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Don Lenhardt

Donald Eugene Lenhardt (Footsie)

Positions: Leftfielder, First Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: October 4, 1922 in Alton, IL
School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
Signed by the St. Louis Browns as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1950
Teams (by GP): Browns/RedSox/WhiteSox/Tigers/Orioles 1950-1954

Final Game: September 25, 1954
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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
1950 SLB AL 27 1B 86 77 70 687.0 665 618 39 8 77 .988 8.61 7.64 .989 9.54 9.37
1950 SLB AL 27 LF 39 37 36 330.2 83 80 1 2 1 .976 2.20 2.08 .977 2.41 2.37
1950 SLB AL 27 OF 39 37 36 330.2 81 78 1 2 1 .975 2.15 2.03 .979 2.51 2.47
1950 SLB AL 27 3B 10 10 8 84.1 32 13 18 1 1 .969 3.31 3.10 .960 3.24 3.20
1951 TOT AL 28 LF 80 73 57 645.0 174 169 2 3 0 .983 2.39 2.14 .973 2.43 2.41
1951 TOT AL 28 OF 80 73 57 645.0 175 170 2 3 0 .983 2.40 2.15 .977 2.45 2.44
1951 TOT AL 28 1B 3 0 0 8.0 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 10.12 3.00 .990 9.79 9.67
1951 SLB AL 28 LF 27 26 21 221.2 54 53 0 1 0 .981 2.15 1.96 .973 2.43 2.41
1951 SLB AL 28 OF 27 26 21 221.2 55 54 0 1 0 .982 2.19 2.00 .977 2.45 2.44
1951 SLB AL 28 1B 1 0 0 2.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 13.50 3.00 .990 9.90 9.70
1951 CHW AL 28 LF 53 47 36 423.1 120 116 2 2 0 .983 2.51 2.23 .973 2.43 2.41
1951 CHW AL 28 OF 53 47 36 423.1 120 116 2 2 0 .983 2.51 2.23 .977 2.45 2.44
1951 CHW AL 28 1B 2 0 0 6.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 9.00 3.00 .990 9.75 9.65
1952 TOT AL 29 OF 81 77 70 683.4 173 166 5 2 1 .988 2.25 2.11 .980 2.40 2.40
1952 TOT AL 29 LF 80 77 70 679.4 172 165 5 2 1 .988 2.25 2.13 .979 2.28 2.28
1952 BOS AL 29 LF 27 26 23 236.0 53 52 0 1 0 .981 1.98 1.93 .979 2.28 2.28
1952 BOS AL 29 OF 27 26 23 236.0 53 52 0 1 0 .981 1.98 1.93 .980 2.40 2.40
1952 DET AL 29 LF 43 42 38 358.2 95 89 5 1 1 .989 2.36 2.19 .979 2.28 2.28
1952 DET AL 29 OF 43 42 38 358.2 95 89 5 1 1 .989 2.36 2.19 .980 2.40 2.40
1952 SLB AL 29 OF 11 9 9 88.2 25 25 0 0 0 1.000 2.54 2.27 .980 2.41 2.40
1952 SLB AL 29 LF 10 9 9 84.2 24 24 0 0 0 1.000 2.55 2.40 .979 2.29 2.28
1952 SLB AL 29 1B 2 2 1 13.0 13 11 2 0 5 1.000 9.00 6.50 .988 9.62 9.60
1952 SLB AL 29 CF 1 0 0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.92 2.90
1953 SLB AL 30 OF 77 70 67 632.1 161 148 8 5 1 .969 -7 -13 2.22 2.03 .981 2.43 2.41
1953 SLB AL 30 LF 68 64 62 578.1 144 134 6 4 0 .972 -5 -10 2.18 2.06 .973 2.22 2.21
1953 SLB AL 30 RF 8 6 5 54.0 15 12 2 1 1 .933 0 0 2.33 1.75 .984 2.08 2.08
1953 SLB AL 30 3B 6 4 3 42.0 14 5 8 1 0 .929 -1 -29 2.79 2.17 .957 3.39 3.37
1954 TOT AL 31 LF 20 13 11 138.1 22 22 0 0 0 1.000 -2 -17 1.43 1.10 .977 2.26 2.24
1954 TOT AL 31 OF 20 13 11 138.1 22 22 0 0 0 1.000 -2 -17 1.43 1.10 .979 2.39 2.37
1954 BAL AL 31 LF 7 5 5 57.1 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 0 2 1.41 1.29 .977 2.26 2.24
1954 BAL AL 31 OF 7 5 5 57.1 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 0 2 1.41 1.29 .979 2.39 2.37
1954 BAL AL 31 1B 2 2 2 17.2 16 13 3 0 0 1.000 0 0 8.15 8.00 .990 9.63 9.55
1954 BOS AL 31 LF 13 8 6 81.0 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 -2 -31 1.44 1.00 .977 2.26 2.24
1954 BOS AL 31 OF 13 8 6 81.0 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 -2 -31 1.44 1.00 .979 2.39 2.37
1954 BOS AL 31 3B 1 0 0 6.0 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 0 20 4.50 3.00 .960 3.45 3.50
5 Seasons OF 297 270 241 2429.2 612 584 16 12 3 .980 -9 -4 2.22 2.02 .979 2.44 2.42
