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Jack Rowe

John Charles Rowe

Positions: Shortstop, Catcher and Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: December 8, 1856 in Hamburg, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 6, 1879 (Age 22)
Teams (by GP): Bisons/Wolverines/PittsburghAlleghenys 1879-1890

Final Game: October 4, 1890 (Age 33)
Died: April 25, 1911 in St. Louis, MO
Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO
Relatives: Brother of Dave Rowe
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Fine Details  · Last updated May 25, 2013 5:17AM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #824. Mark McLemore… #825. B.J. Upton… #826. Sam Mertes… #827. JACK ROWE… #828. Chris Denorfia… #829. Bengie Molina… #830. Ron Hansen… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1879 22 BUF NL 8 34 34 8 12 1 0 0 8 0 1 .353 .353 .382 .735 138 13 /2O
1880 23 BUF NL 79 332 326 43 82 10 6 1 36 6 17 .252 .265 .328 .593 99 107 *2O/5
1881 24 BUF NL 64 247 246 30 82 11 11 1 43 1 12 .333 .336 .480 .816 154 118 2/56O
1882 25 BUF NL 75 320 308 43 82 14 5 1 42 12 0 .266 .294 .354 .648 105 109 26/5O
1883 26 BUF NL 87 389 374 65 104 18 7 1 38 15 14 .278 .306 .372 .678 102 139 2O6/5
1884 27 BUF NL 93 423 400 85 126 14 14 4 61 23 14 .315 .352 .450 .802 149 180 2O/6
1885 28 BUF NL 98 434 421 62 122 28 8 2 51 13 19 .290 .311 .409 .720 129 172 62O
1886 29 DTN NL 111 494 468 97 142 21 9 6 87 12 26 27 .303 .340 .425 .765 130 199 *6/2
1887 30 DTN NL 124 579 537 135 171 30 10 6 96 22 39 11 .318 .368 .445 .813 122 239 3 *6
1888 31 DTN NL 105 473 451 62 125 19 8 2 74 10 19 28 .277 .311 .368 .679 115 166 3 *6
1889 32 PIT NL 75 342 317 57 82 14 3 2 32 5 22 16 .259 .313 .341 .654 91 108 3 6
1890 33 BUF PL 125 559 504 77 126 22 7 2 76 10 48 18 .250 .324 .333 .657 82 168 7 *6
12 Yrs 1044 4626 4386 764 1256 202 88 28 644 59 224 177 .286 .323 .392 .715 115 1718 16
162 Game Avg. 162 718 681 119 195 31 14 4 100 35 27 .286 .323 .392 .715 115 267
BUF (7 yrs) 504 2179 2109 336 610 96 51 10 279 70 77 .289 .312 .397 .709 123 838
DTN (3 yrs) 340 1546 1456 294 438 70 27 14 257 44 84 66 .301 .342 .415 .756 123 604 6
PIT (1 yr) 75 342 317 57 82 14 3 2 32 5 22 16 .259 .313 .341 .654 91 108 3
BUF (1 yr) 125 559 504 77 126 22 7 2 76 10 48 18 .250 .324 .333 .657 82 168 7
NL (11 yrs) 919 4067 3882 687 1130 180 81 26 568 49 176 159 .291 .323 .399 .723 120 1550 9
PL (1 yr) 125 559 504 77 126 22 7 2 76 10 48 18 .250 .324 .333 .657 82 168 7

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
1879 22 BUF NL 8 34 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.2 1 3 0.3 .521 .501 0.3 0.0 3 /2O
1880 23 BUF NL 79 332 -0 0 0 1 2 3 0.3 11 15 1.5 .504 .502 1.5 0.3 14 *2O/5
1881 24 BUF NL 64 247 14 0 0 3 3 21 1.9 8 29 2.8 .530 .512 2.6 0.6 26 $1,250 2/56O
1882 25 BUF NL 75 320 4 0 0 8 5 17 1.5 11 28 2.7 .521 .510 2.0 1.1 20 $1,400 26/5O
1883 26 BUF NL 87 389 4 0 0 1 3 8 0.5 13 20 1.9 .508 .504 1.9 0.3 19 $1,650 2O6/5
1884 27 BUF NL 93 423 25 0 0 8 3 36 3.2 14 50 4.6 .536 .521 4.0 0.9 42 $1,700 2O/6
1885 28 BUF NL 98 434 14 0 0 -11 5 8 0.6 14 22 2.2 .507 .504 3.3 -0.6 33 $2,100 62O
1886 29 DTN NL 111 494 18 -1 0 4 7 28 2.5 16 44 4.2 .523 .516 4.0 1.0 40 $3,500 *6/2
1887 30 DTN NL 124 579 19 -4 0 7 8 30 2.2 19 49 4.1 .520 .515 3.7 1.1 42 $3,500 *6
1888 31 DTN NL 105 473 8 -2 0 -2 7 11 1.0 15 26 2.6 .510 .507 3.0 0.4 28 $3,500 *6
1889 32 PIT NL 75 342 -2 -1 0 -1 5 1 0.0 11 12 1.2 .501 .500 1.4 0.3 13 $3,500 6
1890 33 BUF PL 125 559 -8 -1 0 -15 8 -16 -1.1 13 -3 0.1 .490 .492 1.1 -0.3 12 *6
12 Seasons 1044 4626 97 -10 0 3 57 148 12.9 146 294 28.1 .513 .507 28.8 5.2 291 $22,100
BUF (7 yrs) 504 2179 63 0 0 10 22 94 8.3 72 167 16.0 .517 .508 15.6 2.7 157 $8,100
DTN (3 yrs) 340 1546 45 -7 0 9 22 69 5.6 49 118 10.8 .518 .513 10.7 2.5 109 $10,500
PIT (1 yr) 75 342 -2 -1 0 -1 5 1 0.0 11 12 1.2 .501 .500 1.4 0.3 13 $3,500
BUF (1 yr) 125 559 -8 -1 0 -15 8 -16 -1.1 13 -3 0.1 .490 .492 1.1 -0.3 12

