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Gail Harris

Boyd Gail Harris

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: October 15, 1931 in Abington, VA
High School: Abingdon HS (Abingdon, VA)
Signed by the New York Giants as an amateur free agent in 1950. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 3, 1955
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Giants 1955-1960

Final Game: May 3, 1960
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1955 NYG NL 23 1B 75 67 64 615.0 679 617 50 12 65 .982 1 1 9.76 8.89 .991 9.79 9.70
1956 NYG NL 24 1B 11 11 9 99.0 120 108 9 3 12 .975 -1 -7 10.64 10.64 .989 9.82 9.72
1957 NYG NL 25 1B 61 51 47 484.0 547 502 37 8 53 .985 -1 -3 10.02 8.84 .990 9.67 9.73
1958 DET AL 26 1B 122 112 108 1013.1 1036 942 79 15 90 .986 4 4 9.07 8.37 .991 9.60 9.50
1959 DET AL 27 1B 93 83 77 752.0 791 728 57 6 59 .992 -3 -5 9.39 8.44 .990 9.84 9.77
1960 DET AL 28 1B 5 0 0 10.0 9 8 1 0 1 1.000 -0 -12 8.10 1.80 .991 9.54 9.56
6 Seasons 1B 367 324 305 2973.1 3182 2905 233 44 280 .986 -1 -0 9.50 8.55 .991 9.72 9.65
6 Seasons TOT 367 324 305 2973.1 3182 2905 233 44 280 .986 -1 -0 9.50 8.55 .991 9.72 9.65
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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1955 NYG NL 23 1B 1 1 1 2 -1 0
1956 NYG NL 24 1B -1 -7 -1 0 -1 0
1957 NYG NL 25 1B -1 -3 -1 -0 -1 0
1958 DET AL 26 1B 4 4 4 4 -0 0
1959 DET AL 27 1B -3 -5 -4 1 -5 1
1960 DET AL 28 1B -0 -12 -0 0 -0 0
6 Seasons 1B -1 -0 -2 6 -8 1
6 Seasons TOT -1 -0 -2 6 -8 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1955 NYG NL 23 79 67 79 75 0 0 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1
1956 NYG NL 24 12 11 12 11 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1957 NYG NL 25 90 51 90 61 0 0 61 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 1
1958 DET AL 26 134 112 134 122 0 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
1959 DET AL 27 114 83 114 93 0 0 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0
1960 DET AL 28 8 0 8 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
6 Seasons 437 324 437 367 0 0 367 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 79 2
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.

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1955 NYG NL 23 2142 65% 80% 28% 115 90% 0 502 18 479 6 49 39 31 5 0 6 11 1 7 3 6 53 1 1 0 45 2 7 0 7 11 91%
1956 NYG NL 24 366 72% 80% 28% 22 86% 1 103 5 96 2 9 5 5 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 2 11 0 0 0 8 0 3 1 2 4 75%
1957 NYG NL 25 1716 67% 81% 27% 95 93% 1 414 31 375 8 34 27 14 8 0 2 5 1 3 1 4 44 4 0 0 42 4 2 0 1 2 100%
1958 DET AL 26 4256 58% 80% 27% 249 94% 4 954 55 890 12 99 86 58 17 1 7 15 3 10 2 7 90 3 0 1 83 4 7 0 6 13 85%
1959 DET AL 27 3204 62% 79% 26% 170 94% 1 736 78 649 9 40 54 31 12 0 2 6 1 5 0 4 59 4 0 1 56 6 3 2 1 6 100%
1960 DET AL 28 43 67% 86% 30% 1 100% 0 8 0 8 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 11727 62% 80% 27% 652 93% 7 2717 187 2497 37 231 212 139 43 1 17 40 7 27 6 23 258 12 1 2 235 16 22 3 17 36 89%
MLB Averages 64% 80% 27% 94% 87%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Putouts† s c a p y
1958 AL  942 (3rd)
1959 AL  728 (5th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1958 AL  122 (1st)
1959 AL  93 (5th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1958 AL  942 (3rd)
1959 AL  728 (4th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1958 AL  79 (2nd)
1959 AL  57 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1955 NL  12 (3rd)
1958 AL  15 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1958 AL  4 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1959 AL  8.44 (4th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1959 AL  .992 (2nd)

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