5 Seasons LF 287 264 236 2371.2 595 570 14 11 2 .982 -7 -4 2.22 2.03 .975 2.32 2.31
4 Seasons 1B 93 81 73 725.2 703 651 44 8 82 .989 0 0 8.62 7.47 .989 9.55 9.39
3 Seasons 3B 17 14 11 132.1 49 18 29 2 1 .959 -1 -8 3.20 2.76 .959 3.30 3.28
1 Season RF 8 6 5 54.0 15 12 2 1 1 .933 0 0 2.33 1.75 .984 2.08 2.08
1 Season CF 1 0 0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.92 2.90
5 Seasons TOT 407 365 325 3287.2 1364 1253 89 22 86 .984 -10 -4 3.67 3.30 .984 4.04 4.05
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
1950 SLB AL 27 1B
1950 SLB AL 27 LF
1950 SLB AL 27 3B
1951 SLB AL 28 LF
1951 SLB AL 28 1B
1951 CHW AL 28 LF
1951 CHW AL 28 1B
1952 BOS AL 29 LF
1952 DET AL 29 LF
1952 SLB AL 29 LF
1952 SLB AL 29 1B
1952 SLB AL 29 CF
1953 SLB AL 30 LF -5 -10 -6 -3 -3 1
1953 SLB AL 30 RF 0 0 -1 -1 0 1
1953 SLB AL 30 3B -1 -29 -1 -1 0 0
1954 BAL AL 31 LF 0 2 0 0 -0 0
1954 BAL AL 31 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 BOS AL 31 LF -2 -31 -2 -2 0 0
1954 BOS AL 31 3B 0 20 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons LF -7 -4 -8 -4 -3 1
4 Seasons 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 3B -1 -8 -1 -1 0 0
1 Season RF 0 0 -1 -1 0 1
1 Season CF
5 Seasons TOT -10 -4 -10 -6 -3 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
1950 SLB AL 27 139 124 139 132 0 0 86 0 10 0 39 0 0 39 0 10 1
1951 CHW AL 28 64 47 64 53 0 0 2 0 0 0 53 0 0 53 0 17 0
1951 SLB AL 28 31 26 31 28 0 0 1 0 0 0 27 0 0 27 0 4 0
1952 DET AL 29 45 42 45 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 0 0 43 0 3 0
1952 BOS AL 29 30 26 30 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 0 0 27 0 3 0
1952 SLB AL 29 18 11 18 13 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 1 0 11 0 5 1
1953 SLB AL 30 97 74 97 81 0 0 0 0 6 0 68 0 8 76 0 22 0
1954 BOS AL 31 44 8 44 14 0 0 0 0 1 0 13 0 0 13 0 31 1
1954 BAL AL 31 13 7 13 9 0 0 2 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 0 5 0
5 Seasons 481 365 481 400 0 0 93 0 17 0 287 1 8 296 0 100 3
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 -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1950 SLB AL 27 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 11 0 12 1 0 10 8 0 4 2 0 7 7 0 46 29 63.0% 17 0 0.0% 0 934 60% 84% 29% 116 37%
1951 CHW AL 28 2 0 2 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 21 15 0 15 4 0 9 2 0 9 3 0 6 6 0 60 30 50.0% 29 0 0.0% 2 1668 57% 84% 32% 221 52%
1951 SLB AL 28 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0 6 0 0 3 2 0 2 1 0 4 4 0 23 15 65.2% 8 0 0.0% 0 739 59% 78% 24% 76 45%
1952 DET AL 29 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 4 29 21 1 20 2 2 4 4 0 6 1 1 10 10 0 69 38 55.1% 27 4 5.8% 1 1255 71% 82% 27% 158 44%
1952 BOS AL 29 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 6 0 6 1 0 5 3 0 3 2 0 7 7 0 29 19 65.5% 10 0 0.0% 0 994 62% 80% 29% 101 51%
1952 SLB AL 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 6 3 50.0% 3 0 0.0% 0 255 69% 78% 30% 25 56%
1953 SLB AL 30 4 0 3 1 0 5 0 1 1 3 31 26 1 24 6 2 13 5 1 11 2 0 14 14 0 93 53 57.0% 36 4 4.3% 1 2322 63% 80% 29% 263 49%
1954 BOS AL 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 10 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 18 11 61.1% 7 0 0.0% 0 363 70% 81% 23% 48 27%
1954 BAL AL 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 75.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 242 54% 73% 24% 17 53%
5 Seasons 10 0 9 1 2 12 0 4 1 7 126 100 2 88 14 4 48 27 1 37 11 1 49 49 0 348 201 57.8% 138 8 2.3% 4 8772 62% 81% 29% 1025 47%
MLB Averages 57.5% 2.6% 63% 82% 31% 51%

