Lew Ritter

Lewis Elmer Ritter (Old Dog)

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

Born: September 7, 1875 in Liverpool, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 10, 1902
Team: Superbas 1902-1908

Final Game: August 29, 1908
Died: May 27, 1952 in Harrisburg, PA
Buried: Liverpool Cemetery, Liverpool, PA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
1902	BRO	NL	26	C	16	112	91	18	3	2	.973	6.81	.965	6.05		2	23	14	38%	45%
1903	BRO	NL	27	C	74	414	309	80	25	6	.940	5.26	.967	6.10		2	140	68	33%	45%
1903	BRO	NL	27	OF	2	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		1.95	1-1-0
1904	BRO	NL	28	C	57	349	249	88	12	7	.966	5.91	.964	6.01		4	71	64	47%	46%
1904	BRO	NL	28	2B	5	21	9	11	1	6	.952	4.00	.942	5.36
1904	BRO	NL	28	3B	1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.00	.900	3.20
1905	BRO	NL	29	C	84	529	397	106	26	4	.951	5.99	.963	6.20		9	137	83	38%	45%
1905	BRO	NL	29	OF	4	7	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.75	.954	1.98	0-1-3
1905	BRO	NL	29	3B	2	5	2	3	0	0	1.000	2.50	.920	3.20
1906	BRO	NL	30	C	53	278	211	61	6	4	.978	5.13	.970	6.25		6	63	44	41%	45%
1906	BRO	NL	30	OF	9	22	19	2	1	0	.955	2.33	.959	1.89	5-0-5
1906	BRO	NL	30	1B	3	27	26	0	1	1	.963	8.67	.984	10.80
1906	BRO	NL	30	3B	2	8	1	5	2	0	.750	3.00	.931	3.25
1907	BRO	NL	31	C	89	510	391	103	16	11	.969	5.55	.971	5.98		8	114	76	40%	45%
1908	BRO	NL	32	C	37	180	132	41	7	0	.961	4.68	.971	5.92		3	41	28	41%	46%
	7 Seasons			C	410	2372	1780	497	95	34	.960	5.55	.967	6.08		34	589	377	39%	45%
	3 Seasons			OF	15	29	26	2	1	0	.966	1.87	.958	1.92	6-2-8
	1 Season			2B	5	21	9	11	1	6	.952	4.00	.942	5.36
	3 Seasons			3B	5	14	3	9	2	0	.857	2.40	.925	3.22
	1 Season			1B	3	27	26	0	1	1	.963	8.67	.984	10.80
	7 Seasons			TOT	438	2463	1844	519	100	41	.959	5.39	.967	5.93	6-2-8	34	589	377	39%	45%

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	Batting	C	1B	2B	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF
1902	BRO	NL	26	16	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1903	BRO	NL	27	78	78	74	0	0	0	1	1	0	2
1904	BRO	NL	28	72	72	57	0	5	1	0	0	0	0
1905	BRO	NL	29	92	92	84	0	0	2	0	1	3	4
1906	BRO	NL	30	73	73	53	3	0	2	5	0	5	9
1907	BRO	NL	31	93	93	89	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908	BRO	NL	32	38	38	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7 Seasons			462	462	410	3	5	5	6	2	8	15

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

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1907 NL 89 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1905 NL 397 (5th) 1907 NL 391 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1903 NL 25 (1st) 1905 NL 26 (1st) 1907 NL 16 (5th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1903 NL 140 (3rd) 1905 NL 137 (1st) 1907 NL 114 (2nd)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1907 NL 76 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1907 NL .969 (5th)

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