NL	32	2365	60%	84%	29%	158	91%	1	589	34	547	8	68	45	32	8	1	6	13	0	13	0	9	50	2	1	2	44	5	5	0	5	8	88%
1957	CHC	NL	32	431	65%	81%	27%	27	96%	0	100	11	89	0	9	7	3	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	10	0	0	0	9	0	1	0	1	3	100%
1958	CIN	NL	33	616	68%	83%	28%	43	93%	0	136	9	125	2	15	16	10	6	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	15	0	0	0	14	0	1	0	1	2	100%
	8 Seasons			26819	63%	81%	26%	1603	92%	9	6092	414	5603	76	605	518	347	123	3	23	85	7	70	8	65	590	12	3	14	518	33	69	14	51	121	84%
	MLB Averages				63%	81%	26%		93%																											86%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1958	CIN	NL	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	33.3%	2	0	0.0%	0	301	61%	83%	27%	17	88%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	33.3%	2	0	0.0%	0	301	61%	83%	27%	17	88%
	MLB Averages																														43.3%			3.4%			63%	81%	30%		54%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1958	CIN	NL	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	174	76%	79%	23%	10	80%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	174	76%	79%	23%	10	80%
	MLB Averages																														58.0%			2.6%			63%	81%	30%		49%

* 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

Putouts† s c a p y 1952 NL 1,257 (4th) 1953 NL 1,274 (4th) 1954 NL 1,228 (5th) 1955 NL 1,304 (2nd)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1952 NL 143 (4th) 1953 NL 149 (3rd) 1954 NL 138 (4th) 1955 NL 147 (2nd) 1956 NL 133 (4th)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1952 NL 1,257 (4th) 1953 NL 1,274 (4th) 1954 NL 1,228 (5th) 1955 NL 1,304 (2nd)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 1952 NL 103 (3rd) 1953 NL 115 (2nd) 1954 NL 119 (2nd) 1955 NL 107 (1st) 1956 NL 94 (4th)
Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1951 NL 10 (5th) 1952 NL 14 (2nd) 1953 NL 18 (1st) 1954 NL 9 (5th) 1955 NL 13 (1st) 1956 NL 17 (2nd) 1957 NL 15 (2nd)	Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 1954 NL 5 (4th) 1958 NL 1 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1953 NL 9.85 (5th) 1954 NL 10.11 (2nd) 1955 NL 9.67 (5th) 1957 NL 10.34 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1952 NL 9.51 (4th) 1954 NL 9.76 (3rd) 1955 NL 9.60 (4th) 1957 NL 10.25 (2nd)
Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1952 NL .990 (5th) 1954 NL .993 (4th) 1955 NL .991 (5th)

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