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Sherm Lollar

John Sherman Lollar

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 23, 1924 in Durham, AR
School: Pittsburg State University
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1943. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1946
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Browns/Yankees/Indians 1946-1963

Final Game: September 7, 1963
Died: September 24, 1977 in Springfield, MO
Buried: Rivermonte Memorial Gardens, Springfield, MO
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:12AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #504. Edgardo Alfonzo… #505. Jeff Heath… #506. Howard Johnson… #507. SHERM LOLLAR… #508. Oyster Burns… #509. Jimmy Williams… #510. Ben Oglivie… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1946 21 CLE AL 28 70 62 7 15 6 0 1 9 0 1 5 9 .242 .299 .387 .686 96 24 1 0 3 2
1947 22 NYY AL 11 33 32 4 7 0 1 1 6 0 1 1 5 .219 .242 .375 .617 71 12 3 0 0 /2
1948 23 NYY AL 22 39 38 0 8 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 6 .211 .231 .211 .441 18 8 4 0 0 2
1949 24 SLB AL 109 321 284 28 74 9 1 8 49 0 1 32 22 .261 .340 .384 .723 87 109 8 2 3 2
1950 25 SLB AL 126 474 396 55 111 22 3 13 65 2 0 64 25 .280 .391 .449 .841 111 178 12 8 6 *2 AS,MVP-27
1951 26 SLB AL 98 359 310 44 78 21 0 8 44 1 0 43 26 .252 .350 .397 .747 99 123 20 4 2 2/5
1952 27 CHW AL 132 447 375 35 90 15 0 13 50 1 0 54 34 .240 .354 .384 .738 104 144 15 12 6 *2
1953 28 CHW AL 113 396 334 46 96 19 0 8 54 1 0 47 29 .287 .388 .416 .804 114 139 7 8 7 *2/3
1954 29 CHW AL 107 365 316 31 77 13 0 7 34 0 1 37 28 .244 .334 .351 .686 86 111 5 7 3 2 2 AS
1955 30 CHW AL 138 510 426 67 111 13 1 16 61 2 2 68 34 .261 .374 .408 .782 108 174 10 10 4 2 12 *2 AS,MVP-11
1956 31 CHW AL 136 527 450 55 132 28 2 11 75 2 0 53 34 .293 .383 .438 .821 116 197 19 16 2 6 4 *2 AS,MVP-16
1957 32 CHW AL 101 403 351 33 90 11 2 11 70 2 0 35 24 .256 .342 .393 .736 100 138 7 13 0 4 2 2 MVP-22,GG
1958 33 CHW AL 127 491 421 53 115 16 0 20 84 2 1 57 37 .273 .367 .454 .821 126 191 12 8 1 4 3 *2 AS,MVP-9,GG
1959 34 CHW AL 140 576 505 63 134 22 3 22 84 4 3 55 49 .265 .345 .451 .796 118 228 27 9 2 5 6 *23 AS,MVP-9,GG
1960 35 CHW AL 129 484 421 43 106 23 0 7 46 2 0 42 39 .252 .326 .356 .682 85 150 22 8 5 8 3 *2 AS
1961 36 CHW AL 116 384 337 38 95 10 1 7 41 0 0 37 22 .282 .360 .380 .740 100 128 5 6 1 3 10 2
1962 37 CHW AL 84 256 220 17 59 12 0 2 26 1 0 32 23 .268 .369 .350 .719 95 77 5 3 1 0 9 2
1963 38 CHW AL 35 83 73 4 17 4 0 0 6 0 0 8 7 .233 .317 .288 .605 73 21 2 1 1 0 0 2/3
18 Seasons 1752 6218 5351 623 1415 244 14 155 808 20 10 671 453 .264 .357 .402 .759 104 2152 184 115 47 34 49
162 Game Avg. 162 575 495 58 131 23 1 14 75 2 1 62 42 .264 .357 .402 .759 104 199 17 11 4
G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
CHW (12 yrs) 1358 4922 4229 485 1122 186 9 124 631 17 7 525 360 .265 .358 .402 .759 106 1698 136 101 33 34 49
SLB (3 yrs) 333 1154 990 127 263 52 4 29 158 3 1 139 73 .266 .364 .414 .778 101 410 40 14 11
NYY (2 yrs) 33 72 70 4 15 0 1 1 10 0 1 2 11 .214 .236 .286 .522 42 20 7 0 0
CLE (1 yr) 28 70 62 7 15 6 0 1 9 0 1 5 9 .242 .299 .387 .686 96 24 1 0 3

