Pete Reiser

Harold Patrick Reiser (Pistol Pete)

Positions: Outfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: March 17, 1919 in St. Louis, MO
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1937. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 23, 1940
Teams (by GP): Dodgers/Braves/Pirates/Indians 1940-1952

Final Game: July 5, 1952
Died: October 25, 1981 in Palm Springs, CA
Buried: Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, 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	Awards
1940	BRO	NL	21	3B	30	30	30		100	38	58	4	7	.960		3.20	.948		3.01
1940	BRO	NL	21	OF	17	16	14		22	21	0	1	0	.955		1.24	.977		2.32
1940	BRO	NL	21	RF	17	16	14		22	21	0	1	0	.955		1.24	.974		2.04
1940	BRO	NL	21	SS	5	5	5		27	13	12	2	1	.926		5.00	.950		5.50
1940	BRO	NL	21	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.70
1941	BRO	NL	22	CF	133	130	125		371	350	14	7	0	.981		2.74	.980		2.63	AS,MVP-2
1941	BRO	NL	22	OF	133	132	125		377	356	14	7	0	.981		2.78	.975		2.31	AS,MVP-2
1941	BRO	NL	22	RF	2	2	0		5	5	0	0	0	1.000		2.50	.968		1.95	AS,MVP-2
1942	BRO	NL	23	CF	125	122	113		295	277	9	9	2	.969		2.29	.978		2.62	AS,MVP-6
1942	BRO	NL	23	OF	125	122	113		295	277	9	9	2	.969		2.29	.981		2.34	AS,MVP-6
1946	BRO	NL	27	OF	97	94	74		224	205	14	5	2	.978		2.26	.977		2.38	AS,MVP-9
1946	BRO	NL	27	LF	69	65	52		143	133	9	1	1	.993		2.06	.975		2.26	AS,MVP-9
1946	BRO	NL	27	CF	30	29	22		81	72	5	4	1	.951		2.57	.979		2.85	AS,MVP-9
1946	BRO	NL	27	3B	15	15	12		50	16	32	2	2	.960		3.20	.952		3.08	AS,MVP-9
1947	BRO	NL	28	OF	108	104	77		246	240	3	3	0	.988		2.25	.977		2.42
1947	BRO	NL	28	CF	68	66	47		168	164	2	2	0	.988		2.44	.978		2.79
1947	BRO	NL	28	LF	50	38	30		78	76	1	1	0	.987		1.54	.976		2.31
1947	BRO	NL	28	RF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.10
1948	BRO	NL	29	OF	30	29	10		54	52	1	1	0	.981		1.77	.978		2.39
1948	BRO	NL	29	LF	18	14	7		29	29	0	0	0	1.000		1.61	.970		2.31
1948	BRO	NL	29	CF	10	10	3		15	15	0	0	0	1.000		1.50	.984		2.78
1948	BRO	NL	29	RF	5	5	0		8	7	0	1	0	.875		1.40	.976		2.00
1948	BRO	NL	29	3B	4	4	3		12	4	7	1	1	.917		2.75	.941		3.10
1949	BSN	NL	30	OF	63	53	42		147	139	5	3	2	.980		2.29	.977		2.48
1949	BSN	NL	30	CF	36	28	20		77	71	4	2	2	.974		2.08	.978		2.89
1949	BSN	NL	30	LF	27	25	22		67	66	0	1	0	.985		2.44	.974		2.41
1949	BSN	NL	30	3B	4	3	2		9	3	5	1	2	.889		2.00	.952		3.18
1950	BSN	NL	31	OF	24	14	11	141.0	47	46	0	1	0	.979	2.94	1.92	.978	2.34	2.31
1950	BSN	NL	31	LF	16	9	9	94.0	34	33	0	1	0	.971	3.16	2.06	.977	2.29	2.27
1950	BSN	NL	31	CF	7	5	2	44.0	12	12	0	0	0	1.000	2.45	1.71	.980	2.76	2.73
1950	BSN	NL	31	3B	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		3.60	3.30
1950	BSN	NL	31	RF	1	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		1.80	1.80
1951	PIT	NL	32	OF	27	24	22	226.1	55	53	1	1	0	.982	2.15	2.00	.981	2.42	2.41
1951	PIT	NL	32	LF	20	19	18	176.2	41	39	1	1	0	.976	2.04	2.00	.977	2.32	2.32
1951	PIT	NL	32	CF	6	5	4	49.0	13	13	0	0	0	1.000	2.39	2.17	.983	2.88	2.87
1951	PIT	NL	32	3B	5	2	2	27.0	11	3	7	1	1	.909	3.33	2.00	.953	3.37	3.36
1951	PIT	NL	32	RF	1	0	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		2.70	2.00
1952	CLE	AL	33	OF	10	7	5	70.0	20	20	0	0	0	1.000	2.57	2.00	.980	2.40	2.40
1952	CLE	AL	33	CF	6	4	3	38.0	11	11	0	0	0	1.000	2.61	1.83	.983	2.91	2.92
1952	CLE	AL	33	LF	4	3	2	32.0	10	10	0	0	0	1.000	2.81	2.50	.979	2.28	2.28
	10 Seasons			OF	634	595	493	437.1	1487	1409	47	31	6	.979	2.47	2.30	.978	2.39	2.37
	10 Seasons			CF	422	399	339	131.0	1043	985	34	24	5	.977	2.47	2.41	.979	2.85	2.70
	7 Seasons			LF	204	173	140	302.2	402	386	11	5	1	.988	2.47	1.95	.975	2.30	2.30
	6 Seasons			3B	59	54	49	28.0	182	64	109	9	13	.951	3.21	2.93	.949	3.38	3.08
	6 Seasons			RF	27	23	14	3.2	35	33	0	2	0	.943	0.00	1.22	.974	1.96	2.02
	1 Season			SS	5	5	5		27	13	12	2	1	.926		5.00	.950		5.50
	10 Seasons			TOT	698	654	547	465.1	1696	1486	168	42	20	.975	2.51	2.37	.974	2.45	2.45
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.

