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Frank McCormick

Frank Andrew McCormick (Buck)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: June 9, 1911 in New York, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: September 11, 1934
Teams (by GP): Reds/Braves/Phillies 1934-1948

Final Game: October 3, 1948
Died: November 21, 1982 in Manhasset, NY
Buried: Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Westbury, NY
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:13AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #464. Harlond Clift… #465. Bob Meusel… #466. Monte Irvin… #467. FRANK MCCORMICK… #468. George Burns… #469. Dick McAuliffe… #470. Lonnie Smith… 

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
1934 23 CIN NL 12 16 16 1 5 2 1 0 5 0 0 1 .313 .313 .563 .875 133 9 1 0 0 /3
1937 26 CIN NL 24 87 83 5 27 5 0 0 9 1 2 4 .325 .341 .386 .727 101 32 5 0 2 3/4O
1938 27 CIN NL 151 671 640 89 209 40 4 5 106 1 18 17 .327 .348 .425 .773 113 272 15 3 10 *3 AS,MVP-5
1939 28 CIN NL 156 688 630 99 209 41 4 18 128 1 40 16 .332 .374 .495 .869 130 312 23 2 16 *3 AS,MVP-4
1940 29 CIN NL 155 676 618 93 191 44 3 19 127 2 52 26 .309 .367 .482 .850 131 298 23 5 1 *3 AS,MVP-1
1941 30 CIN NL 154 653 603 77 162 31 5 17 97 2 40 13 .269 .318 .421 .740 106 254 22 4 6 *3 AS
1942 31 CIN NL 145 616 564 58 156 24 0 13 89 1 45 18 .277 .332 .388 .721 111 219 14 2 5 *3 AS,MVP-27
1943 32 CIN NL 126 506 472 56 143 28 0 8 59 2 29 15 .303 .345 .413 .758 119 195 8 1 4 *3 AS,MVP-9
1944 33 CIN NL 153 645 581 85 177 37 3 20 102 7 57 17 .305 .371 .482 .853 143 280 19 4 3 *3 AS,MVP-13
1945 34 CIN NL 152 644 580 68 160 33 0 10 81 6 56 22 .276 .345 .384 .729 104 223 20 5 3 *3 MVP-24
1946 35 PHI NL 135 543 504 46 143 20 2 11 66 2 36 21 .284 .333 .397 .730 109 200 11 1 2 *3 AS,MVP-34
1947 36 TOT NL 96 268 252 31 84 20 2 3 51 2 14 10 .333 .368 .464 .833 122 117 10 0 2 3
1947 36 PHI NL 15 43 40 7 9 2 0 1 8 0 3 2 .225 .279 .350 .629 69 14 2 0 0 3
1947 36 BSN NL 81 225 212 24 75 18 2 2 43 2 11 8 .354 .386 .486 .871 132 103 8 0 2 3
1948 37 BSN NL 75 194 180 14 45 9 2 4 34 0 10 9 .250 .289 .389 .678 83 70 5 0 4 3
13 Seasons 1534 6207 5723 722 1711 334 26 128 954 27 399 189 .299 .348 .434 .781 118 2481 176 27 58
162 Game Avg. 162 655 604 76 181 35 3 14 101 3 42 20 .299 .348 .434 .781 118 262 19 3 6
CIN (10 yrs) 1228 5202 4787 631 1439 285 20 110 803 23 339 149 .301 .350 .437 .788 120 2094 150 26 50
BSN (2 yrs) 156 419 392 38 120 27 4 6 77 2 21 17 .306 .341 .441 .783 110 173 13 0 6
PHI (2 yrs) 150 586 544 53 152 22 2 12 74 2 39 23 .279 .329 .393 .722 106 214 13 1 2

