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George Gibson

George C. Gibson (Moon)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: July 22, 1880 in London, Ontario, CAN (All Transactions)
Debut: July 2, 1905
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Giants 1905-1918

Final Game: August 20, 1918
Died: January 25, 1967 in London, Ontario, CAN
Buried: Campbell Cemetery, Komoka, Ontario, CAN
Relatives: Father-In-Law of Bill Warwick
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1905 PIT NL 24 C 44 263 200 54 9 4 .966 5.77 .963 6.20 8 42 40 49% 45%
1906 PIT NL 25 C 81 446 336 97 13 10 .971 5.35 .970 6.25 13 79 72 48% 45%
1907 PIT NL 26 C 109 642 499 125 18 12 .972 5.72 .971 5.98 14 86 86 50% 45%
1907 PIT NL 26 1B 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .985 10.60
1908 PIT NL 27 C 140 764 607 136 21 10 .973 5.31 .971 5.92 4 123 92 43% 46%
1909 PIT NL 28 C 150 862 655 192 15 9 .983 5.65 .965 6.27 10 123 138 53% 45%
1910 PIT NL 29 C 143 850 633 203 14 8 .984 5.85 .973 6.30 8 155 137 47% 44%
1911 PIT NL 30 C 98 581 452 117 12 16 .979 5.81 .966 6.44 10 110 94 46% 44% MVP-17
1912 PIT NL 31 C 94 591 484 101 6 11 .990 6.22 .969 6.31 12 88 80 48% 44%
1913 PIT NL 32 C 48 219 182 34 3 4 .986 4.50 .970 6.29 0 55 21 28% 44%
1914 PIT NL 33 C 101 497 358 126 13 8 .974 4.79 .970 6.31 10 97 78 45% 44%
1915 PIT NL 34 C 118 710 551 134 25 14 .965 5.81 .975 6.20 8 114 86 43% 46%
1916 PIT NL 35 C 29 181 140 39 2 2 .989 6.17 .974 6.30 3 29 25 46% 44%
1917 NYG NL 36 C 35 145 116 27 2 4 .986 4.09 .975 5.98 1 21 12 36% 44%
1918 NYG NL 37 C 4 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0.50 .975 5.25 0 1 1 50% 44%
14 Seasons C 1194 0 0 6753 5214 1386 153 112 .977 5.53 .970 6.21 101 1123 962 46% 45%
1 Season 1B 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .985 10.60
14 Seasons TOT 1195 0 0 6755 5216 1386 153 112 .977 5.52 .970 6.21 101 1123 962 46% 45%
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
1905 PIT NL 24 46 46 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1906 PIT NL 25 81 81 0 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1907 PIT NL 26 113 113 0 109 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1908 PIT NL 27 143 143 0 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1909 PIT NL 28 150 150 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1910 PIT NL 29 143 143 0 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1911 PIT NL 30 100 100 0 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1912 PIT NL 31 95 95 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1913 PIT NL 32 48 48 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 PIT NL 33 102 102 0 101 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 PIT NL 34 120 120 0 118 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 PIT NL 35 33 33 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 NYG NL 36 35 35 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1918 NYG NL 37 4 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Seasons 1213 1213 0 1194 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1911 NL (17, 6%)
0.06 Career Shares (1057th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1907 NL  109 (1st)
1908 NL  140 (1st)
1909 NL  150 (1st)
1910 NL  143 (1st)
1911 NL  98 (3rd)
1912 NL  94 (4th)
1914 NL  101 (4th)
1915 NL  118 (2nd)
Career  1,194 (74th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1907 NL  499 (1st)
1908 NL  607 (2nd)
1909 NL  655 (2nd)
1910 NL  633 (2nd)
1911 NL  452 (3rd)
1912 NL  484 (3rd)
1915 NL  551 (2nd)
Career  5,214 (98th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1907 NL  125 (2nd)
1908 NL  136 (5th)
1909 NL  192 (3rd)
1910 NL  203 (1st)
1911 NL  117 (5th)
1915 NL  134 (3rd)
Career  1,386 (13th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1907 NL  18 (4th)
1908 NL  21 (2nd)
1915 NL  25 (1st)
Career  153 (72nd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1906 NL  13 (2nd)
1907 NL  14 (2nd)
1909 NL  10 (4th)
1911 NL  10 (3rd)
1912 NL  12 (1st)
1914 NL  10 (4th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1908 NL  123 (1st)
1909 NL  123 (3rd)
1910 NL  155 (1st)
1914 NL  97 (5th)
1915 NL  114 (1st)
Career  1,123 (20th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1907 NL  86 (2nd)
1908 NL  92 (5th)
1909 NL  138 (1st)
1910 NL  137 (1st)
1911 NL  94 (3rd)
1914 NL  78 (5th)
1915 NL  86 (2nd)
Career  962 (10th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1905 NL  48.8 (4th)
1906 NL  47.7 (5th)
1907 NL  50.0 (2nd)
1909 NL  52.9 (1st)
1912 NL  47.6 (4th)
1916 NL  46.3 (4th)
Career  46.1 (66th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1907 NL  5.72 (5th)
1908 NL  5.31 (5th)
1909 NL  5.65 (5th)
1910 NL  5.85 (5th)
1911 NL  5.81 (4th)
1912 NL  6.22 (3rd)
1915 NL  5.81 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1906 NL  .971 (4th)
1907 NL  .972 (4th)
1908 NL  .973 (4th)
1909 NL  .983 (1st)
1910 NL  .984 (1st)
1911 NL  .979 (2nd)
1912 NL  .990 (1st)
1914 NL  .974 (4th)

Oldest s c a p y
1915 NL  born 1880-07-22 (8th)
1916 NL  born 1880-07-22 (7th)
1917 NL  born 1880-07-22 (5th)
1918 NL  born 1880-07-22 (4th)

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