Morrie Rath

Morris Charles Rath

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: December 25, 1886 in Mobeetie, TX (All Transactions)
Debut: September 28, 1909
Teams (by GP): Reds/WhiteSox/Athletics/Naps 1909-1920

Final Game: October 3, 1920
Died: November 18, 1945 in Upper Darby, PA
Buried: Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1909	PHA	AL	22	SS	4			39	18	15	6	2	.846	8.25	.925	5.35
1909	PHA	AL	22	3B	2			6	2	3	1	0	.833	2.50	.932	3.40
1910	TOT	AL	23	3B	33			100	36	59	5	4	.950	2.88	.931	3.48
1910	PHA	AL	23	3B	11			20	7	12	1	0	.950	1.73	.931	3.48
1910	PHA	AL	23	2B	3			0	0	0	0	0		0.00		5.03
1910	CLE	AL	23	3B	22			80	29	47	4	4	.950	3.45	.931	3.48
1910	CLE	AL	23	SS	1			1	0	1	0	1	1.000	1.00	.930	5.40
1912	CHW	AL	25	2B	157			847	353	463	31	46	.963	5.20	.945	4.91
1913	CHW	AL	26	2B	86			426	159	251	16	32	.962	4.77	.954	4.98
1919	CIN	NL	32	2B	138	138	135	818	345	452	21	62	.974	5.78	.960	5.43
1920	CIN	NL	33	2B	126	125	122	726	310	399	17	60	.977	5.63	.963	5.73
1920	CIN	NL	33	3B	1	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.00	.947	3.20
1920	CIN	NL	33	OF	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.30
1920	CIN	NL	33	RF	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.10
	5 Seasons			2B	510	263	257	2817	1167	1565	85	200	.970	5.36	.955	5.27
	3 Seasons			3B	36	0	0	109	40	63	6	4	.945	2.86	.931	3.47
	2 Seasons			SS	5			40	18	16	6	3	.850	6.80	.925	5.36
	1 Season			RF	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.10
	1 Season			OF	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.30
	6 Seasons			TOT	552	264	257	2966	1225	1644	97	207	.967	5.20	.954	5.14

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	2B	3B	SS	RF	OF	PH	PR
1909	PHA	AL	22	7		7		0	2	4	0	0
1910	CLE	AL	23	24		24		0	22	1	0	0
1910	PHA	AL	23	18		18		3	11	0	0	0
1912	CHW	AL	25	157		157		157	0	0	0	0
1913	CHW	AL	26	92		92		86	0	0	0	0
1919	CIN	NL	32	138	138	138	138	138	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920	CIN	NL	33	129	126	129	127	126	1	0	1	1	2	0
	6 Seasons			565	264	565	265	510	36	5	1	1	2	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

Assists† s c a p y 1912 AL 463 (4th) 1919 NL 452 (3rd)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1912 AL 157 (1st) 1919 NL 138 (2nd) 1920 NL 126 (5th)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1912 AL 353 (2nd) 1919 NL 345 (1st) 1920 NL 310 (4th)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1912 AL 463 (1st) 1919 NL 452 (1st) 1920 NL 399 (4th)
Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1912 AL 31 (4th) 1919 NL 21 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1912 AL 5.20 (3rd) 1919 NL 5.78 (1st) 1920 NL 5.63 (5th) Career 5.36 (77th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1912 AL .963 (1st) 1913 AL .962 (3rd) 1919 NL .974 (2nd) 1920 NL .977 (1st)

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