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Gary Geiger
Gary Merle Geiger

Bats: Left , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0" , Weight: 168 lb.

Born: April 4, 1937 in Sand Ridge, IL
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1954. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1958
Final Game: July 10, 1970
Died: April 24, 1996 in Murphysboro, IL
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Gary Geiger
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Standard Batting

Glossary · Click to sort · · · · LINK · Click rows to sum ()

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
1958	21	CLE	AL	91	229	195	28	45	3	1	1	6	2	2	27	43	.231	.330	.272	.602	69	53	1	3	2	2	0	8/9571
1959	22	BOS	AL	120	360	335	45	82	10	4	11	48	9	3	21	55	.245	.289	.397	.686	84	133	5	0	3	1	0	87/9
1960	23	BOS	AL	77	273	245	32	74	13	3	9	33	2	2	23	38	.302	.369	.490	.859	128	120	7	3	2	0	0	9/87
1961	24	BOS	AL	140	599	499	82	116	21	6	18	64	16	4	87	91	.232	.349	.407	.756	100	203	7	4	6	3	4	*8
1962	25	BOS	AL	131	543	466	67	116	18	4	16	54	18	11	67	66	.249	.344	.408	.752	100	190	5	2	5	3	3	*8
1963	26	BOS	AL	121	440	399	67	105	13	5	16	44	9	4	36	63	.263	.327	.441	.768	111	176	5	3	0	2	2	8/397
1964	27	BOS	AL	5	15	13	3	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	2	.385	.467	.538	1.005	174	7	0	0	0	0	0	/98
1965	28	BOS	AL	24	58	45	5	9	3	0	1	2	3	0	13	10	.200	.379	.333	.713	100	15	0	0	0	0	1	8/7
1966	29	ATL	NL	78	151	126	23	33	5	3	4	10	0	1	21	29	.262	.367	.444	.811	122	56	1	1	1	2	1	89/7
1967	30	ATL	NL	69	140	117	17	19	1	1	1	5	1	1	20	35	.162	.285	.214	.498	46	25	2	0	3	0	0	8/79

1969	32	HOU	NL	93	156	125	19	28	4	1	0	16	2	1	24	34	.224	.351	.272	.623	79	34	1	1	5	1	2	79/8
1970	33	HOU	NL	5	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	37	1	0	0	0	0	0	/7
12 Seasons				954	2968	2569	388	633	91	29	77	283	62	29	341	466	.246	.337	.394	.731	98	1013	34	17	27	14	13
162 Game Avg.				162	504	436	66	107	15	5	13	48	11	5	58	79	.246	.337	.394	.731	98	172	6	3	5	2	2

BOS (7 yrs)				618	2288	2002	301	507	78	23	71	246	57	24	249	325	.253	.338	.422	.760	104	844	29	12	16	9	10
ATL (2 yrs)				147	291	243	40	52	6	4	5	15	1	2	41	64	.214	.328	.333	.661	87	81	3	1	4	2	1
HOU (2 yrs)				98	160	129	19	29	4	1	0	16	2	1	24	34	.225	.348	.271	.620	78	35	1	1	5	1	2
CLE (1 yr)				91	229	195	28	45	3	1	1	6	2	2	27	43	.231	.330	.272	.602	69	53	1	3	2	2	0

AL (8 yrs)				709	2517	2197	329	552	81	24	72	252	59	26	276	368	.251	.337	.408	.746	101	897	30	15	18	11	10
NL (4 yrs)				245	451	372	59	81	10	5	5	31	3	3	65	98	.218	.335	.312	.647	84	116	4	2	9	3	3

