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Wally Kimmick

Walter Lyons Kimmick

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 174 lb.

Born: May 30, 1897 in Turtle Creek, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1919
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Reds/Cardinals 1919-1926

Final Game: June 12, 1926
Died: July 24, 1989 in Boswell, PA
Buried: William Penn Gardens, Pittsburgh, PA
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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 Awards
1919 STL NL 22 SS 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .940 5.70
1921 CIN NL 24 3B 2 2 2 6 1 3 2 1 .667 2.00 .942 3.05
1922 CIN NL 25 SS 30 19 19 115 38 73 4 11 .965 3.70 .945 5.78
1922 CIN NL 25 2B 3 2 2 20 6 14 0 0 1.000 6.67 .961 5.77
1922 CIN NL 25 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00
1923 CIN NL 26 2B 17 14 14 107 36 68 3 7 .972 6.12 .959 5.90
1923 CIN NL 26 3B 4 3 3 15 5 10 0 3 1.000 3.75 .947 3.10
1923 CIN NL 26 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.80
1925 PHI NL 28 SS 28 8 5 73 25 41 7 4 .904 2.36 .942 5.73
1925 PHI NL 28 3B 21 17 14 52 21 30 1 3 .981 2.43 .939 2.98
1925 PHI NL 28 2B 13 4 3 41 16 24 1 3 .976 3.08 .967 5.85
1926 PHI NL 29 1B 5 1 0 19 19 0 0 0 1.000 3.80 .989 10.56
1926 PHI NL 29 3B 4 2 2 12 5 5 2 1 .833 2.50 .953 3.00
1926 PHI NL 29 SS 4 0 0 6 1 3 2 0 .667 1.00 .948 5.85
1926 PHI NL 29 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.80
5 Seasons SS 64 27 24 195 64 118 13 15 .933 2.84 .944 5.76
4 Seasons 2B 34 20 19 168 58 106 4 10 .976 4.82 .961 5.86
5 Seasons 3B 32 24 21 85 32 48 5 8 .941 2.50 .943 3.00
1 Season 1B 5 1 0 19 19 0 0 0 1.000 3.80 .989 10.56
6 Seasons TOT 135 72 64 467 173 272 22 33 .953 3.30 .952 5.31
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
1919 STL NL 22 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1921 CIN NL 24 3 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1922 CIN NL 25 39 21 39 34 0 0 0 3 1 30 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
1923 CIN NL 26 29 17 29 22 0 0 0 17 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 5
1925 PHI NL 28 70 29 70 58 0 0 0 13 21 27 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1926 PHI NL 29 20 3 20 14 0 0 5 1 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
6 Seasons 163 72 163 131 0 0 5 34 32 63 0 0 0 0 0 26 7
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.

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