Hack Miller

Laurence H. Miller

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: January 1, 1894 in New York, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: September 22, 1916
Teams (by GP): Cubs/RedSox/Robins 1916-1925

Final Game: May 21, 1925
Died: September 16, 1971 in Oakland, CA
Buried: St. Mary Cemetery, Oakland, CA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G
1916	BRO	NL	22	OF	3			1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0.33	.970	2.13	0-2-1
1918	BOS	AL	24	OF	10	8	6	10	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.962	2.26	9-1-0
1918	BOS	AL	24	LF	9	8	6	9	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.961	2.20
1918	BOS	AL	24	CF	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.970	2.60
1922	CHC	NL	28	OF	116	116	109	244	219	15	10	3	.959	2.02	.962	2.40
1922	CHC	NL	28	LF	115	114	108	242	216	15	11	3	.955	2.01	.958	2.22
1922	CHC	NL	28	RF	2	2	1	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.50	.953	2.20
1923	CHC	NL	29	LF	129	128	120	279	256	17	6	4	.978	2.12	.966	2.26
1923	CHC	NL	29	OF	129	128	120	279	256	17	6	4	.978	2.12	.964	2.44
1924	CHC	NL	30	LF	33	30	23	58	54	1	3	0	.948	1.67	.964	2.26
1924	CHC	NL	30	OF	32	30	23	58	54	1	3	0	.948	1.72	.965	2.39
1925	CHC	NL	31	LF	21	21	19	41	35	1	5	0	.878	1.71	.967	2.26
1925	CHC	NL	31	OF	21	21	19	41	35	1	5	1	.878	1.71	.967	2.48
	6 Seasons			OF	311	303	277	633	575	34	24	8	.962	1.96	.964	2.41	316-4-3
	5 Seasons (incomplete)			LF	307	301	276	629	570	34	25	7	.960	1.97	.963	2.24
	1 Season (incomplete)			RF	2	2	1	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.50	.953	2.20
	1 Season (incomplete)			CF	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.970	2.60
	6 Seasons			TOT	311	303	277	633	575	34	24	8	.962	1.96	.964	2.41	316-4-3

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1916	BRO	NL	22	3		3		0	2	1	3
1918	BOS	AL	24	12		12		9	1	0	10
1922	CHC	NL	28	122	116	122	116	115	0	2	116	6	0
1923	CHC	NL	29	135	128	135	129	129	0	0	129	6	0
1924	CHC	NL	30	53	30	53	33	33	0	0	33	20	0
1925	CHC	NL	31	24	21	24	21	21	0	0	21	3	0
	6 Seasons			349	295	349	299	307	3	3	312	35	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

Hall of Fame 1937 BBWAA ( 0.5%)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 115 (5th) 1923 NL 129 (3rd)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 216 (5th) 1923 NL 256 (5th)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 15 (3rd) 1923 NL 17 (1st)
Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 11 (2nd) 1923 NL 6 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 2.01 (4th)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1923 NL .978 (3rd)

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