Bubbles Hargrave

Eugene Franklin Hargrave

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 174 lb.

Born: July 15, 1892 in New Haven, IN (All Transactions)
Debut: September 18, 1913
Teams (by GP): Reds/Yankees/Cubs 1913-1930

Final Game: September 6, 1930
Died: February 23, 1969 in Cincinnati, OH
Buried: Union Cemetery, Montgomery, OH
Relatives: Brother of Pinky Hargrave
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	Awards
1913	CHC	NL	20	C	2			4	3	1	0	0	1.000	2.00	.970	6.30	0	1	1	50%	44%
1914	CHC	NL	21	C	16			43	34	6	3	0	.930	2.50	.970	6.31	1	10	4	29%	44%
1915	CHC	NL	22	C	9			20	13	7	0	0	1.000	2.22	.975	6.20	0	4	4	50%	46%
1921	CIN	NL	28	C	73	61	58	329	270	50	9	2	.973	4.38	.971	4.87	6	38	31	45%	49%
1922	CIN	NL	29	C	87	83	77	327	261	60	6	5	.982	3.69	.974	4.63	6	42	27	39%	46%
1923	CIN	NL	30	C	109	105	93	500	404	90	6	12	.988	4.53	.976	4.66	8	69	66	49%	44%
1924	CIN	NL	31	C	91	86	73	409	322	80	7	7	.983	4.42	.981	4.78	4	55	49	47%	47%
1925	CIN	NL	32	C	84	80	66	332	283	42	7	1	.979	3.87	.970	4.45	9	49	24	33%	44%	MVP-15
1926	CIN	NL	33	C	93	89	67	330	276	50	4	7	.988	3.51	.971	4.39	5	43	21	33%	43%	MVP-6
1927	CIN	NL	34	C	92	86	71	322	261	57	4	10	.988	3.46	.974	4.43	5	53	18	25%	39%	MVP-13
1928	CIN	NL	35	C	57	56	42	220	181	37	2	2	.991	3.82	.979	4.42	2	30	19	39%	45%
1930	NYY	AL	37	C	34	28	20	126	112	13	1	0	.992	3.68	.984	4.88	1	13	7	35%	42%
	12 Seasons			C	747	674	567	2962	2420	493	49	46	.983	3.90	.975	4.66	47	407	271	40%	45%
	12 Seasons			TOT	747	674	567	2962	2420	493	49	46	.983	3.90	.975	4.66	47	407	271	40%	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.

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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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1913	CHC	NL	20	3		3		2
1914	CHC	NL	21	23		23		16
1915	CHC	NL	22	15		15		9
1921	CIN	NL	28	93	61	93	73	73	25	0
1922	CIN	NL	29	98	83	98	87	87	13	0
1923	CIN	NL	30	118	105	118	109	109	9	0
1924	CIN	NL	31	98	86	98	91	91	7	0
1925	CIN	NL	32	87	80	87	84	84	3	0
1926	CIN	NL	33	105	89	105	93	93	12	0
1927	CIN	NL	34	102	86	102	92	92	10	0
1928	CIN	NL	35	65	56	65	57	57	8	0
1930	NYY	AL	37	45	28	45	35	35	10	0
	12 Seasons			852	674	852	721	748	97	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

Hall of Fame 1947 BBWAA ( 0.6%) 1958 BBWAA ( 0.4%) 1960 BBWAA ( 0.4%)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1925 NL (15, 5%) 1926 NL (6, 30%) 1927 NL (13, 8%) 0.43 Career Shares (489th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1923 NL 109 (3rd) 1926 NL 93 (4th) 1927 NL 92 (4th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1923 NL 404 (3rd)
Assists as C s c a p y 1923 NL 90 (4th) 1927 NL 57 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1924 NL 7 (4th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1921 NL 6 (5th) 1923 NL 8 (3rd) 1925 NL 9 (1st)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1923 NL 69 (2nd) 1924 NL 55 (5th) 1925 NL 49 (3rd) 1926 NL 43 (4th) 1927 NL 53 (2nd)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1923 NL 66 (1st) 1924 NL 49 (4th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1923 NL 48.9 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1923 NL 4.53 (3rd) 1924 NL 4.42 (4th) 1927 NL 3.46 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1922 NL .982 (2nd) 1923 NL .988 (2nd) 1924 NL .983 (5th) 1925 NL .979 (3rd) 1926 NL .988 (2nd) 1927 NL .988 (1st)
Oldest s c a p y 1930 AL born 1892-07-15 (8th)

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