Chuck Klein

Charles Herbert Klein

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: October 7, 1904 in Indianapolis, IN
High School: Southport HS (Indianapolis, IN) (All Transactions)
Debut: July 30, 1928
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Cubs/Pirates 1928-1944

Final Game: June 11, 1944
Died: March 28, 1958 in Indianapolis, IN
Buried: St. Joseph Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Player in 1980.
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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
1928	PHI	NL	23	OF	63	63	61		138	128	7	3	0	.978		2.14	.972		2.47
1928	PHI	NL	23	RF	62	62	60		134	125	6	3	0	.978		2.11	.968		2.26
1928	PHI	NL	23	CF	2	1	1		4	3	1	0	0	1.000		2.00	.975		2.90
1929	PHI	NL	24	OF	149	149	145		351	321	18	12	3	.966		2.28	.973		2.47	MVP-11
1929	PHI	NL	24	RF	124	124	121		281	260	13	8	1	.972		2.20	.971		2.37	MVP-11
1929	PHI	NL	24	CF	25	25	24		70	61	5	4	2	.943		2.64	.976		2.94	MVP-11
1930	PHI	NL	25	OF	156	156	155		423	362	44	17	10	.960		2.60	.968		2.40
1930	PHI	NL	25	RF	156	156	155		423	362	44	17	10	.960		2.60	.966		2.41
1931	PHI	NL	26	OF	148	148	144		314	292	13	9	0	.971		2.06	.973		2.48	MVP-2
1931	PHI	NL	26	LF	90	90	88		198	183	10	5	0	.975		2.14	.976		2.21	MVP-2
1931	PHI	NL	26	RF	43	41	39		70	66	2	2	0	.971		1.58	.969		2.33	MVP-2
1931	PHI	NL	26	CF	17	17	17		46	43	1	2	0	.957		2.59	.974		2.88	MVP-2
1932	PHI	NL	27	OF	154	154	154		375	331	29	15	3	.960		2.34	.976		2.52	MVP-1
1932	PHI	NL	27	RF	154	154	154		375	331	29	15	3	.960		2.34	.969		2.32	MVP-1
1933	PHI	NL	28	OF	152	152	151		365	339	21	5	5	.986		2.37	.977		2.43	AS,MVP-2
1933	PHI	NL	28	RF	152	152	151		365	339	21	5	5	.986		2.37	.975		2.23	AS,MVP-2
1933	PHI	NL	28	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.80	AS,MVP-2
1934	CHC	NL	29	OF	110	110	98		237	222	6	9	2	.962		2.07	.973		2.37	AS
1934	CHC	NL	29	LF	95	93	83		196	184	4	8	2	.959		1.98	.969		2.19	AS
1934	CHC	NL	29	RF	18	17	15		41	38	2	1	0	.976		2.22	.970		2.22	AS
1934	CHC	NL	29	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.70	AS
1935	CHC	NL	30	OF	111	107	98		236	215	11	10	7	.958		2.04	.971		2.42
1935	CHC	NL	30	RF	111	107	98		236	215	11	10	7	.958		2.04	.968		2.17
1936	TOT	NL	31	OF	146	146	141		315	276	16	23	2	.927		2.00	.973		2.38
1936	TOT	NL	31	RF	144	144	139		310	271	16	23	2	.926		1.99	.966		2.12
1936	CHC	NL	31	OF	29	29	26		72	63	3	6	0	.917		2.28	.973		2.38
