Nat Hicks

Nathan Woodhull Hicks

Positions: Catcher and Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 186 lb.

Born: April 19, 1845 in Hempstead, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: April 22, 1872
Teams (by GP): Mutuals/Whites/Reds 1872-1877

Final Game: June 5, 1877
Died: April 21, 1907 in Hoboken, NJ
Buried: St. Peter Cemetery, Jersey City, NJ
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G	PB
1872	NYU	NA	27	C	54	376	295	34	47	3	.875	6.09	.847	5.45		32
1872	NYU	NA	27	OF	3	3	1	0	2	0	.333	0.33	.820	1.93	0-0-3
1873	NYU	NA	28	C	28	248	170	23	55	4	.778	6.89	.841	5.06		32
1874	PHI	NA	29	C	57	389	261	59	69	4	.823	5.61	.801	5.48		24
1874	PHI	NA	29	OF	4	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	0.75	.803	2.02	0-4-0
1874	PHI	NA	29	2B	1	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		5.50
1875	NYU	NA	30	C	60	443	296	67	80	7	.819	6.05	.823	5.71		47
1875	NYU	NA	30	OF	5	7	5	1	1	0	.857	1.20	.819	1.88	0-1-4
1876	NYU	NL	31	C	45	363	222	47	94	3	.741	5.98	.805	5.81		28
1877	CIN	NL	32	C	8	53	31	15	7	3	.868	5.75	.876	6.12		6
	6 Seasons			C	252	1872	1275	245	352	24	.812	6.03	.824	5.56		169
	3 Seasons			OF	12	13	9	1	3	0	.769	0.83	.815	1.94	0-5-7
	1 Season			2B	1	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		5.50
	6 Seasons			TOT	265	1885	1284	246	355	24	.812	5.77	.824	5.40	0-5-7	169

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.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	C	2B	CF	RF	OF
1872	NYU	NA	27	56	56	54	0	0	3	3
1873	NYU	NA	28	28	28	28	0	0	0	0
1874	PHI	NA	29	58	58	57	1	4	0	4
1875	NYU	NA	30	62	62	60	0	1	4	5
1876	NYU	NL	31	45	45	45	0	0	0	0
1877	CIN	NL	32	8	8	8	0	0	0	0
	6 Seasons			257	257	252	1	5	7	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

Errors Committed† s c a p y 1875 NA 81 (1st) 1876 NL 94 (1st)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1872 NA 54 (1st) 1874 NA 57 (2nd) 1875 NA 60 (3rd) 1876 NL 45 (4th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1872 NA 295 (1st) 1873 NA 170 (4th) 1874 NA 261 (1st) 1875 NA 296 (5th) 1876 NL 222 (4th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1872 NA 34 (2nd) 1874 NA 59 (1st) 1875 NA 67 (2nd) 1876 NL 47 (4th)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1872 NA 47 (1st) 1873 NA 55 (2nd) 1874 NA 69 (1st) 1875 NA 80 (1st) 1876 NL 94 (1st) Career 352 (13th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1872 NA 32 (3rd) 1875 NA 47 (5th) 1876 NL 28 (5th) Career 169 (57th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1872 NA 6.09 (3rd) 1873 NA 6.89 (1st) 1874 NA 5.61 (2nd) 1875 NA 6.05 (3rd) 1876 NL 5.98 (4th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1872 NA .875 (4th) 1874 NA .823 (4th)
Oldest s c a p y 1877 NL born 1845-04-19 (8th)

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