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
1934 23 CIN NL 16 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 -1 -0.1 0 0.0 -0.1 $ /3
1937 26 CIN NL 87 0 -1 0 0 1 -1 3 2 0.2 1 0.1 0.1 $ 3/4O
1938 27 CIN NL 671 11 0 0 0 3 -7 18 25 2.6 22 2.3 0.3 $ *3 AS,MVP-5
1939 28 CIN NL 688 29 0 0 0 10 -7 19 51 5.2 41 4.2 1.0 $ *3 AS,MVP-4
1940 29 CIN NL 676 30 -1 0 0 13 -7 23 58 6.0 45 4.6 1.4 $ *3 AS,MVP-1
1941 30 CIN NL 653 8 0 0 0 4 -7 23 28 2.8 24 2.4 0.4 $ *3 AS
1942 31 CIN NL 616 6 -2 0 0 8 -7 19 24 2.4 16 1.7 0.7 $ *3 AS,MVP-27
1943 32 CIN NL 506 14 -1 0 0 1 -5 16 25 2.7 24 2.5 0.2 $ *3 AS,MVP-9
1944 33 CIN NL 645 33 -1 0 0 13 -7 20 58 6.0 45 4.5 1.5 $ *3 AS,MVP-13
1945 34 CIN NL 644 -1 -2 0 0 3 -7 19 12 1.2 9 0.9 0.3 $ *3 MVP-24
1946 35 PHI NL 543 4 -2 0 0 5 -6 20 21 2.1 16 1.8 0.3 $ *3 AS,MVP-34
1947 36 PHI NL 43 -2 0 0 0 -1 -1 2 -2 -0.3 -1 -0.1 -0.2 $ 3
1947 36 BSN NL 225 9 -1 0 0 1 -2 8 15 1.5 14 1.4 0.1 $ 3
1948 37 BSN NL 194 -6 -1 0 0 2 -2 7 0 0.0 -2 -0.2 0.2 $ 3
13 Seasons 6207 135 -12 0 0 62 -66 197 316 32.3 254 26.1 6.2 $
CIN (10 yrs) 5202 130 -8 0 0 55 -55 160 282 29.0 227 23.2 5.8 $
BSN (2 yrs) 419 3 -2 0 0 3 -4 15 15 1.5 12 1.2 0.3 $
PHI (2 yrs) 586 2 -2 0 0 4 -7 22 19 1.8 15 1.7 0.1 $

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
1939 28 CIN NL WS NYY L 4 16 15 1 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .400 .400 .467 .867 7 0 0 1 0 0
1940 29 CIN NL WS DET W 7 29 28 2 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .214 .241 .250 .491 7 0 0 0 0 0
1948 37 BSN NL WS CLE L 3 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .200 .200 .200 .400 1 1 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons (3 Series) 14 50 48 3 13 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 .271 .286 .313 .598 15 1 0 1 0 0
3 WS 14 50 48 3 13 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 .271 .286 .313 .598 15 1 0 1 0 0

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1934 CIN NL 23 1B 2 17 16 0 1 1 .941 8.00 .991 10.00
1937 CIN NL 26 1B 20 210 194 16 0 20 1.000 10.50 .989 10.31
1937 CIN NL 26 2B 4 7 4 2 1 0 .857 1.50 .959 5.70
1937 CIN NL 26 OF 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.20
1937 CIN NL 26 RF 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.00
1938 CIN NL 27 1B 151 1543 1441 95 7 127 .995 10.17 .992 10.47 AS,MVP-5
1939 CIN NL 28 1B 156 1625 1518 100 7 153 .996 10.37 .989 10.24 AS,MVP-4
1940 CIN NL 29 1B 155 1693 1587 98 8 146 .995 10.87 .990 10.47 AS,MVP-1
1941 CIN NL 30 1B 154 1564 1464 92 8 130 .995 10.10 .989 10.16 AS
1942 CIN NL 31 1B 144 1514 1403 101 10 132 .993 10.44 .989 10.18 AS,MVP-27
1943 CIN NL 32 1B 120 1247 1156 85 6 116 .995 10.34 .992 10.48 AS,MVP-9
1944 CIN NL 33 1B 153 1656 1508 135 13 130 .992 10.74 .990 10.04 AS,MVP-13
1945 CIN NL 34 1B 151 1596 1469 118 9 104 .994 10.51 .990 10.17 MVP-24
1946 PHI NL 35 1B 134 1284 1185 98 1 92 .999 9.57 .991 9.98 AS,MVP-34
1947 TOT NL 36 1B 58 53 46 547 514 30 3 40 .995 9.38 .991 9.62
1947 PHI NL 36 1B 12 9 9 91 86 4 1 9 .989 7.50 .991 9.62
1947 BSN NL 36 1B 46 44 37 456 428 26 2 31 .996 9.87 .991 9.62
1948 BSN NL 37 1B 50 381 343 33 5 30 .987 7.52 .990 9.61
13 Seasons 1B 1448 53 46 14877 13798 1001 78 1221 .995 10.22 .990 10.20
1 Season 2B 4 7 4 2 1 0 .857 1.50 .959 5.70
1 Season RF 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.00
1 Season OF 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.20
13 Seasons TOT 1453 53 46 14885 13803 1003 79 1221 .995 10.19 .990 10.18
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% 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

