Frank House

Henry Franklin House (Pig)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: February 18, 1930 in Bessemer, AL
High School: Hueytown HS (Hueytown, AL)
Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1949. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 21, 1950
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Athletics/Reds 1950-1961

Final Game: September 25, 1961
Died: March 13, 2005 in Birmingham, AL
Buried: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Bessemer, AL
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO
1950	DET	AL	20	C	5	1	1	14.0	5	4	1	0	0	1.000			3.21	1.00	.984	4.95	4.84	0	0	1	0	0%	49%	0
1951	DET	AL	21	C	18	11	9	111.1	70	56	11	3	1	.957			5.42	3.72	.982	5.03	5.01	0	2	7	9	56%	46%	0
1954	DET	AL	24	C	107	99	91	880.0	494	434	56	4	7	.992	5	7	5.01	4.58	.986	5.40	5.36	4	9	23	32	58%	48%	3
1955	DET	AL	25	C	93	87	77	750.1	464	423	35	6	5	.987	2	3	5.49	4.92	.988	5.58	5.54	3	11	27	24	47%	47%	0
1956	DET	AL	26	C	88	78	71	700.2	490	450	33	7	8	.986	1	2	6.20	5.49	.988	5.91	5.86	3	16	17	17	50%	44%	1
1957	DET	AL	27	C	97	95	83	849.1	591	535	54	2	5	.997	3	4	6.24	6.07	.991	5.92	5.94	5	12	22	21	49%	47%	3
1958	KCA	AL	28	C	55	52	46	440.0	260	236	22	2	4	.992	-1	-3	5.28	4.69	.990	6.01	5.95	7	10	17	15	47%	47%	0
1959	KCA	AL	29	C	95	92	85	808.2	499	447	43	9	7	.982	-6	-9	5.45	5.16	.989	6.08	6.04	7	25	33	16	33%	40%	1
1960	CIN	NL	30	C	8	1	1	29.2	23	21	2	0	1	1.000	0	0	6.98	2.88	.986	6.58	6.58	0	0	1	1	50%	40%	0
1961	DET	AL	31	C	14	5	4	59.1	38	36	1	1	0	.974	-1	-20	5.61	2.64	.989	6.20	6.14	0	2	3	1	25%	36%	0
	10 Seasons			C	580	521	468	4643.1	2934	2642	258	34	38	.988	3	1	5.62	5.00	.988	5.78	5.75	29	87	151	136	47%	45%	8
	10 Seasons			TOT	580	521	468	4643.1	2934	2642	258	34	38	.988	3	1	5.62	5.00	.988	5.78	5.75	29	87	151	136	47%	45%	8

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rctch
1950	DET	AL	20	C
1951	DET	AL	21	C
1954	DET	AL	24	C	5	7	5
1955	DET	AL	25	C	2	3	2
1956	DET	AL	26	C	1	2	1
1957	DET	AL	27	C	3	4	3
1958	KCA	AL	28	C	-1	-3	-1
1959	KCA	AL	29	C	-6	-9	-6
1960	CIN	NL	30	C	0	0	0
1961	DET	AL	31	C	-1	-20	-1
	10 Seasons			C	3	1	3
	10 Seasons			TOT	3	1	3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1950	DET	AL	20	5	1	5	5	5	0	1
1951	DET	AL	21	18	11	18	18	18	0	0
1954	DET	AL	24	114	99	114	107	107	11	0
1955	DET	AL	25	102	87	102	93	93	12	0
1956	DET	AL	26	94	78	94	88	88	11	0
1957	DET	AL	27	106	95	106	97	97	10	0
1958	KCA	AL	28	76	52	76	55	55	21	0
1959	KCA	AL	29	98	92	98	95	95	4	0
1960	CIN	NL	30	23	1	23	8	8	17	0
1961	DET	AL	31	17	5	17	14	14	4	0
	10 Seasons			653	521	653	580	580	90	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.

