Howie Shanks

Howard Samuel Shanks (Hawk)

Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: July 21, 1890 in Chicago, IL (All Transactions)
Debut: May 9, 1912
Final Game: October 3, 1925
Died: July 30, 1941 in Monaca, PA
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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	HBP	SH	Pos
1912	21	WSH	AL	116	461	399	52	92	14	7	1	48	21		40		.231	.305	.308	.614	75	123	3	19	*O
1913	22	WSH	AL	109	416	390	38	99	11	5	1	37	24		15	40	.254	.287	.315	.602	75	123	3	8	*O
1914	23	WSH	AL	143	561	500	44	112	22	10	4	64	18	16	29	51	.224	.269	.332	.601	78	166	2	30	*O
1915	24	WSH	AL	141	546	492	52	123	19	8	0	47	12	14	30	42	.250	.297	.321	.618	83	158	3	21	O54
1916	25	WSH	AL	140	540	471	51	119	15	7	1	48	23	12	41	34	.253	.317	.321	.637	92	151	3	25	O5/63
1917	26	WSH	AL	126	496	430	45	87	15	5	0	28	15		33	37	.202	.269	.260	.529	62	112	6	27	6O/3
1918	27	WSH	AL	120	488	436	42	112	19	4	1	56	23		31	21	.257	.312	.326	.638	93	142	4	17	O4/5
1919	28	WSH	AL	135	551	491	33	122	8	7	1	54	13		25	48	.248	.289	.299	.588	66	147	3	32	*64/O
1920	29	WSH	AL	128	489	444	56	119	16	7	4	37	11	6	29	43	.268	.316	.363	.678	82	161	2	14	5O3/46
1921	30	WSH	AL	154	646	562	81	170	24	18	7	69	11	10	57	38	.302	.370	.447	.816	112	251	3	24	*5/4
1922	31	WSH	AL	84	314	272	35	77	10	9	1	32	6	0	25	25	.283	.352	.397	.749	99	108	4	13	5O
1923	32	BOS	AL	131	499	464	38	118	19	5	3	57	6	6	19	37	.254	.285	.336	.621	63	156	1	15	54/O6
1924	33	BOS	AL	72	223	193	22	50	16	3	0	25	1	0	21	12	.259	.332	.373	.705	82	72	0	9	65/O34
1925	34	NYY	AL	66	184	155	15	40	3	1	1	18	1	0	20	15	.258	.343	.310	.653	68	48	0	9	54/O
14 Seasons				1665	6414	5699	604	1440	211	96	25	620	185	64	415	443	.253	.308	.337	.644	82	1918	37	263
162 Game Avg.				162	624	554	59	140	21	9	2	60	18		40		.253	.308	.337	.644	82	187	4	26

WSH (11 yrs)				1396	5508	4887	529	1232	173	87	21	520	177	58	355	379	.252	.308	.336	.643	84	1642	36	230
BOS (2 yrs)				203	722	657	60	168	35	8	3	82	7	6	40	49	.256	.299	.347	.646	69	228	1	24
NYY (1 yr)				66	184	155	15	40	3	1	1	18	1	0	20	15	.258	.343	.310	.653	68	48	0	9