Hall of Fame
1956 BBWAA ( 1.6%)
1962 BBWAA ( 0.6%)
1964 BBWAA ( 3.0%)
1968 BBWAA ( 1.1%)

All-Star Games
1938 (1B)
1939 (1B)
1940 *
1941 *
1942 *
1943
1944
1945--not played
1946 *

Awards (yr lg award)
1940 NL MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1938 NL (5, 39%)
1939 NL (4, 47%)
1940 NL (1, 82%)
1942 NL (27, 1%)
1943 NL (9, 8%)
1944 NL (13, 10%)
1945 NL (24, 2%)
1946 NL (34, 1%)
1 MVP
1.90 Career Shares (103rd)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1939 NL  5.2 (7th)
1940 NL  6.0 (6th)
1944 NL  6.0 (4th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1939 NL  5.2 (6th)
1940 NL  6.0 (4th)
1944 NL  6.0 (4th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1939 NL  4.2 (7th)
1940 NL  4.6 (7th)
1944 NL  4.5 (10th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1939 NL  1.0 (6th)
1940 NL  1.4 (2nd)
1942 NL  0.7 (6th)
1944 NL  1.5 (5th)
Career  6.2 (194th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1938 NL  .327 (3rd)
1939 NL  .332 (2nd)
1940 NL  .309 (7th)
1943 NL  .303 (9th)
Career  .299 (220th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1939 NL  .495 (8th)
1940 NL  .482 (9th)
1944 NL  .482 (10th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1939 NL  .869 (7th)

Games Played s c a p y
1938 NL  151 (3rd)
1939 NL  156 (2nd)
1940 NL  155 (2nd)
1941 NL  154 (2nd)
1944 NL  153 (9th)
1945 NL  152 (8th)

At Bats s c a p y
1938 NL  640 (1st)
1939 NL  630 (3rd)
1940 NL  618 (1st)
1941 NL  603 (2nd)
1942 NL  564 (8th)
1945 NL  580 (9th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1938 NL  671 (4th)
1939 NL  688 (6th)
1940 NL  676 (3rd)
1941 NL  653 (4th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1938 NL  89 (8th)
1939 NL  99 (7th)
1940 NL  93 (8th)

Hits s c a p y
1938 NL  209 (1st)
1939 NL  209 (1st)
1940 NL  191 (1st)
1941 NL  162 (10th)
1942 NL  156 (9th)
1944 NL  177 (6th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1938 NL  272 (6th)
1939 NL  312 (2nd)
1940 NL  298 (2nd)
1941 NL  254 (7th)
1944 NL  280 (6th)

Doubles s c a p y
1938 NL  40 (2nd)
1939 NL  41 (4th)
1940 NL  44 (1st)
1941 NL  31 (8th)
1944 NL  37 (4th)
1945 NL  33 (6th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1939 NL  18 (7th)
1940 NL  19 (5th)
1941 NL  17 (9th)
1942 NL  13 (7th)
1944 NL  20 (4th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1938 NL  106 (4th)
1939 NL  128 (1st)
1940 NL  127 (2nd)
1941 NL  97 (6th)
1942 NL  89 (6th)
1944 NL  102 (4th)

