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Bob Meusel

Robert William Meusel (Long Bob)

Positions: Outfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: July 19, 1896 in San Jose, CA
High School: Manual Arts HS (Los Angeles, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1920
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Reds 1920-1930

Final Game: September 26, 1930
Died: November 28, 1977 in Downey, CA
Buried: Rose Hill Memorial Park, Whittier, CA
Relatives: Brother of Irish Meusel
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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
1920 NYY AL 23 OF 64 66 58 133 116 10 7 3 .947 1.97 .962 2.25
1920 NYY AL 23 3B 45 43 42 122 34 75 13 4 .893 2.42 .946 3.59
1920 NYY AL 23 RF 43 41 37 81 71 5 5 1 .938 1.77 .958 1.91
1920 NYY AL 23 LF 26 25 21 53 46 5 2 2 .962 1.96 .962 2.30
1920 NYY AL 23 1B 2 1 1 12 12 0 0 2 1.000 6.00 .990 10.80
1921 NYY AL 24 OF 147 147 142 301 253 28 20 9 .934 1.91 .960 2.33
1921 NYY AL 24 RF 137 137 132 274 229 27 18 9 .934 1.87 .958 1.96
1921 NYY AL 24 LF 12 10 10 27 24 1 2 0 .926 2.08 .958 2.38
1922 NYY AL 25 OF 121 121 117 238 202 24 12 0 .950 1.87 .964 2.31 MVP-15
1922 NYY AL 25 RF 78 78 74 142 122 12 8 0 .944 1.72 .954 1.85 MVP-15
1922 NYY AL 25 LF 43 43 43 90 79 7 4 0 .956 2.00 .969 2.40 MVP-15
1922 NYY AL 25 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.70 MVP-15
1923 NYY AL 26 OF 121 112 105 234 206 17 11 2 .953 1.84 .965 2.38
1923 NYY AL 26 LF 75 75 71 149 133 9 7 0 .953 1.89 .966 2.35
1923 NYY AL 26 RF 45 37 34 85 73 8 4 2 .953 1.80 .960 2.12
1923 NYY AL 26 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.70
1924 NYY AL 27 OF 143 143 134 283 252 17 14 4 .951 1.88 .970 2.39
1924 NYY AL 27 LF 89 87 83 168 153 7 8 1 .952 1.80 .964 2.34
1924 NYY AL 27 RF 54 54 49 104 88 11 5 3 .952 1.83 .968 2.02
1924 NYY AL 27 3B 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 3.25
1924 NYY AL 27 CF 2 2 2 4 3 0 1 0 .750 1.50 .975 2.80
1925 NYY AL 28 OF 131 131 125 262 249 9 4 6 .985 1.97 .965 2.43 MVP-18
1925 NYY AL 28 LF 88 88 84 181 171 8 2 1 .989 2.03 .958 2.33 MVP-18
1925 NYY AL 28 RF 44 43 41 85 78 5 2 5 .976 1.89 .966 2.08 MVP-18
1925 NYY AL 28 3B 27 25 25 66 22 42 2 2 .970 2.37 .947 3.21 MVP-18
1926 NYY AL 29 OF 107 106 105 224 211 4 9 1 .960 2.01 .966 2.34 MVP-21
1926 NYY AL 29 LF 68 67 67 163 154 2 7 1 .957 2.29 .965 2.30 MVP-21
1926 NYY AL 29 RF 38 38 37 62 58 2 2 0 .968 1.58 .964 2.00 MVP-21
1926 NYY AL 29 CF 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.70 MVP-21
1927 NYY AL 30 OF 131 130 124 278 249 15 14 1 .950 2.02 .964 2.35
1927 NYY AL 30 LF 83 82 77 184 164 11 9 0 .951 2.11 .967 2.38
1927 NYY AL 30 RF 48 48 47 94 85 4 5 1 .947 1.85 .955 1.97
1928 NYY AL 31 OF 131 131 126 282 259 16 7 6 .975 2.10 .973 2.36
1928 NYY AL 31 LF 86 86 83 184 171 11 2 2 .989 2.12 .974 2.30
1928 NYY AL 31 RF 45 45 43 98 88 5 5 4 .949 2.07 .973 1.98
1929 NYY AL 32 OF 96 93 91 222 206 9 7 2 .968 2.24 .966 2.42
1929 NYY AL 32 LF 56 53 52 134 126 3 5 0 .963 2.30 .964 2.39
1929 NYY AL 32 RF 40 40 39 86 78 6 2 0 .977 2.10 .963 1.97
1930 CIN NL 33 OF 112 109 104 240 223 8 9 3 .963 2.06 .968 2.40
1930 CIN NL 33 LF 70 68 66 128 119 4 5 0 .961 1.76 .968 2.01
1930 CIN NL 33 CF 39 39 36 105 99 3 3 2 .971 2.62 .971 2.78
1930 CIN NL 33 RF 3 2 2 7 5 1 1 1 .857 2.00 .966 2.40
11 Seasons OF 1304 1289 1231 2697 2426 157 114 37 .958 1.98 .966 2.36
11 Seasons LF 696 684 657 1461 1340 68 53 7 .964 2.02 .966 2.31
11 Seasons RF 575 563 535 1118 975 86 57 26 .949 1.85 .961 1.98
3 Seasons 3B 74 68 67 190 58 117 15 6 .921 2.36 .946 3.44
5 Seasons CF 44 42 39 109 102 3 4 2 .963 2.39 .971 2.78
1 Season 1B 2 1 1 12 12 0 0 2 1.000 6.00 .990 10.80
11 Seasons TOT 1380 1358 1299 2899 2496 274 129 45 .956 2.01 .965 2.43
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-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
1920 NYY AL 23 119 110 119 111 0 0 2 0 44 0 26 0 43 68 0 8 0
1921 NYY AL 24 149 147 149 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 137 147 0 2 0
1922 NYY AL 25 121 121 121 121 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 1 78 121 0 0 0
1923 NYY AL 26 132 112 132 121 0 0 0 0 0 0 75 1 45 121 0 11 0
1924 NYY AL 27 143 143 143 143 0 0 0 0 2 0 89 2 54 143 0 0 0
1925 NYY AL 28 156 156 156 156 0 0 0 0 27 0 88 0 44 131 0 0 0
1926 NYY AL 29 108 106 108 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 68 1 38 107 0 1 0
1927 NYY AL 30 135 130 135 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 83 0 48 131 0 4 0
1928 NYY AL 31 131 131 131 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 86 0 45 131 0 0 0
1929 NYY AL 32 100 93 100 96 0 0 0 0 0 0 56 0 40 96 0 4 0
1930 CIN NL 33 113 109 113 111 0 0 0 0 0 0 70 39 3 111 0 1 1
11 Seasons 1407 1358 1407 1375 0 0 2 0 73 0 696 44 575 1307 0 31 1
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