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1958	21	CLE	AL	229	157	20	3.4	97	.288	.231	.260	.330	.329	.272	.396	.602	.725	69	.395	-7.2	-0.7	.542	.179	.041	1.3
1959	22	BOS	AL	360	265	38	3.8	102	.263	.245	.265	.289	.337	.397	.405	.686	.742	84	.440	-9.7	-1.0	.613	.233	.152	9.9
1960	23	BOS	AL	273	182	43	6.4	104	.328	.302	.267	.369	.341	.490	.408	.859	.749	128	.654	9.2	0.9	.811	.282	.188	3.3
1961	24	BOS	AL	599	403	78	5.2	106	.249	.232	.266	.349	.342	.407	.414	.756	.756	100	.547	1.4	0.1	.777	.373	.174	16.9
1962	25	BOS	AL	543	374	69	5.0	105	.258	.249	.266	.344	.339	.408	.415	.752	.754	100	.538	0.1	0.0	.727	.318	.159	16.9
1963	26	BOS	AL	440	305	59	5.2	97	.276	.263	.259	.327	.325	.441	.399	.768	.725	111	.599	4.9	0.5	.726	.281	.178	11.5
1964	27	BOS	AL	15	8	4	13.5	100	.455	.385	.261	.467	.331	.538	.406	1.005	.736	174	.892	1.3	0.1	1.125	.308	.154
1965	28	BOS	AL	58	36	7	5.2	97	.235	.200	.257	.379	.328	.333	.394	.713	.723	100	.617	0.8	0.1	.861	.489	.133	1.5
1966	29	ATL	NL	151	98	22	6.0	99	.305	.262	.268	.367	.327	.444	.404	.811	.731	122	.659	4.5	0.5	.811	.341	.183	.0
1967	30	ATL	NL	140	104	8	2.1	90	.222	.162	.257	.285	.319	.214	.377	.498	.696	46	.235	-7.9	-0.8	.446	.222	.051	1.0

1969	32	HOU	NL	156	105	14	3.6	93	.304	.224	.257	.351	.327	.272	.381	.623	.708	79	.429	-2.2	-0.2	.606	.248	.048	.0
1970	33	HOU	NL	4	3	0	0.0	100	.250	.250	.262	.250	.334	.250	.400	.500	.735	37	.000	-0.4	0.0	.333	.000	.000
12 Seasons				2968	2040	362	4.8	101	.273	.246	.264	.337	.334	.394	.405	.731	.739	98	.537	-5.1	-0.5	.702	.293	.148	68.7
162 Game Avg.				504	346	61	4.8	101	.273	.246	.264	.337	.334	.394	.405	.731	.739	98	.537	-5.1	-0.5	.702	.293	.148	12

BOS (7 yrs)				2288	1573	298	5.1	103	.270	.253	.264	.338	.337	.422	.409	.760	.745	104	.560	8.0	0.7	.735	.309	.168	63.2
ATL (2 yrs)				291	202	30	4.0	94	.267	.214	.263	.328	.323	.333	.391	.661	.714	87	.489	-3.4	-0.3	.622	.284	.119	1.7
HOU (2 yrs)				160	108	14	3.5	93	.302	.225	.257	.348	.327	.271	.382	.620	.709	78	.416	-2.5	-0.2	.598	.240	.047	.0
CLE (1 yr)				229	157	20	3.4	97	.288	.231	.260	.330	.329	.272	.396	.602	.725	69	.396	-7.2	-0.7	.542	.179	.041	1.3

AL (8 yrs)				2517	1730	318	4.9	102	.271	.251	.264	.337	.336	.408	.408	.746	.744	101	.547	0.8	0.0	.718	.298	.157	64.9
NL (4 yrs)				451	310	44	3.8	94	.279	.218	.261	.335	.325	.312	.388	.647	.712	84	.464	-5.9	-0.5	.614	.269	.094	3.8

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1958	21	CLE	AL	229	0.4%	18.8%	11.8%	2.2%	11%	1.59	4.5	195.0	32.5	0.93	67%
1959	22	BOS	AL	360	3.1%	15.3%	5.8%	6.9%	31%	2.62	6.1	30.5	7.0	0.99	75%
1960	23	BOS	AL	273	3.3%	13.9%	8.4%	9.2%	34%	1.65	6.4	27.2	7.4	1.40	73%
1961	24	BOS	AL	599	3.0%	15.2%	14.5%	7.5%	39%	1.05	5.5	27.7	7.8	0.94	66%
1962	25	BOS	AL	543	3.0%	12.2%	12.3%	7.0%	33%	0.99	7.1	29.1	8.6	0.98	71%
1963	26	BOS	AL	440	3.6%	14.3%	8.2%	7.7%	32%	1.75	6.3	24.9	9.1	0.93	73%
1964	27	BOS	AL	15	0.0%	13.3%	13.3%	6.7%	20%	1.00	6.5		13.0	5.00	73%
1965	28	BOS	AL	58	1.7%	17.2%	22.4%	6.9%	44%	0.77	4.5	45.0	22.5	0.71	59%
1966	29	ATL	NL	151	2.7%	19.2%	13.9%	8.0%	36%	1.38	4.3	31.5	12.6	0.68	63%
1967	30	ATL	NL	140	0.7%	25.0%	14.3%	2.1%	16%	1.75	3.3	117.0	23.4	0.94	58%

