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Eddie Foster

Edward Cunningham Foster (Kid)

Positions: Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 6", Weight: 145 lb.

Born: February 13, 1887 in Chicago, IL (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1910
Teams (by GP): Senators/RedSox/Browns/Highlanders 1910-1923

Final Game: August 5, 1923
Died: January 15, 1937 in Washington, DC
Buried: Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, 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 Awards
1910 NYY AL 23 SS 22 110 37 63 10 6 .909 4.55 .928 5.35
1912 WSH AL 25 3B 154 561 168 348 45 22 .920 3.35 .920 3.37 MVP-14
1913 WSH AL 26 3B 105 365 112 217 36 20 .901 3.13 .934 3.15
1914 WSH AL 27 3B 157 481 200 247 34 25 .929 2.85 .936 3.26 MVP-7
1915 WSH AL 28 3B 79 260 92 147 21 14 .919 3.03 .925 3.16
1915 WSH AL 28 2B 75 385 161 206 18 31 .953 4.89 .956 5.14
1916 WSH AL 29 3B 84 266 104 143 19 14 .929 2.94 .939 3.40
1916 WSH AL 29 2B 72 353 126 213 14 27 .960 4.71 .964 5.06
1917 WSH AL 30 3B 86 292 95 178 19 15 .935 3.17 .941 3.36
1917 WSH AL 30 2B 57 289 122 153 14 19 .952 4.82 .959 5.14
1918 WSH AL 31 3B 127 127 127 467 156 281 30 32 .936 3.44 .948 3.37
1918 WSH AL 31 2B 2 2 2 11 3 6 2 1 .818 4.50 .958 5.50
1919 WSH AL 32 3B 115 114 113 409 120 267 22 19 .946 3.37 .950 3.34
1920 BOS AL 33 3B 88 86 86 347 99 233 15 21 .957 3.77 .946 3.59
1920 BOS AL 33 2B 21 13 12 79 28 47 4 10 .949 3.57 .962 5.70
1921 BOS AL 34 3B 94 86 81 279 74 189 16 20 .943 2.80 .952 3.41
1921 BOS AL 34 2B 22 20 20 108 42 61 5 6 .954 4.68 .956 5.55
1922 TOT AL 35 3B 65 60 55 201 62 120 19 14 .905 2.80 .950 3.45
1922 BOS AL 35 3B 28 24 21 70 21 41 8 2 .886 2.21 .950 3.45
1922 BOS AL 35 SS 3 0 0 5 2 3 0 0 1.000 1.67 .946 5.20
1922 SLB AL 35 3B 37 36 34 131 41 79 11 12 .916 3.24 .950 3.45
1923 SLB AL 36 2B 20 20 16 76 35 38 3 11 .961 3.65 .965 5.68
1923 SLB AL 36 3B 7 6 5 23 7 14 2 4 .913 3.00 .945 3.46
12 Seasons 3B 1161 479 467 3951 1289 2384 278 220 .930 3.16 .939 3.34
7 Seasons 2B 269 55 50 1301 517 724 60 105 .954 4.61 .960 5.24
2 Seasons SS 25 0 0 115 39 66 10 6 .913 4.20 .929 5.33
13 Seasons TOT 1455 534 517 5367 1845 3174 348 331 .935 3.45 .944 3.73
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG 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.
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
1910 NYY AL 23 30 30 0 0 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0
1912 WSH AL 25 154 154 0 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0
1913 WSH AL 26 106 106 0 0 0 0 105 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 WSH AL 27 157 157 0 0 0 0 157 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 WSH AL 28 154 154 0 0 0 75 79 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 WSH AL 29 158 158 0 0 0 72 84 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 WSH AL 30 143 143 0 0 0 57 86 0 0 0 0 0 0
1918 WSH AL 31 129 129 0 0 0 2 127 0 0 0 0 0 0
1919 WSH AL 32 120 114 120 116 0 0 0 0 116 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1920 BOS AL 33 118 99 118 110 0 0 0 21 89 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1921 BOS AL 34 119 106 119 115 0 0 0 21 95 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1922 BOS AL 35 48 24 48 31 0 0 0 0 28 3 0 0 0 0 0 17 0
1922 SLB AL 35 37 37 37 37 0 0 0 1 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1923 SLB AL 36 27 26 27 27 0 0 0 20 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Seasons 1500 406 1500 436 0 0 0 269 1164 26 0 0 0 0 0 34 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

Hall of Fame
1938 BBWAA ( 0.8%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1912 AL (14, 6%)
1914 AL (7, 17%)
0.23 Career Shares (693rd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  154 (1st)
1913 AL  105 (5th)
1914 AL  157 (1st)
1918 AL  127 (1st)
1920 AL  88 (4th)
Career  1,161 (75th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  168 (3rd)
1914 AL  200 (3rd)
1918 AL  156 (3rd)
Career  1,289 (58th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  348 (1st)
1913 AL  217 (5th)
1914 AL  247 (5th)
1915 AL  147 (5th)
1918 AL  281 (3rd)
1919 AL  267 (4th)
1920 AL  233 (4th)
Career  2,384 (68th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  45 (2nd)
1913 AL  36 (2nd)
1914 AL  34 (2nd)
1915 AL  21 (4th)
1918 AL  30 (1st)
1919 AL  22 (4th)
1922 AL  19 (3rd)
Career  278 (38th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  3.35 (3rd)
1913 AL  3.13 (4th)
1915 AL  3.03 (4th)
1918 AL  3.44 (4th)
1919 AL  3.37 (3rd)
1920 AL  3.77 (2nd)
Career  3.16 (54th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  .920 (4th)
1915 AL  .919 (5th)
1919 AL  .946 (4th)
1920 AL  .957 (3rd)

Oldest s c a p y
1921 AL  born 1887-02-13 (9th)
1923 AL  born 1887-02-13 (8th)

                                         

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