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Bob Johnson

Robert Lee Johnson (Indian Bob)

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: November 26, 1905 in Pryor, OK
High School: Tacoma HS (Tacoma, WA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 1933
Teams (by GP): Athletics/RedSox/Senators 1933-1945

Final Game: September 23, 1945
Died: July 6, 1982 in Tacoma, WA
Buried: Mountain View Memorial Park, Tacoma, WA
Relatives: Brother of Roy Johnson
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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
1933 PHA AL 27 OF 142 140 136 330 298 16 16 3 .952 2.21 .970 2.37 MVP-15
1933 PHA AL 27 LF 127 124 122 293 265 14 14 2 .952 2.20 .971 2.27 MVP-15
1933 PHA AL 27 RF 16 16 14 37 33 2 2 1 .946 2.19 .962 2.10 MVP-15
1933 PHA AL 27 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.80 MVP-15
1934 PHA AL 28 LF 139 138 133 332 304 17 11 3 .967 2.31 .968 2.17
1934 PHA AL 28 OF 139 138 133 332 304 17 11 3 .967 2.31 .968 2.29
1935 PHA AL 29 OF 147 146 144 370 337 13 20 4 .946 2.38 .970 2.39 AS
1935 PHA AL 29 LF 146 145 143 368 335 13 20 4 .946 2.38 .968 2.24 AS
1935 PHA AL 29 RF 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .970 2.10 AS
1936 PHA AL 30 LF 131 131 129 309 284 13 12 3 .961 2.27 .963 2.12
1936 PHA AL 30 OF 131 131 129 314 289 13 12 3 .962 2.31 .968 2.38
1936 PHA AL 30 2B 22 22 21 127 51 69 7 20 .945 5.45 .972 5.78
1936 PHA AL 30 1B 1 0 0 5 5 0 0 2 1.000 5.00 .992 9.90
1936 PHA AL 30 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.80
1937 PHA AL 31 OF 133 133 124 335 313 14 8 3 .976 2.46 .969 2.35
1937 PHA AL 31 LF 127 125 119 310 289 14 7 3 .977 2.39 .966 2.16
1937 PHA AL 31 CF 8 8 5 25 24 0 1 0 .960 3.00 .974 2.84
1937 PHA AL 31 2B 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 5.65
1938 PHA AL 32 OF 150 150 147 437 400 21 16 3 .963 2.81 .972 2.35 AS,MVP-17
1938 PHA AL 32 CF 122 121 119 364 332 18 14 2 .962 2.87 .972 2.82 AS,MVP-17
1938 PHA AL 32 LF 29 29 28 73 68 3 2 1 .973 2.45 .972 2.17 AS,MVP-17
1938 PHA AL 32 2B 3 2 2 14 6 6 2 3 .857 4.00 .967 5.53 AS,MVP-17
1938 PHA AL 32 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.10 AS,MVP-17
1939 PHA AL 33 OF 150 149 134 397 369 15 13 3 .967 2.56 .969 2.44 AS,MVP-8
1939 PHA AL 33 LF 133 131 118 345 319 13 13 2 .962 2.50 .966 2.38 AS,MVP-8
1939 PHA AL 33 CF 20 18 16 52 50 2 0 1 1.000 2.60 .977 2.87 AS,MVP-8
1939 PHA AL 33 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.60 AS,MVP-8
1940 PHA AL 34 OF 136 136 131 338 310 15 13 4 .962 2.39 .970 2.40 AS
1940 PHA AL 34 LF 119 119 114 291 269 12 10 2 .966 2.36 .963 2.33 AS
1940 PHA AL 34 CF 10 9 9 27 25 1 1 1 .963 2.60 .976 2.78 AS
1940 PHA AL 34 RF 8 8 8 19 15 2 2 1 .895 2.13 .970 2.09 AS
1941 PHA AL 35 OF 122 122 113 307 287 17 3 0 .990 2.49 .973 2.41
1941 PHA AL 35 LF 118 118 109 297 277 17 3 0 .990 2.49 .975 2.31