1969	32	HOU	NL	156	0.0%	21.8%	15.4%	3.2%	18%	1.42	3.7		7.8	1.00	59%
1970	33	HOU	NL	4	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0%					0.50	100%
12 Seasons				2968	2.6%	15.7%	11.5%	6.6%	31%	1.37	5.5	33.4	9.1	0.97	69%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1958	21	CLE	AL	4	0	37%	104	2	2	50%	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	6	60%	19	10	9	5	2	3	6	0	6
1959	22	BOS	AL	11	0	37%	128	9	3	75%	8	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	3	11	61%	21	9	12	4	1	2	11	2	8
1960	23	BOS	AL	2	0	25%	99	2	2	50%	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	5	55%	16	9	7	3	2	1	10	2	8
1961	24	BOS	AL	7	0	34%	199	16	4	80%	14	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	13	50%	50	30	18	7	3	4	19	3	16
1962	25	BOS	AL	9	0	30%	221	18	11	62%	17	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	6	15	38%	27	16	10	13	10	1	15	5	10
1963	26	BOS	AL	5	0	40%	172	9	4	69%	9	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	13	44%	20	11	8	5	4	1	21	9	11
1964	27	BOS	AL	0	0	43%	4	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	100%	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1
1965	28	BOS	AL	2	0	19%	25	3	0	100%	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	29%	3	3	0	0	0	0	4	1	2
1966	29	ATL	NL	1	0	37%	74	0	1	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	44%	5	4	1	3	2	1	8	3	5
1967	30	ATL	NL	3	0	42%	56	1	1	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	47%	11	8	3	3	1	2	3	0	3

1969	32	HOU	NL	0	0	36%	60	2	1	67%	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	60%	6	3	3	3	1	2	6	1	4
1970	33	HOU	NL	0	0	0%	2	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12 Seasons				44	0	34%	1144	62	29	68%	58	26	4	1	0	1	6	0	32	74	50%	180	103	73	46	26	17	104	26	74
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1958	21	CLE	AL	227	92%	45			30	6	0	1	1.43	1	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	4	2	50%	36	1	3%	17	4	24%	103	7	7%	6	4	67%	9	3	33%	2
1959	22	BOS	AL	357	83%	82			24	9	1	2	1.07	11	0	12	9	2	5	6	0	3	3	100%	70	5	7%	31	12	39%	225	39	17%	14	10	71%	17	9	53%	3
1960	23	BOS	AL	272	81%	74			12	5	0	1	1.72	9	0	9	9	0	5	4	0	2	2	100%	71	7	10%	26	11	42%	202	27	13%	19	8	42%	16	9	56%	2
1961	24	BOS	AL	598	80%	116			5	2	0	2	2.45	18	1	8	18	0	9	9	1	8	6	75%	132	7	5%	62	16	26%	364	48	13%	25	12	48%	31	11	35%	2
1962	25	BOS	AL	542	83%	116			8	2	1	1	1.73	16	0	9	13	3	7	9	0	6	5	83%	99	5	5%	48	16	33%	273	38	14%	24	13	54%	27	8	30%	1
1963	26	BOS	AL	440	90%	105			23	3	0	2	1.59	16	0	6	14	2	5	11	0	0	0		79	5	6%	36	8	22%	221	31	14%	15	9	60%	22	9	41%	0
1964	27	BOS	AL	15	93%	5			1	1	0	0	3.17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		4	0	0%	2	2	100%	9	1	11%	0	0		1	1	100%	0
1965	28	BOS	AL	58	97%	9			7	0	0	0	1.21	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0		14	0	0%	4	0	0%	38	1	3%	4	0	0%	5	1	20%	0
1966	29	ATL	NL	138	90%	33			23	3	1	1	1.61	4	0	4	4	0	4	0	0	1	1	100%	24	1	4%	17	5	29%	79	6	8%	5	2	40%	8	3	38%	13
1967	30	ATL	NL	137	85%	19			21	1	0	0	1.28	1	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	3	3	100%	26	2	8%	15	4	27%	82	4	5%	7	0	0%	9	3	33%	3

