Johnny Lipon

John Joseph Lipon (Skids)

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: November 10, 1922 in Martins Ferry, OH
High School: Chadsey HS (Detroit, MI)
Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1941. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 16, 1942
Teams (by GP): Tigers/RedSox/Browns/Redlegs 1942-1954

Final Game: April 25, 1954
Died: August 17, 1998 in Houston, TX
Buried: Memorial Oaks Cemetery, Houston, TX
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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
1942	DET	AL	19	SS	34	34	32		199	85	103	11	24	.945				5.53	.949		5.01
1946	DET	AL	23	SS	8	0	0		30	14	14	2	5	.933				3.50	.954		4.97
1946	DET	AL	23	3B	1	0	0		1	0	1	0	0	1.000				1.00	.950		3.10
1948	DET	AL	25	SS	117	116	113		574	211	346	17	63	.970				4.76	.964		5.17
1948	DET	AL	25	2B	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0					0.00			5.60
1948	DET	AL	25	3B	1	0	0		2	1	1	0	0	1.000				2.00	.960		3.00
1949	DET	AL	26	SS	120	119	117		626	240	364	22	92	.965				5.03	.963		5.17
1950	DET	AL	27	SS	147	147	145	1316.0	789	273	483	33	126	.958			5.17	5.14	.961	5.05	4.96
1951	DET	AL	28	SS	125	122	116	1095.2	641	244	364	33	80	.949			4.99	4.86	.961	5.20	5.17
1952	TOT	AL	29	SS	108	100	94	911.0	527	198	319	10	65	.981			5.11	4.79	.962	4.94	4.94
1952	DET	AL	29	SS	39	35	34	319.0	185	80	101	4	12	.978			5.11	4.64	.962	4.94	4.94
1952	BOS	AL	29	SS	69	65	60	592.0	342	118	218	6	53	.982			5.11	4.87	.962	4.94	4.94
1952	BOS	AL	29	3B	7	3	3	39.0	16	4	11	1	2	.938			3.46	2.14	.953	3.30	3.29
1953	BOS	AL	30	SS	58	45	30	408.2	247	85	150	12	26	.951	4	12	5.18	4.05	.966	5.11	5.08
1953	SLB	AL	30	3B	6	2	2	25.0	4	0	4	0	0	1.000	1	48	1.44	0.67	.958	3.38	3.37
1953	SLB	AL	30	2B	1	0	0	4.1	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	8.31	4.00	.980	5.61	5.60
	8 Seasons			SS	717	683	647	3731.1	3633	1350	2143	140	481	.961	4	1	5.10	4.87	.962	5.07	5.08
	4 Seasons			3B	15	5	5	64.0	23	5	17	1	2	.957	1	19	2.67	1.47	.954	3.33	3.29
	2 Seasons			2B	2	0	0	4.1	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	8.31	2.00	.980	5.61	5.60
	9 Seasons			TOT	734	688	652	3799.2	3660	1359	2160	141	483	.961	5	2	5.07	4.79	.962	5.05	5.04

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
1942	DET	AL	19	SS
1946	DET	AL	23	SS
1946	DET	AL	23	3B
1948	DET	AL	25	SS
1948	DET	AL	25	2B
1948	DET	AL	25	3B
1949	DET	AL	26	SS
1950	DET	AL	27	SS
1951	DET	AL	28	SS
1952	DET	AL	29	SS
1952	BOS	AL	29	SS
1952	BOS	AL	29	3B
1953	BOS	AL	30	SS	4	12	5	2	4	-1
1953	SLB	AL	30	3B	1	48	1	0	1	0
1953	SLB	AL	30	2B	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8 Seasons			SS	4	1	5	2	4	-1
	4 Seasons			3B	1	19	1	0	1	0
	2 Seasons			2B	0	0	0	0	0	0
	9 Seasons			TOT	5	2	6	2	5	-1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1942	DET	AL	19	34	34	34	34	0	0	34	0	0
1946	DET	AL	23	14	0	14	9	0	1	8	1	4
1948	DET	AL	25	121	116	121	118	1	1	117	2	1
1949	DET	AL	26	127	119	127	120	0	0	120	5	2
1950	DET	AL	27	147	147	147	147	0	0	147	0	0
1951	DET	AL	28	129	122	129	125	0	0	125	3	2
1952	BOS	AL	29	79	68	79	76	0	7	69	2	3
1952	DET	AL	29	39	35	39	39	0	0	39	1	0
1953	BOS	AL	30	60	45	60	58	0	0	58	2	1
1953	SLB	AL	30	7	2	7	7	1	6	0	0	3
1954	CIN	NL	31	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
	9 Seasons			758	688	758	733	2	15	717	17	16

