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Hank Gowdy

Henry Morgan Gowdy

Positions: Catcher and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 182 lb.

Born: August 24, 1889 in Columbus, OH
High School: North HS (Columbus, OH) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1910
Teams (by GP): Braves/Giants/Rustlers 1910-1930

Final Game: August 29, 1930
Died: August 1, 1966 in Columbus, OH
Buried: Union Cemetery, Columbus, OH
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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
1910 NYG NL 20 1B 5 35 30 3 2 1 .943 6.60 .984 10.40
1911 TOT NL 21 1B 28 288 267 12 9 9 .969 9.96 .985 10.23
1911 NYG NL 21 1B 2 22 22 0 0 0 1.000 11.00 .985 10.25
1911 BSN NL 21 1B 26 266 245 12 9 9 .966 9.88 .985 10.23
1911 BSN NL 21 C 1 9 6 3 0 0 1.000 9.00 .966 6.40 0 2 2 50% 44%
1912 BSN NL 22 C 22 121 82 30 9 5 .926 5.09 .969 6.31 5 28 22 44% 44%
1912 BSN NL 22 1B 7 60 56 4 0 2 1.000 8.57 .988 10.17
1913 BSN NL 23 C 2 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 4.50 .970 6.30 1 2 0 0% 44%
1914 BSN NL 24 C 115 647 475 151 21 11 .968 5.44 .970 6.31 10 90 89 50% 44%
1914 BSN NL 24 1B 9 65 59 5 1 5 .985 7.11 .988 10.60
1915 BSN NL 25 C 114 624 460 148 16 11 .974 5.33 .975 6.20 6 69 84 55% 46%
1916 BSN NL 26 C 116 705 533 158 14 19 .980 5.96 .974 6.30 10 69 85 55% 44%
1917 BSN NL 27 C 49 288 204 75 9 3 .969 5.69 .975 5.98 1 38 39 51% 44%
1919 BSN NL 29 C 74 66 53 343 230 105 8 11 .977 4.53 .972 5.39 3 57 60 51% 44%
1919 BSN NL 29 1B 1 1 1 10 10 0 0 0 1.000 10.00 .988 11.20
1920 BSN NL 30 C 74 62 48 342 231 104 7 12 .980 4.53 .968 5.31 2 42 53 56% 46%
1921 BSN NL 31 C 53 46 32 216 162 50 4 3 .981 4.00 .971 4.87 3 29 35 55% 49%
1922 BSN NL 32 C 72 61 52 275 204 63 8 7 .971 3.71 .974 4.63 2 41 45 52% 46%
1922 BSN NL 32 1B 1 0 0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 6.00 .990 10.70
1923 TOT NL 33 C 58 50 38 197 164 30 3 1 .985 3.34 .976 4.66 1 20 19 49% 44%
1923 BSN NL 33 C 15 13 13 56 43 12 1 0 .982 3.67 .976 4.66 1 9 5 36% 44%
1923 NYG NL 33 C 43 37 25 141 121 18 2 1 .986 3.23 .976 4.66 0 11 14 56% 44%
1924 NYG NL 34 C 78 56 39 279 223 51 5 8 .982 3.51 .981 4.78 1 34 31 48% 47%
1925 NYG NL 35 C 41 34 21 150 124 26 0 1 1.000 3.66 .970 4.45 1 26 17 40% 44%
1929 BSN NL 39 C 9 2 0 13 11 2 0 1 1.000 1.44 .974 4.34 0 1 1 50% 42%
1930 BSN NL 40 C 15 6 3 36 31 4 1 0 .972 2.33 .976 4.57 0 1 2 67% 44%
16 Seasons C 893 383 286 4254 3149 1000 105 93 .975 4.65 .973 5.52 46 549 584 52% 45%
6 Seasons 1B 51 1 1 464 428 24 12 17 .974 8.86 .986 10.33
17 Seasons TOT 944 384 287 4718 3577 1024 117 110 .975 4.87 .974 5.78 46 549 584 52% 45%
Lg 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
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
1910 NYG NL 20 7 7 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1911 BSN NL 21 29 29 0 1 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1911 NYG NL 21 4 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1912 BSN NL 22 44 44 0 22 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1913 BSN NL 23 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 BSN NL 24 128 128 0 115 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 BSN NL 25 118 118 0 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 BSN NL 26 118 118 0 116 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 BSN NL 27 49 49 0 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1919 BSN NL 29 78 67 78 75 0 74 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1920 BSN NL 30 80 62 80 73 0 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
1921 BSN NL 31 64 46 64 54 0 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1922 BSN NL 32 92 61 92 72 0 72 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
1923 NYG NL 33 53 37 53 43 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1923 BSN NL 33 23 13 23 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1924 NYG NL 34 87 56 87 78 0 78 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1925 NYG NL 35 47 34 47 41 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1929 BSN NL 39 10 2 10 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1930 BSN NL 40 16 6 16 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
17 Seasons 1050 384 1050 475 0 893 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 80 1
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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

Hall of Fame
1937 BBWAA ( 1.0%)
1938 BBWAA ( 3.1%)
1939 BBWAA ( 1.5%)
1942 BBWAA ( 3.4%)
1945 BBWAA ( 1.2%)
1947 BBWAA ( 0.6%)
1948 BBWAA ( 2.5%)
1949 BBWAA ( 6.5%)
1950 BBWAA ( 3.6%)
1951 BBWAA (11.5%)
1952 BBWAA (14.5%)
1953 BBWAA (22.0%)
1954 BBWAA (20.2%)
1955 BBWAA (35.9%)
1956 BBWAA (25.4%)
1958 BBWAA (16.9%)
1960 BBWAA (14.1%)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1914 NL  115 (2nd)
1915 NL  114 (3rd)
1916 NL  116 (2nd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1914 NL  475 (2nd)
1915 NL  460 (5th)
1916 NL  533 (2nd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1914 NL  151 (2nd)
1915 NL  148 (2nd)
1916 NL  158 (2nd)
1919 NL  105 (5th)
Career  1,000 (47th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1914 NL  21 (1st)
1915 NL  16 (4th)
1916 NL  14 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1914 NL  10 (4th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1914 NL  89 (3rd)
1915 NL  84 (3rd)
1916 NL  85 (2nd)
1919 NL  60 (5th)
1920 NL  53 (4th)
Career  584 (49th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1914 NL  49.7 (4th)
1915 NL  54.9 (1st)
1916 NL  55.2 (1st)
1917 NL  50.6 (4th)
1919 NL  51.3 (2nd)
1920 NL  55.8 (4th)
1921 NL  54.7 (4th)
1922 NL  52.3 (5th)
Career  51.5 (7th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1916 NL  5.96 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1915 NL  .974 (5th)
1916 NL  .980 (3rd)

Oldest s c a p y
1925 NL  born 1889-08-24 (10th)
1929 NL  born 1889-08-24 (4th)
1930 NL  born 1889-08-24 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
1910 NL  born 1889-08-24 (7th)

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