Willard Marshall

Willard Warren Marshall

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: February 8, 1921 in Richmond, VA
High School: Manchester HS (Midlothian, VA)
School: Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1942
Teams (by GP): Giants/Braves/Reds/WhiteSox 1942-1955

Final Game: June 15, 1955
Died: November 5, 2000 in Norwood, NJ
Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Fairview, NJ
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All-Star

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
1942	NYG	NL	21	OF	107	100	91		241	222	13	6	4	.975				2.20	.981		2.34	AS
1942	NYG	NL	21	LF	67	63	59		149	136	10	3	2	.980				2.18	.983		2.32	AS
1942	NYG	NL	21	CF	46	36	32		91	85	3	3	2	.967				1.91	.978		2.62	AS
1942	NYG	NL	21	RF	1	1	0		2	2	0	0	0	1.000				2.00	.980		2.10	AS
1946	NYG	NL	25	OF	125	122	111		273	253	14	6	2	.978				2.14	.977		2.38
1946	NYG	NL	25	CF	60	60	50		159	152	4	3	2	.981				2.60	.979		2.85
1946	NYG	NL	25	LF	53	43	42		83	75	6	2	0	.976				1.53	.975		2.26
1946	NYG	NL	25	RF	20	19	19		32	27	4	1	0	.969				1.55	.976		2.09
1947	NYG	NL	26	OF	155	155	155		363	334	19	10	6	.972				2.28	.977		2.42	AS,MVP-16
1947	NYG	NL	26	RF	155	155	155		360	331	19	10	6	.972				2.26	.978		2.14	AS,MVP-16
1948	NYG	NL	27	OF	142	142	138		287	266	16	5	2	.983				1.99	.978		2.39
1948	NYG	NL	27	RF	142	142	138		279	260	14	5	2	.982				1.93	.976		2.00
1949	NYG	NL	28	OF	138	135	132		313	292	13	8	3	.974				2.21	.977		2.48	AS,MVP-27
1949	NYG	NL	28	RF	136	133	130		311	292	12	7	4	.977				2.24	.977		2.08	AS,MVP-27
1949	NYG	NL	28	LF	2	2	2		8	7	0	1	0	.875				3.50	.974		2.40	AS,MVP-27
1950	BSN	NL	29	OF	85	68	61	656.0	168	150	11	7	2	.958			2.21	1.89	.978	2.34	2.31
1950	BSN	NL	29	RF	68	50	48	485.1	116	102	10	4	2	.966			2.08	1.65	.976	1.87	1.85
1950	BSN	NL	29	LF	13	11	9	103.0	21	19	2	0	0	1.000			1.83	1.62	.977	2.29	2.27
1950	BSN	NL	29	CF	9	7	4	67.2	29	26	0	3	0	.897			3.46	2.89	.980	2.77	2.73
1951	BSN	NL	30	OF	136	123	118	1091.2	231	220	11	0	3	1.000			1.90	1.70	.981	2.42	2.41
1951	BSN	NL	30	RF	127	123	118	1091.2	246	232	13	1	3	.996			2.02	1.93	.981	2.04	2.03
1952	TOT	NL	31	OF	121	117	114	1031.2	236	215	16	5	5	.979			2.02	1.91	.981	2.31	2.29
1952	TOT	NL	31	RF	121	117	114	1031.2	233	213	15	5	5	.979			1.99	1.88	.980	2.07	2.05
1952	BSN	NL	31	OF	16	16	14	136.2	32	27	3	2	3	.938			1.98	1.88	.981	2.31	2.29
1952	BSN	NL	31	RF	16	16	14	136.2	32	27	3	2	3	.938			1.98	1.88	.980	2.07	2.05
1952	CIN	NL	31	OF	105	101	100	895.0	204	188	13	3	2	.985			2.02	1.91	.981	2.31	2.29
1952	CIN	NL	31	RF	105	101	100	895.0	201	186	12	3	2	.985			1.99	1.89	.980	2.07	2.05
1953	CIN	NL	32	RF	96	87	79	774.0	200	187	12	1	1	.995	2	4	2.31	2.07	.981	2.00	1.96
1953	CIN	NL	32	OF	95	87	79	774.0	199	187	11	1	1	.995	2	4	2.30	2.08	.980	2.37	2.32
1954	CHW	AL	33	OF	29	13	7	137.0	25	23	1	1	0	.960	-0	-1	1.58	0.83	.979	2.39	2.37
1954	CHW	AL	33	RF	22	9	5	101.0	21	20	1	0	0	1.000	1	7	1.87	0.95	.975	2.05	2.03
1954	CHW	AL	33	LF	8	4	2	36.0	7	6	0	1	0	.857	-1	-23	1.50	0.75	.977	2.25	2.24
1955	CHW	AL	34	OF	12	10	8	90.0	23	22	0	1	0	.957	0	1	2.20	1.83	.982	2.40	2.38
1955	CHW	AL	34	RF	8	6	4	54.0	14	14	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-7	2.33	1.75	.981	2.05	2.02
1955	CHW	AL	34	LF	4	4	4	36.0	10	9	0	1	0	.900	0	13	2.25	2.25	.980	2.25	2.25
	11 Seasons			OF	1145	1072	1014	3780.1	2359	2184	125	50	28	.979	2	1	2.06	2.02	.979	2.36	2.38
	11 Seasons			RF	896	842	810	3537.2	1814	1680	100	34	23	.981	3	1	2.08	1.99	.978	2.02	2.03
	6 Seasons			LF	147	127	118	175.0	278	252	18	8	2	.971	-0	-2	1.85	1.84	.980	2.27	2.29
	3 Seasons			CF	115	103	86	67.2	279	263	7	9	4	.968			3.46	2.35	.979	2.77	2.75
	11 Seasons			TOT	1145	1072	1014	3780.1	2359	2184	125	50	28	.979	2	1	2.06	2.02	.979	2.36	2.38
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.

