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Steve Mesner

Stephen Mathias Mesner

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 178 lb.

Born: January 13, 1918 in Los Angeles, CA
High School: Riis HS (Los Angeles, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 23, 1938
Teams (by GP): Reds/Cardinals/Cubs 1938-1945

Final Game: September 30, 1945
Died: April 6, 1981 in San Diego, CA
Buried: Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, CA
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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 CHC NL 20 SS 1 1 1 3 0 2 1 0 .667 2.00 .943 5.30
1939 CHC NL 21 SS 12 9 9 55 12 39 4 7 .927 4.25 .953 5.50
1939 CHC NL 21 2B 1 1 0 7 3 4 0 1 1.000 7.00 .969 5.70
1939 CHC NL 21 3B 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .940 3.00
1941 STL NL 23 3B 22 17 15 71 23 45 3 8 .958 3.09 .949 3.33
1943 CIN NL 25 3B 130 129 125 430 132 274 24 29 .944 3.12 .948 3.17
1944 CIN NL 26 3B 120 116 106 385 120 246 19 21 .951 3.05 .948 3.29
1945 CIN NL 27 3B 148 148 144 511 170 326 15 35 .971 3.35 .941 3.20
1945 CIN NL 27 2B 3 2 2 6 3 3 0 1 1.000 2.00 .967 5.57
5 Seasons 3B 421 410 390 1398 446 891 61 93 .956 3.18 .945 3.22
2 Seasons SS 13 10 10 58 12 41 5 7 .914 4.08 .953 5.48
2 Seasons 2B 4 3 2 13 6 7 0 2 1.000 3.25 .968 5.60
6 Seasons TOT 438 423 402 1469 464 939 66 102 .955 3.20 .946 3.31
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 CHC NL 20 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1939 CHC NL 21 17 10 17 14 0 0 0 1 1 12 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1941 STL NL 23 24 17 24 22 0 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1943 CIN NL 25 137 129 137 130 0 0 0 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1944 CIN NL 26 121 116 121 120 0 0 0 0 120 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1945 CIN NL 27 150 150 150 150 0 0 0 3 148 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 451 423 451 437 0 0 0 4 421 13 0 0 0 0 0 14 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

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1943 NL  130 (5th)
1944 NL  120 (3rd)
1945 NL  148 (1st)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1943 NL  132 (5th)
1944 NL  120 (3rd)
1945 NL  170 (3rd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1943 NL  274 (3rd)
1944 NL  246 (3rd)
1945 NL  326 (1st)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1943 NL  24 (1st)
1944 NL  19 (2nd)
1945 NL  15 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1943 NL  3.12 (2nd)
1944 NL  3.05 (4th)
1945 NL  3.35 (4th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1943 NL  .944 (5th)
1944 NL  .951 (3rd)
1945 NL  .971 (2nd)

Youngest s c a p y
1938 NL  born 1918-01-13 (3rd)
1939 NL  born 1918-01-13 (10th)

             

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