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Denny Lyons

Dennis Patrick Aloysius Lyons

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: March 12, 1866 in Cincinnati, OH (All Transactions)
Debut: September 18, 1885
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Pirates/Browns/Giants/Grays 1885-1897

Final Game: July 23, 1897
Died: January 2, 1929 in West Covington, KY
Buried: St. Joseph New Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH
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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
1885 PRO NL 19 3B 4 17 6 8 3 0 .824 3.50 .866 3.25
1886 PHA AA 20 3B 32 109 35 53 21 1 .807 2.75 .849 3.18
1887 PHA AA 21 3B 137 543 255 215 73 29 .866 3.43 .850 3.34
1888 PHA AA 22 3B 111 401 159 193 49 11 .878 3.17 .867 3.46
1889 PHA AA 23 3B 130 573 202 291 80 29 .860 3.79 .857 3.56
1889 PHA AA 23 1B 1 8 7 0 1 0 .875 7.00 .972 10.10
1890 PHA AA 24 3B 88 385 147 203 35 15 .909 3.98 .864 3.68
1891 STL AA 25 3B 120 456 151 246 59 16 .871 3.31 .872 3.63
1892 NYG NL 26 3B 108 411 152 206 53 13 .871 3.31 .879 3.58
1893 PIT NL 27 3B 131 563 214 303 46 23 .918 3.95 .893 3.79
1894 PIT NL 28 3B 72 310 121 157 32 11 .897 3.86 .878 3.48
1895 STL NL 29 3B 34 126 62 50 14 2 .889 3.29 .872 3.46
1896 PIT NL 30 3B 116 410 165 201 44 15 .893 3.16 .892 3.46
1897 PIT NL 31 1B 35 358 339 15 4 14 .989 10.11 .980 10.23
1897 PIT NL 31 3B 2 10 6 4 0 0 1.000 5.00 .892 3.35
13 Seasons 3B 1085 4314 1675 2130 509 165 .882 3.51 .871 3.54
2 Seasons 1B 36 366 346 15 5 14 .986 10.03 .980 10.23
13 Seasons TOT 1121 4680 2021 2145 514 179 .890 3.72 .880 3.75
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
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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
1885 PRO NL 19 4 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
1886 PHA AA 20 32 32 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0
1887 PHA AA 21 137 137 0 0 0 0 137 0 0 0 0 0 0
1888 PHA AA 22 111 111 0 0 0 0 111 0 0 0 0 0 0
1889 PHA AA 23 131 131 0 0 1 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0
1890 PHA AA 24 88 88 0 0 0 0 88 0 0 0 0 0 0
1891 STL AA 25 120 120 0 0 0 0 120 0 0 0 0 0 0
1892 NYG NL 26 108 108 0 0 0 0 108 0 0 0 0 0 0
1893 PIT NL 27 131 131 0 0 0 0 131 0 0 0 0 0 0
1894 PIT NL 28 72 72 0 0 0 0 72 0 0 0 0 0 0
1895 STL NL 29 34 34 0 0 0 0 34 0 0 0 0 0 0
1896 PIT NL 30 118 118 0 0 0 0 116 0 0 0 0 0 0
1897 PIT NL 31 37 37 0 0 35 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Seasons 1123 1123 0 0 36 0 1085 0 0 0 0 0 0
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
Career  514 (76th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1887 AA  137 (1st)
1889 AA  130 (3rd)
1890 AA  88 (5th)
1891 AA  120 (2nd)
1892 NL  108 (5th)
1893 NL  131 (2nd)
1896 NL  116 (5th)
Career  1,085 (86th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1887 AA  255 (1st)
1888 AA  159 (4th)
1889 AA  202 (3rd)
1890 AA  147 (5th)
1891 AA  151 (3rd)
1892 NL  152 (5th)
1893 NL  214 (1st)
1896 NL  165 (3rd)
Career  1,675 (26th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1889 AA  291 (2nd)
1890 AA  203 (5th)
1891 AA  246 (2nd)
1892 NL  206 (5th)
1893 NL  303 (3rd)
Career  2,130 (79th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1887 AA  73 (2nd)
1888 AA  49 (5th)
1889 AA  80 (2nd)
1891 AA  59 (2nd)
1892 NL  53 (5th)
1896 NL  44 (3rd)
Career  509 (7th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1887 AA  3.43 (3rd)
1888 AA  3.17 (4th)
1889 AA  3.79 (3rd)
1890 AA  3.98 (2nd)
1893 NL  3.95 (3rd)
1894 NL  3.86 (2nd)
Career  3.51 (12th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1887 AA  .866 (3rd)
1888 AA  .878 (4th)
1889 AA  .860 (5th)
1890 AA  .909 (1st)
1891 AA  .871 (5th)
1893 NL  .918 (3rd)
1894 NL  .897 (5th)

Youngest s c a p y
1885 NL  born 1866-03-12 (6th)

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