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Bill Holbert

William Henry Holbert

Positions: Catcher and Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Weight: 197 lb.

Born: March 14, 1855 in Baltimore, MD (All Transactions)
Debut: September 5, 1876
Teams (by GP): Metropolitans/Trojans/Stars/Grays/Bridegrooms 1876-1888

Final Game: July 12, 1888
Died: March 20, 1935 in Laurel, MD
Buried: Union Cemetery, Burtonsville, MD
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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
1876 LOU NL 21 C 12 102 62 24 16 3 .843 7.17 .805 5.81 7
1878 MLG NL 23 OF 30 66 35 19 12 1 .818 1.80 .834 1.77 0-0-30
1878 MLG NL 23 C 21 114 72 28 14 1 .877 4.76 .891 7.09 17
1879 TOT NL 24 C 60 408 293 73 42 5 .897 6.10 .889 6.45 63
1879 SYR NL 24 C 56 380 277 64 39 4 .897 6.09 .889 6.45 57
1879 SYR NL 24 OF 4 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0.75 .837 1.90 0-3-1
1879 TRO NL 24 C 4 28 16 9 3 1 .893 6.25 .889 6.45 6
1880 TRO NL 25 C 58 404 261 107 36 6 .911 6.34 .894 6.88 45
1880 TRO NL 25 OF 3 8 7 0 1 0 .875 2.33 .855 1.87 0-0-3
1881 TRO NL 26 C 43 294 201 69 24 10 .918 6.28 .912 6.21 30
1881 TRO NL 26 OF 3 8 5 1 2 0 .750 2.00 .871 2.07 0-0-3
1882 TRO NL 27 C 58 416 247 124 45 13 .892 6.40 .909 6.75 54
1882 TRO NL 27 3B 12 60 19 28 13 1 .783 3.92 .843 3.53
1882 TRO NL 27 OF 3 4 3 0 1 0 .750 1.00 .855 1.93 0-3-0
1883 NYP AA 28 C 68 723 527 138 58 8 .920 9.78 .890 6.68 40
1883 NYP AA 28 OF 5 6 3 1 2 0 .667 0.80 .852 1.80 0-5-0
1883 NYP AA 28 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 6.10
1884 NYP AA 29 C 59 561 374 142 45 7 .920 8.75 .913 7.44 36
1884 NYP AA 29 OF 5 9 8 1 0 0 1.000 1.80 .847 1.64 4-0-1
1884 NYP AA 29 SS 1 6 1 4 1 0 .833 5.00 .862 4.30
1885 NYP AA 30 C 39 341 227 80 34 3 .900 7.87 .908 6.94 35
1885 NYP AA 30 OF 13 28 23 5 0 2 1.000 2.15 .879 1.87 8-5-0
1885 NYP AA 30 3B 5 27 6 11 10 2 .630 3.40 .860 3.00
1886 NYP AA 31 C 45 396 265 100 31 6 .922 8.11 .910 7.19 39
1886 NYP AA 31 OF 3 5 4 1 0 1 1.000 1.67 .876 1.80 0-3-0
1886 NYP AA 31 SS 1 8 1 5 2 1 .750 6.00 .854 4.60
1887 NYP AA 32 C 60 379 237 102 40 9 .894 5.65 .893 6.26 30
1887 NYP AA 32 1B 8 81 72 6 3 4 .963 9.75 .971 9.88
1887 NYP AA 32 SS 2 8 2 6 0 1 1.000 4.00 .857 4.50
1887 NYP AA 32 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 6.00
1888 BRO AA 33 C 15 108 74 26 8 2 .926 6.67 .914 7.13 7
12 Seasons C 538 4246 2840 1013 393 73 .907 7.16 .899 6.75 403
9 Seasons OF 69 137 91 28 18 4 .869 1.72 .850 1.81 12-19-38
2 Seasons 3B 17 87 25 39 23 3 .736 3.76 .848 3.38
1 Season 1B 8 81 72 6 3 4 .963 9.75 .971 9.88
3 Seasons SS 4 22 4 15 3 2 .864 4.75 .857 4.47
2 Seasons 2B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 6.05
12 Seasons TOT 638 4573 3032 1101 440 86 .904 6.48 .898 6.15 12-19-38 403
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
1876 LOU NL 21 12 12 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1878 MLG NL 23 45 45 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 0
1879 SYR NL 24 59 59 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 0
1879 TRO NL 24 4 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1880 TRO NL 25 60 60 0 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0
1881 TRO NL 26 46 46 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0
1882 TRO NL 27 71 71 0 58 0 0 12 0 0 3 0 3 0
1883 NYP AA 28 73 73 0 68 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 5 0
1884 NYP AA 29 65 65 0 59 0 0 0 1 4 0 1 5 0
1885 NYP AA 30 56 56 0 39 0 0 5 0 8 5 0 13 0
1886 NYP AA 31 48 48 0 45 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 3 0
1887 NYP AA 32 69 69 0 60 8 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1888 BRO AA 33 15 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Seasons 623 623 0 538 8 2 17 4 12 19 38 69 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
1879 NL  60 (4th)
1882 NL  58 (4th)
1883 AA  68 (2nd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1879 NL  293 (4th)
1883 AA  527 (1st)

Assists as C s c a p y
1879 NL  73 (4th)
1880 NL  107 (4th)
1882 NL  124 (1st)
1883 AA  138 (1st)
1884 AA  142 (1st)
Career  1,013 (44th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1879 NL  42 (5th)
1882 NL  45 (2nd)
1883 AA  58 (2nd)
1884 AA  45 (2nd)
1885 AA  34 (4th)
Career  393 (8th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1879 NL  63 (3rd)
1882 NL  54 (4th)
Career  403 (10th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1878 NL  19 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1879 NL  6.10 (5th)
1881 NL  6.28 (4th)
1883 AA  9.78 (1st)
1884 AA  8.75 (4th)
Career  7.16 (9th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1879 NL  .897 (5th)
1880 NL  .911 (3rd)
1881 NL  .918 (3rd)
1883 AA  .920 (2nd)

Oldest s c a p y
1888 AA  born 1855-03-14 (9th)

                                         

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