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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.
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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
1942	NYG	NL	21	LF
1942	NYG	NL	21	CF
1942	NYG	NL	21	RF
1946	NYG	NL	25	CF
1946	NYG	NL	25	LF
1946	NYG	NL	25	RF
1947	NYG	NL	26	RF
1948	NYG	NL	27	RF
1949	NYG	NL	28	RF
1949	NYG	NL	28	LF
1950	BSN	NL	29	RF
1950	BSN	NL	29	LF
1950	BSN	NL	29	CF
1951	BSN	NL	30	RF
1952	BSN	NL	31	RF
1952	CIN	NL	31	RF
1953	CIN	NL	32	RF	2	4	0	-4	4		2
1954	CHW	AL	33	RF	1	7	1	1	-0		0
1954	CHW	AL	33	LF	-1	-23	-1	-1	-0		0
1955	CHW	AL	34	RF	-0	-7	1	-0	1		-1
1955	CHW	AL	34	LF	0	13	0	-0	1		0
	11 Seasons			RF	3	1	2	-4	5		1
	6 Seasons			LF	-0	-2	-0	-1	1		0
	3 Seasons			CF
	11 Seasons			TOT	2	1	1	-5	6		1
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	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1942	NYG	NL	21	116	100	116	107	67	46	1	107	9	0
1946	NYG	NL	25	131	122	131	125	53	60	20	125	6	0
1947	NYG	NL	26	155	155	155	155	0	0	155	155	0	0
1948	NYG	NL	27	143	142	143	142	0	0	142	142	1	0
1949	NYG	NL	28	141	135	141	138	2	0	136	138	5	0
1950	BSN	NL	29	106	68	106	87	13	9	68	87	26	1
1951	BSN	NL	30	136	123	136	127	0	0	127	127	9	1
1952	CIN	NL	31	107	101	107	105	0	0	105	105	4	0
1952	BSN	NL	31	21	16	21	16	0	0	16	16	5	0
1953	CIN	NL	32	122	87	122	96	0	0	96	96	35	0
1954	CHW	AL	33	47	13	47	29	8	0	22	29	21	0
1955	CHW	AL	34	22	10	22	12	4	0	8	12	12	0
	11 Seasons			1247	1072	1247	1139	147	115	896	1139	133	2