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1946 21 CLE AL 70 -1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0.2 2 0.2 0.0 $ 2
1947 22 NYY AL 33 -2 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ /2
1948 23 NYY AL 39 -5 0 0 0 0 0 1 -4 -0.4 -4 -0.4 0.0 $ 2
1949 24 SLB AL 321 -6 -2 0 0 0 3 9 4 0.4 4 0.4 0.0 $ 2
1950 25 SLB AL 474 9 -1 0 0 1 4 13 26 2.6 25 2.4 0.2 $ *2 AS,MVP-27
1951 26 SLB AL 359 1 0 0 0 1 3 10 15 1.5 14 1.4 0.1 $ 2/5
1952 27 CHW AL 447 2 -2 0 0 1 4 13 18 1.8 17 1.7 0.1 $ *2
1953 28 CHW AL 397 11 0 0 0 0 3 11 26 2.7 25 2.6 0.1 $ *2/3
1954 29 CHW AL 365 -4 -3 0 1 2 3 10 9 0.9 7 0.7 0.2 $ 2 AS
1955 30 CHW AL 511 7 -2 0 0 3 4 15 27 2.7 24 2.5 0.2 $ *2 AS,MVP-11
1956 31 CHW AL 527 13 1 3 -2 3 8 15 41 4.1 38 3.8 0.3 $ *2 AS,MVP-16
1957 32 CHW AL 403 -1 -1 0 0 1 6 11 16 1.6 15 1.6 0.0 $ 2 MVP-22,GG
1958 33 CHW AL 491 16 1 -1 -2 0 7 14 35 3.6 35 3.6 0.0 $ *2 AS,MVP-9,GG
1959 34 CHW AL 576 13 -3 -1 -5 7 6 16 33 3.3 26 2.6 0.7 $ *23 AS,MVP-9,GG
1960 35 CHW AL 484 -7 -2 -1 -4 10 8 14 18 1.7 8 0.8 0.9 $ *2 AS
1961 36 CHW AL 384 1 -3 2 1 7 6 11 25 2.5 18 1.9 0.6 $ 2
1962 37 CHW AL 256 -2 0 -2 -1 0 4 7 6 0.6 6 0.6 0.0 $ 2
1963 38 CHW AL 83 -2 0 1 0 -0 1 2 2 0.2 2 0.2 0.0 $ 2/3
18 Seasons 6220 43 -17 1 -12 35 71 175 298 29.9 261 26.5 3.4 $
Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
CHW (12 yrs) 4924 47 -14 1 -12 33 60 139 256 25.7 221 22.6 3.1 $
SLB (3 yrs) 1154 4 -3 0 0 2 10 32 45 4.5 43 4.2 0.3 $
NYY (2 yrs) 72 -7 0 0 0 0 0 2 -5 -0.5 -5 -0.5 0.0 $
CLE (1 yr) 70 -1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0.2 2 0.2 0.0 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1947 22 NYY AL WS BRO W 2 4 4 3 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .750 .750 1.250 2.000 5 0 0 0 0 0
1959 34 CHW AL WS LAD L 6 24 22 3 5 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 3 .227 .250 .364 .614 8 2 0 0 1 0
2 Seasons (2 Series) 8 28 26 6 8 2 0 1 6 0 0 1 3 .308 .321 .500 .821 13 2 0 0 1 0
2 WS 8 28 26 6 8 2 0 1 6 0 0 1 3 .308 .321 .500 .821 13 2 0 0 1 0

