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Skeeter Newsome

Lamar Ashby Newsome

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 155 lb.

Born: October 18, 1910 in Phenix City, AL (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1935
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Athletics/Phillies 1935-1947

Final Game: September 17, 1947
Died: August 31, 1989 in Columbus, GA
Buried: Parkhill Cemetery, Columbus, GA
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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
1935 PHA AL 24 SS 24 22 21 137 56 75 6 20 .956 5.46 .957 5.35
1935 PHA AL 24 2B 13 7 6 48 16 29 3 5 .938 3.46 .969 5.86
1935 PHA AL 24 3B 4 3 3 11 5 6 0 0 1.000 2.75 .947 3.05
1935 PHA AL 24 OF 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .970 2.40
1935 PHA AL 24 RF 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .970 2.10
1936 PHA AL 25 SS 123 123 116 721 273 417 31 87 .957 5.61 .950 5.35
1936 PHA AL 25 2B 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .970 5.80
1936 PHA AL 25 3B 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 3.10
1936 PHA AL 25 LF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10
1936 PHA AL 25 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.40
1937 PHA AL 26 SS 122 121 119 696 256 408 32 76 .954 5.44 .955 5.23
1938 PHA AL 27 SS 15 13 13 69 24 43 2 7 .971 4.47 .953 5.17
1939 PHA AL 28 SS 93 70 52 418 176 221 21 44 .950 4.27 .950 5.16
1939 PHA AL 28 2B 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .965 5.55
1941 BOS AL 30 SS 69 36 30 238 95 133 10 28 .958 3.30 .948 4.96
1941 BOS AL 30 2B 23 23 19 120 46 71 3 8 .975 5.09 .967 5.47
1942 BOS AL 31 3B 12 11 11 40 10 27 3 4 .925 3.08 .939 3.16
1942 BOS AL 31 2B 10 10 10 60 32 26 2 5 .967 5.80 .969 5.62
1942 BOS AL 31 SS 7 4 4 30 14 14 2 4 .933 4.00 .949 5.01
1943 BOS AL 32 SS 98 94 92 553 222 310 21 69 .962 5.43 .953 5.13 MVP-27
1943 BOS AL 32 3B 15 15 14 59 23 36 0 2 1.000 3.93 .951 3.17 MVP-27
1944 BOS AL 33 SS 126 124 114 696 249 421 26 79 .963 5.32 .947 5.29
1944 BOS AL 33 2B 8 8 8 50 21 26 3 8 .940 5.88 .967 5.61
1944 BOS AL 33 3B 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 .950 3.30
1945 BOS AL 34 2B 82 78 74 454 206 231 17 54 .963 5.33 .970 5.62 MVP-32
1945 BOS AL 34 SS 33 29 27 179 61 114 4 21 .978 5.30 .951 5.28 MVP-32
1945 BOS AL 34 3B 11 10 7 41 9 31 1 3 .976 3.64 .948 3.16 MVP-32
1946 PHI NL 35 SS 107 102 91 512 179 310 23 53 .955 4.57 .957 5.15
1946 PHI NL 35 2B 3 1 1 13 1 11 1 0 .923 4.00 .970 5.53
1946 PHI NL 35 3B 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .950 3.10
1947 PHI NL 36 SS 85 77 65 390 131 247 12 60 .969 4.45 .963 5.11
1947 PHI NL 36 2B 6 1 0 8 5 3 0 0 1.000 1.33 .975 5.57
1947 PHI NL 36 3B 3 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0.67 .945 3.07
12 Seasons SS 902 815 744 4639 1736 2713 190 548 .959 4.93 .953 5.20
9 Seasons 2B 149 128 118 756 330 397 29 80 .962 4.88 .969 5.61
8 Seasons 3B 49 39 35 156 48 103 5 9 .968 3.08 .947 3.15
2 Seasons OF 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.40
1 Season LF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10
1 Season RF 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .970 2.10
12 Seasons TOT 1102 982 897 5553 2116 3213 224 637 .960 4.84 .955 5.16
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
1935 PHA AL 24 60 32 60 41 0 0 0 13 4 24 0 0 1 1 0 7 12
1936 PHA AL 25 127 123 127 126 0 0 0 2 1 123 1 0 0 1 0 2 0
1937 PHA AL 26 122 121 122 122 0 0 0 0 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1938 PHA AL 27 17 13 17 15 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1939 PHA AL 28 99 70 99 95 0 0 0 2 0 93 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
1941 BOS AL 30 93 59 93 91 0 0 0 23 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
1942 BOS AL 31 29 25 29 29 0 0 0 10 12 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1943 BOS AL 32 114 109 114 112 0 0 0 0 15 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
1944 BOS AL 33 136 132 136 135 0 0 0 9 1 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1945 BOS AL 34 125 117 125 121 0 0 0 82 11 33 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
1946 PHI NL 35 112 103 112 109 0 0 0 2 3 107 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1947 PHI NL 36 95 78 95 90 0 0 0 6 3 85 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
12 Seasons 1129 982 1129 1086 0 0 0 149 50 902 1 0 1 2 0 15 38
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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1943 AL (27, 1%)
1945 AL (32, 0%)
0.01 Career Shares (1497th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1937 AL  32 (4th)
1946 NL  24 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1939 AL  93 (5th)
1944 AL  126 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1939 AL  176 (5th)
1944 AL  249 (4th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1944 AL  421 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1936 AL  31 (5th)
1937 AL  32 (3rd)
1946 NL  23 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1936 AL  5.61 (2nd)
1937 AL  5.44 (1st)
1943 AL  5.43 (1st)
1944 AL  5.32 (3rd)
Career  4.93 (72nd)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1936 AL  .957 (3rd)
1943 AL  .962 (2nd)
1944 AL  .963 (2nd)
1946 NL  .955 (5th)
1947 NL  .969 (4th)

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