Joe Hoover

Position: Shortstop

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-11, 175lb (180cm, 79kg)

Born: April 15, 1915 in Brawley, CA us

Died: September 2, 1965 in Los Angeles, CA

Buried: San Gorgonio Memorial Park, Banning, CA

High School: Pomona HS (Pomona, CA)

Debut: April 21, 1943 (Age 28-006d, 9,409th in major league history)
vs. CLE 3 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: September 23, 1945 (Age 30-161d)
vs. SLB 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1943 season

Full Name: Robert Joseph Hoover

View Player Info from the B-R Bullpen

1945 World Series

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

1.2

1238

301

.243

177

RBI

OBP

.300

SLG

.316

OPS

.616

OPS+

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1943 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1943 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 21	DET	@	CLE	L,0-1	CG	36	8.2	2	3	0	5	0
2	2	Apr 22	DET	@	CLE	W,4-0	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
3	3	Apr 24	DET	@	CLE	L,2-3	CG	0	8.2	1	4	0	5	1
4	4	Apr 25 (1)	DET	@	CLE	L,1-4	CG	32	8.0	2	2	0	4	0
5	5	Apr 25 (2)	DET	@	CLE	W,4-1	CG	31	9.0	1	0	0	1	1
6	6	Apr 28	DET		SLB	W,4-2	CG	37	9.0	1	4	0	5	1
7	7	Apr 29	DET		SLB	W,3-2	CG	33	9.0	5	2	0	7	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
8	8	May 1	DET		CLE	W,3-2	CG	0	15.0	5	4	0	9	0
9	9	May 2	DET		CLE	L,2-5	CG	38	9.0	0	2	0	2	1
10	10	May 4	DET	@	SLB	W,4-3	CG	35	9.0	1	1	0	2	2
11	11	May 5	DET	@	SLB	W,5-1	CG	0	9.0	2	6	0	8	1
12	12	May 6	DET	@	SLB	L,0-1	CG	34	8.1	0	0	1	1	0
13	13	May 7	DET	@	CHW	L,0-1	CG	38	9.1	2	0	0	2	0
14	14	May 9 (1)	DET	@	CHW	L,1-3	CG	32	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
15	15	May 9 (2)	DET	@	CHW	W,4-1	CG	41	11.0	0	0	0	0	0
16	16	May 12	DET		PHA	W,3-2	CG	0	15.0	3	4	0	7	2
17	17	May 13	DET		PHA	L,1-2	GS	0		1	1	1	3	0
18	18	May 14	DET		PHA	L,6-7	GF	14	3.0	1	0	0	1	0
19	20 (1)	May 16 (1)	DET		WSH	L,1-7	CG	45	9.0	3	2	0	5	1
20	21	May 16 (2)	DET		WSH	L,6-10	CG	40	9.0	0	1	0	1	1
21	22	May 21	DET		BOS	W,2-1	CG	0	13.0	4	3	0	7	0
22	23	May 22	DET		BOS	W,4-0	CG	28	9.0	4	2	2	8	1
23	24	May 23 (1)	DET		BOS	W,4-3	CG	33	9.0	4	4	0	8	1
24	25	May 23 (2)	DET		BOS	L,2-3	CG	0	10.0	2	6	1	9	0
25	26	May 27	DET	@	NYY	W,3-2	CG	32	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
26	27	May 28	DET	@	NYY	L,1-2	CG	33	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
27	28	May 29	DET	@	BOS	W,6-4	CG	34	9.0	2	2	0	4	2
28	29	May 30 (1)	DET	@	BOS	L,0-3	CG	36	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
