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Larry Gardner

William Lawrence Gardner

Positions: Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: May 13, 1886 in Enosburg Falls, VT
School: University of Vermont
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1908. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 25, 1908
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Indians/Athletics 1908-1924

Final Game: September 6, 1924
Died: March 11, 1976 in St. George, VT
Cremated
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 12, 2012, 12:06AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #400. Eddie Stanky… #401. Kevin Youkilis… #402. Jake Daubert… #403. LARRY GARDNER… #404. Cy Seymour… #405. Tip O'Neill… #406. Hal Trosky… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1908 22 BOS AL 3 10 10 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 .300 .300 .400 .700 124 4 0 0 /5
1909 23 BOS AL 19 45 37 7 11 1 2 0 5 1 4 6 .297 .381 .432 .813 154 16 1 3 /56
1910 24 BOS AL 113 475 413 56 117 12 10 2 36 8 41 53 .283 .354 .375 .729 126 155 4 17 *4
1911 25 BOS AL 138 593 492 80 140 17 8 4 44 27 64 58 .285 .373 .376 .749 110 185 5 32 54
1912 26 BOS AL 143 590 517 88 163 24 18 3 86 25 23 56 38 .315 .383 .449 .832 133 232 1 16 *5 MVP-14
1913 27 BOS AL 131 535 473 64 133 17 10 0 63 18 47 34 .281 .347 .359 .707 104 170 1 14 *5
1914 28 BOS AL 155 599 553 50 143 23 19 3 68 16 23 35 39 .259 .303 .385 .688 107 213 0 11 *5
1915 29 BOS AL 127 500 430 51 111 14 6 1 55 11 12 39 24 .258 .327 .326 .653 98 140 5 26 *5
1916 30 BOS AL 148 566 493 47 152 19 7 2 62 12 0 48 27 .308 .372 .387 .759 127 191 2 23 *5
1917 31 BOS AL 146 598 501 53 133 23 7 1 61 16 54 37 .265 .341 .345 .686 110 173 3 40 *5
1918 32 PHA AL 127 522 463 50 132 22 6 1 52 9 43 22 .285 .346 .365 .711 113 169 0 16 *5
1919 33 CLE AL 139 597 524 67 157 29 7 2 79 7 39 29 .300 .352 .393 .745 104 206 3 31 *5
1920 34 CLE AL 154 683 597 72 185 31 11 3 118 3 20 53 25 .310 .367 .414 .781 103 247 1 32 *5
1921 35 CLE AL 153 686 586 101 187 32 14 3 120 3 3 65 16 .319 .391 .437 .828 109 256 4 31 *5
1922 36 CLE AL 137 538 470 74 134 31 3 2 68 9 8 49 21 .285 .355 .377 .732 89 177 2 17 *5
1923 37 CLE AL 52 93 79 4 20 5 1 0 12 0 1 12 7 .253 .352 .342 .693 83 27 0 2 5
1924 38 CLE AL 38 55 50 3 10 0 0 0 4 0 1 5 1 .200 .273 .200 .473 22 10 0 0 /54
17 Seasons 1923 7685 6688 867 1931 301 129 27 934 165 91 654 438 .289 .355 .384 .739 109 2571 32 311
162 Game Avg. 162 647 563 73 163 25 11 2 79 14 55 37 .289 .355 .384 .739 109 217 3 26
G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
BOS (10 yrs) 1123 4511 3919 496 1106 151 87 16 481 134 58 388 317 .282 .350 .377 .728 115 1479 22 182
CLE (6 yrs) 673 2652 2306 321 693 128 36 10 401 22 33 223 99 .301 .365 .400 .765 99 923 10 113
PHA (1 yr) 127 522 463 50 132 22 6 1 52 9 43 22 .285 .346 .365 .711 113 169 0 16