Singles s c a p y
1938 NL  160 (1st)
1939 NL  146 (4th)
1940 NL  125 (4th)
1942 NL  119 (7th)
1946 NL  110 (10th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1939 NL  130 (9th)
1944 NL  143 (9th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1938 NL  94 (10th)
1939 NL  116 (3rd)
1940 NL  108 (2nd)
1944 NL  103 (9th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1939 NL  25 (7th)
1940 NL  26 (9th)
1944 NL  33 (8th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1939 NL  2.5 (7th)
1940 NL  2.6 (9th)
1944 NL  3.3 (8th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1939 NL  63 (5th)
1940 NL  66 (2nd)
1941 NL  53 (7th)
1944 NL  60 (6th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1938 NL  230 (10th)
1939 NL  251 (8th)
1940 NL  248 (6th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1939 NL  .670 (7th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1940 NL  5 (8th)
1941 NL  4 (5th)
1944 NL  4 (10th)
1945 NL  5 (6th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1939 NL  23 (4th)
1940 NL  23 (1st)
1941 NL  22 (1st)
1944 NL  19 (3rd)
1945 NL  20 (2nd)
Career  176 (156th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1944 NL  10.4 (4th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1938 NL  37.6 (3rd)
1939 NL  39.4 (3rd)
1940 NL  23.8 (10th)
1941 NL  46.4 (1st)
1942 NL  31.3 (4th)
1943 NL  31.5 (3rd)
1944 NL  34.2 (3rd)
1945 NL  26.4 (7th)
1946 NL  24.0 (7th)
Career  30.3 (23rd)

AB per HR s c a p y
1944 NL  29.1 (6th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1938 NL  456 (4th)
1939 NL  460 (4th)
1940 NL  451 (1st)
1941 NL  469 (2nd)
1942 NL  427 (10th)
1945 NL  443 (5th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1938 NL  1,441 (2nd)
1939 NL  1,518 (1st)
1940 NL  1,587 (1st)
1941 NL  1,464 (1st)
1942 NL  1,403 (1st)
1943 NL  1,156 (4th)
1944 NL  1,508 (1st)
1945 NL  1,469 (1st)
1946 NL  1,185 (3rd)
Career  13,803 (57th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1938 NL  151 (1st)
1939 NL  156 (2nd)
1940 NL  155 (1st)
1941 NL  154 (1st)
1942 NL  144 (2nd)
1943 NL  120 (4th)
1944 NL  153 (2nd)
1945 NL  151 (1st)
1946 NL  134 (3rd)
Career  1,448 (65th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1938 NL  1,441 (2nd)
1939 NL  1,518 (1st)
1940 NL  1,587 (1st)
1941 NL  1,464 (1st)
1942 NL  1,403 (1st)
1943 NL  1,156 (4th)
1944 NL  1,508 (1st)
1945 NL  1,469 (1st)
1946 NL  1,185 (3rd)
Career  13,798 (55th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1938 NL  95 (3rd)
1939 NL  100 (3rd)
1940 NL  98 (3rd)
1941 NL  92 (3rd)
1942 NL  101 (2nd)
1943 NL  85 (2nd)
1944 NL  135 (1st)
1945 NL  118 (1st)
1946 NL  98 (2nd)
Career  1,001 (51st)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1942 NL  10 (5th)
1944 NL  13 (4th)
1945 NL  9 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1938 NL  10.17 (5th)
1939 NL  10.37 (4th)
1940 NL  10.87 (2nd)
1941 NL  10.10 (4th)
1942 NL  10.44 (2nd)
1943 NL  10.34 (3rd)
1944 NL  10.74 (1st)
1945 NL  10.51 (2nd)
Career  10.22 (56th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1938 NL  .996 (2nd)
1939 NL  .996 (1st)
1940 NL  .995 (1st)
1941 NL  .995 (1st)
1942 NL  .993 (2nd)
1943 NL  .995 (3rd)
1944 NL  .992 (4th)
1945 NL  .994 (2nd)
1946 NL  .999 (1st)
Career  .995 (24th)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 17 (132), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 120 (165), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 86 (209), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 18 (838), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Sean Casey (924)
  2. High Pockets Kelly (917) *
  3. George McQuinn (903)
  4. David Segui (892)
  5. Vic Power (890)
  6. Lou Piniella (885)
  7. Willie Montanez (884)
  8. Rico Carty (883)
  9. Bob Watson (882)
  10. Joe Vosmik (877)
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  1. Ray Grimes (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Taffy Wright (945)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Hal Morris (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Hal Morris (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Hal Morris (955)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Hal Morris (949)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. David Segui (933)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. David Segui (922)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Hal McRae (910)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. David Segui (900)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. George McQuinn (895)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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