29	30	May 30 (2)	DET	@	BOS	L,1-5	CG	33	8.0	0	4	0	4	0
30	31	May 31 (1)	DET	@	PHA	W,7-0	CG	32	9.0	2	2	1	5	1
31	32	May 31 (2)	DET	@	PHA	L,3-4	CG	36	8.0	4	1	1	6	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
32	33	Jun 1	DET	@	PHA	W,5-3	CG	37	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
33	34	Jun 2	DET	@	PHA	W,7-2	CG	0	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
34	35	Jun 3	DET	@	WSH	W,8-2	CG	0	9.0	3	4	1	8	2
35	36	Jun 4	DET	@	WSH	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
36	37	Jun 5	DET	@	WSH	L,3-6	CG	37	8.0	0	4	0	4	1
37	38	Jun 6 (1)	DET	@	WSH	L,1-5	CG	0	8.0	3	7	0	10	3
38	39	Jun 6 (2)	DET	@	WSH	L,4-8	CG	0	8.0	0	2	0	2	0
39	40	Jun 9	DET		CHW	L,1-3	CG	40	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
40	41	Jun 10	DET		CHW	L,5-11	CG	52	9.0	1	0	0	1	1
41	42	Jun 12	DET		CHW	W,5-3	CG	35	9.0	3	2	1	6	1
42	43	Jun 13 (1)	DET		CHW	W,6-4	CG	38	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
43	44	Jun 13 (2)	DET		CHW	W,3-2	CG	35	9.0	0	1	0	1	1
44	45	Jun 17 (1)	DET	@	CLE	L,2-3	CG	38	8.2	3	1	1	5	0
45	46	Jun 17 (2)	DET	@	CLE	L,5-6	CG	51	11.2	4	5	1	10	2
46	47	Jun 18	DET		SLB	L,4-7	CG	0	9.0	2	4	2	8	0
47	48	Jun 19	DET		SLB	W,4-3	CG	55	12.0	1	0	0	1	0
48	49	Jun 20 (1)	DET		SLB	L,3-6	CG	0	9.0	2	4	1	7	1
49	50	Jun 20 (2)	DET		SLB	L,4-5	CG	0	9.0	1	1	1	3	0
50	51	Jun 23 (1)	DET		CLE	W,3-1	CG	33	9.0	3	3	1	7	1
51	52	Jun 23 (2)	DET		CLE	L,6-9	CG	0	11.0	0	5	0	5	0
52	53	Jun 24	DET		CLE	W,7-4	CG	39	9.0	2	3	0	5	1
53	54	Jun 25	DET	@	SLB	L,3-6	CG	33	8.0	2	3	0	5	1
54	55	Jun 26	DET	@	SLB	L,3-6	CG	38	8.0	1	4	0	5	0
55	56	Jun 27 (1)	DET	@	SLB	L,3-6	CG	36	8.0	4	2	2	8	1
56	57	Jun 27 (2)	DET	@	SLB	W,9-5	CG	0	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
57	58	Jun 30	DET		BOS	T,3-3	GS	38	10.0	0	0	1	1	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
58	59	Jul 1	DET		BOS	W,3-2	CG	40	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
59	60	Jul 2	DET		BOS	W,8-2	CG	34	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
60	61	Jul 3 (1)	DET		NYY	W,6-5	CG	50	11.0	0	1	0	1	0
61	62	Jul 3 (2)	DET		NYY	W,10-9	CG	45	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
62	63	Jul 4 (1)	DET		NYY	L,0-1	CG	35	9.0	3	4	1	8	1
63	64	Jul 4 (2)	DET		NYY	W,6-0	CG	31	9.0	4	3	0	7	2
64	65	Jul 5 (1)	DET		WSH	W,10-3	CG	34	9.0	1	8	0	9	1
65	66	Jul 5 (2)	DET		WSH	L,4-6	CG	41	9.0	1	3	0	4	1
66	67	Jul 6	DET		WSH	W,4-3	CG	61	16.0	3	1	1	5	0
67	68	Jul 7	DET		WSH	W,9-1	GS	3	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
68	75 (6)	Jul 17 (1)	DET	@	CHW	L,2-5	CG	35	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