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1908 22 BOS AL 10 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 -1 -0.1 0 0.0 -0.1 $ /5
1909 23 BOS AL 45 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 0.5 4 0.5 0.0 $ /56
1910 24 BOS AL 475 11 -1 0 0 0 0 16 26 2.8 26 2.9 -0.1 $ *4
1911 25 BOS AL 593 5 1 0 0 9 2 19 36 3.7 27 2.8 0.9 $ 54
1912 26 BOS AL 590 25 1 0 0 7 5 20 58 5.9 51 5.2 0.7 $ *5 MVP-14
1913 27 BOS AL 535 0 0 0 0 -5 4 18 17 1.7 22 2.3 -0.6 $6,000 *5
1914 28 BOS AL 599 1 -4 0 0 7 5 21 30 2.9 23 2.5 0.4 $ *5
1915 29 BOS AL 500 3 -1 0 0 0 4 17 23 2.3 23 2.5 -0.2 $ *5
1916 30 BOS AL 566 17 -1 0 0 1 5 19 41 4.4 40 4.3 0.1 $ *5
1917 31 BOS AL 598 8 -1 0 0 4 5 20 36 3.7 32 3.4 0.3 $ *5
1918 32 PHA AL 522 6 -1 0 0 5 4 18 32 3.3 27 3.2 0.1 $ *5
1919 33 CLE AL 597 4 -1 0 0 0 5 20 28 2.8 28 2.9 -0.1 $ *5
1920 34 CLE AL 683 5 -7 0 0 12 5 21 36 3.6 24 2.4 1.2 $ *5
1921 35 CLE AL 686 12 2 0 0 4 5 21 44 4.3 40 3.9 0.4 $ *5
1922 36 CLE AL 538 -7 0 0 0 -1 4 18 14 1.4 15 1.5 -0.1 $ *5
1923 37 CLE AL 93 -2 -1 0 0 3 1 3 4 0.4 1 0.1 0.3 $ 5
1924 38 CLE AL 55 -6 -1 0 0 -1 0 2 -6 -0.6 -5 -0.5 -0.1 $ /54
17 Seasons 7685 84 -15 0 0 44 55 254 422 43.0 378 39.9 3.1 $6,000
Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
BOS (10 yrs) 4511 72 -6 0 0 22 31 151 270 27.8 248 26.4 1.4 $6,000
CLE (6 yrs) 2652 6 -8 0 0 17 20 85 120 11.9 103 10.3 1.6 $
PHA (1 yr) 522 6 -1 0 0 5 4 18 32 3.3 27 3.2 0.1 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1912 26 BOS AL WS NYG W 8 34 28 4 5 2 1 1 5 0 0 2 5 .179 .250 .429 .679 12 0 1 2 1 0
1915 29 BOS AL WS PHI W 5 19 17 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .235 .278 .353 .631 6 1 0 1 0 0
1916 30 BOS AL WS BRO W 5 19 17 2 3 0 0 2 6 0 0 0 2 .176 .167 .529 .696 9 0 0 1 1 0
1920 34 CLE AL WS BRO W 7 26 24 1 5 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 .208 .231 .250 .481 6 0 0 0 1 0
4 Seasons (4 Series) 25 98 86 9 17 3 2 3 13 0 0 4 8 .198 .234 .384 .618 33 1 1 4 3 0
4 WS 25 98 86 9 17 3 2 3 13 0 0 4 8 .198 .234 .384 .618 33 1 1 4 3 0

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1908 BOS AL 22 3B 3 7 2 2 3 0 .571 1.33 .931 3.27
1909 BOS AL 23 3B 8 20 4 12 4 0 .800 2.00 .931 3.41
1909 BOS AL 23 SS 5 11 6 4 1 1 .909 2.00 .925 5.36
1910 BOS AL 24 2B 113 574 222 320 32 28 .944 4.80 .945 5.02
1911 BOS AL 25 3B 72 263 92 161 10 3 .962 3.51 .929 3.32
1911 BOS AL 25 2B 62 360 152 195 13 31 .964 5.60 .949 5.16
1912 BOS AL 26 3B 143 498 167 296 35 16 .930 3.24 .920 3.37 MVP-14
1913 BOS AL 27 3B 130 367 126 220 21 13 .943 2.66 .934 3.15
1914 BOS AL 28 3B 153 530 187 312 31 18 .942 3.26 .936 3.26
1915 BOS AL 29 3B 127 387 134 227 26 16 .933 2.84 .925 3.16
1916 BOS AL 30 3B 147 448 149 278 21 24 .953 2.90 .939 3.40
1917 BOS AL 31 3B 146 494 148 315 31 18 .937 3.17 .941 3.36
1918 PHA AL 32 3B 127 466 158 291 17 33 .964 3.54 .948 3.37
1919 CLE AL 33 3B 139 459 143 291 25 27 .946 3.12 .950 3.34
1920 CLE AL 34 3B 154 531 156 362 13 37 .976 3.36 .946 3.59
1921 CLE AL 35 3B 152 541 179 335 27 26 .950 3.38 .952 3.41
1922 CLE AL 36 3B 128 412 133 259 20 27 .951 3.06 .950 3.45
1923 CLE AL 37 3B 19 53 10 41 2 2 .962 2.68 .945 3.45
1924 CLE AL 38 3B 8 8 1 6 1 1 .875 0.88 .951 3.26
1924 CLE AL 38 2B 6 22 8 12 2 1 .909 3.33 .966 5.77
16 Seasons 3B 1656 5484 1789 3408 287 261 .948 3.14 .940 3.35
3 Seasons 2B 181 956 382 527 47 60 .951 5.02 .947 5.09
1 Season SS 5 11 6 4 1 1 .909 2.00 .925 5.36
17 Seasons TOT 1842 6451 2177 3939 335 322 .948 3.32 .941 3.53
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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 on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1912 AL (14, 6%)
0.06 Career Shares (1057th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1912 AL  5.9 (9th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1912 AL  5.9 (6th)
1916 AL  4.4 (8th)
1918 AL  3.3 (8th)
1921 AL  4.3 (10th)
Career  43.0 (245th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1912 AL  5.2 (6th)
1916 AL  4.3 (5th)
1918 AL  3.2 (9th)
1921 AL  3.9 (10th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1911 AL  0.9 (2nd)
1912 AL  0.7 (9th)
1920 AL  1.2 (1st)