1936	CHC	NL	31	RF	29	29	26		72	63	3	6	0	.917		2.28	.966		2.12
1936	PHI	NL	31	OF	117	117	115		243	213	13	17	2	.930		1.93	.973		2.38
1936	PHI	NL	31	RF	115	115	113		238	208	13	17	2	.929		1.92	.966		2.12
1936	PHI	NL	31	LF	2	2	2		5	5	0	0	0	1.000		2.50	.972		2.20
1937	PHI	NL	32	OF	102	98	89		196	175	11	10	3	.949		1.82	.974		2.24
1937	PHI	NL	32	RF	72	70	63		130	114	10	6	3	.954		1.72	.972		1.99
1937	PHI	NL	32	LF	32	28	26		66	61	1	4	0	.939		1.94	.973		2.10
1938	PHI	NL	33	OF	119	114	99		247	229	8	10	1	.960		1.99	.976		2.34
1938	PHI	NL	33	RF	118	111	98		241	223	8	10	1	.959		1.96	.978		2.08
1938	PHI	NL	33	LF	3	3	1		6	6	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.972		2.23
1939	TOT	NL	34	OF	77	75	73		165	153	5	7	1	.958		2.05	.975		2.32
1939	TOT	NL	34	RF	50	48	48		112	104	4	4	1	.964		2.16	.973		2.12
1939	PHI	NL	34	OF	11	10	10		21	20	1	0	1	1.000		1.91	.975		2.32
1939	PHI	NL	34	RF	11	10	10		21	20	1	0	1	1.000		1.91	.973		2.12
1939	PHI	NL	34	1B	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			10.20
1939	PIT	NL	34	OF	66	65	63		144	133	4	7	0	.951		2.08	.975		2.32
1939	PIT	NL	34	RF	39	38	38		91	84	3	4	0	.956		2.23	.973		2.12
1939	PIT	NL	34	LF	28	27	25		53	49	1	3	0	.943		1.79	.974		2.16
1940	PHI	NL	35	OF	96	90	82		187	180	4	3	2	.984		1.92	.977		2.32
1940	PHI	NL	35	RF	90	86	78		171	164	4	3	2	.982		1.87	.974		2.04
1940	PHI	NL	35	LF	6	4	4		16	16	0	0	0	1.000		2.67	.974		2.25
1941	PHI	NL	36	OF	14	11	10		24	22	1	1	0	.958		1.64	.975		2.31
1941	PHI	NL	36	RF	12	10	9		22	21	1	0	0	1.000		1.83	.968		1.95
1941	PHI	NL	36	LF	2	1	1		2	1	0	1	0	.500		0.50	.975		2.35
1943	PHI	NL	38	LF	2	2	2		1	0	0	1	0	.000		0.00	.980		2.25
1943	PHI	NL	38	OF	2	2	2		1	0	0	1	0	.000		0.00	.980		2.40
1944	PHI	NL	39	OF	1	1	1		5	5	0	0	0	1.000		5.00	.980		2.50
1944	PHI	NL	39	RF	1	1	1		5	5	0	0	0	1.000		5.00	.974		2.10
	16 Seasons			OF	1600	1576	1503		3579	3250	194	135	39	.962		2.15	.974		2.40
	15 Seasons			RF	1307	1283	1229		2916	2638	171	107	35	.963		2.15	.970		2.22
	9 Seasons			LF	260	250	232		543	505	16	22	2	.959		2.00	.973		2.19
	5 Seasons			CF	46	43	42		120	107	7	6	2	.950		2.48	.975		2.91
	1 Season			1B	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			10.20
	17 Seasons			TOT	1601	1576	1503		3579	3250	194	135	39	.962		2.15	.974		2.41
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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.
