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Orator Shafer

George W. Shafer
born Shafer

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: October, 1851 in Philadelphia, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: May 23, 1874
Teams (by GP): Blues/Maroons/Athletics/Bisons/WhiteStockings/... 1874-1890

Final Game: September 13, 1890
Died: January 21, 1922 in Philadelphia, PA
Buried: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
Relatives: Brother of Taylor Shafer
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
1874 TOT NA 22 OF 10 31 22 0 9 0 .710 2.20 .802 2.02 8-0-2
1874 HAR NA 22 OF 9 31 22 0 9 0 .710 2.44 .802 2.02 8-0-1
1874 NYU NA 22 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00 0-0-1
1875 PHI NA 23 OF 12 26 19 1 6 1 .769 1.67 .818 1.88 3-8-1
1875 PHI NA 23 3B 5 11 2 6 3 0 .727 1.60 .764 3.68
1875 PHI NA 23 1B 2 10 10 0 0 1 1.000 5.00 .936 10.90
1877 LOU NL 25 OF 60 170 121 21 28 1 .835 2.37 .831 1.88 0-1-60
1877 LOU NL 25 1B 1 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 12.00 .951 10.90
1878 IND NL 26 OF 63 158 105 28 25 2 .842 2.11 .834 1.77 1-0-63
1879 CHC NL 27 OF 72 186 99 50 37 3 .801 2.07 .838 1.89 0-0-72
1879 CHC NL 27 3B 1 2 0 1 1 0 .500 1.00 .830 3.40
1880 CLV NL 28 OF 83 181 128 35 18 5 .901 1.96 .855 1.85 0-0-83
1881 CLV NL 29 OF 85 166 122 24 20 4 .880 1.72 .871 2.06 0-0-85
1882 CLV NL 30 OF 84 159 111 17 31 2 .805 1.52 .855 1.93 2-1-83
1883 BUF NL 31 OF 95 259 182 41 36 3 .861 2.35 .849 1.96 0-0-95
1884 SLM UA 32 OF 100 154 110 24 20 3 .870 1.34 .816 1.53 6-0-96
1884 SLM UA 32 2B 7 44 22 16 6 1 .864 5.43 .869 5.47
1884 SLM UA 32 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10.20
1885 TOT MLB 33 OF 71 147 107 28 12 0 .918 1.90 .881 1.85 0-3-68
1885 SLM NL 33 OF 69 146 106 28 12 0 .918 1.94 .881 1.85 0-1-68
1885 PHA AA 33 OF 2 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .880 1.85 0-2-0
1886 PHA AA 34 OF 21 54 40 4 10 2 .815 2.10 .877 1.79 0-18-4
1890 PHA AA 38 OF 98 167 143 17 7 6 .958 1.63 .916 1.82 0-0-98
1890 PHA AA 38 1B 3 29 26 2 1 1 .966 9.33 .973 10.30
13 Seasons OF 854 1858 1309 290 259 32 .861 1.87 .853 1.85 20-31-810
4 Seasons 1B 7 51 48 2 1 2 .980 7.14 .961 10.54
1 Season 2B 7 44 22 16 6 1 .864 5.43 .869 5.47
2 Seasons 3B 6 13 2 7 4 0 .692 1.50 .774 3.63
13 Seasons TOT 874 1966 1381 315 270 35 .863 1.94 .856 1.96 20-31-810
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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.
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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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1874 HAR NA 22 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 1 9 0
1874 NYU NA 22 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
1875 PHI NA 23 19 19 0 0 2 0 5 0 3 8 1 12 0
1877 LOU NL 25 61 61 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 60 60 0
1878 IND NL 26 63 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 63 63 0
1879 CHC NL 27 73 73 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 72 72 0
1880 CLV NL 28 83 83 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 83 83 0
1881 CLV NL 29 85 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 85 85 0
1882 CLV NL 30 84 84 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 83 84 0
1883 BUF NL 31 95 95 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 95 95 0
1884 SLM UA 32 106 106 0 0 1 7 0 0 6 0 96 100 0
1885 SLM NL 33 69 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 68 69 0
1885 PHA AA 33 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0
1886 PHA AA 34 21 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 4 21 0
1890 PHA AA 38 100 100 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 98 98 0
13 Seasons 871 871 0 0 7 7 6 0 20 31 810 854 0
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 OF s c a p y
1877 NL  60 (2nd)
1878 NL  63 (1st)
1880 NL  83 (2nd)
1881 NL  85 (1st)
1882 NL  84 (1st)
1884 UA  100 (3rd)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1877 NL  121 (3rd)
1878 NL  105 (5th)
1883 NL  182 (5th)
1884 UA  110 (5th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1877 NL  21 (1st)
1878 NL  28 (2nd)
1879 NL  50 (1st)
1880 NL  35 (1st)
1881 NL  24 (5th)
1883 NL  41 (1st)
1884 UA  24 (3rd)
1885 NL  28 (2nd)
Career  290 (10th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1877 NL  28 (1st)
1878 NL  25 (3rd)
1879 NL  37 (3rd)
1882 NL  31 (4th)
1883 NL  36 (2nd)
Career  259 (17th)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1877 NL  2.37 (3rd)
1878 NL  2.11 (4th)
1883 NL  2.35 (5th)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1880 NL  .901 (5th)
1884 UA  .870 (4th)
1885 NL  .918 (5th)
1890 AA  .958 (1st)

Oldest s c a p y
1884 UA  born 1851-10-32 (9th)
1885 AA  born 1851-10-32 (6th)
1885 NL  born 1851-10-32 (8th)
1886 AA  born 1851-10-32 (5th)
1890 AA  born 1851-10-32 (2nd)

             

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