1941 PHA AL 35 1B 28 27 27 277 254 18 5 29 .982 9.71 .990 9.92
1941 PHA AL 35 CF 4 4 4 10 10 0 0 0 1.000 2.50 .976 2.80
1942 PHA AL 36 OF 149 149 141 349 318 18 13 1 .963 2.26 .976 2.38 AS
1942 PHA AL 36 LF 147 147 139 350 319 18 13 1 .963 2.29 .974 2.27 AS
1942 PHA AL 36 RF 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.05 AS
1943 WSH AL 37 LF 88 86 81 224 212 11 1 1 .996 2.53 .979 2.40 AS,MVP-5
1943 WSH AL 37 OF 88 86 81 224 212 11 1 1 .996 2.53 .977 2.47 AS,MVP-5
1943 WSH AL 37 3B 19 19 19 76 27 41 8 5 .895 3.58 .951 3.17 AS,MVP-5
1943 WSH AL 37 1B 10 8 8 78 69 9 0 8 1.000 7.80 .991 10.05 AS,MVP-5
1944 BOS AL 38 LF 142 142 131 300 270 23 7 3 .977 2.06 .972 2.35 AS,MVP-10
1944 BOS AL 38 OF 142 142 131 300 270 23 7 3 .977 2.06 .974 2.47 AS,MVP-10
1945 BOS AL 39 LF 140 137 126 319 295 16 8 4 .975 2.22 .976 2.26 MVP-23
1945 BOS AL 39 OF 140 137 126 319 296 15 8 4 .975 2.22 .978 2.40 MVP-23
1945 BOS AL 39 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.80 MVP-23
13 Seasons OF 1769 1759 1670 4352 4003 208 141 35 .968 2.38 .972 2.39
13 Seasons LF 1586 1572 1492 3811 3506 184 121 29 .968 2.33 .970 2.27
8 Seasons CF 167 160 153 478 441 21 16 4 .967 2.77 .973 2.82
3 Seasons 1B 39 35 35 360 328 27 5 39 .986 9.10 .990 9.95
4 Seasons 2B 28 24 23 143 58 76 9 23 .937 4.79 .971 5.74
4 Seasons RF 27 27 25 60 52 4 4 2 .933 2.07 .965 2.09
2 Seasons 3B 20 19 19 76 27 41 8 5 .895 3.40 .951 3.16
13 Seasons TOT 1856 1837 1747 4931 4416 352 163 102 .967 2.57 .973 2.61
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
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Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1933 PHA AL 27 142 140 142 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 127 1 16 142 0 0 1
1934 PHA AL 28 141 138 141 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 139 0 0 139 0 2 0
1935 PHA AL 29 147 146 147 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 146 0 1 147 0 0 0
1936 PHA AL 30 153 153 153 153 0 0 1 22 0 0 131 1 0 131 0 0 0
1937 PHA AL 31 138 133 138 134 0 0 0 2 0 0 127 8 0 133 0 4 0
1938 PHA AL 32 152 152 152 152 0 0 0 3 1 0 29 122 0 150 0 0 0
1939 PHA AL 33 150 149 150 150 0 0 0 1 0 0 133 20 0 150 0 0 0
1940 PHA AL 34 138 136 138 136 0 0 0 0 0 0 119 10 8 136 0 2 0
1941 PHA AL 35 149 149 149 149 0 0 28 0 0 0 118 4 0 122 0 0 0
1942 PHA AL 36 149 149 149 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 147 0 2 149 0 0 0
1943 WSH AL 37 117 113 117 116 0 0 10 0 19 0 88 0 0 88 0 2 0
1944 BOS AL 38 144 142 144 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 142 0 0 142 0 2 0
1945 BOS AL 39 143 137 143 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 140 1 0 140 0 3 0
13 Seasons 1863 1837 1863 1849 0 0 39 28 20 0 1586 167 27 1769 0 15 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
1948 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1956 BBWAA ( 0.5%)