Postseason Batting

Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1887 30 DTN NL WS STL W 0 65 63 12 21 1 1 0 7 5 2 1 .333 .354 .381 .735 24 0
1 WS 0 65 63 12 21 1 1 0 7 5 2 1 .333 .354 .381 .735 24 0

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1879 BUF NL 22 C 6 42 30 8 4 0 .905 6.33 .889 6.45 8 0 0
1879 BUF NL 22 OF 2 9 6 1 2 0 .778 3.50 .838 1.90 0-0-2
1880 BUF NL 23 C 60 320 231 56 33 3 .897 4.78 .894 6.88 61 0 0
1880 BUF NL 23 OF 25 47 32 5 10 0 .787 1.48 .855 1.85 2-6-19
1880 BUF NL 23 3B 3 14 4 7 3 0 .786 3.67 .856 3.47
1881 BUF NL 24 C 46 251 187 39 25 5 .900 4.91 .912 6.21 38 0 0
1881 BUF NL 24 3B 7 29 13 9 7 0 .759 3.14 .860 3.54
1881 BUF NL 24 SS 7 27 5 21 1 2 .963 3.71 .873 4.63
1881 BUF NL 24 OF 5 21 14 4 3 0 .857 3.60 .871 2.06 0-1-4
1882 BUF NL 25 C 46 302 246 41 15 5 .950 6.24 .909 6.75 38 0 0
1882 BUF NL 25 SS 22 88 7 70 11 3 .875 3.50 .852 4.48
1882 BUF NL 25 3B 7 18 7 6 5 0 .722 1.86 .843 3.53
1882 BUF NL 25 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.90 0-1-0
1883 BUF NL 26 C 49 316 234 50 32 3 .899 5.80 .884 6.36 34 0 0
1883 BUF NL 26 OF 28 49 34 1 14 0 .714 1.25 .849 1.96 28-0-0
1883 BUF NL 26 SS 18 69 10 44 15 3 .783 3.00 .853 4.58
1883 BUF NL 26 3B 3 7 2 3 2 0 .714 1.67 .830 3.30
1884 BUF NL 27 C 65 459 373 60 26 3 .943 6.66 .895 7.37 45 0 0
1884 BUF NL 27 OF 30 46 38 1 7 0 .848 1.30 .867 1.79 17-12-1
1884 BUF NL 27 SS 6 20 3 14 3 1 .850 2.83 .864 4.30
1885 BUF NL 28 SS 65 308 71 186 51 26 .834 3.95 .872 4.59
1885 BUF NL 28 C 23 166 123 30 13 0 .922 6.65 .893 6.63 12 0 0
1885 BUF NL 28 OF 12 28 25 0 3 0 .893 2.08 .881 1.85 0-12-0
1886 DTN NL 29 SS 110 450 86 310 54 26 .880 3.60 .880 4.37
1886 DTN NL 29 C 3 12 11 1 0 0 1.000 4.00 .918 7.17 4 0 0
1887 DTN NL 30 SS 124 548 119 378 51 36 .907 4.01 .890 5.01
1888 DTN NL 31 SS 105 517 133 312 72 24 .861 4.24 .881 4.47
1889 PIT NL 32 SS 75 375 108 228 39 26 .896 4.48 .888 4.90
1890 BUF PL 33 SS 125 676 228 381 67 56 .901 4.87 .868 5.13
10 Seasons SS 657 3078 770 1944 364 203 .882 4.13 .878 4.75
8 Seasons C 298 1868 1435 285 148 19 .921 5.77 .897 6.75 240 0 0
7 Seasons OF 103 200 149 12 39 0 .805 1.56 .861 1.87 47-32-26
4 Seasons 3B 20 68 26 25 17 0 .750 2.55 .851 3.49
12 Seasons TOT 1078 5214 2380 2266 568 222 .891 4.31 .884 5.00 47-32-26 240 0 0
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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.
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1881 NL  2.8 (5th)
1884 NL  4.6 (10th)
1886 NL  4.2 (8th)
1887 NL  4.1 (10th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1881 NL  2.6 (7th)
1886 NL  4.0 (10th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1882 NL  1.1 (6th)
1886 NL  1.0 (7th)
1887 NL  1.1 (5th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1881 NL  .333 (3rd)
1884 NL  .315 (9th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1884 NL  .352 (10th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1881 NL  .480 (3rd)
1884 NL  .450 (9th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1881 NL  .816 (4th)

