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Joe Kelley

Joseph James Kelley

Positions: Leftfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: December 9, 1871 in Cambridge, MA
High School: St. Thomas Aquinas HS (Cambridge, MA) (All Transactions)
Debut: July 27, 1891
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Reds/Superbas/Doves/Pirates/... 1891-1908

Final Game: October 3, 1908
Died: August 14, 1943 in Baltimore, MD
Buried: New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Player in 1971.
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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 Awards
1891 BSN NL 19 OF 12 27 21 2 4 0 .852 1.92 .912 1.92 12-1-0
1892 TOT NL 20 OF 66 141 115 13 13 4 .908 1.94 .912 1.89 0-66-0
1892 PIT NL 20 OF 56 124 101 13 10 4 .919 2.04 .912 1.89 0-56-0
1892 BLN NL 20 OF 10 17 14 0 3 0 .824 1.40 .912 1.89 0-10-0
1893 BLN NL 21 OF 125 350 307 22 21 4 .940 2.63 .915 2.18 18-107-1
1894 BLN NL 22 OF 129 307 276 16 15 3 .951 2.26 .915 2.28 129-0-0
1895 BLN NL 23 OF 131 296 260 20 16 5 .946 2.14 .917 2.18 130-1-0
1896 BLN NL 24 OF 131 313 280 20 13 3 .958 2.29 .933 2.16 129-0-2
1897 BLN NL 25 OF 130 266 240 15 11 3 .959 1.96 .936 2.09 130-0-0
1897 BLN NL 25 SS 3 10 2 7 1 0 .900 3.00 .907 5.77
1897 BLN NL 25 3B 2 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0.50 .890 3.35
1898 BLN NL 26 OF 122 261 235 18 8 4 .969 2.07 .937 2.08 39-83-0
1898 BLN NL 26 3B 2 2 0 1 1 0 .500 0.50 .900 3.50
1899 BRO NL 27 OF 143 341 307 26 8 7 .977 2.33 .944 2.15 143-0-0
1900 BRO NL 28 OF 77 194 174 12 8 2 .959 2.42 .940 2.17 77-0-0
1900 BRO NL 28 1B 32 277 259 12 6 13 .978 8.47 .979 10.55
1900 BRO NL 28 3B 13 46 17 25 4 3 .913 3.23 .895 3.82
1901 BRO NL 29 1B 115 1093 984 82 27 63 .975 9.27 .978 10.25
1901 BRO NL 29 3B 5 16 4 10 2 0 .875 2.80 .888 3.20
1902 TOT MLB 30 OF 68 146 131 11 4 3 .973 2.09 .944 2.04 19-49-0
1902 TOT MLB 30 3B 17 67 27 34 6 1 .910 3.59 .913 3.54
1902 BLA AL 30 OF 48 111 101 7 3 2 .973 2.25 .944 2.07 1-47-0
1902 BLA AL 30 3B 8 32 15 14 3 1 .906 3.63 .912 3.58
1902 BLA AL 30 1B 5 41 37 4 0 4 1.000 8.20 .980 10.94
1902 CIN NL 30 OF 20 35 30 4 1 1 .971 1.70 .945 1.97 18-2-0
1902 CIN NL 30 2B 10 68 35 31 2 7 .971 6.60 .947 5.43
1902 CIN NL 30 3B 9 35 12 20 3 0 .914 3.56 .913 3.50
1902 CIN NL 30 SS 2 5 1 4 0 1 1.000 2.50 .912 5.40
1903 CIN NL 31 OF 67 132 117 8 7 0 .947 1.87 .942 1.94 61-6-0
1903 CIN NL 31 SS 12 56 17 30 9 5 .839 3.92 .911 5.48
1903 CIN NL 31 2B 11 55 25 26 4 4 .927 4.64 .938 5.19
1903 CIN NL 31 3B 8 27 12 14 1 0 .963 3.25 .913 3.44
1903 CIN NL 31 1B 6 77 68 8 1 2 .987 12.67 .977 10.57
1904 CIN NL 32 1B 117 1139 1049 76 14 48 .988 9.62 .983 10.68
1904 CIN NL 32 OF 6 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 1.50 .947 1.88 0-3-3
1904 CIN NL 32 2B 1 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 3.00 .943 5.40
1905 CIN NL 33 OF 85 152 137 11 4 0 .974 1.74 .955 1.97 84-0-1
1905 CIN NL 33 1B 2 14 14 0 0 2 1.000 7.00 .981 10.75
1906 CIN NL 34 OF 122 204 184 13 7 5 .966 1.61 .959 1.89 122-0-0
1906 CIN NL 34 1B 3 26 25 1 0 2 1.000 8.67 .984 10.80
