Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Encyclopedia of Players > M Listing > Willard Marshall Statistics and History

News: Features: PI Batting Order Position Tool »post

 

Photo of Willard Marshall


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 (Midlothian, VA)
School: Wake Forest University (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
    About biographical information


View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error


All-Star

Fan EloRater

Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:13AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #876. Freddy Sanchez… #877. Corey Hart… #878. Lee Lacy… #879. WILLARD MARSHALL… #880. Sandy Alomar… #881. Jerry Denny… #882. Buck Herzog… 

Standard Batting

More Stats

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
1942 21 NYG NL 116 434 401 41 103 9 2 11 59 1 26 20 .257 .307 .372 .679 97 149 7 3 4 *O AS
1946 25 NYG NL 131 550 510 63 144 18 3 13 48 3 33 29 .282 .327 .406 .733 107 207 15 1 6 *O
1947 26 NYG NL 155 656 587 102 171 19 6 36 107 3 67 30 .291 .366 .528 .894 134 310 14 2 0 *O AS,MVP-16
1948 27 NYG NL 143 604 537 72 146 21 8 14 86 2 64 34 .272 .350 .419 .769 107 225 11 1 2 *O
1949 28 NYG NL 141 581 499 81 153 19 3 12 70 4 78 20 .307 .401 .429 .830 122 214 10 1 3 *O AS,MVP-27
1950 29 BSN NL 105 336 298 38 70 10 2 5 40 1 36 5 .235 .319 .332 .652 76 99 10 1 1 O
1951 30 BSN NL 136 523 469 65 132 24 7 11 62 0 3 48 18 .281 .351 .433 .784 116 203 18 2 4 *O
1952 31 TOT NL 128 513 463 57 121 27 2 10 57 0 1 41 25 .261 .324 .393 .717 99 182 12 2 7 *9
1952 31 BSN NL 21 70 66 5 15 4 1 2 11 0 0 4 4 .227 .271 .409 .681 89 27 3 0 0 O9
1952 31 CIN NL 107 443 397 52 106 23 1 8 46 0 1 37 21 .267 .333 .390 .723 101 155 9 2 7 *O9
1953 32 CIN NL 122 400 357 51 95 14 6 17 62 0 0 41 28 .266 .342 .482 .824 112 172 10 0 2 O
1954 33 CHW AL 47 83 71 7 18 2 0 1 7 0 0 11 9 .254 .349 .324 .673 84 23 2 0 0 1
1955 34 CHW AL 22 55 41 6 7 0 0 0 6 0 0 13 1 .171 .364 .171 .534 46 7 0 0 0 1 1
11 Seasons 1246 4735 4233 583 1160 163 39 130 604 14 4 458 219 .274 .347 .423 .770 109 1791 109 13 29 2 1
162 Game Avg. 162 616 550 76 151 21 5 17 79 2 60 28 .274 .347 .423 .770 109 233 14 2 4
NYG (5 yrs) 686 2825 2534 359 717 86 22 86 370 13 268 133 .283 .353 .436 .789 115 1105 57 8 15
BSN (3 yrs) 262 929 833 108 217 38 10 18 113 1 3 88 27 .261 .333 .395 .728 99 329 31 3 5
CIN (2 yrs) 229 843 754 103 201 37 7 25 108 0 1 78 49 .267 .337 .434 .771 106 327 19 2 9
CHW (2 yrs) 69 138 112 13 25 2 0 1 13 0 0 24 10 .223 .355 .268 .623 70 30 2 0 0 2 1
NL (9 yrs) 1177 4597 4121 570 1135 161 39 129 591 14 4 434 209 .275 .346 .427 .774 110 1761 107 13 29
AL (2 yrs) 69 138 112 13 25 2 0 1 13 0 0 24 10 .223 .355 .268 .623 70 30 2 0 0 2 1

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
1942 21 NYG NL 434 0 -1 0 0 2 -3 14 12 1.2 10 1.1 0.1 $ *O AS
1946 25 NYG NL 550 2 0 0 0 0 -3 19 18 1.9 18 1.9 0.0 $ *O
1947 26 NYG NL 656 30 0 0 0 7 -7 23 53 5.4 46 4.7 0.7 $ *O AS,MVP-16
1948 27 NYG NL 604 10 -1 0 0 -2 -6 21 22 2.3 24 2.5 -0.2 $ *O
1949 28 NYG NL 581 19 0 0 0 6 -6 21 40 4.0 34 3.5 0.5 $ *O AS,MVP-27
1950 29 BSN NL 336 -7 0 0 0 0 -4 12 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $ O
1951 30 BSN NL 523 14 -1 0 0 -6 -6 18 19 2.0 25 2.6 -0.6 $ *O
1952 31 BSN NL 70 -1 0 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $ O9
1952 31 CIN NL 443 0 0 0 0 -2 -5 15 8 0.8 10 1.0 -0.2 $ *O9
1953 32 CIN NL 400 8 -2 -1 0 2 -4 14 17 1.7 15 1.5 0.2 $ O
1954 33 CHW AL 83 -1 0 -1 0 -0 -1 2 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $
1955 34 CHW AL 55 -2 0 0 1 0 -1 2 0 -0.1 0 0.0 -0.1 $
11 Seasons 4735 72 -5 -2 1 7 -47 163 189 19.2 182 18.8 0.4 $
NYG (5 yrs) 2825 61 -2 0 0 13 -25 98 145 14.8 132 13.7 1.1 $
BSN (3 yrs) 929 6 -1 0 0 -6 -11 32 20 2.1 26 2.7 -0.6 $
CIN (2 yrs) 843 8 -2 -1 0 0 -9 29 25 2.5 25 2.5 0.0 $
CHW (2 yrs) 138 -3 0 -1 1 0 -2 4 -1 -0.2 -1 -0.1 -0.1 $