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	LF-CF-RF	Awards
1912	WSH	AL	21	OF	114			211	189	14	8	2	.962		1.78	.950		1.98	111-0-2
1913	WSH	AL	22	OF	109			225	207	13	5	3	.978		2.02	.952		1.95	109-0-0
1914	WSH	AL	23	OF	139			304	276	14	14	3	.954		2.09	.956		1.92	94-43-2
1915	WSH	AL	24	OF	80			167	151	13	3	1	.982		2.05	.957		1.98	75-1-4
1915	WSH	AL	24	3B	49			165	57	94	14	10	.915		3.08	.926		3.01
1915	WSH	AL	24	2B	10			40	18	21	1	4	.975		3.90	.955		4.89
1916	WSH	AL	25	OF	88			225	203	19	3	4	.987		2.52	.962		2.03	72-3-13
1916	WSH	AL	25	3B	31			98	45	49	4	3	.959		3.03	.938		3.23
1916	WSH	AL	25	SS	8			39	11	22	6	4	.846		4.13	.944		4.92
1916	WSH	AL	25	1B	7			60	54	2	4	4	.933		8.00	.988		10.44
1917	WSH	AL	26	SS	90			495	205	255	35	44	.929		5.11	.931		4.84
1917	WSH	AL	26	OF	26			87	73	12	2	3	.977		3.27	.967		2.14	21-5-0
1917	WSH	AL	26	1B	2			19	18	0	1	2	.947		9.00	.989		10.75
1918	WSH	AL	27	OF	64			163	149	7	7	1	.957		2.44	.962		2.17	54-2-8
1918	WSH	AL	27	2B	48			280	130	136	14	20	.950		5.54	.958		5.31
1918	WSH	AL	27	3B	3			17	5	11	1	1	.941		5.33	.947		3.27
1919	WSH	AL	28	SS	94			540	238	260	42	25	.922		5.30	.943		5.04
1919	WSH	AL	28	2B	34			184	72	98	14	8	.924		5.00	.962		5.19
1919	WSH	AL	28	OF	6			21	19	1	1	1	.952		3.33	.957		2.17	6-0-0
1920	WSH	AL	29	3B	63			245	102	131	12	4	.951		3.70	.946		3.45
1920	WSH	AL	29	OF	35			76	74	2	0	0	1.000		2.17	.961		2.16	32-0-3
1920	WSH	AL	29	1B	14			121	112	6	3	6	.975		8.43	.990		10.40
1920	WSH	AL	29	2B	5			18	5	11	2	2	.889		3.20	.967		5.54
1920	WSH	AL	29	SS	1			5	1	4	0	0	1.000		5.00	.940		5.00
1921	WSH	AL	30	3B	154			571	218	330	23	35	.960		3.56	.952		3.26
1921	WSH	AL	30	2B	1			0	0	0	0	0			0.00			5.40
1922	WSH	AL	31	3B	54			188	61	112	15	14	.920		3.20	.952		3.24
1922	WSH	AL	31	OF	27			70	65	3	2	2	.971		2.52	.964		2.22	21-0-6
1923	BOS	AL	32	3B	83			279	89	173	17	16	.939		3.16	.946		3.27
1923	BOS	AL	32	2B	38			181	92	82	7	18	.961		4.58	.965		5.35
1923	BOS	AL	32	OF	6			11	10	1	0	0	1.000		1.83	.964		2.27	4-1-1
1923	BOS	AL	32	SS	1			6	1	4	1	0	.833		5.00	.950		4.80
1924	BOS	AL	33	SS	41			141	62	75	4	15	.972		3.34	.948		4.83
1924	BOS	AL	33	3B	22			99	37	58	4	9	.960		4.32	.951		3.01
1924	BOS	AL	33	OF	4			3	3	0	0	0	1.000		0.75	.967		2.28	0-0-4
1924	BOS	AL	33	1B	2			17	16	1	0	1	1.000		8.50	.988		10.15
1924	BOS	AL	33	2B	2			6	4	1	1	0	.833		2.50	.967		5.40
1925	NYY	AL	34	3B	26			65	32	29	4	2	.938		2.35	.948		3.02
1925	NYY	AL	34	2B	21			92	32	58	2	11	.978		4.29	.961		5.31
1925	NYY	AL	34	OF	4			4	4	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.975		2.28	3-0-1
13 Seasons				OF	702			1567	1423	99	45	20	.971		2.17	.958		2.02	602-55-44
9 Seasons				3B	485			1727	646	987	94	94	.946		3.37	.946		3.23
6 Seasons				SS	235			1226	518	620	88	88	.928		4.84	.939		4.92
8 Seasons				2B	159			801	353	407	41	63	.949		4.78	.961		5.28
4 Seasons				1B	25			217	200	9	8	13	.963		8.36	.989		10.42
14 Seasons				TOT	1606			5538	3140	2122	276	278	.950		3.28	.902		3.26	602-55-44
				Pos	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	LF-CF-RF	Awards

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Games Played s c a p y 1921 AL 154 (2nd)	Triples s c a p y 1921 AL 18 (1st) Career 96 (170th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1914 AL 4 (7th)	Runs Batted In s c a p y 1918 AL 56 (10th)
Strikeouts s c a p y 1919 AL 48 (6th)	Stolen Bases s c a p y 1918 AL 23 (9th)	Hit By Pitch s c a p y 1917 AL 6 (10th)	Sacrifice Hits s c a p y 1914 AL 30 (6th) 1919 AL 32 (7th) Career 263 (30th)
Power-Speed # s c a p y 1914 AL 6.5 (9th)	Outs Made s c a p y 1919 AL 401 (8th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Black Ink Batting - 1 (725), Average HOFer ≈ 27

Gray Ink Batting - 12 (1268), Average HOFer ≈ 144

Hall of Fame Monitor Batting - 4 (1678), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 9 (1809), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Beals Becker (983) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Adonis Terry (964) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Harry Blake (952) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
George Moriarty (948) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
George Moriarty (951) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
George Moriarty (963) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
George Moriarty (952) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Bill Coughlin (952) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Bobby Byrne (926) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dots Miller (930) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dots Miller (936) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dots Miller (940) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dots Miller (929) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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Transactions

September 1, 1911: Drafted by the Washington Senators from Youngstown (Ohio-Pennsylvania) in the 1911 rule 5 draft.

February 10, 1923: Traded by the Washington Senators with Ed Goebel and Val Picinich to the Boston Red Sox for Muddy Ruel and Allen Russell.

December 10, 1924: Traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for Mike McNally.

December 16, 1925: Released by the New York Yankees.

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Black Ink	Batting - 1 (725), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray Ink	Batting - 12 (1268), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 4 (1678), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 9 (1809), Average HOFer ≈ 50