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 -- SS*

											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	63	463	163	363	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1948	DET	AL	25	2179	59%	81%	26%	229	95%	2	103	55	39	9	180	137	37	0	2	14	1	12	1	8	36	16	3	11	3	0	33	19	14	1	0	1
1949	DET	AL	26	3001	56%	81%	26%	306	92%	2	153	71	70	12	244	177	59	0	5	14	0	13	1	12	59	20	6	18	7	2	56	27	28	2	1	1
1950	DET	AL	27	4412	57%	83%	28%	463	89%	2	209	77	110	22	384	284	93	0	6	27	0	24	3	18	94	38	4	30	9	4	86	42	44	6	1	5
1951	DET	AL	28	3750	61%	82%	27%	378	87%	2	177	76	80	21	291	204	74	1	4	28	2	25	1	24	55	20	2	17	6	3	50	22	28	5	0	2
1952	BOS	AL	29	2486	58%	81%	28%	248	92%	2	119	50	53	16	212	157	47	1	3	6	0	5	1	4	53	17	0	20	3	3	43	17	26	7	3	4
1952	DET	AL	29	1339	58%	80%	28%	131	93%	4	70	31	28	11	100	76	18	2	1	4	0	3	1	4	12	1	0	7	2	0	10	1	9	2	1	0
1953	BOS	AL	30	1757	63%	81%	26%	201	89%	1	81	43	32	6	150	103	39	0	3	12	0	9	3	10	26	13	1	7	1	0	23	14	8	3	2	1
	6 Seasons			18924	59%	82%	27%	1956	90%	15	912	403	412	97	1561	1138	367	4	24	105	3	91	11	80	335	125	16	110	31	12	301	142	157	26	8	14
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		90%

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%
1952	BOS	AL	29	167	57%	81%	27%	12	83%	0	3	2	0	1	10	8	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
1953	SLB	AL	30	97	58%	80%	23%	6	67%	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0%
	2 Seasons			264	58%	81%	25%	18	78%	0	3	2	0	1	14	12	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	0%
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		89%																								68%

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
1953	SLB	AL	30	20	80%	80%	5%	2	100%	0	4	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			20	80%	80%	5%	2	100%	0	4	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		93%

* 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

Assists† s c a p y 1950 AL 483 (3rd)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1950 AL 33 (2nd) 1951 AL 33 (1st)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1948 AL 117 (5th) 1950 AL 147 (2nd) 1951 AL 125 (5th) 1952 AL 108 (4th)	Putouts as SS s c a p y 1948 AL 211 (5th) 1950 AL 273 (2nd) 1951 AL 244 (5th) 1952 AL 198 (4th)
Assists as SS s c a p y 1948 AL 346 (5th) 1950 AL 483 (1st) 1951 AL 364 (5th) 1952 AL 319 (4th)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1950 AL 33 (1st) 1951 AL 33 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y 1950 AL 5.17 (1st) 1952 AL 5.11 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1949 AL 5.03 (5th) 1950 AL 5.14 (1st) 1952 AL 4.79 (4th) Career 4.87 (89th)
Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1948 AL .970 (5th) 1949 AL .965 (5th) 1950 AL .958 (4th) 1952 AL .981 (1st)	Youngest s c a p y 1942 AL born 1922-11-10 (4th)

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