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 Awards
1942 NYG NL 21 OF 107 241 222 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 125 273 253 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 155 363 334 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 142 287 266 16 5 2 .983 1.99 .978 2.39
1948 NYG NL 27 RF 142 142 138 288 267 16 5 2 .983 1.99 .976 2.00
1949 NYG NL 28 OF 138 313 292 13 8 3 .974 2.21 .977 2.48 AS,MVP-27
1949 NYG NL 28 RF 136 133 130 308 288 13 7 3 .977 2.21 .978 2.08 AS,MVP-27
1949 NYG NL 28 LF 2 2 2 8 7 0 1 0 .875 3.50 .974 2.45 AS,MVP-27
1950 BSN NL 29 OF 85 168 150 11 7 2 .958 1.89 .978 2.31
1950 BSN NL 29 RF 68 50 48 485.1 116 102 10 4 2 .966 2.08 1.65 .976 1.86 1.84
1950 BSN NL 29 LF 13 11 9 103.0 20 18 2 0 0 1.000 1.75 1.54 .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 136 231 220 11 0 3 1.000 1.70 .981 2.41
1951 BSN NL 30 RF 127 123 118 1091.2 246 232 13 1 3 .996 2.02 1.93 .981 2.03 2.03
1952 TOT NL 31 OF 121 117 114 1031.2 236 215 16 5 5 .979 2.02 1.91 .981 24.57 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 24.58 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 24.57 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 OF 95 199 187 11 1 1 .995 2 2.08 .980 2.32
1953 CIN NL 32 RF 96 87 79 774.0 200 187 12 1 1 .995 2 4 2.31 2.07 .981 2.01 1.97
1954 CHW AL 33 OF 29 25 23 1 1 0 .960 -0 0.83 .979 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 23 22 0 1 0 .957 0 1.83 .982 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 117 114 1031.2 2359 2184 125 50 28 .979 2 3 2.02 2.02 .979 24.57 2.38
11 Seasons RF 896 842 810 3537.2 1820 1683 103 34 22 .981 3 1 2.08 1.99 .979 2.01 2.04
6 Seasons LF 147 127 118 175.0 277 251 18 8 2 .971 -0 -2 1.80 1.83 .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 117 114 1031.2 2359 2184 125 50 28 .979 2 3 2.02 2.02 .979 24.57 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.
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
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

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)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1947 NL  5.4 (7th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1947 NL  4.7 (9th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1947 NL  0.7 (5th)
1949 NL  0.5 (9th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1949 NL  .307 (8th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1949 NL  .401 (7th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1947 NL  .528 (5th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1947 NL  .894 (8th)

Games Played s c a p y
1947 NL  155 (2nd)

At Bats s c a p y
1947 NL  587 (6th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1947 NL  656 (10th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1947 NL  102 (7th)

Hits s c a p y
1947 NL  171 (10th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1947 NL  310 (3rd)

Triples s c a p y
1948 NL  8 (8th)
1951 NL  7 (10th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1942 NL  11 (10th)
1946 NL  13 (10th)
1947 NL  36 (3rd)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1947 NL  107 (5th)
1948 NL  86 (10th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1949 NL  78 (10th)

Singles s c a p y
1946 NL  110 (10th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1947 NL  134 (8th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1947 NL  113 (6th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1947 NL  26 (7th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1947 NL  2.5 (7th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1947 NL  61 (6th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1947 NL  .679 (8th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1946 NL  15 (4th)
1951 NL  18 (8th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1947 NL  19.6 (9th)
1948 NL  15.8 (9th)
1949 NL  25.0 (2nd)
1951 NL  26.1 (3rd)
1952 NL  18.5 (7th)
Career  19.3 (130th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1942 NL  36.5 (10th)
1947 NL  16.3 (5th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1947 NL  430 (7th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1952 NL  2.4 (10th)

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  896 (77th)

Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  1,683 (80th)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  103 (37th)

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)

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  1.99 (4th)
1949 NL  2.21 (1st)
1952 NL  1.88 (4th)
1953 NL  2.07 (1st)
Career  1.99 (66th)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1947 NL  .972 (4th)
1948 NL  .983 (2nd)
1949 NL  .977 (5th)
1951 NL  .996 (1st)
1952 NL  .979 (4th)
1953 NL  .995 (2nd)
Career  .981 (73rd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1951 NL  1.000 (1st)
1953 NL  .995 (2nd)

                           

† 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 - 39 (632), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 20 (819), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 13 (1265), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
Similar Batters 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Compare Stats to Similars
  1. Gary Ward (960)
  2. Steve Kemp (958)
  3. Jay Payton (956)
  4. Sixto Lezcano (954)
  5. Dan Ford (952)
  6. Mel Hall (949)
  7. Troy O'Leary (945)
  8. Hoot Evers (944)
  9. Jim Northrup (940)
  10. Bernard Gilkey (939)
Most Similar by Ages 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Hold mouse over #'s to see names
  1. Leon Roberts (973)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Rip Repulski (971)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Rip Repulski (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Ron Northey (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Jackie Brandt (965)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Jackie Brandt (958)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Jackie Brandt (955)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Steve Kemp (961)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Steve Kemp (961)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Hector Lopez (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Other Resources & Links

Error?     Compare     Search SABR's Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Willard Marshall    

Viewed 10,862 times through February 10, 2012.
Name and misspellings: Willard Warren Willard Marshall

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.