Boss Schmidt

Charles Schmidt

Position: Catcher
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: September 12, 1880 in London, AR(All Transactions)
Debut: April 30, 1906
Team: Tigers 1906-1911

Final Game: October 8, 1911
Died: November 14, 1932 in Altus, AR
Buried: St. Mary Catholic Cemetery, Altus, AR
Relatives: Brother of Walter Schmidt
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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%
1906	DET	AL	25	C	67	377	257	104	16	4	.958	5.39	.961	5.98		5	70	72	51%	45%
1907	DET	AL	26	C	103	612	446	132	34	14	.944	5.61	.968	6.11		16	101	88	47%	44%
1908	DET	AL	27	C	121	762	541	184	37	12	.951	5.99	.969	6.28		5	134	129	49%	45%
1909	DET	AL	28	C	81	442	315	107	20	7	.955	5.21	.969	6.46		3	91	83	48%	45%
1909	DET	AL	28	OF	1	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		1.80	0-0-1
1910	DET	AL	29	C	66	328	239	80	9	1	.973	4.83	.968	6.88		11	68	51	43%	45%
1911	DET	AL	30	C	9	39	29	10	0	0	1.000	4.33	.965	6.80		2	10	7	41%	45%
1911	DET	AL	30	OF	1	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.00	0-0-1
	6 Seasons			C	447	2560	1827	617	116	38	.955	5.47	.967	6.33		42	474	430	48%	45%
	2 Seasons			OF	2	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		1.90	0-0-2
	6 Seasons			TOT	449	2560	1827	617	116	38	.955	5.44	.967	6.31	0-0-2	42	474	430	48%	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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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	RF	OF
1906	DET	AL	25	68	68	67	0	0
1907	DET	AL	26	104	104	103	0	0
1908	DET	AL	27	122	122	121	0	0
1909	DET	AL	28	84	84	81	1	1
1910	DET	AL	29	71	71	66	0	0
1911	DET	AL	30	28	28	9	1	1
	6 Seasons			477	477	447	2	2

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 AL 103 (3rd) 1908 AL 121 (3rd) 1909 AL 81 (4th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1907 AL 446 (4th) 1908 AL 541 (3rd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1906 AL 104 (4th) 1907 AL 132 (2nd) 1908 AL 184 (1st)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1907 AL 34 (1st) 1908 AL 37 (1st) 1909 AL 20 (1st)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1907 AL 16 (2nd) 1910 AL 11 (3rd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1907 AL 101 (3rd) 1908 AL 134 (1st) 1909 AL 91 (3rd)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1906 AL 72 (5th) 1907 AL 88 (2nd) 1908 AL 129 (1st) 1909 AL 83 (3rd) Career 430 (89th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1906 AL 50.7 (4th) 1908 AL 49.0 (4th) Career 47.6 (42nd)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1907 AL 5.61 (2nd) 1908 AL 5.99 (1st)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1907 AL .944 (5th)

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