Games Played s c a p y
1887 NL  124 (9th)

At Bats s c a p y
1887 NL  537 (4th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1887 NL  579 (3rd)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1886 NL  97 (10th)
1887 NL  135 (2nd)

Hits s c a p y
1886 NL  142 (10th)
1887 NL  171 (4th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1886 NL  199 (10th)
1887 NL  239 (9th)

Doubles s c a p y
1885 NL  28 (3rd)
1887 NL  30 (7th)

Triples s c a p y
1881 NL  11 (1st)
1884 NL  14 (3rd)
Career  88 (224th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1886 NL  87 (4th)
1887 NL  96 (6th)
1888 NL  74 (3rd)

Singles s c a p y
1887 NL  125 (4th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1881 NL  154 (4th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1887 NL  87 (8th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1881 NL  13 (10th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1881 NL  1.5 (10th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1885 NL  38 (10th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1887 NL  213 (7th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1881 NL  .740 (4th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1883 NL  26.7 (6th)
1884 NL  28.6 (4th)
1886 ML  17.3 (10th)
1887 NL  48.8 (4th)
1890 PL  28.0 (9th)
Career  24.8 (58th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1887 NL  366 (2nd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1885 NL  67 (4th)
1888 NL  72 (2nd)
Career  568 (57th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1880 NL  60 (5th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1884 NL  373 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
Career  148 (76th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1880 NL  61 (3rd)
Career  240 (36th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1886 NL  110 (4th)
1887 NL  124 (3rd)
1888 NL  105 (5th)
1890 PL  125 (3rd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1888 NL  133 (5th)
1890 PL  228 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1886 NL  310 (5th)
1887 NL  378 (3rd)
1888 NL  312 (5th)
1890 PL  381 (4th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1885 NL  51 (5th)
1886 NL  54 (5th)
1888 NL  72 (2nd)
1890 PL  67 (5th)
Career  364 (50th)

Double Plays Turned as SS s c a p y
1886 NL  26 (4th)
1887 NL  36 (3rd)
1890 PL  56 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1882 NL  .950 (2nd)
1883 NL  .899 (5th)
1884 NL  .943 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1888 NL  4.24 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1886 NL  .880 (4th)
1887 NL  .907 (2nd)
1888 NL  .861 (4th)
1890 PL  .901 (1st)

Oldest s c a p y
1890 PL  born 1856-12-08 (9th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 1 (757), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 46 (548), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 15 (974), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 26 (467), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Shortstop (71st), 28.1 career WAR/23.1 7yr-peak WAR/25.6 JAWS
Average HOF SS (out of 21) = 66.6 career WAR/42.7 7yr-peak WAR/54.7 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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  1. Roger Bresnahan (896) *
  2. Mark Koenig (889)
  3. Sam Wise (885)
  4. Glenn Wright (881)
  5. Art Fletcher (879)
  6. Ray Chapman (878)
  7. Fred Dunlap (876)
  8. Lyn Lary (876)
  9. Woody English (875)
  10. Eric McNair (874)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
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  1. Jack O'Brien (960)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Terry Kennedy (970)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Jocko Milligan (953)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Freddy Parent (961)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Freddy Parent (962)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Freddy Parent (930)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Al Dark (914)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Luke Appling (909) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Roger Bresnahan (916) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Phil Rizzuto (909) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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Salaries

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Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
188124Buffalo Bisons$1,2501890 Spalding Guide
188225Buffalo Bisons$1,4001890 Spalding Guide
188326Buffalo Bisons$1,6501890 Spalding Guide
188427Buffalo Bisons$1,7001890 Spalding Guide
188528Buffalo Bisons$2,1001890 Spalding Guide
188629Detroit Wolverines$3,5001890 Spalding Guide
188730Detroit Wolverines$3,5001890 Spalding Guide
188831Detroit Wolverines$3,5001890 Spalding Guide
188932Pittsburgh Alleghenys$3,5001890 Spalding GuideSpalding: Also got $1,500 bonus to accept trade
Career to date (may be incomplete)$22,100
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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