Topper Rigney

Emory Elmo Rigney

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 150 lb.

Born: January 7, 1897 in Groveton, TX
School: Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 1922
Teams (by GP): Tigers/RedSox/Senators 1922-1927

Final Game: August 26, 1927
Died: June 7, 1972 in San Antonio, TX
Buried: Sunset Memorial Park, San Antonio, TX
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	Awards
1922	DET	AL	25	SS	155	155	151	805	262	493	50	78	.938	4.87	.946	5.20
1923	DET	AL	26	SS	129	129	128	627	209	383	35	46	.944	4.59	.946	5.02
1924	DET	AL	27	SS	146	146	140	761	273	463	25	72	.967	5.04	.949	5.14
1925	DET	AL	28	SS	51	26	22	152	51	91	10	7	.934	2.78	.944	5.20
1925	DET	AL	28	3B	4	3	3	9	5	4	0	1	1.000	2.25	.947	3.20
1926	BOS	AL	29	SS	146	146	146	803	286	492	25	80	.969	5.33	.944	5.01	MVP-21
1927	TOT	AL	30	SS	33	32	31	176	69	95	12	22	.932	4.97	.945	5.28
1927	TOT	AL	30	3B	10	9	8	21	8	12	1	2	.952	2.00	.952	3.33
1927	BOS	AL	30	3B	4	3	2	7	4	3	0	1	1.000	1.75	.951	3.32
1927	BOS	AL	30	SS	1	1	1	6	4	2	0	1	1.000	6.00	.945	5.30
1927	WSH	AL	30	SS	32	31	30	170	65	93	12	21	.929	4.94	.945	5.28
1927	WSH	AL	30	3B	6	6	6	14	4	9	1	1	.929	2.17	.952	3.33
	6 Seasons			SS	660	634	618	3324	1150	2017	157	305	.953	4.80	.946	5.11
	2 Seasons			3B	14	12	11	30	13	16	1	3	.967	2.07	.950	3.29
	6 Seasons			TOT	674	646	629	3354	1163	2033	158	308	.953	4.74	.946	5.08

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	3B	SS	PH
1922	DET	AL	25	155	155	155	155	0	155	0
1923	DET	AL	26	129	129	129	129	0	129	0
1924	DET	AL	27	147	146	147	146	0	146	1
1925	DET	AL	28	62	29	62	55	4	51	7
1926	BOS	AL	29	148	146	148	146	0	146	2
1927	WSH	AL	30	45	37	45	38	7	31	7
1927	BOS	AL	30	8	4	8	5	4	1	3
	6 Seasons			694	646	694	674	15	659	20

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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1926 AL (21, 5%) 0.05 Career Shares (1113th)	Assists† s c a p y 1922 AL 493 (4th) 1924 AL 463 (4th) 1926 AL 492 (1st)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1922 AL 50 (2nd)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1922 AL 155 (1st) 1924 AL 146 (5th) 1926 AL 146 (3rd)
Putouts as SS s c a p y 1926 AL 286 (3rd)	Assists as SS s c a p y 1922 AL 493 (3rd) 1924 AL 463 (3rd) 1926 AL 492 (1st)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1922 AL 50 (1st) 1923 AL 35 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1924 AL 5.04 (5th) 1926 AL 5.33 (1st) Career 4.80 (97th)
Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1924 AL .967 (1st) 1926 AL .969 (1st)

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