Batting Average s c a p y
1912 AL  .315 (9th)
1916 AL  .308 (5th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1912 AL  .383 (9th)
1916 AL  .372 (8th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1912 AL  .449 (7th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1912 AL  .832 (8th)

Games Played s c a p y
1914 AL  155 (8th)
1918 AL  127 (7th)
1919 AL  139 (9th)
1920 AL  154 (1st)
1921 AL  153 (8th)

At Bats s c a p y
1919 AL  524 (9th)
1920 AL  597 (9th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1919 AL  597 (9th)
1920 AL  683 (8th)
1921 AL  686 (9th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1914 AL  213 (9th)

Doubles s c a p y
1914 AL  23 (8th)
1918 AL  22 (7th)

Triples s c a p y
1912 AL  18 (5th)
1914 AL  19 (2nd)
1921 AL  14 (7th)
Career  129 (82nd)

Home Runs s c a p y
1911 AL  4 (8th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1912 AL  86 (8th)
1914 AL  68 (10th)
1919 AL  79 (10th)
1920 AL  118 (5th)
1921 AL  120 (5th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1911 AL  64 (8th)

Singles s c a p y
1916 AL  124 (10th)
1920 AL  140 (10th)
1921 AL  138 (10th)
Career  1,474 (215th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1912 AL  133 (9th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1912 AL  84 (10th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1912 AL  21 (9th)
1916 AL  16 (9th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1912 AL  2.3 (9th)
1916 AL  1.8 (9th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1912 AL  45 (9th)
1914 AL  45 (7th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1921 AL  256 (9th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1912 AL  .674 (9th)
1916 AL  .685 (9th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1911 AL  32 (2nd)
1917 AL  40 (5th)
1919 AL  31 (8th)
1920 AL  32 (7th)
1921 AL  31 (7th)
Career  311 (9th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1912 AL  23 (9th)
1920 AL  20 (2nd)
Career  91 (160th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1916 AL  18.3 (7th)
1921 AL  36.6 (7th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1919 AL  398 (10th)
1920 AL  464 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1910 AL  113 (4th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1910 AL  222 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1910 AL  320 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1910 AL  32 (4th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  143 (4th)
1913 AL  130 (4th)
1914 AL  153 (2nd)
1915 AL  127 (4th)
1916 AL  147 (2nd)
1917 AL  146 (1st)
1918 AL  127 (1st)
1919 AL  139 (2nd)
1920 AL  154 (1st)
1921 AL  152 (2nd)
1922 AL  128 (2nd)
Career  1,656 (31st)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  167 (4th)
1913 AL  126 (4th)
1914 AL  187 (4th)
1915 AL  134 (4th)
1916 AL  149 (2nd)
1918 AL  158 (2nd)
1919 AL  143 (5th)
1920 AL  156 (1st)
1921 AL  179 (3rd)
1922 AL  133 (4th)
Career  1,789 (20th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  296 (3rd)
1913 AL  220 (4th)
1914 AL  312 (1st)
1915 AL  227 (3rd)
1916 AL  278 (2nd)
1917 AL  315 (2nd)
1918 AL  291 (1st)
1919 AL  291 (2nd)
1920 AL  362 (1st)
1921 AL  335 (1st)
1922 AL  259 (4th)
Career  3,408 (25th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  35 (3rd)
1913 AL  21 (5th)
1914 AL  31 (3rd)
1915 AL  26 (2nd)
1916 AL  21 (5th)
1917 AL  31 (1st)
1918 AL  17 (3rd)
1919 AL  25 (1st)
1921 AL  27 (1st)
1922 AL  20 (2nd)
Career  287 (35th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1910 AL  .944 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  3.24 (4th)
1913 AL  2.66 (5th)
1914 AL  3.26 (5th)
1915 AL  2.84 (5th)
1918 AL  3.54 (3rd)
1920 AL  3.36 (4th)
1921 AL  3.38 (4th)
Career  3.14 (57th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1912 AL  .930 (3rd)
1913 AL  .943 (2nd)
1914 AL  .942 (4th)
1915 AL  .933 (4th)
1916 AL  .953 (3rd)
1918 AL  .964 (2nd)
1919 AL  .946 (5th)
1920 AL  .976 (1st)
1922 AL  .951 (5th)

Oldest s c a p y
1920 AL  born 1886-05-13 (10th)
1921 AL  born 1886-05-13 (6th)
1922 AL  born 1886-05-13 (7th)
1923 AL  born 1886-05-13 (5th)
1924 AL  born 1886-05-13 (4th)

                           

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 1 (733), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 51 (496), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 34 (568), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 22 (629), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  7. Bernie Friberg (951)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Bernie Friberg (942)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Amos Strunk (927)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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  12. Heinie Groh (908)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  13. Heinie Groh (905)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
191327Boston Red Sox$6,000Bill James Historical Abstract
Career to date (may be incomplete)$6,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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