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%
1950 SLB AL 27 2047 59% 84% 22% 100 90% 1 380 29 348 3 37 29 19 6 2 1 6 1 5 0 4 50 1 0 1 44 2 6 0 6 9 100%
1951 CHW AL 28 27 67% 89% 22% 2 50% 0 6 0 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 SLB AL 28 9 44% 100% 22% 1 100% 0 3 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 SLB AL 29 21 62% 86% 33% 3 100% 0 5 0 5 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1954 BAL AL 31 76 67% 72% 17% 4 100% 0 13 2 11 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 2180 59% 83% 22% 110 90% 1 407 31 373 3 40 34 21 7 2 1 6 1 5 0 4 52 1 0 1 46 2 6 0 6 10 100%
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 93% 85%

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%
1950 SLB AL 27 148 60% 87% 24% 13 85% 0 4 3 0 1 8 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1953 SLB AL 30 185 61% 83% 26% 15 80% 0 5 4 0 1 8 7 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1954 BOS AL 31 30 90% 90% 30% 3 100% 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 363 63% 85% 26% 31 84% 0 9 7 0 2 19 15 4 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 89% 67%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1953 SLB AL 30 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 4 3 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 8 6 75.0% 2 0 0.0% 2 213 69% 85% 28% 23 43%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 4 3 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 8 6 75.0% 2 0 0.0% 2 213 69% 85% 28% 23 43%
MLB Averages 43.7% 3.4% 63% 82% 31% 55%

* 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 as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1952 AL  165 (5th)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1952 AL  5 (5th)
1953 AL  6 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1951 AL  2.39 (4th)
1952 AL  2.25 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1951 AL  2.14 (5th)
1952 AL  2.13 (3rd)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1951 AL  .983 (4th)
1952 AL  .988 (3rd)

                                         

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