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Don Kolloway

Donald Martin Kolloway (Butch or Cab)

Positions: Second Baseman, First Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: August 4, 1918 in Posen, IL
High School: Blue Island HS (Blue Island, IL) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1940
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Tigers/Athletics 1940-1953

Final Game: April 21, 1953
Died: June 30, 1994 in Blue Island, IL
Buried: Cedar Park Cemetery, Chicago, IL
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1940 CHW AL 21 2B 10 8 8 51 19 28 4 7 .922 4.70 .969 5.39
1941 CHW AL 22 2B 62 57 52 313 118 181 14 23 .955 4.82 .967 5.47
1941 CHW AL 22 1B 4 3 3 42 34 4 4 6 .905 9.50 .990 9.93
1942 CHW AL 23 2B 116 115 112 676 308 345 23 80 .966 5.63 .969 5.62
1942 CHW AL 23 1B 33 32 31 348 328 15 5 28 .986 10.39 .989 10.08
1943 CHW AL 24 2B 85 85 85 502 246 240 16 71 .968 5.72 .969 5.57
1946 CHW AL 27 2B 90 90 88 531 235 281 15 74 .972 5.73 .970 5.54
1946 CHW AL 27 3B 31 30 30 113 32 72 9 8 .920 3.35 .948 3.06
1947 CHW AL 28 2B 99 96 94 603 274 306 23 76 .962 5.86 .978 5.46
1947 CHW AL 28 1B 11 10 10 108 99 8 1 9 .991 9.73 .990 9.64
1947 CHW AL 28 3B 8 7 6 25 5 17 3 1 .880 2.75 .959 3.01
1948 CHW AL 29 2B 83 83 81 535 241 276 18 62 .966 6.23 .976 5.62
1948 CHW AL 29 3B 18 17 16 54 23 27 4 1 .926 2.78 .958 3.04
1949 TOT AL 30 3B 9 5 5 18 6 12 0 1 1.000 2.00 .960 3.14
1949 CHW AL 30 3B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.15
1949 DET AL 30 2B 62 55 51 297 135 149 13 44 .956 4.58 .974 5.49
1949 DET AL 30 1B 57 54 50 512 472 35 5 49 .990 8.89 .989 9.77
1949 DET AL 30 3B 7 5 5 18 6 12 0 1 1.000 2.57 .960 3.14
1950 DET AL 31 1B 118 115 110 1022.1 1185 1087 85 13 133 .989 10.32 9.93 .989 9.54 9.37
1950 DET AL 31 2B 1 0 0 3.0 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 12.00 4.00 .975 6.00 5.80
1951 DET AL 32 1B 59 51 42 467.1 505 452 49 4 53 .992 9.65 8.49 .990 9.70 9.66
1952 DET AL 33 1B 32 30 28 265.0 286 252 28 6 15 .979 9.51 8.75 .988 9.63 9.62
1952 DET AL 33 2B 8 6 6 53.0 31 14 16 1 4 .968 5.09 3.75 .978 5.57 5.58
1952 DET AL 33 CF 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.90
1953 PHA AL 34 3B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 3.60 3.40
10 Seasons 2B 616 595 577 56.0 3543 1591 1825 127 441 .964 5.46 5.55 .972 5.59 5.54
7 Seasons 1B 314 295 274 1754.2 2986 2724 224 38 293 .987 10.02 9.39 .989 9.60 9.61
5 Seasons 3B 67 59 57 1.0 210 66 128 16 11 .924 0 0 0.00 2.90 .953 3.60 3.07
1 Season CF 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.90
12 Seasons TOT 997 949 908 1811.2 6739 4381 2177 181 745 .973 0 0 9.87 6.58 .979 9.47 6.66
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG 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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1940 CHW AL 21 2B
1941 CHW AL 22 2B
1941 CHW AL 22 1B
1942 CHW AL 23 2B
1942 CHW AL 23 1B
1943 CHW AL 24 2B
1946 CHW AL 27 2B
1946 CHW AL 27 3B
1947 CHW AL 28 2B
1947 CHW AL 28 1B
1947 CHW AL 28 3B
1948 CHW AL 29 2B
1948 CHW AL 29 3B
1949 CHW AL 30 3B
1949 DET AL 30 2B
1949 DET AL 30 1B
1949 DET AL 30 3B
1950 DET AL 31 1B
1950 DET AL 31 2B
1951 DET AL 32 1B
1952 DET AL 33 1B
1952 DET AL 33 2B
1952 DET AL 33 CF
1953 PHA AL 34 3B 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons 2B
7 Seasons 1B
5 Seasons 3B 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season CF
12 Seasons TOT 0 0 0 0 0
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1940 CHW AL 21 10 8 10 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1941 CHW AL 22 71 60 71 65 0 0 4 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
1942 CHW AL 23 147 147 147 147 0 0 33 116 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1943 CHW AL 24 85 85 85 85 0 0 0 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1946 CHW AL 27 123 120 123 121 0 0 0 90 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1947 CHW AL 28 124 113 124 117 0 0 11 100 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1
1948 CHW AL 29 119 100 119 101 0 0 0 83 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 4
1949 DET AL 30 126 114 126 119 0 0 57 62 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1949 CHW AL 30 4 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1950 DET AL 31 125 115 125 119 0 0 118 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1951 DET AL 32 78 51 78 61 0 0 60 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 0
1952 DET AL 33 65 36 65 41 0 0 32 8 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 27 0
1953 PHA AL 34 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
12 Seasons 1079 949 1079 989 0 0 315 618 67 0 0 1 0 1 0 97 10
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.