1906 CIN NL 34 3B 1 6 2 3 1 0 .833 5.00 .932 3.20
1906 CIN NL 34 SS 1 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 4.00 .932 5.40
1908 BSN NL 36 OF 51 81 71 5 5 1 .938 1.49 .960 2.04 38-12-1
1908 BSN NL 36 1B 11 136 118 15 3 2 .978 12.09 .986 11.07
16 Seasons OF 1465 3220 2864 212 144 44 .955 2.10 .933 2.09 1131-328-8
8 Seasons 1B 291 2803 2554 198 51 136 .982 9.46 .981 10.51
7 Seasons 3B 48 165 62 88 15 4 .909 3.13 .906 3.55
3 Seasons 2B 22 126 61 59 6 11 .952 5.45 .943 5.31
4 Seasons SS 18 75 21 44 10 6 .867 3.61 .912 5.52
17 Seasons TOT 1844 6389 5562 601 226 201 .965 3.34 .953 3.53 1131-328-8
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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
1891 BSN NL 19 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1 0 12 0
1892 PIT NL 20 56 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 56 0 56 0
1892 BLN NL 20 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 10 0
1893 BLN NL 21 125 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 107 1 125 0
1894 BLN NL 22 129 129 0 0 0 0 0 0 129 0 0 129 0
1895 BLN NL 23 131 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 130 1 0 131 0
1896 BLN NL 24 131 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 129 0 2 131 0
1897 BLN NL 25 131 131 0 0 0 0 2 3 130 0 0 130 0
1898 BLN NL 26 124 124 0 0 0 0 2 0 39 83 0 122 0
1899 BRO NL 27 143 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 143 0 0 143 0
1900 BRO NL 28 121 121 0 0 32 0 13 0 77 0 0 77 0
1901 BRO NL 29 120 120 0 0 115 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
1902 BLA AL 30 60 60 0 0 5 0 8 0 1 47 0 48 0
1902 CIN NL 30 40 40 0 0 0 10 9 2 18 2 0 20 0
1903 CIN NL 31 105 105 0 0 6 11 8 12 61 6 0 67 0
1904 CIN NL 32 123 123 0 0 117 1 0 0 0 3 3 6 0
1905 CIN NL 33 90 90 0 0 2 0 0 0 84 0 1 85 0
1906 CIN NL 34 129 129 0 0 3 0 1 1 122 0 0 122 0
1908 BSN NL 36 73 73 0 0 11 0 0 0 38 12 1 51 0
17 Seasons 1853 1853 0 0 291 22 48 18 1131 328 8 1465 0
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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
1939 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1942 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1971 Veterans (inducted)
Selected to HOF in 1971
by Veteran's Committee

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1901 NL  115 (4th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1901 NL  82 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1901 NL  27 (4th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1896 NL  131 (5th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1893 NL  307 (5th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
Career  212 (41st)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
Career  144 (78th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1904 NL  .988 (3rd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1894 NL  .951 (4th)
1898 NL  .969 (4th)
1899 NL  .977 (4th)
1900 NL  .959 (4th)

Oldest s c a p y
1908 NL  born 1871-12-09 (7th)

Youngest s c a p y
1891 NL  born 1871-12-09 (4th)

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