Don Richmond

Donald Lester Richmond

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: October 27, 1919 in Gillett, PA
Signed by the Philadelphia Athletics as an amateur free agent in 1940. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1941
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Cardinals 1941-1951

Final Game: May 13, 1951
Died: May 24, 1981 in Elmira, NY
Buried: St. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Elmira, NY
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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
1941	PHA	AL	21	3B	9	8	8		23	6	16	1	3	.957		2.44	.947		3.28
1946	PHA	AL	26	3B	16	16	16		50	19	28	3	1	.940		2.94	.948		3.06
1947	PHA	AL	27	3B	4	2	1		2	0	1	1	0	.500		0.25	.960		3.00
1947	PHA	AL	27	2B	1	1	0		4	1	2	1	0	.750		3.00	.978		5.50
1951	STL	NL	31	3B	11	9	7	79.0	42	14	28	0	3	1.000	4.78	3.82	.953	3.37	3.36
	4 Seasons			3B	40	35	32	79.0	117	39	73	5	7	.957	4.78	2.80	.950	3.37	3.19
	1 Season			2B	1	1	0		4	1	2	1	0	.750		3.00	.978		5.50
	4 Seasons			TOT	41	36	32	79.0	121	40	75	6	7	.950	4.78	2.80	.951	3.37	3.24

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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos
1941	PHA	AL	21	3B
1946	PHA	AL	26	3B
1947	PHA	AL	27	3B
1947	PHA	AL	27	2B
1951	STL	NL	31	3B
	4 Seasons			3B
	1 Season			2B
	4 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	PH	PR
1941	PHA	AL	21	9	8	9	9	0	9	0	0
1946	PHA	AL	26	16	16	16	16	0	16	0	0
1947	PHA	AL	27	19	3	19	5	1	4	13	2
1951	STL	NL	31	12	9	12	11	0	11	1	1
	4 Seasons			56	36	56	41	1	40	14	3

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 -- 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%
1951	STL	NL	31	300	66%	82%	27%	38	95%	0	14	12	1	1	25	19	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	3	0	0	0	1	0%
	1 Season			300	66%	82%	27%	38	95%	0	14	12	1	1	25	19	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	3	0	0	0	1	0%
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		89%																								70%

* 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.

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