News: s-r blog:Subscribe to the Play Index!

 

Photo of Pinky Higgins


Pinky Higgins

Michael Franklin Higgins (Pinky)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: May 27, 1909 in Red Oak, TX
High School: Adamson HS (Dallas, TX)
School: University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX) (All Transactions)
Debut: June 25, 1930
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Athletics/RedSox 1930-1946

Final Game: September 29, 1946
Died: March 21, 1969 in Dallas, TX
Buried: Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX
    About biographical information

5
5
6
36
View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

All-Star

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
1930 PHA AL 21 3B 5 3 3 8 2 6 0 0 1.000 1.60 .945 3.04
1930 PHA AL 21 2B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.95
1930 PHA AL 21 SS 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .940 5.10
1933 PHA AL 24 3B 152 152 151 453 159 270 24 23 .947 2.82 .954 2.92
1934 PHA AL 25 3B 144 144 144 431 147 247 37 34 .914 2.74 .943 3.09 AS,MVP-17
1935 PHA AL 26 3B 131 131 131 397 162 214 21 15 .947 2.87 .947 3.05 MVP-20
1936 PHA AL 27 3B 145 145 143 443 151 266 26 24 .941 2.88 .946 3.13 AS
1937 BOS AL 28 3B 152 152 149 448 161 258 29 29 .935 2.76 .946 3.15
1938 BOS AL 29 3B 138 138 135 451 140 272 39 28 .914 2.99 .941 3.14
1939 DET AL 30 3B 130 128 127 417 140 241 36 22 .914 2.93 .943 3.15
1940 DET AL 31 3B 129 128 128 401 133 239 29 16 .928 2.88 .937 3.21
1941 DET AL 32 3B 145 144 143 483 153 304 26 14 .946 3.15 .947 3.28 MVP-27
1942 DET AL 33 3B 137 137 135 407 134 243 30 24 .926 2.75 .939 3.16
1943 DET AL 34 3B 138 138 136 435 156 253 26 22 .940 2.96 .951 3.17 MVP-21
1944 DET AL 35 3B 146 146 145 479 146 311 22 21 .954 3.13 .954 3.34 AS,MVP-19
1946 TOT AL 37 3B 76 71 65 209 64 134 11 16 .947 2.61 .948 3.06
1946 DET AL 37 3B 17 16 15 39 12 25 2 2 .949 2.18 .948 3.06
1946 BOS AL 37 3B 59 55 50 170 52 109 9 14 .947 2.73 .948 3.06
14 Seasons 3B 1768 1757 1735 5462 1848 3258 356 288 .935 2.89 .946 3.14
1 Season 2B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.95
1 Season SS 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .940 5.10
14 Seasons TOT 1771 1757 1735 5464 1849 3259 356 288 .935 2.88 .946 3.15
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
1930 PHA AL 21 14 3 14 8 0 0 0 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
1933 PHA AL 24 152 152 152 152 0 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1934 PHA AL 25 144 144 144 144 0 0 0 0 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1935 PHA AL 26 133 131 133 131 0 0 0 0 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1936 PHA AL 27 146 145 146 145 0 0 0 0 145 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1937 BOS AL 28 153 152 153 152 0 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1938 BOS AL 29 139 138 139 138 0 0 0 0 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1939 DET AL 30 132 128 132 130 0 0 0 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1940 DET AL 31 131 128 131 129 0 0 0 0 129 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1941 DET AL 32 147 144 147 145 0 0 0 0 145 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1942 DET AL 33 143 137 143 137 0 0 0 0 137 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1943 DET AL 34 138 138 138 138 0 0 0 0 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1944 DET AL 35 148 146 148 146 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1946 BOS AL 37 64 55 64 59 0 0 0 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1946 DET AL 37 18 16 18 17 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
14 Seasons 1802 1757 1802 1771 0 0 0 2 1768 1 0 0 0 0 0 31 1
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

Hall of Fame
1950 BBWAA ( 1.2%)
1951 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1958 BBWAA ( 2.3%)
1960 BBWAA ( 1.1%)

All-Star Games
1934
1936 (3B)
1944 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1934 AL (17, 4%)
1935 AL (20, 4%)
1941 AL (27, 0%)
1943 AL (21, 2%)
1944 AL (19, 2%)
0.12 Career Shares (859th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1938 AL  39 (4th)
1939 AL  36 (3rd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1933 AL  152 (1st)
1934 AL  144 (2nd)
1935 AL  131 (3rd)
1936 AL  145 (4th)
1937 AL  152 (4th)
1940 AL  129 (5th)
1941 AL  145 (3rd)
1942 AL  137 (4th)
1943 AL  138 (2nd)
1944 AL  146 (2nd)
1946 AL  76 (5th)
Career  1,768 (22nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1933 AL  159 (1st)
1934 AL  147 (3rd)
1935 AL  162 (3rd)
1937 AL  161 (3rd)
1939 AL  140 (5th)
1941 AL  153 (4th)
1942 AL  134 (5th)
1943 AL  156 (3rd)
1944 AL  146 (4th)
Career  1,848 (16th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1933 AL  270 (2nd)
1934 AL  247 (4th)
1936 AL  266 (5th)
1937 AL  258 (5th)
1938 AL  272 (5th)
1941 AL  304 (3rd)
1942 AL  243 (3rd)
1943 AL  253 (4th)
1944 AL  311 (3rd)
Career  3,258 (32nd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1933 AL  24 (1st)
1934 AL  37 (1st)
1935 AL  21 (4th)
1936 AL  26 (3rd)
1937 AL  29 (2nd)
1938 AL  39 (2nd)
1939 AL  36 (2nd)
1940 AL  29 (3rd)
1941 AL  26 (2nd)
1942 AL  30 (2nd)
1943 AL  26 (1st)
1944 AL  22 (1st)
1946 AL  11 (5th)
Career  356 (21st)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1933 AL  2.82 (4th)
1938 AL  2.99 (5th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1935 AL  .947 (5th)
1941 AL  .946 (5th)
1944 AL  .954 (4th)

                           

Other Resources & Links

Error?     Compare     Search SABR's Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     DeadBallEra Obituary     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Pinky Higgins    

Viewed 19,856 times through May 31, 2012.
Name and misspellings: Michael Franklin mike Pinky Higgins

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.