69	77 (1)	Jul 18 (1)	DET	@	CHW	W,12-4	CG	37	9.0	4	4	0	8	3
70	78	Jul 18 (2)	DET	@	CHW	L,1-4	CG	36	8.0	1	1	0	2	1
71	79	Jul 21	DET	@	WSH	L,5-6	CG	37	8.1	2	1	0	3	2
72	80	Jul 22 (1)	DET	@	WSH	W,7-5	CG	39	9.0	0	1	0	1	1
73	81	Jul 22 (2)	DET	@	WSH	W,1-0	CG	36	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
74	82	Jul 23	DET	@	WSH	W,12-6	CG	46	10.0	2	3	0	5	0
75	83	Jul 24	DET	@	PHA	L,4-8	GS	27	6.0	2	1	0	3	2
76	84	Jul 25 (1)	DET	@	PHA	W,5-0	CG	33	9.0	4	7	1	12	3
77	85	Jul 25 (2)	DET	@	PHA	L,1-3	CG	29	8.0	1	1	0	2	1
78	86	Jul 26	DET	@	PHA	L,1-2	CG	0	8.0	1	2	0	3	0
79	87	Jul 28 (1)	DET	@	BOS	L,1-4	CG	32	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
80	88	Jul 28 (2)	DET	@	BOS	L,4-6	CG	34	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
81	89	Jul 30 (1)	DET	@	BOS	L,2-4	CG	31	8.0	1	3	2	6	0
82	90	Jul 30 (2)	DET	@	BOS	W,5-2	CG	0	9.0	2	2	1	5	0
83	91	Jul 31	DET	@	NYY	W,7-6	CG	41	9.0	1	1	2	4	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
84	92	Aug 1 (1)	DET	@	NYY	L,4-5	CG	36	8.0	3	3	0	6	0
85	93	Aug 1 (2)	DET	@	NYY	L,1-2	CG	29	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
86	94	Aug 3 (1)	DET	@	NYY	W,4-0	CG	30	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
87	95	Aug 3 (2)	DET	@	NYY	L,4-12	CG	47	8.0	0	1	0	1	0
88	96	Aug 6	DET		CHW	W,6-0	CG	0	9.0	2	5	0	7	0
89	97	Aug 7	DET		CHW	L,4-7	CG	45	9.0	4	5	0	9	1
90	98	Aug 8 (1)	DET		CHW	W,8-2	CG	0	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
91	99	Aug 8 (2)	DET		CHW	W,3-0	CG	32	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
92	100	Aug 11	DET		WSH	W,3-2	CG	34	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
93	101	Aug 12	DET		WSH	W,10-3	CG	38	9.0	1	4	0	5	1
94	102	Aug 13	DET		WSH	L,3-11	CG	48	9.0	5	1	1	7	1
95	103	Aug 14	DET		WSH	L,4-7	CG	42	9.0	2	1	0	3	1
96	104	Aug 15 (1)	DET		PHA	W,5-4	CG	46	11.0	1	1	1	3	1
97	105	Aug 15 (2)	DET		PHA	W,3-2	CG	35	9.0	0	2	0	2	1
98	106	Aug 17	DET		PHA	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	4	3	0	7	0
99	107	Aug 18	DET		BOS	W,1-0	CG	33	9.0	1	1	1	3	1
100	108	Aug 19 (1)	DET		BOS	L,3-4	CG	36	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
101	109	Aug 19 (2)	DET		BOS	W,10-0	CG	32	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
102	110	Aug 20	DET		BOS	W,1-0	CG	32	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
103	111	Aug 21	DET		BOS	L,6-7	CG	0	12.0	0	3	0	3	0
104	112	Aug 22 (1)	DET		NYY	W,12-0	CG	37	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
105	113	Aug 22 (2)	DET		NYY	W,8-3	CG	34	9.0	1	1	1	3	1
106	114	Aug 23	DET		NYY	L,1-4	CG	38	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