1969	32	HOU	NL	147	91%	28			25	7	0	5	1.50	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	100%	33	1	3%	12	9	75%	100	17	17%	15	7	47%	9	5	56%	9
1970	33	HOU	NL	4	100%	1			2	0	0	0	1.37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0		2	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
12 Seasons				2935	85%	633			181	39	3	15	1.48	77	1	62	70	7	38	39	1	32	27	84%	588	34	6%	270	87	32%	1698	219	13%	134	65	49%	154	62	40%	35
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1958	21	91	229	195	28	45	3	1	1	6	2	2	27	43	.231	.330	.272	.602	69	53	1	3	2	2	0
1959	22	211	589	530	73	127	13	5	12	54	11	5	48	98	.240	.305	.351	.656	79	186	6	3	5	3	0
1960	23	288	862	775	105	201	26	8	21	87	13	7	71	136	.259	.325	.395	.720	95	306	13	6	7	3	0
1961	24	428	1461	1274	187	317	47	14	39	151	29	11	158	227	.249	.335	.400	.734	97	509	20	10	13	6	4
1962	25	559	2004	1740	254	433	65	18	55	205	47	22	225	293	.249	.337	.402	.739	98	699	25	12	18	9	7
1963	26	680	2444	2139	321	538	78	23	71	249	56	26	261	356	.252	.336	.409	.745	100	875	30	15	18	11	9
1964	27	685	2459	2152	324	543	78	24	71	250	56	26	263	358	.252	.336	.410	.746	101	882	30	15	18	11	9
1965	28	709	2517	2197	329	552	81	24	72	252	59	26	276	368	.251	.337	.408	.746	101	897	30	15	18	11	10
1966	29	787	2668	2323	352	585	86	27	76	262	59	27	297	397	.252	.339	.410	.749	102	953	31	16	19	13	11
1967	30	856	2808	2440	369	604	87	28	77	267	60	28	317	432	.248	.336	.401	.737	99	978	33	16	22	13	11
1968	31	856	2808	2440	369	604	87	28	77	267	60	28	317	432	.248	.336	.401	.737	99	978	33	16	22	13	11
1969	32	949	2964	2565	388	632	91	29	77	283	62	29	341	466	.246	.337	.395	.732	98	1012	34	17	27	14	13
1970	33	954	2968	2569	388	633	91	29	77	283	62	29	341	466	.246	.337	.394	.731	98	1013	34	17	27	14	13

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1958	21	95	251	212	32	55	4	1	1	7	2	33	45	.259	.367	.302	.668	23	91
1959	22	125	371	348	45	84	10	4	11	48	9	22	57	.241	.286	.388	.674	39	120
1960	23	81	283	256	33	76	13	3	9	34	2	24	40	.297	.364	.477	.841	44	77
1961	24	140	602	504	79	121	22	6	19	61	17	91	91	.240	.359	.421	.779	75	140
1962	25	131	540	467	64	117	18	4	16	52	18	68	66	.251	.346	.409	.755	66	131
1963	26	121	447	404	71	110	14	5	17	46	9	38	63	.272	.338	.458	.796	62	121
1964	27	5	16	14	3	6	0	1	0	1	0	2	2	.429	.500	.571	1.071	4	5
1965	28	24	63	47	5	11	4	0	1	2	4	16	10	.234	.429	.383	.812	8	24
1966	29	78	153	128	24	35	5	3	4	10	0	22	29	.273	.379	.453	.832	23	78
1967	30	69	145	121	20	23	1	1	1	6	1	24	35	.190	.324	.240	.564	10	69

1969	32	93	162	131	21	34	5	1	0	18	2	29	34	.260	.395	.313	.708	16	93
1970	33	5	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	5
12 Seasons		967	3037	2636	397	672	96	29	79	285	64	369	472	.255	.349	.403	.752	370	954
162 Game Avg.		162	509	442	67	113	16	5	13	48	11	62	79	.255	.349	.403	.752	62	954

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1961 AL--87--10th

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1959 AL--9--8th
1961 AL--16--8th
1962 AL--18--8th

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1962 AL--11--2nd

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1959 AL--9.9--9th
1961 AL--16.9--5th
1962 AL--16.9--3rd
1963 AL--11.5--6th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink Batting - 8 (1395), Average HOFer ≈ 144

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 7 (2143), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Batters

Compare Stats to Similars

Most Similar by Ages

Hold mouse over #'s to see names

Mike Menosky (976) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jerry Turner (976) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Tommie Agee (981) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Oddibe McDowell (971) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Tommie Agee (976) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Johnny Briggs (966) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Mark Whiten (975) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Daryl Boston (961) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Daryl Boston (960) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jim Hickman (950) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
John Lowenstein (954) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
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Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Gray Ink	Batting - 8 (1395), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 7 (2143), Average HOFer ≈ 50