Harry Schafer

Harry C. Schafer (Silk Stockings)

Positions: Third Baseman and Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 143 lb.

Born: August 14, 1846 in Philadelphia, PA(All Transactions)
Debut: May 5, 1871
Team: RedStockings 1871-1878

Final Game: August 31, 1878
Died: February 28, 1935 in Philadelphia, PA
Buried: Fernwood Cemetery, Fernwood, 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
1871	BOS	NA	24	3B	31	187	49	79	59	7	.684	4.13	.701	3.92
1872	BOS	NA	25	3B	43	240	73	117	50	6	.792	4.42	.758	4.45
1872	BOS	NA	25	OF	5	9	7	1	1	0	.889	1.60	.820	1.94	5-0-0
1872	BOS	NA	25	C	2	4	2	0	2	0	.500	1.00	.848	5.45		0
1873	BOS	NA	26	3B	47	239	90	78	71	11	.703	3.57	.739	4.60
1873	BOS	NA	26	OF	13	41	28	2	11	1	.732	2.31	.803	2.00	13-0-0
1874	BOS	NA	27	3B	71	396	136	175	85	17	.785	4.38	.759	4.37
1874	BOS	NA	27	SS	1	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		4.70
1875	BOS	NA	28	3B	51	229	73	109	47	4	.795	3.57	.764	3.67
1875	BOS	NA	28	OF	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.820	1.90	0-1-0
1876	BSN	NL	29	3B	70	331	122	146	63	8	.810	3.83	.807	3.75
1877	BSN	NL	30	OF	23	29	17	1	11	0	.621	0.78	.831	1.88	1-0-22
1877	BSN	NL	30	3B	9	26	16	5	5	1	.808	2.33	.841	3.69
1877	BSN	NL	30	SS	1	4	1	2	1	0	.750	3.00	.865	4.60
1878	BSN	NL	31	OF	2	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.835	1.75	0-0-2
	7 Seasons			3B	322	1648	559	709	380	54	.769	3.94	.761	4.11
	5 Seasons			OF	44	82	55	4	23	1	.720	1.34	.816	1.92	19-1-24
	2 Seasons			SS	2	4	1	2	1	0	.750	1.50	.865	4.65
	1 Season			C	2	4	2	0	2	0	.500	1.00	.848	5.45		0
	8 Seasons			TOT	370	1738	617	715	406	55	.766	3.60	.764	3.86	19-1-24	0

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	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF
1871	BOS	NA	24	31	31	0	31	0	0	0	0	0
1872	BOS	NA	25	48	48	2	43	0	5	0	0	5
1873	BOS	NA	26	60	60	0	47	0	13	0	0	13
1874	BOS	NA	27	71	71	0	71	1	0	0	0	0
1875	BOS	NA	28	52	52	0	51	0	0	1	0	1
1876	BSN	NL	29	70	70	0	70	0	0	0	0	0
1877	BSN	NL	30	33	33	0	9	1	1	0	22	23
1878	BSN	NL	31	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
	8 Seasons			367	367	2	322	2	19	1	24	44

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

Errors Committed† s c a p y 1871 NA 59 (1st) 1873 NA 82 (2nd) 1874 NA 85 (2nd)	Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1871 NA 31 (1st) 1872 NA 43 (2nd) 1873 NA 47 (3rd) 1874 NA 71 (1st) 1875 NA 51 (5th) 1876 NL 70 (1st)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1871 NA 49 (1st) 1872 NA 73 (4th) 1873 NA 90 (3rd) 1874 NA 136 (2nd) 1876 NL 122 (4th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1871 NA 79 (1st) 1872 NA 117 (2nd) 1874 NA 175 (2nd) 1875 NA 109 (5th) 1876 NL 146 (2nd)
Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1871 NA 59 (1st) 1872 NA 50 (3rd) 1873 NA 71 (3rd) 1874 NA 85 (1st) 1876 NL 63 (2nd) Career 380 (16th)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1871 NA 4.13 (4th) 1872 NA 4.42 (3rd) 1874 NA 4.38 (4th) 1876 NL 3.83 (4th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1872 NA .792 (3rd) 1874 NA .785 (4th) 1875 NA .795 (4th) 1876 NL .810 (4th)	Oldest s c a p y 1878 NL born 1846-08-14 (8th)

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