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Duke Kenworthy

William Jennings Kenworthy (Iron Duke)

Positions: Second Baseman and Outfielder
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: July 4, 1886 in Cambridge, OH (All Transactions)
Debut: August 28, 1912
Teams (by GP): Packers/Senators/Browns 1912-1917

Final Game: May 8, 1917
Died: September 21, 1950 in Eureka, CA
Buried: Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
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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
1912 WSH AL 25 OF 12 17 14 3 0 0 1.000 1.42 .951 2.04 7-5-0
1914 KCP FL 27 2B 145 887 437 407 43 79 .952 5.82 .951 5.17
1915 KCP FL 28 2B 108 548 230 283 35 35 .936 4.75 .951 5.07
1915 KCP FL 28 OF 7 9 7 2 0 0 1.000 1.29 .963 2.06 0-0-7
1917 SLB AL 30 2B 4 18 6 10 2 3 .889 4.00 .959 5.15
3 Seasons 2B 257 1453 673 700 80 117 .945 5.34 .951 5.13
2 Seasons OF 19 26 21 5 0 0 1.000 1.37 .955 2.05 7-5-7
4 Seasons TOT 276 1479 694 705 80 117 .946 5.07 .951 4.92 7-5-7
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
1912 WSH AL 25 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 5 0 12 0
1914 KCP FL 27 146 146 0 0 0 145 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 KCP FL 28 122 122 0 0 0 108 0 0 0 0 7 7 0
1917 SLB AL 30 5 5 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 285 285 0 0 0 257 0 0 7 5 7 19 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

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1914 FL  43 (2nd)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1914 FL  145 (2nd)
1915 FL  108 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1914 FL  437 (1st)
1915 FL  230 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1914 FL  407 (2nd)
1915 FL  283 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1914 FL  43 (1st)
1915 FL  35 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1914 FL  5.82 (1st)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1914 FL  .952 (5th)

             

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