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Doc Gessler

Henry Homer Gessler (Brownie)

Positions: Rightfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: December 23, 1880 in Greensburg, PA
High School: Mercersburg Academy (Mercersburg, PA)
Schools: Washington and Jefferson College (Washington, PA), Ohio University (Athens, OH) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 23, 1903
Teams (by GP): Senators/Superbas/RedSox/Cubs/Tigers 1903-1911

Final Game: October 7, 1911
Died: December 24, 1924 in Greensburg, PA
Buried: St. Bernard Cemetery, Indiana, PA
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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 G Awards
1903 TOT MLB 22 OF 71 99 92 5 2 2 .980 1.37 .946 1.94 0-2-69
1903 DET AL 22 OF 28 38 36 1 1 1 .974 1.32 .952 1.95 0-0-28
1903 BRO NL 22 OF 43 61 56 4 1 1 .984 1.40 .942 1.94 0-2-41
1904 BRO NL 23 OF 88 201 170 15 16 2 .920 2.10 .947 1.89 14-72-2
1904 BRO NL 23 1B 1 12 10 1 1 0 .917 11.00 .983 10.70
1904 BRO NL 23 2B 1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .940 5.40
1905 BRO NL 24 1B 107 1105 998 77 30 54 .973 10.05 .981 10.76
1905 BRO NL 24 OF 12 24 19 2 3 0 .875 1.75 .955 1.97 1-1-10
1906 TOT NL 25 1B 10 97 83 9 5 4 .948 9.20 .984 10.79
1906 BRO NL 25 1B 9 93 79 9 5 4 .946 9.78 .984 10.79
1906 CHC NL 25 OF 21 31 27 4 0 0 1.000 1.48 .959 1.89 0-19-2
1906 CHC NL 25 1B 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 4.00 .985 10.80
1908 BOS AL 27 OF 126 179 162 8 9 4 .950 1.35 .954 1.84 0-0-126
1909 TOT AL 28 OF 125 184 154 19 11 2 .940 1.38 .951 1.85 0-0-125
1909 BOS AL 28 OF 109 164 135 18 11 1 .933 1.40 .951 1.85 0-0-109
1909 WSH AL 28 OF 16 20 19 1 0 1 1.000 1.25 .951 1.85 0-0-16
1909 WSH AL 28 1B 1 12 11 1 0 0 1.000 12.00 .985 11.10
1910 WSH AL 29 OF 144 193 161 23 9 3 .953 1.28 .954 1.83 0-0-144
1911 WSH AL 30 OF 126 158 130 19 9 2 .943 1.18 .950 1.99 2-0-124
1911 WSH AL 30 1B 1 6 5 1 0 0 1.000 6.00 .978 10.30
8 Seasons OF 713 1069 915 95 59 15 .945 1.42 .951 1.89 17-94-602
5 Seasons 1B 120 1232 1107 89 36 58 .971 9.97 .981 10.76
1 Season 2B 1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .940 5.40
8 Seasons TOT 834 2303 2023 185 95 73 .959 2.65 .967 3.17 17-94-602
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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
1903 BRO NL 22 49 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 41 43 0
1903 DET AL 22 29 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 28 0
1904 BRO NL 23 104 104 0 0 1 1 0 0 14 72 2 88 0
1905 BRO NL 24 126 126 0 0 107 0 0 0 1 1 10 12 0
1906 CHC NL 25 34 34 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 19 2 21 0
1906 BRO NL 25 9 9 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1908 BOS AL 27 128 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 126 126 0
1909 BOS AL 28 111 111 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 109 109 0
1909 WSH AL 28 17 17 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 16 16 0
1910 WSH AL 29 145 145 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 144 0
1911 WSH AL 30 128 128 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 124 126 0
8 Seasons 880 880 0 0 120 1 0 0 17 94 602 713 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

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1905 NL  77 (5th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1905 NL  30 (2nd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1910 AL  23 (5th)

             

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