Shorty Fuller

William Benjamin Fuller

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 6", Weight: 157 lb.

Born: October 10, 1867 in Cincinnati, OH (All Transactions)
Debut: July 19, 1888
Teams (by GP): Giants/Browns/Nationals 1888-1896

Final Game: June 2, 1896
Died: April 11, 1904 in Cincinnati, OH
Buried: St. Joseph Old Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH
Relatives: Brother of Harry Fuller
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G
1888	WHS	NL	20	SS	47	245	67	140	38	14	.845	4.40	.881	4.47
1888	WHS	NL	20	2B	2	5	2	3	0	0	1.000	2.50	.920	5.65
1889	STL	AA	21	SS	140	766	240	459	67	46	.913	4.99	.873	5.13
1890	STL	AA	22	SS	130	702	222	389	91	39	.870	4.70	.885	4.90
1891	STL	AA	23	SS	102	551	165	307	79	36	.857	4.63	.879	5.14
1891	STL	AA	23	2B	38	206	81	109	16	21	.922	5.00	.914	5.36
1892	NYG	NL	24	SS	141	820	294	434	92	44	.888	5.16	.897	5.37
1893	NYG	NL	25	SS	130	795	260	464	71	48	.911	5.57	.897	5.54
1894	NYG	NL	26	SS	91	579	213	297	69	40	.881	5.60	.897	5.70
1894	NYG	NL	26	3B	2	9	2	4	3	1	.667	3.00	.878	3.50
1894	NYG	NL	26	OF	2	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.00	.915	2.30	0-0-2
1894	NYG	NL	26	2B	1	8	2	5	1	0	.875	7.00	.928	5.80
1895	NYG	NL	27	SS	126	842	270	499	73	59	.913	6.10	.899	5.63
1896	NYG	NL	28	SS	18	119	42	62	15	8	.874	5.78	.903	5.58
	9 Seasons			SS	925	5419	1773	3051	595	334	.890	5.22	.890	5.29
	3 Seasons			2B	41	219	85	117	17	21	.922	4.93	.915	5.39
	1 Season			3B	2	9	2	4	3	1	.667	3.00	.878	3.50
	1 Season			OF	2	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.00	.915	2.30	0-0-2
	9 Seasons			TOT	970	5651	1864	3172	615	356	.891	5.19	.891	5.29	0-0-2

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	2B	3B	SS	RF	OF
1888	WHS	NL	20	49	49	2	0	47	0	0
1889	STL	AA	21	140	140	0	0	140	0	0
1890	STL	AA	22	130	130	0	0	130	0	0
1891	STL	AA	23	135	135	38	0	102	0	0
1892	NYG	NL	24	141	141	0	0	141	0	0
1893	NYG	NL	25	130	130	0	0	130	0	0
1894	NYG	NL	26	95	95	1	2	91	2	2
1895	NYG	NL	27	126	126	0	0	126	0	0
1896	NYG	NL	28	18	18	0	0	18	0	0
	9 Seasons			964	964	41	2	925	2	2

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

Assists† s c a p y 1889 AA 459 (3rd) 1890 AA 389 (4th) 1891 AA 416 (5th) 1893 NL 464 (3rd) 1895 NL 499 (2nd)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1890 AA 91 (2nd) 1891 AA 95 (3rd) 1892 NL 92 (3rd) Career 615 (43rd)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1889 AA 140 (2nd) 1890 AA 130 (2nd) 1892 NL 141 (4th) 1893 NL 130 (1st)	Putouts as SS s c a p y 1889 AA 240 (2nd) 1890 AA 222 (2nd) 1892 NL 294 (5th) 1893 NL 260 (3rd) 1895 NL 270 (5th)
Assists as SS s c a p y 1889 AA 459 (3rd) 1890 AA 389 (3rd) 1893 NL 464 (3rd) 1895 NL 499 (2nd)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1889 AA 67 (5th) 1890 AA 91 (2nd) 1891 AA 79 (4th) 1892 NL 92 (3rd) 1893 NL 71 (4th) 1895 NL 73 (4th) Career 595 (15th)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1889 AA 4.99 (5th) 1895 NL 6.10 (4th) Career 5.22 (42nd)	Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1889 AA .913 (1st) 1893 NL .911 (4th) 1895 NL .913 (5th)
Youngest s c a p y 1888 NL born 1867-10-10 (7th)

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