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1949 DET AL 30 981 57% 83% 28% 60 95% 1 247 16 232 0 31 13 9 1 1 1 4 1 3 0 2 28 0 0 1 26 1 2 0 2 4 75%
1950 DET AL 31 3579 57% 83% 29% 221 92% 1 916 63 844 10 82 67 42 14 0 5 13 1 11 1 10 110 3 0 0 97 3 13 5 8 15 100%
1951 DET AL 32 1608 57% 81% 26% 94 95% 0 351 21 329 2 37 34 25 7 0 3 4 3 1 0 1 42 1 1 0 36 3 6 1 5 5 100%
1952 DET AL 33 1151 57% 80% 28% 71 92% 1 253 15 239 0 26 28 23 1 0 1 6 1 5 0 4 15 0 0 0 13 0 2 1 1 4 100%
4 Seasons 7319 57% 82% 28% 446 93% 3 1767 115 1644 12 176 142 99 23 1 10 27 6 20 1 17 195 4 1 1 172 7 23 7 16 28 96%
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 93% 85%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1948 CHW AL 29 1278 58% 86% 28% 152 91% 0 100 37 43 20 118 94 19 1 4 11 0 9 2 10 23 10 3 6 0 19 6 13 4 0 2
1949 DET AL 30 1439 57% 80% 26% 116 91% 1 90 30 50 11 95 74 18 2 0 5 2 2 1 3 29 13 4 9 2 29 11 17 0 0 0
1950 DET AL 31 19 47% 79% 26% 4 100% 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 DET AL 32 3 67% 100% 100% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 DET AL 33 269 70% 78% 19% 20 95% 0 14 7 4 3 15 11 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 2 1 0
5 Seasons 3008 59% 83% 27% 293 92% 1 205 75 97 34 232 182 40 3 5 17 3 11 3 13 56 24 7 16 2 50 18 31 6 1 2
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 93%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1948 CHW AL 29 216 56% 83% 30% 19 89% 1 5 2 1 2 16 12 2 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 100%
1949 DET AL 30 168 60% 74% 21% 16 88% 1 5 4 0 1 10 6 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1949 CHW AL 30 5 60% 80% 40% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 PHA AL 34 5 60% 60% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 394 58% 79% 26% 35 89% 2 10 6 1 3 26 18 5 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 4 100%
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 89% 69%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Putouts† s c a p y
1950 AL  1,088 (5th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1947 AL  27 (4th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1950 AL  118 (5th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1950 AL  1,087 (5th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1950 AL  85 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1950 AL  13 (4th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1946 AL  90 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1946 AL  235 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1946 AL  281 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1942 AL  23 (3rd)
1947 AL  23 (1st)
1948 AL  18 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1950 AL  10.32 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1950 AL  9.93 (1st)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1950 AL  .989 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1942 AL  5.63 (4th)
1943 AL  5.72 (5th)
1946 AL  5.73 (4th)
1947 AL  5.86 (1st)
1948 AL  6.23 (1st)
Career  5.55 (47th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1946 AL  .972 (3rd)

             

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