Standard Fielding

More Stats

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 PB WP SB CS CS% PO Awards
1946 CLE AL 21 C 24 99 89 9 1 1 .990 4.08 .982 5.52 1 3 2 40%
1947 NYY AL 22 C 9 47 44 3 0 0 1.000 5.22 .985 5.02 1 6 2 25%
1948 NYY AL 23 C 10 41 36 4 1 1 .976 4.00 .986 4.74 0 6 1 14%
1949 SLB AL 24 C 93 322 279 39 4 3 .988 3.42 .985 4.76 2 25 19 43%
1950 SLB AL 25 C 109 423 367 48 8 9 .981 3.81 .985 4.85 3 25 23 48% AS,MVP-27
1951 SLB AL 26 C 85 411 361 48 2 8 .995 4.81 .982 5.01 6 29 29 50%
1951 SLB AL 26 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.20
1952 CHW AL 27 C 120 650 590 53 7 4 .989 5.36 .985 5.44 1 33 23 41%
1953 CHW AL 28 C 107 524 470 51 3 2 .994 4.87 .985 5.15 3 20 25 56%
1953 CHW AL 28 1B 1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 3.00 .990 9.70
1954 CHW AL 29 C 93 436 395 38 3 8 .993 2 4.66 .986 5.36 3 10 21 68% AS
1955 CHW AL 30 C 136 730 664 62 4 12 .995 3 5.34 .988 5.54 3 23 18 44% AS,MVP-11
1956 CHW AL 31 C 132 724 679 40 5 6 .993 3 5.45 .988 5.86 4 17 20 54% AS,MVP-16
1957 CHW AL 32 C 96 500 454 45 1 5 .998 1 5.20 .991 5.94 5 23 21 48% MVP-22,GG
1958 CHW AL 33 C 116 669 597 63 9 8 .987 0 5.69 .990 5.95 5 29 26 47% AS,MVP-9,GG
1959 CHW AL 34 C 122 679 623 51 5 14 .993 5 5.52 .989 6.04 4 37 27 42% AS,MVP-9,GG
1959 CHW AL 34 1B 24 195 177 17 1 19 .995 2 8.08 .990 9.77 AS,MVP-9,GG
1960 CHW AL 35 C 123 612 555 54 3 12 .995 10 4.95 .987 5.92 3 26 31 54% AS
1961 CHW AL 36 C 107 513 464 48 1 6 .998 7 4.79 .989 6.14 3 27 22 45%
1962 CHW AL 37 C 66 324 298 23 3 0 .991 0 4.86 .989 6.28 2 26 11 30%
1963 CHW AL 38 C 23 105 94 9 2 2 .981 0 4.48 .989 6.64 4 5 5 50%
1963 CHW AL 38 1B 2 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 -0 2.00 .990 9.50
18 Seasons C 1571 7809 7059 688 62 101 .992 31 4.93 .987 5.60 53 370 326 47%
3 Seasons 1B 27 202 184 17 1 19 .995 1 7.44 .990 9.75
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.20
18 Seasons TOT 1599 8011 7243 705 63 120 .992 32 4.97 .987 5.67 53 370 326 47%
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% PO 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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1950
1954
1955
1956 *
1958
1959-1 *
1959-2 *
1960-1 *
1960-2 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1950 AL (27, 1%)
1955 AL (11, 11%)
1956 AL (16, 8%)
1957 AL (22, 1%)
1958 AL (9, 17%)
1959 AL (9, 13%)
0.51 Career Shares (438th)

Gold Gloves
1957 ML (C)
1958 AL (C)
1959 AL (C)
All multiple winners

On-Base% s c a p y
1955 AL  .374 (8th)