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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
1928	PHI	NL	23	64	63	64	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	62	63	0	1	0
1929	PHI	NL	24	149	149	149	149	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25	124	149	0	0	0
1930	PHI	NL	25	156	156	156	156	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	156	156	0	0	0
1931	PHI	NL	26	148	148	148	148	0	0	0	0	0	0	90	17	43	148	0	0	0
1932	PHI	NL	27	154	154	154	154	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	154	154	0	0	0
1933	PHI	NL	28	152	152	152	152	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	152	152	0	0	0
1934	CHC	NL	29	115	110	115	110	0	0	0	0	0	0	95	1	18	110	0	5	0
1935	CHC	NL	30	119	107	119	111	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	111	111	0	8	0
1936	PHI	NL	31	117	117	117	117	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	115	117	0	0	0
1936	CHC	NL	31	29	29	29	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	29	29	0	0	0
1937	PHI	NL	32	115	98	115	102	0	0	0	0	0	0	32	0	72	102	0	13	0
1938	PHI	NL	33	129	114	129	119	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	118	119	0	10	0
1939	PIT	NL	34	85	65	85	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	0	39	66	0	19	0
1939	PHI	NL	34	25	10	25	12	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	11	11	0	13	0
1940	PHI	NL	35	116	90	116	96	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	90	96	0	20	0
1941	PHI	NL	36	50	11	50	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	12	14	0	36	1
1942	PHI	NL	37	14	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	0
1943	PHI	NL	38	12	2	12	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	10	0
1944	PHI	NL	39	4	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	0
	17 Seasons			1753	1576	1753	1601	0	0	1	0	0	0	260	46	1307	1600	0	152	1
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 1948 BBWAA ( 2.5%) 1949 BBWAA ( 5.9%) 1950 BBWAA ( 8.3%) 1951 BBWAA ( 6.6%) 1952 BBWAA ( 8.1%) 1954 BBWAA ( 4.4%) 1955 BBWAA (10.0%) 1956 BBWAA (22.8%) 1958 BBWAA (13.5%) 1960 BBWAA (13.8%) 1962 BBWAA (11.2%) 1964 BBWAA (27.9%) 1964 Run Off ( 9.0%) 1980 Veterans (inducted) Selected to HOF in 1980 by Veteran's Committee	All-Star Games 1933 (RF) 1934 *	Awards (yr lg award) 1932 NL MVP 1933 NL Triple Crown	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1929 NL (11, 19%) 1931 NL (2, 69%) 1932 NL (1, 98%) 1933 NL (2, 60%) 1 MVP 2.46 Career Shares (57th)
Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL 90 (5th) 1934 NL 95 (4th)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1934 NL 184 (5th)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL 10 (1st)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL 5 (4th) 1934 NL 8 (3rd)
Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 NL 156 (1st) 1932 NL 154 (1st) 1933 NL 152 (2nd) 1936 NL 144 (4th) 1938 NL 118 (4th) Career 1,307 (37th)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1929 NL 260 (5th) 1930 NL 362 (1st) 1932 NL 331 (4th) 1933 NL 339 (2nd) 1936 NL 271 (3rd) 1938 NL 223 (3rd) Career 2,638 (30th)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1929 NL 13 (4th) 1930 NL 44 (1st) 1932 NL 29 (1st) 1933 NL 21 (1st) 1936 NL 16 (3rd) Career 171 (6th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1929 NL 8 (5th) 1930 NL 17 (1st) 1932 NL 15 (1st) 1935 NL 10 (2nd) 1936 NL 23 (1st) 1937 NL 6 (5th) 1938 NL 10 (1st) Career 107 (8th)
Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1929 NL 149 (5th) 1930 NL 156 (1st) 1931 NL 148 (5th) 1932 NL 154 (1st) 1933 NL 152 (2nd)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1930 NL 362 (4th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1929 NL 18 (3rd) 1930 NL 44 (1st) 1932 NL 29 (1st) 1933 NL 21 (1st) 1936 NL 16 (4th) Career 194 (59th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1929 NL 12 (3rd) 1930 NL 17 (2nd) 1932 NL 15 (1st) 1936 NL 23 (1st) 1937 NL 10 (2nd) 1938 NL 10 (4th) Career 135 (99th)
Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL 2.14 (4th) 1934 NL 1.98 (5th)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL .975 (5th) 1934 NL .959 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 NL 2.60 (2nd) 1932 NL 2.34 (4th) 1933 NL 2.37 (2nd) 1935 NL 2.04 (5th) 1936 NL 1.99 (4th) 1938 NL 1.96 (3rd) Career 2.15 (20th)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1929 NL .972 (3rd) 1932 NL .960 (5th) 1933 NL .986 (2nd) 1940 NL .982 (3rd)
Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1933 NL .986 (5th)	Oldest s c a p y 1942 NL born 1904-10-07 (10th) 1943 NL born 1904-10-07 (9th) 1944 NL born 1904-10-07 (10th)

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