All-Star Games
1935 (LF)
1938 *
1939
1940
1942 *
1943 *
1944 (LF)
1945--not played

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1933 AL (15, 6%)
1938 AL (17, 4%)
1939 AL (8, 15%)
1943 AL (5, 35%)
1944 AL (10, 15%)
1945 AL (23, 2%)
0.77 Career Shares (312th)

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 AL  127 (3rd)
1934 AL  139 (2nd)
1935 AL  146 (2nd)
1936 AL  131 (5th)
1937 AL  127 (4th)
1939 AL  133 (3rd)
1940 AL  119 (4th)
1941 AL  118 (3rd)
1942 AL  147 (3rd)
1944 AL  142 (1st)
1945 AL  140 (1st)
Career  1,586 (12th)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 AL  265 (4th)
1934 AL  304 (1st)
1935 AL  335 (2nd)
1936 AL  284 (2nd)
1937 AL  289 (2nd)
1939 AL  319 (2nd)
1940 AL  269 (4th)
1941 AL  277 (3rd)
1942 AL  319 (3rd)
1944 AL  270 (1st)
1945 AL  295 (1st)
Career  3,506 (10th)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 AL  14 (3rd)
1934 AL  17 (1st)
1935 AL  13 (3rd)
1936 AL  13 (2nd)
1937 AL  14 (2nd)
1939 AL  13 (1st)
1940 AL  12 (3rd)
1941 AL  17 (1st)
1942 AL  18 (1st)
1943 AL  11 (2nd)
1944 AL  23 (1st)
1945 AL  16 (1st)
Career  184 (1st)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 AL  14 (1st)
1934 AL  11 (3rd)
1935 AL  20 (1st)
1936 AL  12 (4th)
1939 AL  13 (1st)
1940 AL  10 (3rd)
1942 AL  13 (1st)
1944 AL  7 (2nd)
1945 AL  8 (1st)
Career  121 (3rd)

Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1938 AL  332 (5th)

Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1938 AL  18 (2nd)

Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1938 AL  14 (2nd)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1934 AL  139 (5th)
1935 AL  147 (5th)
1938 AL  150 (2nd)
1939 AL  150 (1st)
1944 AL  142 (4th)
1945 AL  140 (2nd)
Career  1,769 (96th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1934 AL  304 (5th)
1938 AL  400 (2nd)
1939 AL  369 (3rd)
Career  4,003 (68th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1933 AL  16 (4th)
1934 AL  17 (1st)
1935 AL  13 (5th)
1938 AL  21 (1st)
1939 AL  15 (2nd)
1940 AL  15 (2nd)
1941 AL  17 (4th)
1942 AL  18 (2nd)
1944 AL  23 (2nd)
1945 AL  15 (3rd)
Career  208 (44th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1933 AL  16 (2nd)
1935 AL  20 (1st)
1938 AL  16 (1st)
1939 AL  13 (4th)
1940 AL  13 (3rd)
1942 AL  13 (2nd)
1945 AL  8 (2nd)
Career  141 (86th)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 AL  2.20 (5th)
1934 AL  2.31 (1st)
1935 AL  2.38 (2nd)
1936 AL  2.27 (3rd)
1937 AL  2.39 (2nd)
1939 AL  2.50 (3rd)
1940 AL  2.36 (2nd)
1941 AL  2.49 (2nd)
1942 AL  2.29 (3rd)
1943 AL  2.53 (1st)
1944 AL  2.06 (4th)
1945 AL  2.22 (3rd)
Career  2.33 (10th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1934 AL  .967 (4th)
1936 AL  .961 (3rd)
1937 AL  .977 (3rd)
1939 AL  .962 (5th)
1940 AL  .966 (5th)
1941 AL  .990 (1st)
1943 AL  .996 (1st)
1944 AL  .977 (2nd)
1945 AL  .975 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1938 AL  2.87 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1938 AL  2.81 (3rd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1941 AL  .990 (2nd)
1943 AL  .996 (2nd)

Oldest s c a p y
1943 AL  born 1905-11-26 (9th)

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