Candy Nelson

John W. Nelson

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 6", Weight: 145 lb.

Born: March 14, 1849 in Portland, ME (All Transactions)
Debut: June 11, 1872
Teams (by GP): Metropolitans/Mutuals/Gladiators/Trojans/RubyLegs/... 1872-1890

Final Game: August 25, 1890
Died: September 4, 1910 in Brooklyn, NY
Buried: Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
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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	G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1872	TOT	NA	23	OF	11				32	26	0	6	0	.813		2.36	.820		1.94	0-11-0
1872	TRO	NA	23	OF	3				7	7	0	0	0	1.000		2.33	.820		1.93	0-3-0
1872	TRO	NA	23	SS	1				5	1	2	2	0	.600		3.00	.774		4.80
1872	ECK	NA	23	2B	8				43	13	23	7	3	.837		4.50	.826		5.51
1872	ECK	NA	23	OF	8				25	19	0	6	0	.760		2.38	.820		1.94	0-8-0
1872	ECK	NA	23	3B	4				16	5	7	4	0	.750		3.00	.758		4.45
1873	NYU	NA	24	2B	27				128	58	53	17	4	.867		4.11	.831		5.81
1873	NYU	NA	24	3B	6				30	7	13	10	0	.667		3.33	.739		4.60
1873	NYU	NA	24	OF	6				5	4	0	1	0	.800		0.67	.804		2.00	0-0-6
1873	NYU	NA	24	1B	1				2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.925		10.80
1873	NYU	NA	24	C	1				3	2	1	0	0	1.000		3.00	.840		5.10		0
1874	NYU	NA	25	2B	51				267	115	105	47	8	.824		4.31	.805		5.51
1874	NYU	NA	25	SS	14				70	17	37	16	3	.771		3.86	.786		4.69
1874	NYU	NA	25	OF	1				3	1	1	1	0	.667		2.00	.803		2.00	0-1-0
1875	NYU	NA	26	2B	49				290	109	139	42	14	.855		5.06	.837		5.89
1875	NYU	NA	26	3B	23				113	41	50	22	1	.805		3.96	.764		3.67
1875	NYU	NA	26	SS	2				1	1	0	0	0	1.000		0.50	.820		4.65
1875	NYU	NA	26	OF	1				2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.820		1.90	1-0-0
1878	IND	NL	29	SS	19				82	19	50	13	1	.841		3.63	.877		4.29
1879	TRO	NL	30	SS	24				151	37	89	25	8	.834		5.25	.872		4.56
1879	TRO	NL	30	OF	4				6	5	1	0	0	1.000		1.50	.838		1.90	4-0-0
1881	WOR	NL	32	SS	24				127	20	94	13	6	.898		4.75	.873		4.63
1883	NYP	AA	34	SS	97				377	98	232	47	18	.875		3.40	.836		3.94
1884	NYP	AA	35	SS	110				461	113	292	56	16	.879		3.68	.862		4.28
1884	NYP	AA	35	2B	1				7	7	0	0	0	1.000		7.00	.901		6.00
1885	NYP	AA	36	SS	107				586	153	370	63	33	.892		4.89	.879		4.69
1885	NYP	AA	36	3B	1				0	0	0	0	0			0.00			3.00
1886	NYP	AA	37	SS	73				373	103	216	54	17	.855		4.37	.854		4.56
1886	NYP	AA	37	OF	36				65	56	3	6	2	.908		1.64	.877		1.79	0-28-8
1887	NYP	AA	38	OF	37				95	74	11	10	6	.895		2.30	.898		2.04	0-1-36
1887	NYP	AA	38	SS	32				163	46	100	17	12	.896		4.56	.858		4.48
1887	NYP	AA	38	2B	1				1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.910		6.00
1887	NYG	NL	38	3B	1				0	0	0	0	0			0.00			3.40
1890	BRG	AA	41	SS	57				298	60	198	40	20	.866		4.53	.885		4.90
1890	BRG	AA	41	OF	4				7	7	0	0	0	1.000		1.75	.916		1.82	0-0-4
	12 Seasons			SS	560				2694	668	1680	346	134	.872		4.19	.863		4.45
	6 Seasons			2B	137				736	303	320	113	29	.846		4.55	.824		5.71
	8 Seasons			OF	100				215	175	16	24	8	.888		1.91	.875		1.92	5-41-54
	5 Seasons			3B	35				159	53	70	36	1	.774		3.51	.759		3.89
	1 Season			1B	1				2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.925		10.80
	1 Season			C	1				3	2	1	0	0	1.000		3.00	.840		5.10		0
	13 Seasons			TOT	834				3809	1203	2087	519	172	.864		3.94	.852		4.34	5-41-54	0
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	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.

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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.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF
1872	ECK	NA	23	18	18	0	0	8	4	0	0	8	0	8
1872	TRO	NA	23	4	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	3
1873	NYU	NA	24	36	36	1	1	27	6	0	0	0	6	6
1874	NYU	NA	25	65	65	0	0	51	0	14	0	1	0	1
1875	NYU	NA	26	70	70	0	0	49	23	2	1	0	0	1
1878	IND	NL	29	19	19	0	0	0	0	19	0	0	0	0
1879	TRO	NL	30	28	28	0	0	0	0	24	4	0	0	4
1881	WOR	NL	32	24	24	0	0	0	0	24	0	0	0	0
1883	NYP	AA	34	97	97	0	0	0	0	97	0	0	0	0
1884	NYP	AA	35	111	111	0	0	1	0	110	0	0	0	0
1885	NYP	AA	36	107	107	0	0	0	1	107	0	0	0	0
1886	NYP	AA	37	109	109	0	0	0	0	73	0	28	8	36
1887	NYP	AA	38	68	68	0	0	1	0	32	0	1	36	37
1887	NYG	NL	38	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
1890	BRG	AA	41	60	60	0	0	0	0	57	0	0	4	4
	13 Seasons			817	817	1	1	137	35	560	5	41	54	100

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 1885 AA 370 (3rd)	Errors Committed† s c a p y Career 519 (73rd)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1874 NA 51 (2nd) 1875 NA 49 (5th)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1874 NA 115 (4th)
Assists as 2B s c a p y 1874 NA 105 (5th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1874 NA 47 (5th)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1883 AA 97 (2nd) 1884 AA 110 (1st) 1885 AA 107 (4th)	Putouts as SS s c a p y 1883 AA 98 (5th) 1885 AA 153 (3rd)
Assists as SS s c a p y 1885 AA 370 (2nd)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1885 AA 63 (5th) Career 346 (54th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1873 NA .867 (2nd) 1874 NA .824 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1885 AA 4.89 (4th)
Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1883 AA .875 (2nd) 1884 AA .879 (3rd) 1885 AA .892 (2nd) 1886 AA .855 (4th)	Oldest s c a p y 1879 NL born 1849-03-14 (7th) 1881 NL born 1849-03-14 (7th) 1883 AA born 1849-03-14 (3rd) 1884 AA born 1849-03-14 (2nd) 1885 AA born 1849-03-14 (1st) 1886 AA born 1849-03-14 (1st) 1887 AA born 1849-03-14 (3rd) 1887 NL born 1849-03-14 (2nd) 1890 AA born 1849-03-14 (1st)

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