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Barney Gilligan

Andrew Bernard Gilligan

Positions: Catcher, Outfielder and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 6", Weight: 130 lb.

Born: January 3, 1856 in Cambridge, MA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 25, 1875
Teams (by GP): Grays/Nationals/Blues/Wolverines 1879-1888

Final Game: April 27, 1888
Died: April 1, 1934 in Lynn, MA
Buried: Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, MA
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1879 CLV NL 23 C 27 216 147 41 28 0 .870 6.96 .889 6.45 42
1879 CLV NL 23 OF 23 46 32 6 8 0 .826 1.65 .838 1.89 21-2-0
1879 CLV NL 23 SS 2 11 3 7 1 0 .909 5.00 .872 4.55
1880 CLV NL 24 C 23 162 124 33 5 4 .969 6.83 .894 6.88 34
1880 CLV NL 24 OF 4 6 5 1 0 1 1.000 1.50 .855 1.85 0-4-0
1880 CLV NL 24 SS 4 18 3 14 1 2 .944 4.25 .882 4.38
1881 PRO NL 25 C 36 242 184 41 17 9 .930 6.25 .912 6.21 25
1881 PRO NL 25 SS 10 47 8 32 7 0 .851 4.00 .873 4.63
1881 PRO NL 25 OF 1 3 2 0 1 0 .667 2.00 .870 2.10 0-1-0
1882 PRO NL 26 C 54 396 287 82 27 8 .932 6.83 .909 6.75 41
1882 PRO NL 26 SS 2 7 0 5 2 1 .714 2.50 .851 4.50
1883 PRO NL 27 C 74 541 379 108 54 10 .900 6.58 .884 6.36 74
1884 PRO NL 28 C 81 753 605 94 54 7 .928 8.63 .895 7.37 46
1884 PRO NL 28 1B 1 9 8 0 1 0 .889 8.00 .962 10.50
1884 PRO NL 28 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.20
1885 PRO NL 29 C 65 446 305 84 57 13 .872 5.98 .893 6.63 40
1885 PRO NL 29 SS 5 27 7 16 4 0 .852 4.60 .872 4.60
1885 PRO NL 29 2B 1 6 2 2 2 0 .667 4.00 .898 5.80
1885 PRO NL 29 OF 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .880 1.80 1-0-0
1886 WHS NL 30 C 71 496 358 101 37 7 .925 6.46 .918 7.16 48
1886 WHS NL 30 OF 14 31 20 5 6 2 .806 1.79 .890 1.75 1-6-7
1886 WHS NL 30 3B 1 5 1 2 2 0 .600 3.00 .864 3.30
1886 WHS NL 30 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.40
1887 WHS NL 31 C 26 151 94 38 19 3 .874 5.08 .906 6.12 27
1887 WHS NL 31 SS 3 14 4 8 2 1 .857 4.00 .890 5.00
1887 WHS NL 31 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00 0-1-0
1888 DTN NL 32 C 1 8 5 2 1 1 .875 7.00 .912 6.80 0
10 Seasons C 458 3411 2488 624 299 62 .912 6.79 .899 6.75 377
6 Seasons OF 44 87 60 12 15 3 .828 1.64 .859 1.85 23-14-7
7 Seasons SS 27 124 25 82 17 4 .863 3.96 .875 4.60
2 Seasons 3B 2 5 1 2 2 0 .600 1.50 .864 3.25
1 Season 1B 1 9 8 0 1 0 .889 8.00 .962 10.50
1 Season 2B 1 6 2 2 2 0 .667 4.00 .898 5.80
10 Seasons TOT 533 3642 2584 722 336 69 .908 6.20 .898 6.23 23-14-7 377
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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
1879 CLV NL 23 52 52 0 27 0 0 0 2 21 2 0 23 0
1880 CLV NL 24 30 30 0 23 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 4 0
1881 PRO NL 25 46 46 0 36 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 1 0
1882 PRO NL 26 56 56 0 54 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1883 PRO NL 27 74 74 0 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1884 PRO NL 28 82 82 0 81 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1885 PRO NL 29 71 71 0 65 0 1 0 5 1 0 0 1 0
1886 WHS NL 30 81 81 0 71 0 0 1 1 1 6 7 14 0
1887 WHS NL 31 28 28 0 26 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 0
1888 DTN NL 32 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons 521 521 0 458 1 1 2 27 23 14 7 44 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1883 NL  74 (2nd)
1884 NL  81 (1st)
1885 NL  65 (3rd)
1886 NL  71 (2nd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1882 NL  287 (5th)
1883 NL  379 (2nd)
1884 NL  605 (1st)
1885 NL  305 (4th)
1886 NL  358 (3rd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1882 NL  82 (5th)
1883 NL  108 (1st)
1885 NL  84 (5th)
1886 NL  101 (1st)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1883 NL  54 (4th)
1884 NL  54 (4th)
1885 NL  57 (1st)
1886 NL  37 (4th)
Career  299 (19th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1883 NL  74 (3rd)
1886 NL  48 (4th)
Career  377 (12th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1882 NL  6.83 (3rd)
1883 NL  6.58 (3rd)
1884 NL  8.63 (2nd)
1885 NL  5.98 (4th)
1886 NL  6.46 (2nd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1882 NL  .932 (5th)
1883 NL  .900 (4th)
1884 NL  .928 (3rd)
1886 NL  .925 (3rd)

             

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