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Chet Laabs

Chester Peter Laabs

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: April 30, 1912 in Milwaukee, WI (All Transactions)
Debut: May 5, 1937
Teams (by GP): Browns/Tigers/Athletics 1937-1947

Final Game: June 3, 1947
Died: January 26, 1983 in Warren, MI
Buried: St. Clement Cemetery, Center Line, MI
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All-Star

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
1937 DET AL 25 OF 62 60 57 139 133 2 4 0 .971 2.18 .969 2.35
1937 DET AL 25 CF 41 40 37 92 89 1 2 0 .978 2.20 .974 2.84
1937 DET AL 25 LF 21 20 20 47 44 1 2 0 .957 2.14 .966 2.16
1938 DET AL 26 OF 53 51 50 136 128 4 4 1 .971 2.49 .972 2.35
1938 DET AL 26 CF 37 35 34 96 88 4 4 1 .958 2.49 .972 2.82
1938 DET AL 26 LF 17 16 16 40 40 0 0 0 1.000 2.35 .972 2.17
1939 TOT AL 27 OF 84 79 75 227 212 8 7 0 .969 2.62 .969 2.44
1939 TOT AL 27 LF 8 7 6 28 26 1 1 0 .964 3.38 .966 2.38
1939 DET AL 27 LF 5 5 4 15 13 1 1 0 .933 2.80 .966 2.38
1939 DET AL 27 OF 5 5 4 15 13 1 1 0 .933 2.80 .969 2.44
1939 SLB AL 27 OF 79 74 71 212 199 7 6 0 .972 2.61 .969 2.44
1939 SLB AL 27 CF 70 66 63 186 174 6 6 0 .968 2.57 .977 2.87
1939 SLB AL 27 RF 6 6 6 13 12 1 0 0 1.000 2.17 .962 2.08
1939 SLB AL 27 LF 3 2 2 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 4.33 .966 2.37
1940 SLB AL 28 OF 63 45 40 131 124 3 4 1 .969 2.02 .970 2.40
1940 SLB AL 28 CF 28 26 22 85 82 1 2 1 .976 2.96 .976 2.78
1940 SLB AL 28 LF 26 9 9 31 28 1 2 0 .935 1.12 .963 2.33
1940 SLB AL 28 RF 10 10 9 15 14 1 0 0 1.000 1.50 .970 2.09
1941 SLB AL 29 OF 100 94 90 227 217 6 4 2 .982 2.23 .973 2.41
1941 SLB AL 29 RF 64 63 60 148 138 6 4 2 .973 2.25 .969 2.14
1941 SLB AL 29 LF 21 18 18 45 45 0 0 0 1.000 2.14 .975 2.31
1941 SLB AL 29 CF 16 13 12 41 41 0 0 0 1.000 2.56 .976 2.79
1942 SLB AL 30 OF 139 138 136 298 276 13 9 3 .970 2.08 .976 2.38 MVP-19
1942 SLB AL 30 RF 79 77 77 163 148 9 6 2 .963 1.99 .969 2.07 MVP-19
1942 SLB AL 30 LF 37 37 36 72 69 1 2 0 .972 1.89 .974 2.27 MVP-19
1942 SLB AL 30 CF 25 24 23 63 59 3 1 1 .984 2.48 .981 2.80 MVP-19
1943 SLB AL 31 OF 150 150 144 371 346 16 9 4 .976 2.41 .977 2.47 AS,MVP-23
1943 SLB AL 31 LF 116 114 112 268 249 15 4 4 .985 2.28 .979 2.40 AS,MVP-23
1943 SLB AL 31 CF 34 32 30 92 87 0 5 0 .946 2.56 .978 2.79 AS,MVP-23
1943 SLB AL 31 RF 6 4 2 11 10 1 0 0 1.000 1.83 .973 2.22 AS,MVP-23
1944 SLB AL 32 OF 55 53 49 111 108 3 0 2 1.000 2.02 .974 2.47
1944 SLB AL 32 LF 37 35 33 74 73 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .972 2.35
1944 SLB AL 32 RF 19 18 16 37 35 2 0 2 1.000 1.95 .971 2.08
1944 SLB AL 32 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00
1945 SLB AL 33 OF 35 34 28 70 68 1 1 0 .986 1.97 .978 2.40
1945 SLB AL 33 LF 34 31 27 60 58 1 1 0 .983 1.74 .976 2.26
1945 SLB AL 33 CF 2 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.80
1945 SLB AL 33 RF 2 2 1 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 4.00 .974 2.15
1946 SLB AL 34 OF 72 67 60 158 151 5 2 2 .987 2.17 .977 2.36
1946 SLB AL 34 RF 65 61 55 138 131 5 2 2 .986 2.09 .972 2.10
1946 SLB AL 34 LF 7 6 5 20 20 0 0 0 1.000 2.86 .974 2.24
1947 PHA AL 35 OF 7 7 6 18 17 1 0 0 1.000 2.57 .979 2.47
1947 PHA AL 35 LF 6 6 6 16 16 0 0 0 1.000 2.67 .976 2.37
1947 PHA AL 35 RF 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .975 2.10
11 Seasons OF 820 778 735 1886 1780 62 44 15 .977 2.25 .974 2.41
11 Seasons LF 330 299 288 701 668 21 12 4 .983 2.09 .975 2.32
9 Seasons CF 254 237 221 657 622 15 20 3 .970 2.51 .976 2.82
9 Seasons RF 252 242 226 535 497 26 12 8 .978 2.08 .970 2.10
11 Seasons TOT 820 778 735 1886 1780 62 44 15 .977 2.25 .974 2.41
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% 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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1937 DET AL 25 72 60 72 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 41 0 62 0 9 1
1938 DET AL 26 64 51 64 53 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 37 0 53 0 12 0
1939 SLB AL 27 95 74 95 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 70 6 79 0 18 0
1939 DET AL 27 5 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 0
1940 SLB AL 28 105 45 105 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 28 10 63 0 43 1
1941 SLB AL 29 118 94 118 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 16 64 100 0 16 3
1942 SLB AL 30 144 138 144 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 25 79 139 0 5 0
1943 SLB AL 31 151 150 151 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 116 34 6 150 0 1 0
1944 SLB AL 32 66 53 66 55 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 1 19 55 0 13 0
1945 SLB AL 33 35 34 35 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 2 2 35 0 0 0
1946 SLB AL 34 80 67 80 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 65 72 0 8 0
1947 PHA AL 35 15 7 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 7 0 8 0
11 Seasons 950 778 950 820 0 0 0 0 0 0 330 254 252 820 0 133 5
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

All-Star Games
1943 (CF)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1942 AL (19, 3%)
1943 AL (23, 2%)
0.05 Career Shares (1113th)

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1943 AL  116 (4th)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1943 AL  249 (4th)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1943 AL  15 (1st)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1943 AL  4 (5th)

Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1939 AL  6 (5th)
1943 AL  5 (5th)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1942 AL  9 (5th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1943 AL  150 (2nd)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1943 AL  346 (5th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1943 AL  16 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1943 AL  2.28 (5th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1943 AL  .985 (3rd)

                                         

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