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Dick Harley

Richard Joseph Harley

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: September 25, 1872 in Philadelphia, PA
School: Georgetown University (Washington, DC) (All Transactions)
Debut: June 2, 1897
Teams (by GP): Browns/Spiders/Reds/Tigers/Cubs 1897-1903

Final Game: September 21, 1903
Died: April 3, 1952 in Philadelphia, PA
Buried: Old Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, 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 Awards
1897 STL NL 24 OF 90 233 190 20 23 4 .901 2.33 .936 2.09 1-89-0
1898 STL NL 25 OF 141 364 311 26 27 3 .926 2.39 .937 2.08 135-5-1
1899 CLV NL 26 OF 142 353 299 27 27 7 .924 2.30 .944 2.15 140-0-2
1900 CIN NL 27 OF 5 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 1.20 .940 2.16 5-0-0
1901 CIN NL 28 OF 133 295 245 20 30 2 .898 1.99 .942 2.06 133-0-0
1902 DET AL 29 OF 125 272 238 15 19 1 .930 2.02 .944 2.07 125-0-0
1903 CHC NL 30 OF 103 195 162 18 15 2 .923 1.75 .942 1.94 0-0-103
7 Seasons OF 739 1718 1451 126 141 19 .918 2.13 .941 2.07 539-94-106
7 Seasons TOT 739 1718 1451 126 141 19 .918 2.13 .941 2.07 539-94-106
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
1897 STL NL 24 90 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 89 0 90 0
1898 STL NL 25 142 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 135 5 1 141 0
1899 CLV NL 26 142 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 140 0 2 142 0
1900 CIN NL 27 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0
1901 CIN NL 28 133 133 0 0 0 0 0 0 133 0 0 133 0
1902 DET AL 29 125 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 125 0 0 125 0
1903 CHC NL 30 104 104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 103 103 0
7 Seasons 741 741 0 0 0 0 0 0 539 94 106 739 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 OF s c a p y
1901 NL  133 (5th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1898 NL  26 (1st)
1899 NL  27 (4th)
1901 NL  20 (4th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1898 NL  27 (2nd)
1899 NL  27 (1st)
1901 NL  30 (1st)
1902 AL  19 (4th)
Career  141 (86th)

             

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