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Don Heffner

Donald Henry Heffner (Jeep)

Positions: Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 155 lb.

Born: February 8, 1911 in Rouzerville, PA
High School: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Baltimore, MD) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 17, 1934
Teams (by GP): Browns/Yankees/Athletics/Tigers 1934-1944

Final Game: April 29, 1944
Died: August 1, 1989 in Pasadena, CA
Buried: Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, CA
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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 Awards
1934 NYY AL 23 2B 68 65 61 347 158 179 10 46 .971 4.96 .969 5.87
1935 NYY AL 24 2B 10 10 10 50 20 29 1 5 .980 4.90 .969 5.86
1936 NYY AL 25 3B 8 7 6 34 11 22 1 2 .971 4.13 .946 3.12
1936 NYY AL 25 2B 5 2 2 13 3 10 0 2 1.000 2.60 .972 5.78
1936 NYY AL 25 SS 3 2 2 12 5 6 1 3 .917 3.67 .950 5.33
1937 NYY AL 26 2B 38 34 32 205 107 94 4 28 .980 5.29 .972 5.64
1937 NYY AL 26 SS 13 10 10 50 16 32 2 2 .960 3.69 .955 5.23
1937 NYY AL 26 3B 3 3 3 9 3 6 0 0 1.000 3.00 .946 3.13
1937 NYY AL 26 1B 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .990 9.80
1937 NYY AL 26 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.40
1937 NYY AL 26 RF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00
1938 SLB AL 27 2B 141 141 135 750 365 363 22 103 .971 5.16 .967 5.52
1939 SLB AL 28 SS 73 68 61 377 138 218 21 33 .944 4.88 .950 5.16
1939 SLB AL 28 2B 32 31 31 189 84 97 8 21 .958 5.66 .965 5.56
1940 SLB AL 29 2B 125 125 123 754 311 426 17 102 .977 5.90 .969 5.39
1941 SLB AL 30 2B 105 99 88 545 224 307 14 52 .974 5.06 .967 5.47
1942 SLB AL 31 2B 6 5 4 32 13 16 3 1 .906 4.83 .969 5.62
1942 SLB AL 31 1B 4 2 1 24 21 3 0 4 1.000 6.00 .989 10.07
1943 TOT AL 32 2B 60 54 49 269 119 144 6 31 .978 4.38 .969 5.57
1943 TOT AL 32 1B 2 1 0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 4.00 .991 10.00
1943 SLB AL 32 2B 13 8 5 39 21 17 1 4 .974 2.92 .969 5.57
1943 SLB AL 32 1B 1 1 0 7 6 1 0 0 1.000 7.00 .991 10.00
1943 PHA AL 32 2B 47 46 44 230 98 127 5 27 .978 4.79 .969 5.57
1943 PHA AL 32 1B 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .990 10.00
1944 DET AL 33 2B 5 5 5 26 12 13 1 4 .962 5.00 .967 5.60
11 Seasons 2B 595 571 540 3180 1416 1678 86 395 .973 5.20 .968 5.55
3 Seasons SS 89 80 73 439 159 256 24 38 .945 4.66 .951 5.18
2 Seasons 3B 11 10 9 43 14 28 1 2 .977 3.82 .946 3.13
3 Seasons 1B 7 3 1 33 29 4 0 4 1.000 4.71 .990 10.01
1 Season RF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00
1 Season OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.40
11 Seasons TOT 703 664 623 3695 1618 1966 111 439 .970 5.10 .966 5.50
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG 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
1934 NYY AL 23 73 65 73 69 0 0 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
1935 NYY AL 24 10 10 10 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1936 NYY AL 25 19 11 19 16 0 0 0 5 8 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1937 NYY AL 26 60 47 60 54 0 0 1 38 3 13 0 0 1 1 0 4 2
1938 SLB AL 27 141 141 141 141 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1939 SLB AL 28 110 99 110 105 0 0 0 32 0 73 0 0 0 0 0 5 2
1940 SLB AL 29 126 125 126 125 0 0 0 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1941 SLB AL 30 110 99 110 105 0 0 0 105 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1942 SLB AL 31 19 7 19 10 0 0 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2
1943 PHA AL 32 52 46 52 48 0 0 1 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1943 SLB AL 32 18 9 18 14 0 0 1 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
1944 DET AL 33 6 5 6 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
11 Seasons 744 664 744 702 0 0 7 596 11 89 0 0 1 1 0 34 12
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 2B s c a p y
1938 AL  141 (3rd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1938 AL  365 (3rd)
1940 AL  311 (4th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1938 AL  363 (4th)
1940 AL  426 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1938 AL  22 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1940 AL  5.90 (1st)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1938 AL  .971 (3rd)
1940 AL  .977 (2nd)
1941 AL  .974 (2nd)

                           

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