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Benny McCoy

Benjamin Jenison McCoy

Positions: Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: November 9, 1915 in Jenison, MI
High School: Grandville HS (Grandville, MI) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 14, 1938
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Tigers 1938-1941

Final Game: September 28, 1941
Died: November 9, 2011 in Grandville, MI
Buried: Grandville Cemetery, Grandville, MI
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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
1938 DET AL 22 2B 6 3 3 27 10 16 1 4 .963 4.33 .967 5.52
1938 DET AL 22 3B 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 .000 0.00 .940 3.10
1939 DET AL 23 2B 34 31 31 191 79 104 8 19 .958 5.38 .965 5.56
1939 DET AL 23 SS 16 14 14 78 29 46 3 6 .962 4.69 .950 5.16
1940 PHA AL 24 2B 130 128 124 687 261 392 34 82 .951 5.02 .969 5.39
1940 PHA AL 24 3B 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 .667 2.00 .937 3.20
1941 PHA AL 25 2B 135 134 133 735 285 423 27 87 .963 5.24 .967 5.47
4 Seasons 2B 305 296 291 1640 635 935 70 192 .957 5.15 .968 5.45
1 Season SS 16 14 14 78 29 46 3 6 .962 4.69 .950 5.16
2 Seasons 3B 2 0 0 5 1 1 3 0 .400 1.00 .938 3.15
4 Seasons TOT 323 310 305 1723 665 982 76 198 .956 5.10 .967 5.42
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-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
1938 DET AL 22 7 3 7 7 0 0 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1939 DET AL 23 55 45 55 50 0 0 0 34 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1940 PHA AL 24 134 128 134 130 0 0 0 130 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1941 PHA AL 25 141 134 141 135 0 0 0 135 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
4 Seasons 337 310 337 322 0 0 0 305 2 16 0 0 0 0 0 15 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

Assists† s c a p y
1941 AL  423 (5th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1940 AL  35 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1940 AL  130 (5th)
1941 AL  135 (2nd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1941 AL  285 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1940 AL  392 (5th)
1941 AL  423 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1940 AL  34 (1st)
1941 AL  27 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1941 AL  5.24 (3rd)

             

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