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John O'Brien

John Joseph O'Brien (Chewing Gum)

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: July 13, 1866 in St. John, New Brunswick, CAN (All Transactions)
Debut: July 25, 1891
Teams (by GP): Colonels/Senators/Pirates/Grooms/Orioles/... 1891-1899

Final Game: October 7, 1899
Died: May 12, 1913 in Lewiston, ME
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Lewiston, ME
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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
1891 BRO NL 24 2B 43 219 85 102 32 13 .854 4.35 .929 5.91
1893 CHC NL 26 2B 4 20 10 8 2 1 .900 4.50 .933 5.95
1895 LOU NL 28 2B 125 746 304 396 46 56 .938 5.60 .933 5.70
1895 LOU NL 28 1B 3 37 35 1 1 2 .973 12.00 .978 10.10
1896 TOT NL 29 2B 122 710 291 375 44 52 .938 5.46 .940 5.53
1896 LOU NL 29 2B 49 296 125 147 24 19 .919 5.55 .940 5.53
1896 WHS NL 29 2B 73 414 166 228 20 33 .952 5.40 .940 5.53
1897 WHS NL 30 2B 86 513 223 260 30 43 .942 5.62 .936 5.61
1899 TOT NL 32 2B 118 718 309 375 34 53 .953 5.80 .941 5.55
1899 BLN NL 32 2B 39 238 98 132 8 21 .966 5.90 .941 5.55
1899 PIT NL 32 2B 79 480 211 243 26 32 .946 5.75 .941 5.55
6 Seasons 2B 498 2926 1222 1516 188 218 .936 5.50 .937 5.63
1 Season 1B 3 37 35 1 1 2 .973 12.00 .978 10.10
6 Seasons TOT 501 2963 1257 1517 189 220 .936 5.54 .937 5.65
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
1891 BRO NL 24 43 43 0 0 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1893 CHC NL 26 4 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1895 LOU NL 28 128 128 0 0 3 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1896 WHS NL 29 73 73 0 0 0 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1896 LOU NL 29 49 49 0 0 0 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1897 WHS NL 30 86 86 0 0 0 86 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1899 PIT NL 32 79 79 0 0 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1899 BLN NL 32 39 39 0 0 0 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 501 501 0 0 3 498 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 2B s c a p y
1895 NL  125 (2nd)
1896 NL  122 (3rd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1896 NL  291 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1895 NL  396 (2nd)
1896 NL  375 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1896 NL  44 (3rd)
Career  188 (73rd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1899 NL  5.80 (3rd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1899 NL  .953 (4th)

                           

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