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Bobby LaMotte

Robert Eugene LaMotte

Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: February 15, 1898 in Savannah, GA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 1, 1920
Teams (by GP): Browns/Senators 1920-1926

Final Game: July 11, 1926
Died: November 2, 1970 in Chatham, GA
Buried: Greenwich Cemetery, Savannah, GA
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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
1920 WSH AL 22 3B 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 3.60
1920 WSH AL 22 SS 1 1 0 4 0 3 1 0 .750 3.00 .945 5.20
1921 WSH AL 23 SS 12 12 12 67 20 43 4 9 .940 5.25 .941 5.34
1922 WSH AL 24 3B 62 54 50 241 91 139 11 11 .954 3.71 .950 3.45
1922 WSH AL 24 SS 6 7 6 20 11 9 0 5 1.000 3.33 .946 5.20
1925 SLB AL 27 SS 93 85 83 529 220 270 39 67 .926 5.27 .944 5.20
1925 SLB AL 27 3B 3 1 0 8 3 5 0 0 1.000 2.67 .948 3.20
1926 SLB AL 28 SS 30 20 18 123 47 66 10 15 .919 3.77 .944 5.01
1926 SLB AL 28 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.40
5 Seasons SS 142 125 119 743 298 391 54 96 .927 4.85 .944 5.17
4 Seasons 3B 67 55 50 250 94 145 11 11 .956 3.57 .950 3.44
5 Seasons TOT 209 180 169 993 392 536 65 107 .935 4.44 .945 4.62
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
1920 WSH AL 22 4 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1921 WSH AL 23 17 12 17 13 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
1922 WSH AL 24 68 61 68 67 0 0 0 0 58 10 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1925 SLB AL 27 97 86 97 94 0 0 0 0 3 93 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1926 SLB AL 28 36 20 36 31 0 0 0 0 1 30 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
5 Seasons 222 180 222 207 0 0 0 0 63 147 0 0 0 0 0 10 6
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
1925 AL  39 (2nd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1925 AL  220 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1925 AL  39 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1925 AL  5.27 (4th)

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