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Bill Harbridge

William Arthur Harbridge (Yaller Bill)

Positions: Outfielder, Catcher and Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Weight: 162 lb.

Born: March 29, 1855 in Philadelphia, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: May 15, 1875
Teams (by GP): DarkBlues/Reds/Quakers/WhiteStockings/Trojans/... 1875-1884

Final Game: October 3, 1884
Died: March 17, 1924 in Philadelphia, PA
Buried: Fernwood Cemetery, Fernwood, 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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1875 HAR NA 20 C 31 202 150 26 26 1 .871 5.68 .823 5.71 29
1875 HAR NA 20 OF 13 18 11 3 4 1 .778 1.08 .818 1.88 0-0-13
1875 HAR NA 20 2B 11 60 26 20 14 4 .767 4.18 .837 5.89
1875 HAR NA 20 1B 3 25 23 1 1 1 .960 8.00 .936 10.93
1875 HAR NA 20 SS 1 2 0 1 1 0 .500 1.00 .815 4.60
1876 HAR NL 21 C 24 159 97 30 32 0 .799 5.29 .805 5.81 9
1876 HAR NL 21 OF 6 8 5 1 2 1 .750 1.00 .848 2.12 0-2-4
1876 HAR NL 21 1B 2 11 9 0 2 0 .818 4.50 .942 10.65
1877 HAR NL 22 C 32 193 143 27 23 2 .881 5.31 .876 6.13 22
1877 HAR NL 22 OF 5 13 12 1 0 0 1.000 2.60 .831 1.88 0-3-2
1877 HAR NL 22 2B 4 31 8 13 10 0 .677 5.25 .867 6.40
1877 HAR NL 22 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.70
1878 CHC NL 23 C 53 368 257 66 45 1 .878 6.09 .891 7.09 56
1878 CHC NL 23 OF 8 9 7 1 1 0 .889 1.00 .834 1.78 4-3-1
1879 CHC NL 24 OF 4 7 3 1 3 0 .571 1.00 .839 1.90 1-3-0
1880 TRO NL 25 C 9 53 37 10 6 2 .887 5.22 .894 6.88 12
1880 TRO NL 25 OF 1 2 1 0 1 0 .500 1.00 .855 1.80 0-1-1
1882 TRO NL 27 OF 23 55 43 3 9 1 .836 2.00 .855 1.93 0-23-0
1882 TRO NL 27 1B 6 61 55 0 6 3 .902 9.17 .958 10.37
1882 TRO NL 27 C 3 13 9 2 2 0 .846 3.67 .909 6.73 7
1883 PHI NL 28 OF 44 113 83 7 23 1 .796 2.05 .849 1.96 8-36-0
1883 PHI NL 28 SS 11 75 17 39 19 1 .747 5.09 .853 4.58
1883 PHI NL 28 2B 9 40 16 18 6 0 .850 3.78 .890 6.16
1883 PHI NL 28 C 7 34 18 5 11 1 .676 3.29 .884 6.36 9
1883 PHI NL 28 3B 5 17 4 10 3 0 .824 2.80 .830 3.28
1884 COR UA 29 OF 80 138 101 24 13 2 .906 1.56 .816 1.53 0-41-39
1884 COR UA 29 SS 3 8 0 5 3 0 .625 1.67 .816 3.97
1884 COR UA 29 1B 2 23 20 2 1 1 .957 11.00 .950 10.20
9 Seasons OF 184 363 266 41 56 6 .846 1.67 .835 1.76 13-112-60
7 Seasons C 159 1022 711 166 145 7 .858 5.52 .862 6.38 144
3 Seasons 2B 24 131 50 51 30 4 .771 4.21 .860 6.07
3 Seasons SS 15 85 17 45 23 1 .729 4.13 .849 4.46
4 Seasons 1B 13 120 107 3 10 5 .917 8.46 .950 10.52
2 Seasons 3B 6 17 4 10 3 0 .824 2.33 .830 3.35
9 Seasons TOT 401 1738 1155 316 267 23 .846 3.67 .861 4.26 13-112-60 144
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
1875 HAR NA 20 53 53 0 31 3 11 0 1 0 0 13 13 0
1876 HAR NL 21 30 30 0 24 2 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 0
1877 HAR NL 22 41 41 0 32 0 4 1 0 0 3 2 5 0
1878 CHC NL 23 54 54 0 53 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 8 0
1879 CHC NL 24 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 4 0
1880 TRO NL 25 9 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
1882 TRO NL 27 32 32 0 3 6 0 0 0 0 23 0 23 0
1883 PHI NL 28 73 73 0 7 0 9 5 11 8 36 0 44 0
1884 COR UA 29 82 82 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 41 39 80 0
9 Seasons 378 378 0 159 13 24 6 15 13 112 60 184 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
1877 NL  32 (5th)
1878 NL  53 (3rd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1877 NL  143 (4th)
1878 NL  257 (4th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1878 NL  66 (4th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1877 NL  23 (5th)
1878 NL  45 (1st)
Career  145 (83rd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1878 NL  56 (1st)
Career  144 (72nd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1884 UA  24 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1875 NA  5.68 (5th)
1877 NL  5.31 (4th)
1878 NL  6.09 (5th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1875 NA  .871 (4th)
1877 NL  .881 (4th)
1878 NL  .878 (5th)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1884 UA  .906 (2nd)

                                         

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