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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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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP
1940	BRO	NL	21	3B
1940	BRO	NL	21	RF
1940	BRO	NL	21	SS
1940	BRO	NL	21	CF
1941	BRO	NL	22	CF
1941	BRO	NL	22	RF
1942	BRO	NL	23	CF
1946	BRO	NL	27	LF
1946	BRO	NL	27	CF
1946	BRO	NL	27	3B
1947	BRO	NL	28	CF
1947	BRO	NL	28	LF
1947	BRO	NL	28	RF
1948	BRO	NL	29	LF
1948	BRO	NL	29	CF
1948	BRO	NL	29	RF
1948	BRO	NL	29	3B
1949	BSN	NL	30	CF
1949	BSN	NL	30	LF
1949	BSN	NL	30	3B
1950	BSN	NL	31	LF
1950	BSN	NL	31	CF
1950	BSN	NL	31	3B
1950	BSN	NL	31	RF
1951	PIT	NL	32	LF
1951	PIT	NL	32	CF
1951	PIT	NL	32	3B
1951	PIT	NL	32	RF
1952	CLE	AL	33	CF
1952	CLE	AL	33	LF
	10 Seasons			CF
	7 Seasons			LF
	6 Seasons			3B
	6 Seasons			RF
	1 Season			SS
	10 Seasons			TOT
Lg				Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1940	BRO	NL	21	58	51	58	52	30	5	0	1	17	17	6	0
1941	BRO	NL	22	137	132	137	133	0	0	0	133	2	133	3	1
1942	BRO	NL	23	125	122	125	125	0	0	0	125	0	125	0	0
1946	BRO	NL	27	122	109	122	111	15	0	69	30	0	97	11	0
1947	BRO	NL	28	110	104	110	108	0	0	50	68	1	108	2	0
1948	BRO	NL	29	64	33	64	34	4	0	18	10	5	30	31	0
1949	BSN	NL	30	84	56	84	66	4	0	27	36	0	63	17	6
1950	BSN	NL	31	53	14	53	25	1	0	16	7	1	24	32	3
1951	PIT	NL	32	74	26	74	32	5	0	20	6	1	27	44	0
1952	CLE	AL	33	34	7	34	10	0	0	4	6	0	10	15	9
	10 Seasons			861	654	861	696	59	5	204	422	27	634	161	19

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.

