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Ivy Olson

Ivan Massie Olson

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: October 14, 1885 in Kansas City, MO (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 1911
Teams (by GP): Robins/Naps/Reds 1911-1924

Final Game: July 21, 1924
Died: September 1, 1965 in Inglewood, CA
Buried: Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
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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 Awards
1911 CLE AL 25 SS 139 793 293 428 72 51 .909 5.19 .926 5.57
1911 CLE AL 25 3B 1 3 0 2 1 0 .667 2.00 .930 3.30
1912 CLE AL 26 SS 56 325 118 180 27 10 .917 5.32 .921 5.32
1912 CLE AL 26 3B 36 144 62 74 8 2 .944 3.78 .920 3.37
1912 CLE AL 26 2B 21 120 47 64 9 6 .925 5.29 .945 4.91
1912 CLE AL 26 OF 3 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 2.03 3-0-0
1913 CLE AL 27 3B 73 254 97 145 12 7 .953 3.32 .934 3.15
1913 CLE AL 27 1B 21 224 206 10 8 17 .964 10.29 .986 10.85
1913 CLE AL 27 2B 1 9 5 3 1 1 .889 8.00 .954 5.00
1914 CLE AL 28 SS 31 156 58 89 9 14 .942 4.74 .937 5.35
1914 CLE AL 28 2B 23 136 62 72 2 5 .985 5.83 .953 4.93
1914 CLE AL 28 3B 19 79 42 32 5 1 .937 3.89 .936 3.26
1914 CLE AL 28 OF 6 15 14 1 0 0 1.000 2.50 .956 2.00 5-0-1
1914 CLE AL 28 1B 3 18 17 1 0 0 1.000 6.00 .985 10.57
1915 TOT NL 29 2B 40 227 88 125 14 17 .938 5.33 .955 5.05
1915 TOT NL 29 3B 16 56 17 35 4 0 .929 3.25 .947 3.12
1915 CIN NL 29 2B 39 227 88 125 14 17 .938 5.46 .955 5.05
1915 CIN NL 29 3B 15 55 17 34 4 0 .927 3.40 .947 3.13
1915 CIN NL 29 1B 7 73 65 7 1 3 .986 10.29 .990 10.61
1915 BRO NL 29 SS 7 33 16 14 3 2 .909 4.29 .931 5.44
1915 BRO NL 29 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.00
1915 BRO NL 29 3B 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 3.10
1915 BRO NL 29 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10 0-0-1
1916 BRO NL 30 SS 103 584 234 303 47 28 .920 5.21 .926 5.52
1916 BRO NL 30 2B 3 12 7 4 1 0 .917 3.67 .951 5.13
1916 BRO NL 30 1B 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .985 10.80
1917 BRO NL 31 SS 133 759 283 431 45 53 .941 5.37 .931 5.34
1917 BRO NL 31 3B 6 17 4 7 6 0 .647 1.83 .942 3.23
1918 BRO NL 32 SS 126 126 126 711 265 388 58 42 .918 5.18 .934 5.80
1919 BRO NL 33 SS 140 140 138 838 349 445 44 61 .947 5.67 .943 5.66
1920 BRO NL 34 SS 125 124 117 726 275 404 47 48 .935 5.43 .941 5.73
1920 BRO NL 34 2B 21 19 18 136 51 78 7 20 .949 6.14 .963 5.73
1921 BRO NL 35 SS 133 131 124 857 343 465 49 71 .943 6.08 .951 5.86
1921 BRO NL 35 2B 20 19 18 108 36 65 7 12 .935 5.05 .962 5.70
1922 BRO NL 36 2B 85 82 78 496 193 283 20 39 .960 5.60 .961 5.76
1922 BRO NL 36 SS 51 52 50 301 139 149 13 43 .957 5.65 .945 5.78
1923 BRO NL 37 2B 72 69 63 416 161 244 11 36 .974 5.63 .959 5.90
1923 BRO NL 37 3B 4 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0.50 .945 3.10
1923 BRO NL 37 1B 2 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 2.50 .990 10.55
1923 BRO NL 37 SS 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 .500 0.50 .940 5.80
1924 BRO NL 38 SS 8 8 7 34 15 17 2 6 .941 4.00 .949 5.76
1924 BRO NL 38 2B 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .960 6.00
13 Seasons SS 1054 581 562 6119 2389 3313 417 429 .932 5.41 .936 5.62
