John Henry

John Park Henry (Bull)

Positions: Catcher and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: December 26, 1889 in Amherst, MA
High School: Amherst HS (Amherst, MA)
School: Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
Signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent in 1910. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 8, 1910
Teams (by GP): Senators/Braves 1910-1918

Final Game: August 10, 1918
Died: November 24, 1941 in Fort Huachuca, AZ
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Bisbee, AZ
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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%
1910	WSH	AL	20	C	18			89	60	28	1	4	.989	4.89	.968	6.88	2	17	18	51%	45%
1910	WSH	AL	20	1B	10			112	105	7	0	6	1.000	11.20	.983	11.07
1911	WSH	AL	21	C	51			355	248	96	11	6	.969	6.75	.965	6.80	25	63	64	50%	45%
1911	WSH	AL	21	1B	30			338	301	27	10	9	.970	10.93	.978	10.34
1912	WSH	AL	22	C	65			471	347	113	11	7	.977	7.08	.961	6.78	8	63	72	53%	42%
1913	WSH	AL	23	C	96			614	476	127	11	9	.982	6.28	.967	6.56	11	93	88	49%	45%
1914	WSH	AL	24	C	92			650	513	124	13	9	.980	6.92	.967	6.69	10	103	89	46%	45%
1915	WSH	AL	25	C	94			617	478	122	17	4	.972	6.38	.965	6.46	8	86	69	45%	43%
1916	WSH	AL	26	C	116			675	538	124	13	17	.981	5.71	.974	6.33	18	109	73	40%	43%
1917	WSH	AL	27	C	59			332	274	54	4	6	.988	5.56	.971	5.71	7	57	36	39%	45%
1918	BSN	NL	28	C	38	34	21	165	121	38	6	3	.964	4.18	.974	5.25	4	34	26	43%	44%
	9 Seasons			C	629	34	21	3968	3055	826	87	65	.978	6.17	.968	6.41	93	625	535	46%	44%
	2 Seasons			1B	40			450	406	34	10	15	.978	11.00	.979	10.52
	9 Seasons			TOT	669	34	21	4418	3461	860	97	80	.978	6.46	.969	6.66	93	625	535	46%	44%

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	Batting	C	1B
1910	WSH	AL	20	28	28	18	10
1911	WSH	AL	21	85	85	51	30
1912	WSH	AL	22	66	66	65	0
1913	WSH	AL	23	96	96	96	0
1914	WSH	AL	24	92	92	92	0
1915	WSH	AL	25	95	95	94	0
1916	WSH	AL	26	117	117	116	0
1917	WSH	AL	27	65	65	59	0
1918	BSN	NL	28	43	43	38	0
	9 Seasons			687	687	629	40

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 1913 AL 96 (4th) 1914 AL 92 (5th) 1915 AL 94 (5th) 1916 AL 116 (3rd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1913 AL 476 (3rd) 1914 AL 513 (3rd) 1915 AL 478 (3rd) 1916 AL 538 (3rd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1912 AL 113 (3rd) 1913 AL 127 (4th) 1915 AL 122 (4th) 1916 AL 124 (3rd) Career 826 (73rd)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1915 AL 17 (5th) 1916 AL 13 (4th)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1911 AL 25 (1st) 1913 AL 11 (4th) 1916 AL 18 (1st)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1916 AL 109 (3rd)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1913 AL 88 (5th) 1915 AL 69 (5th) 1916 AL 73 (3rd) Career 535 (57th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1910 AL 51.4 (1st) 1911 AL 50.4 (4th) 1912 AL 53.3 (2nd) 1913 AL 48.6 (5th) Career 46.1 (67th)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1913 AL 6.28 (3rd) 1914 AL 6.92 (1st) 1915 AL 6.38 (1st) 1916 AL 5.71 (3rd) Career 6.17 (73rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1913 AL .982 (1st) 1914 AL .980 (2nd) 1915 AL .972 (3rd) 1916 AL .981 (3rd)	Youngest s c a p y 1910 AL born 1889-12-26 (10th)

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