Bob Jones

Robert Walter Jones (Ducky)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: December 2, 1889 in Clayton, CA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 11, 1917
Team: Tigers 1917-1925

Final Game: September 24, 1925
Died: August 30, 1964 in San Diego, CA
Buried: El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego, CA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G
1917	DET	AL	27	2B	18			64	19	41	4	1	.938	3.33	.959	5.14
1917	DET	AL	27	3B	8			25	7	16	2	1	.920	2.88	.941	3.36
1918	DET	AL	28	3B	63	62	60	209	81	117	11	8	.947	3.14	.948	3.37
1918	DET	AL	28	1B	6	7	6	62	62	0	0	3	1.000	10.33	.986	11.13
1918	DET	AL	28	CF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.60
1918	DET	AL	28	OF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.30	0-1-0
1919	DET	AL	29	3B	127	127	115	374	134	219	21	11	.944	2.78	.950	3.34
1920	DET	AL	30	3B	67	64	58	240	80	146	14	6	.942	3.37	.946	3.59
1920	DET	AL	30	2B	5	4	3	21	10	10	1	1	.952	4.00	.962	5.70
1920	DET	AL	30	CF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.60
1920	DET	AL	30	SS	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.00	.945	5.20
1921	DET	AL	31	3B	141	140	129	545	194	324	27	14	.950	3.67	.952	3.41
1922	DET	AL	32	3B	119	118	102	445	161	267	17	22	.962	3.60	.950	3.45
1923	DET	AL	33	3B	97	94	82	349	109	224	16	17	.954	3.43	.945	3.45
1924	DET	AL	34	3B	106	103	89	318	108	196	14	12	.956	2.87	.951	3.26
1925	DET	AL	35	3B	46	37	32	136	43	91	2	5	.985	2.91	.947	3.21
	9 Seasons			3B	774	745	667	2641	917	1600	124	96	.953	3.25	.949	3.39
	2 Seasons			2B	23	4	3	85	29	51	5	2	.941	3.48	.960	5.26
	1 Season			1B	6	7	6	62	62	0	0	3	1.000	10.33	.986	11.13
	2 Seasons (incomplete)			CF	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.60
	1 Season			OF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.30	0-3-0
	1 Season			SS	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.00	.945	5.20
	9 Seasons			TOT	805	756	676	2790	1008	1653	129	101	.954	3.31	.950	3.50	0-3-0

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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	1B	2B	3B	SS	CF	OF	PH	PR
1917	DET	AL	27	46		46		0	18	8	0	0	0
1918	DET	AL	28	74		74		6	0	63	0	1	1
1919	DET	AL	29	127	127	127	127	0	0	127	0	0	0	0	0
1920	DET	AL	30	81	68	81	74	0	6	67	1	1	1	5	3
1921	DET	AL	31	141	140	141	141	0	0	141	0	0	0	0	0
1922	DET	AL	32	124	118	124	120	0	0	120	0	0	0	4	1
1923	DET	AL	33	100	94	100	97	0	0	97	0	0	0	0	3
1924	DET	AL	34	110	103	110	106	0	0	106	0	0	0	4	0
1925	DET	AL	35	50	37	50	46	0	0	46	0	0	0	3	1
	9 Seasons			853	687	853	711	6	24	775	1	2	2	16	8

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 3B s c a p y 1919 AL 127 (4th) 1921 AL 141 (4th) 1922 AL 119 (4th) 1924 AL 106 (4th)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1921 AL 194 (2nd) 1922 AL 161 (2nd) 1924 AL 108 (5th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1921 AL 324 (3rd) 1922 AL 267 (2nd) 1923 AL 224 (5th) 1924 AL 196 (5th)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1921 AL 27 (1st) 1922 AL 17 (5th)
Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1921 AL 3.67 (1st) 1922 AL 3.60 (2nd) 1923 AL 3.43 (4th) 1924 AL 2.87 (5th) Career 3.25 (38th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1922 AL .962 (2nd) 1923 AL .954 (3rd) 1924 AL .956 (4th)

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