News: WAR Comparison Chart - Baseball-Reference.com »post

 

Photo of Beauty McGowan


Beauty McGowan

Frank Bernard McGowan

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: November 8, 1901 in Branford, CT (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 1922
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Browns/Bees 1922-1937

Final Game: May 13, 1937
Died: May 6, 1982 in Hamden, CT
Buried: St. Lawrence Cemetery, West Haven, CT
    About biographical information

19
View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

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
1922 PHA AL 20 OF 82 79 75 231 210 13 8 2 .965 2.72 .964 2.31
1922 PHA AL 20 CF 50 47 46 150 139 7 4 1 .973 2.92 .968 2.70
1922 PHA AL 20 RF 33 32 29 82 72 6 4 1 .951 2.36 .954 1.85
1923 PHA AL 21 OF 79 75 71 171 154 12 5 1 .971 2.10 .965 2.38
1923 PHA AL 21 RF 31 30 28 63 56 5 2 0 .968 1.97 .960 2.12
1923 PHA AL 21 LF 25 24 23 56 48 5 3 0 .946 2.12 .966 2.35
1923 PHA AL 21 CF 24 21 20 52 50 2 0 1 1.000 2.17 .968 2.69
1928 SLB AL 26 OF 47 45 44 106 99 3 4 1 .962 2.17 .973 2.36
1928 SLB AL 26 RF 37 35 34 67 62 3 2 0 .970 1.76 .973 1.98
1928 SLB AL 26 CF 11 10 10 39 37 0 2 0 .949 3.36 .972 2.79
1929 SLB AL 27 OF 117 115 113 280 257 16 7 5 .975 2.33 .966 2.42
1929 SLB AL 27 RF 79 78 76 166 154 10 2 4 .988 2.08 .963 1.97
1929 SLB AL 27 CF 39 37 37 115 103 7 5 1 .957 2.82 .970 2.89
1937 BSN NL 35 OF 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .975 2.25
1937 BSN NL 35 RF 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.00
5 Seasons OF 327 316 305 790 722 44 24 9 .970 2.34 .966 2.37
5 Seasons RF 182 177 169 380 346 24 10 5 .974 2.03 .962 1.98
4 Seasons CF 124 115 113 356 329 16 11 3 .969 2.78 .969 2.77
1 Season LF 25 24 23 56 48 5 3 0 .946 2.12 .966 2.35
5 Seasons TOT 327 316 305 790 722 44 24 9 .970 2.34 .966 2.37
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
1922 PHA AL 20 99 79 99 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50 33 81 0 17 1
1923 PHA AL 21 95 75 95 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 24 31 79 0 8 8
1928 SLB AL 26 47 45 47 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 37 47 0 0 0
1929 SLB AL 27 125 115 125 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 79 117 0 7 1
1937 BSN NL 35 9 2 9 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 7 0
5 Seasons 375 316 375 326 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 124 182 326 0 39 10
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 as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1929 AL  10 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1929 AL  2.08 (2nd)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1929 AL  .988 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1922 AL  2.72 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
1922 AL  born 1901-11-08 (5th)

                                         

Other Resources & Links

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

Viewed 4,576 times through May 30, 2012.
Name and misspellings: Frank Beauty Bernard McGowan

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.