Doubles s c a p y
1956 AL  28 (8th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1958 AL  84 (10th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1950 AL  8 (3rd)
1952 AL  12 (2nd)
1953 AL  8 (3rd)
1954 AL  7 (3rd)
1955 AL  10 (4th)
1956 AL  16 (2nd)
1957 AL  13 (3rd)
1958 AL  8 (5th)
1959 AL  9 (3rd)
1960 AL  8 (4th)
1961 AL  6 (8th)
Career  115 (48th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1956 AL  6 (8th)
1960 AL  8 (3rd)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1955 AL  12 (2nd)
1959 AL  6 (7th)
1961 AL  10 (3rd)
1962 AL  9 (6th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1951 AL  20 (3rd)
1956 AL  19 (3rd)
1959 AL  27 (1st)
1960 AL  22 (2nd)
Career  184 (134th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1955 AL  12.5 (7th)
1956 AL  13.2 (7th)
1958 AL  11.4 (10th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1958 AL  21.1 (10th)
1959 AL  23.0 (10th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1958 AL  4.0 (8th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1959 AL  800 (4th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1950 AL  109 (4th)
1951 AL  85 (4th)
1952 AL  120 (2nd)
1953 AL  107 (3rd)
1955 AL  136 (3rd)
1956 AL  132 (2nd)
1958 AL  116 (3rd)
1959 AL  122 (2nd)
1960 AL  123 (2nd)
Career  1,571 (25th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1950 AL  367 (4th)
1951 AL  361 (4th)
1952 AL  590 (2nd)
1953 AL  470 (3rd)
1955 AL  664 (3rd)
1956 AL  679 (2nd)
1958 AL  597 (3rd)
1959 AL  623 (2nd)
1960 AL  555 (2nd)
Career  7,059 (42nd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1950 AL  48 (4th)
1951 AL  48 (5th)
1952 AL  53 (5th)
1953 AL  51 (3rd)
1955 AL  62 (2nd)
1956 AL  40 (5th)
1958 AL  63 (2nd)
1959 AL  51 (4th)
1960 AL  54 (2nd)
1961 AL  48 (4th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1950 AL  8 (4th)
1952 AL  7 (4th)
1958 AL  9 (2nd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1951 AL  6 (4th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1950 AL  24 (4th)
1951 AL  31 (4th)
1952 AL  43 (2nd)
1953 AL  26 (5th)
1955 AL  24 (4th)
1957 AL  23 (4th)
1958 AL  29 (2nd)
1959 AL  37 (1st)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1950 AL  27 (3rd)
1951 AL  28 (2nd)
1952 AL  22 (5th)
1955 AL  20 (5th)
1957 AL  21 (5th)
1958 AL  26 (3rd)
1959 AL  27 (1st)
1960 AL  31 (2nd)
1961 AL  22 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1949 AL  45.2 (4th)
1950 AL  52.9 (2nd)
1951 AL  47.5 (3rd)
1953 AL  46.9 (5th)
1954 AL  51.4 (2nd)
1955 AL  45.5 (4th)
1957 AL  47.7 (5th)
1958 AL  47.3 (5th)
1960 AL  54.4 (2nd)
1961 AL  44.9 (4th)
Career  46.8 (55th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1954 AL  2 (4th)
1955 AL  3 (1st)
1956 AL  3 (4th)
1957 AL  1 (5th)
1959 AL  5 (3rd)
1960 AL  10 (1st)
1961 AL  7 (2nd)
Career  31 (38th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1951 AL  5.11 (5th)
1952 AL  6.19 (1st)
1953 AL  5.41 (2nd)
1954 AL  5.29 (5th)
1955 AL  5.94 (2nd)
1958 AL  5.99 (5th)
1959 AL  6.10 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1950 AL  3.81 (5th)
1951 AL  4.81 (3rd)
1952 AL  5.36 (2nd)
1953 AL  4.87 (4th)
1954 AL  4.66 (5th)
1955 AL  5.34 (3rd)
1956 AL  5.45 (5th)
1957 AL  5.20 (4th)
1958 AL  5.69 (5th)
1959 AL  5.52 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1949 AL  .988 (4th)
1951 AL  .995 (1st)
1952 AL  .989 (4th)
1953 AL  .994 (1st)
1954 AL  .993 (2nd)
1955 AL  .995 (2nd)
1956 AL  .993 (1st)
1957 AL  .998 (3rd)
1959 AL  .993 (2nd)
1960 AL  .995 (1st)
1961 AL  .998 (1st)
Career  .992 (39th)

Oldest s c a p y
1962 AL  born 1924-08-23 (7th)
1963 AL  born 1924-08-23 (4th)

             

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 6 (1684), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 68 (283), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 30 (321), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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