10 Seasons 2B 288 189 177 1661 651 938 72 136 .957 5.52 .958 5.55
7 Seasons 3B 155 0 0 555 223 296 36 10 .935 3.35 .932 3.21
5 Seasons 1B 34 0 0 322 295 18 9 20 .972 9.21 .987 10.76
3 Seasons OF 10 18 17 1 0 0 1.000 1.80 .955 2.02 8-0-2
14 Seasons TOT 1541 770 739 8675 3575 4566 534 595 .938 5.28 .942 5.46 8-0-2
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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
1911 CLE AL 25 140 140 0 0 0 0 1 139 0 0 0 0 0
1912 CLE AL 26 125 125 0 0 0 21 36 56 3 0 0 3 0
1913 CLE AL 27 104 104 0 0 21 1 73 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 CLE AL 28 89 89 0 0 3 23 19 31 5 0 1 6 0
1915 CIN NL 29 63 63 0 0 7 39 15 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 BRO NL 29 18 18 0 0 0 1 1 7 0 0 1 1 0
1916 BRO NL 30 108 108 0 0 1 3 0 103 0 0 0 0 0
1917 BRO NL 31 139 139 0 0 0 0 6 133 0 0 0 0 0
1918 BRO NL 32 126 126 0 0 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0
1919 BRO NL 33 140 140 140 140 0 0 0 0 0 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1920 BRO NL 34 143 143 143 143 0 0 0 21 0 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1921 BRO NL 35 151 150 151 151 0 0 0 20 0 133 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1922 BRO NL 36 136 134 136 136 0 0 0 85 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1923 BRO NL 37 82 69 82 78 0 0 2 72 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
1924 BRO NL 38 10 8 10 10 0 0 0 2 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Seasons 1574 644 1574 658 0 0 34 288 155 1055 8 0 2 10 0 2 2
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
1911 AL  430 (4th)
1919 NL  445 (4th)
1920 NL  482 (5th)
1921 NL  530 (3rd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1911 AL  73 (2nd)
1916 NL  48 (4th)
1917 NL  51 (5th)
1918 NL  58 (2nd)
1919 NL  44 (3rd)
1920 NL  54 (1st)
1921 NL  56 (1st)
Career  534 (68th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1922 NL  85 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1922 NL  193 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1911 AL  139 (3rd)
1916 NL  103 (4th)
1917 NL  133 (5th)
1918 NL  126 (2nd)
1919 NL  140 (1st)
1920 NL  125 (5th)
1921 NL  133 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1911 AL  293 (3rd)
1916 NL  234 (4th)
1917 NL  283 (2nd)
1918 NL  265 (5th)
1919 NL  349 (2nd)
1920 NL  275 (5th)
1921 NL  343 (3rd)
Career  2,389 (73rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1911 AL  428 (3rd)
1916 NL  303 (4th)
1919 NL  445 (3rd)
1920 NL  404 (5th)
1921 NL  465 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1911 AL  72 (2nd)
1916 NL  47 (4th)
1918 NL  58 (2nd)
1919 NL  44 (3rd)
1920 NL  47 (3rd)
1921 NL  49 (1st)
Career  417 (34th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1922 NL  5.60 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1916 NL  5.21 (5th)
1917 NL  5.37 (5th)
1919 NL  5.67 (4th)
1921 NL  6.08 (3rd)
Career  5.41 (25th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1916 NL  .920 (5th)
1917 NL  .941 (3rd)
1919 NL  .947 (3rd)

Oldest s c a p y
1921 NL  born 1885-10-14 (8th)
1922 NL  born 1885-10-14 (5th)
1923 NL  born 1885-10-14 (4th)
1924 NL  born 1885-10-14 (4th)

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