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 -- 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%
1948	NYG	NL	27	1	0	1	0	0	4	0	2	1	0	30	10	0	10	2	0	9	5	0	7	1	0	11	10	0	67	28	41.8%	39	0	0.0%	4	2365	65%	82%	32%	205	53%
1949	NYG	NL	28	5	0	5	0	0	6	0	4	1	1	48	15	1	29	3	1	10	8	0	9	4	0	12	5	1	108	35	32.4%	70	3	2.8%	3	2931	67%	83%	33%	311	58%
1950	BSN	NL	29	3	0	3	0	0	7	0	3	1	3	26	9	1	18	2	1	6	3	0	12	2	1	11	7	0	73	23	31.5%	48	3	4.1%	4	1875	64%	81%	32%	178	56%
1951	BSN	NL	30	1	0	1	0	1	13	1	3	3	2	60	28	3	34	6	2	15	9	0	15	5	0	30	23	0	154	71	46.1%	78	5	3.2%	8	4714	67%	82%	33%	413	59%
1952	CIN	NL	31	3	0	2	1	0	10	0	4	1	3	24	8	2	13	2	1	6	0	1	3	1	1	15	12	1	61	23	37.7%	32	6	9.8%	4	2561	65%	85%	34%	199	64%
1952	BSN	NL	31	2	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	8	5	0	7	0	0	4	1	0	1	0	1	3	2	0	23	8	34.8%	14	1	4.3%	2	623	70%	83%	36%	59	46%
1953	CIN	NL	32	1	0	1	0	0	12	0	5	4	2	18	5	0	8	2	1	9	4	1	11	5	0	13	10	0	59	26	44.1%	31	2	3.4%	10	3344	68%	84%	35%	284	68%
1954	CHW	AL	33	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	5	1	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	11	3	27.3%	7	1	9.1%	0	424	65%	82%	31%	40	53%
1955	CHW	AL	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0.0%	6	0	0.0%	0	233	68%	82%	32%	22	64%
	8 Seasons			16	0	15	1	1	56	1	21	12	12	222	81	8	124	17	6	61	30	2	58	18	3	97	71	2	562	217	38.6%	325	21	3.7%	35	19070	66%	83%	33%	1711	59%
	MLB Averages																														43.7%			3.3%			63%	82%	31%		54%

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	BSN	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	6	5	1	4	1	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	16	11	68.8%	4	1	6.3%	1	425	67%	82%	30%	47	45%
1954	CHW	AL	33	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	6	85.7%	1	0	0.0%	0	154	67%	92%	27%	20	30%
1955	CHW	AL	34	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	152	68%	84%	41%	15	60%
	3 Seasons			2	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	12	11	1	6	2	0	4	4	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	25	19	76.0%	5	1	4.0%	1	731	67%	85%	32%	82	44%
	MLB Averages																														57.7%			2.6%			63%	82%	31%		51%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

				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	BSN	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	3	1	33.3%	2	0	0.0%	0	125	79%	80%	30%	13	85%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	3	1	33.3%	2	0	0.0%	0	125	79%	80%	30%	13	85%
	MLB Averages																														45.5%			2.9%			63%	82%	31%		60%

* 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

All-Star Games 1942 * 1947 * 1949 (RF)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1947 NL (16, 6%) 1949 NL (27, 1%) 0.07 Career Shares (1016th)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 10 (2nd)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 3 (4th)
Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1947 NL 155 (1st) 1948 NL 142 (2nd) 1949 NL 136 (2nd) 1951 NL 127 (4th) 1952 NL 121 (4th) Career 896 (77th)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1947 NL 331 (2nd) 1948 NL 260 (3rd) 1949 NL 292 (1st) 1951 NL 232 (4th) 1952 NL 213 (4th) 1953 NL 187 (5th) Career 1,680 (81st)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1947 NL 19 (1st) 1948 NL 14 (2nd) 1949 NL 12 (2nd) 1950 NL 10 (2nd) 1951 NL 13 (3rd) 1952 NL 15 (1st) 1953 NL 12 (1st) Career 100 (45th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1947 NL 10 (1st) 1948 NL 5 (3rd) 1949 NL 7 (2nd) 1952 NL 5 (3rd)
Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1947 NL 155 (1st)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1947 NL 334 (5th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1947 NL 19 (1st) 1948 NL 16 (1st) 1949 NL 13 (3rd) 1952 NL 16 (4th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1947 NL 10 (3rd)
Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1953 NL 2 (3rd)	Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1951 NL 2.02 (5th) 1952 NL 1.99 (4th) 1953 NL 2.31 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1947 NL 2.26 (2nd) 1948 NL 1.93 (4th) 1949 NL 2.24 (1st) 1952 NL 1.88 (4th) 1953 NL 2.07 (1st) Career 1.99 (69th)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1947 NL .972 (4th) 1948 NL .982 (3rd) 1949 NL .977 (5th) 1951 NL .996 (1st) 1952 NL .979 (4th) 1953 NL .995 (2nd) Career .981 (76th)
Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1951 NL 1.000 (1st) 1953 NL .995 (2nd)

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