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Dick Higham

Richard Higham

Positions: Rightfielder, Catcher and Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 171 lb.

Born: July 24, 1851 in Ipswich, United Kingdom (All Transactions)
Debut: June 1, 1871
Teams (by GP): Mutuals/DarkBlues/Grays/Canaries/WhiteStockings/... 1871-1880

Final Game: May 25, 1880
Died: March 18, 1905 in Chicago, IL
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago, IL
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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 G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1871 NYU NA 19 2B 12 79 29 30 20 3 .747 4.92 .824 5.76
1871 NYU NA 19 OF 8 18 14 0 4 0 .778 1.75 .832 1.98 0-0-8
1871 NYU NA 19 C 1 8 6 0 2 0 .750 6.00 .842 4.60 1
1872 BAL NA 20 C 25 183 131 24 28 0 .847 6.20 .847 5.45 34
1872 BAL NA 20 OF 24 41 29 1 11 0 .732 1.25 .820 1.94 0-2-22
1872 BAL NA 20 2B 5 23 10 6 7 0 .696 3.20 .826 5.52
1872 BAL NA 20 3B 2 10 2 2 6 0 .400 2.00 .758 4.45
1872 BAL NA 20 1B 1 12 9 0 3 0 .750 9.00 .930 10.40
1873 NYU NA 21 OF 19 24 17 1 6 1 .750 0.95 .803 2.00 0-1-18
1873 NYU NA 21 2B 18 82 35 25 22 8 .732 3.33 .831 5.81
1873 NYU NA 21 C 17 136 98 16 22 1 .838 6.71 .841 5.06 29
1874 NYU NA 22 C 48 344 248 45 51 4 .852 6.10 .801 5.48 35
1874 NYU NA 22 OF 33 33 13 2 18 0 .455 0.45 .802 2.02 0-3-31
1874 NYU NA 22 2B 1 3 2 0 1 0 .667 2.00 .807 5.50
1875 TOT NA 23 C 32 197 137 21 39 0 .802 4.94 .823 5.71 41
1875 TOT NA 23 2B 19 135 57 52 26 3 .807 5.74 .837 5.89
1875 TOT NA 23 OF 17 17 13 1 3 0 .824 0.82 .818 1.88 0-3-14
1875 CHI NA 23 C 24 151 110 14 27 0 .821 5.17 .823 5.71 31
1875 CHI NA 23 OF 14 15 11 1 3 0 .800 0.86 .818 1.88 0-3-11
1875 CHI NA 23 2B 13 89 34 38 17 2 .809 5.54 .837 5.89
1875 NYU NA 23 C 8 46 27 7 12 0 .739 4.25 .823 5.71 10
1875 NYU NA 23 2B 6 46 23 14 9 1 .804 6.17 .837 5.88
1875 NYU NA 23 OF 3 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0.67 .820 1.87 0-0-3
1875 NYU NA 23 1B 2 15 12 0 3 0 .800 6.00 .936 10.90
1876 HAR NL 24 OF 59 84 57 16 11 1 .869 1.24 .847 2.11 0-0-59
1876 HAR NL 24 C 13 66 38 14 14 0 .788 4.00 .805 5.81 10
1876 HAR NL 24 2B 1 5 3 2 0 0 1.000 5.00 .864 5.70
1876 HAR NL 24 SS 1 5 1 3 1 0 .800 4.00 .866 4.60
1878 PRO NL 26 OF 62 127 76 27 24 4 .811 1.66 .834 1.77 0-0-62
1878 PRO NL 26 C 1 3 1 1 1 0 .667 2.00 .890 7.10 0
1880 TRO NL 28 C 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .890 6.90 2
1880 TRO NL 28 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.80 0-0-1
8 Seasons OF 223 344 219 48 77 6 .776 1.20 .829 1.95 0-9-215
8 Seasons C 138 938 660 121 157 5 .833 5.66 .821 5.52 152
6 Seasons 2B 56 327 136 115 76 14 .768 4.48 .832 5.79
2 Seasons 1B 3 27 21 0 6 0 .778 7.00 .933 10.73
1 Season 3B 2 10 2 2 6 0 .400 2.00 .758 4.45
1 Season SS 1 5 1 3 1 0 .800 4.00 .866 4.60
8 Seasons TOT 423 1651 1039 289 323 25 .804 3.14 .827 3.70 0-9-215 152
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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
1871 NYU NA 19 21 21 0 1 0 12 0 0 0 0 8 8 0
1872 BAL NA 20 50 50 0 25 1 5 2 0 0 2 22 24 0
1873 NYU NA 21 49 49 0 17 0 18 0 0 0 1 18 19 0
1874 NYU NA 22 65 65 0 48 0 1 0 0 0 3 31 33 0
1875 CHI NA 23 42 42 0 24 0 13 0 0 0 3 11 14 0
1875 NYU NA 23 15 15 0 8 2 6 0 0 0 0 3 3 0
1876 HAR NL 24 67 67 0 13 0 1 0 1 0 0 59 59 0
1878 PRO NL 26 62 62 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 62 62 0
1880 TRO NL 28 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
8 Seasons 372 372 0 138 3 56 2 1 0 9 215 223 0
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
1874 NA  48 (3rd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1872 NA  131 (5th)
1874 NA  248 (3rd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1874 NA  45 (4th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1872 NA  28 (3rd)
1874 NA  51 (4th)
Career  157 (67th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1872 NA  34 (2nd)
1874 NA  35 (1st)
Career  152 (66th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1871 NA  20 (5th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1878 NL  62 (2nd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1876 NL  16 (1st)
1878 NL  27 (3rd)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1878 NL  24 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1872 NA  6.20 (2nd)
1874 NA  6.10 (1st)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1874 NA  .852 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
1871 NA  born 1851-07-24 (9th)

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