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1948	BRO	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	8	0	9	1	0	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	22	12	54.5%	10	0	0.0%	0	538	65%	79%	40%	72	40%
1949	BSN	NL	30	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	7	0	3	0	0	6	4	0	2	0	0	5	5	0	25	16	64.0%	9	0	0.0%	0	739	66%	84%	33%	91	59%
1950	BSN	NL	31	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	8	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	16	10	62.5%	6	0	0.0%	0	409	64%	79%	34%	63	52%
1951	PIT	NL	32	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	0	3	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	3	3	0	13	8	61.5%	5	0	0.0%	0	621	68%	80%	33%	48	69%
1952	CLE	AL	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	33.3%	2	0	0.0%	0	139	54%	78%	29%	19	53%
	5 Seasons			3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33	27	0	20	2	0	13	8	0	4	1	0	9	9	0	79	47	59.5%	32	0	0.0%	0	2446	65%	81%	34%	293	54%
	MLB Averages																														57.3%			2.7%			62%	82%	31%		52%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1948	BRO	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	5	2	40.0%	3	0	0.0%	0	239	65%	79%	35%	22	68%
1949	BSN	NL	30	2	0	2	0	2	4	0	1	1	1	12	8	0	5	1	0	1	0	1	4	0	1	6	4	0	28	13	46.4%	13	2	7.1%	2	833	64%	86%	36%	107	58%
1950	BSN	NL	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	88	65%	80%	23%	5	80%
1951	PIT	NL	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	3	1	33.3%	2	0	0.0%	0	218	63%	82%	23%	19	68%
1952	CLE	AL	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	1	14.3%	6	0	0.0%	0	149	40%	83%	28%	20	55%
	5 Seasons			2	0	2	0	2	4	0	1	1	1	16	10	0	12	1	0	1	0	1	6	0	1	8	6	0	43	17	39.5%	24	2	4.7%	2	1527	62%	84%	32%	173	61%
	MLB Averages																														45.1%			3.0%			62%	82%	31%		60%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	543	53	GB	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1948	BRO	NL	29	132	61%	77%	35%	10	90%	0	4	2	1	1	7	6	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
1949	BSN	NL	30	84	74%	79%	27%	7	86%	0	2	2	0	0	4	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
1950	BSN	NL	31	8	63%	75%	0%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951	PIT	NL	32	62	68%	89%	32%	9	89%	0	3	3	0	0	5	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0%
	4 Seasons			286	66%	80%	31%	26	88%	0	9	7	1	1	16	13	3	0	0	3	0	3	0	3	3	2	1	3	0	0	0	1	0%
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		89%																								69%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1948	BRO	NL	29	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	129	70%	83%	43%	12	58%
	1 Season			1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	129	70%	83%	43%	12	58%
	MLB Averages																														43.3%			3.2%			62%	82%	31%		54%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame 1958 BBWAA ( 2.3%) 1960 BBWAA ( 3.0%)	All-Star Games 1941 (CF) 1942 (CF) 1946	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1941 NL (2, 54%) 1942 NL (6, 27%) 1946 NL (9, 17%) 0.98 Career Shares (250th)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1946 NL 9 (3rd)
Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL 133 (3rd) 1942 NL 125 (4th)	Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL 350 (2nd) 1942 NL 277 (3rd)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL 14 (1st) 1942 NL 9 (3rd)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL 7 (4th) 1942 NL 9 (1st)
Putouts as OF s c a p y 1941 NL 356 (3rd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1941 NL 14 (3rd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1942 NL 9 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL 2.74 (1st) 1942 NL 2.29 (3rd)
Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL .981 (4th) 1942 NL .969 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1941 NL 2.78 (1st) 1942 NL 2.29 (5th)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1947 NL .988 (5th)	Youngest s c a p y 1940 NL born 1919-03-17 (10th)

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