107	115	Aug 24 (1)	DET		NYY	L,1-2	CG	39	9.0	5	4	0	9	3
108	116	Aug 24 (2)	DET		NYY	W,3-1	CG	30	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
109	117	Aug 25 (1)	DET		NYY	L,5-7	CG	41	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
110	118	Aug 25 (2)	DET		NYY	L,1-5	CG	43	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
111	119	Aug 27	DET	@	SLB	L,1-3	CG	0	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
112	120	Aug 28	DET	@	SLB	L,5-10	CG	42	8.0	3	3	1	7	1
113	121	Aug 29 (1)	DET	@	SLB	W,15-5	CG	0	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
114	122	Aug 29 (2)	DET	@	SLB	W,4-2	CG	37	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
115	123	Sep 2 (1)	DET		SLB	W,5-4	CG	40	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
116	124	Sep 2 (2)	DET		SLB	W,8-5	CG	0	9.0	2	2	1	5	0
117	125	Sep 3	DET		SLB	W,8-5	CG	37	9.0	4	3	1	8	1
118	126	Sep 4	DET		SLB	L,5-12	CG	36	6.0	0	2	0	2	0
119	127	Sep 5	DET		SLB	L,2-3	CG	37	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
120	128	Sep 7 (1)	DET		CHW	W,5-0	CG	0	9.0	4	4	0	8	1
121	129	Sep 7 (2)	DET		CHW	W,6-5	CG	43	9.0	1	1	1	3	1
122	130	Sep 9 (1)	DET		CLE	L,3-8	CG	44	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
123	131	Sep 9 (2)	DET		CLE	W,10-3	CG	0	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
124	132	Sep 10 (1)	DET		CLE	L,2-4	CG	0	9.0	1	4	0	5	1
125	133	Sep 10 (2)	DET		CLE	L,0-1	CG	0	9.0	6	3	0	9	0
126	134	Sep 11	DET		CLE	L,2-7	CG	44	9.0	1	0	0	1	1
127	135	Sep 12	DET		CLE	L,1-2	CG	34	9.0	2	1	1	4	1
128	136	Sep 14 (1)	DET	@	CHW	L,1-7	CG	35	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
129	137	Sep 14 (2)	DET	@	CHW	W,7-5	CG	0	9.0	1	2	1	4	0
130	138	Sep 15	DET	@	CHW	W,8-2	CG	34	9.0	5	3	0	8	2
131	139	Sep 17	DET	@	CLE	W,2-1	GS	37	8.0	2	3	1	6	1
132	140	Sep 18	DET	@	CLE	L,2-4	CG	37	8.0	0	1	0	1	0
133	141	Sep 19 (1)	DET	@	CLE	L,0-1	CG	28	8.0	1	1	0	2	1
134	142	Sep 19 (2)	DET	@	CLE	L,2-6	CG	40	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
135	143	Sep 22	DET	@	NYY	L,2-4	CG	36	8.0	0	1	0	1	1
136	144	Sep 23	DET	@	NYY	L,0-1	CG	35	8.0	1	0	1	2	0
137	145	Sep 24	DET	@	NYY	W,2-1	CG	32	9.0	2	3	1	6	1
138	146	Sep 25	DET	@	NYY	L,1-2	CG	51	13.2	4	5	0	9	0
139	147	Sep 26 (1)	DET	@	BOS	L,2-3	GS	0		4	2	0	6	0
140	151 (3)	Sep 29 (1)	DET	@	PHA	L,2-8	CG	0	8.0	4	1	2	7	0
141	152	Sep 29 (2)	DET	@	PHA	W,9-1	CG	0	9.0	2	4	0	6	0
142	153	Sep 30	DET	@	PHA	W,6-0	CG	32	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
143	154	Oct 2	DET	@	WSH	W,12-5	CG	40	9.0	0	4	0	4	0
144	155	Oct 3	DET	@	WSH	W,4-1	CG	37	9.0	2	3	0	5	1
							144gm		1281.0	301	393	41	735	84