Hall of Fame
1937 BBWAA ( 0.5%)
1938 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1945 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1948 BBWAA ( 5.0%)
1949 BBWAA ( 2.0%)
1950 BBWAA ( 1.2%)
1952 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1955 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1956 BBWAA ( 0.5%)
1958 BBWAA ( 1.9%)
1960 BBWAA ( 3.7%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1922 AL (15, 9%)
1925 AL (18, 9%)
1926 AL (21, 5%)
0.23 Career Shares (693rd)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1923 AL  9 (5th)
1927 AL  11 (5th)
1928 AL  11 (3rd)
Career  68 (54th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1927 AL  9 (4th)
1929 AL  5 (5th)
1930 NL  5 (5th)
Career  53 (45th)

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  137 (4th)

Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  229 (4th)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  27 (2nd)
1922 AL  12 (4th)
Career  86 (60th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  18 (1st)
Career  57 (43rd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1921 AL  28 (1st)
1922 AL  24 (1st)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1921 AL  20 (2nd)
1924 AL  14 (2nd)
1927 AL  14 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1928 AL  2.12 (5th)
Career  2.02 (65th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1925 AL  .989 (1st)
1928 AL  .989 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  1.87 (4th)
1922 AL  1.72 (5th)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1925 AL  .985 (2nd)

                           

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