Advanced Fielding -- C*

					Pitching Stats						Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	ERA	RAvg	Fld	F2O%	XI	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	SO	Tot	1B	2B	3B	K23	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	263	n23	GB	bFld	bF2O%
1950	DET	AL	20	62	7.62	7.62	1	100%	0	0	4	0	0	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951	DET	AL	21	360	3.54	4.17	5	80%	0	0	46	4	0	2	40	7	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
1954	DET	AL	24	3781	3.99	4.46	82	100%	0	0	435	69	1	14	351	55	13	1	0	5	4	1	0	3	0	7	0	1	1	8	100%
1955	DET	AL	25	3259	4.27	4.73	68	96%	0	0	421	51	1	13	354	35	9	0	0	3	6	0	3	3	0	5	0	0	0	2	100%
1956	DET	AL	26	3124	4.41	4.91	67	99%	0	0	461	45	1	17	397	37	13	2	1	3	7	1	2	4	0	9	1	0	4	8	100%
1957	DET	AL	27	3601	3.56	3.88	86	99%	0	0	536	68	0	4	464	54	17	0	1	7	2	1	0	1	0	5	0	0	1	13	92%
1958	KCA	AL	28	1881	4.11	4.54	31	94%	1	0	238	23	0	10	205	23	3	1	1	1	2	0	1	1	0	4	1	0	2	4	50%
1959	KCA	AL	29	3523	4.21	4.90	69	91%	0	1	446	49	2	16	378	40	13	0	0	7	9	1	2	6	4	7	0	0	0	12	67%
1960	CIN	NL	30	139	5.76	6.37	2	100%	0	0	22	1	0	0	21	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	100%
1961	DET	AL	31	269	4.55	5.61	5	80%	0	0	37	4	0	1	32	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	10 Seasons			19999	4.09	4.58	416	96%	1	1	2646	314	5	77	2246	255	70	4	3	27	34	4	11	19	5	38	2	1	8	48	85%
	MLB Averages				3.99	4.50		95%																							86%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PB	WP	SBO	SB	CS	CSctch	CS%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	RBA	RK	SBlev	CSlev
1950	DET	AL	20	0	0	24	1	0	0	0%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.67
1951	DET	AL	21	0	2	124	4	7	7	64%	4	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	7	1.86	1.75
1954	DET	AL	24	4	9	1451	23	32	32	58%	22	27	0	5	1	0	3	1	48	35	1.49	1.17
1955	DET	AL	25	3	11	1250	27	24	23	47%	24	16	3	4	0	4	0	0	56	28	1.26	1.30
1956	DET	AL	26	3	16	1236	17	17	16	50%	12	16	3	1	2	0	1	1	63	20	1.22	1.22
1957	DET	AL	27	5	12	1380	22	21	21	49%	20	19	2	2	0	0	3	0	49	28	1.24	1.29
1958	KCA	AL	28	7	10	717	17	15	14	47%	13	11	3	1	1	3	0	0	42	17	1.34	1.06
1959	KCA	AL	29	7	25	1383	33	16	15	33%	30	13	2	2	1	1	1	0	91	20	1.13	1.06
1960	CIN	NL	30	0	0	60	1	1	1	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.02	0.85
1961	DET	AL	31	0	2	114	3	1	0	25%	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0.39	0.50
	10 Seasons			29	87	7739	148	134	129	48%	130	111	13	15	5	8	8	2	366	157	1.26	1.22
	MLB Averages									43%											1.18	1.17

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1954 AL 107 (5th) 1957 AL 97 (5th) 1959 AL 95 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1954 AL 434 (5th) 1957 AL 535 (3rd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1954 AL 56 (3rd) 1957 AL 54 (4th) 1959 AL 43 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1955 AL 6 (4th) 1956 AL 7 (4th) 1959 AL 9 (2nd)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1959 AL 7 (4th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1955 AL 27 (3rd) 1959 AL 33 (2nd)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1954 AL 32 (3rd) 1955 AL 24 (3rd) 1957 AL 21 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1954 AL 58.2 (2nd) 1955 AL 47.1 (5th) 1957 AL 48.8 (4th) Career 47.4 (44th)
Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1954 AL 5 (1st) 1955 AL 2 (4th) 1957 AL 3 (3rd)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1955 AL 5.49 (4th) 1956 AL 6.20 (3rd) 1957 AL 6.24 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1955 AL 4.92 (5th) 1956 AL 5.49 (3rd) 1957 AL 6.07 (2nd) 1959 AL 5.16 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1954 AL .992 (3rd) 1955 AL .987 (5th) 1957 AL .997 (4th) 1959 AL .982 (5th)
Youngest s c a p y 1950 AL born 1930-02-18 (4th) 1951 AL born 1930-02-18 (7th)

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