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Red Shannon

Maurice Joseph Shannon

Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 11, 1897 in Jersey City, NJ
School: Seton Hall University (South Orange, NJ)
Signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent in 1915. (All Transactions)
Debut: October 7, 1915 (Age 18)
Teams (by GP): Athletics/RedSox/Senators/Cubs/Braves 1915-1926

Final Game: June 2, 1926 (Age 29)
Died: April 12, 1970 in Jersey City, NJ
Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington, NJ
Relatives: Brother of Joe Shannon
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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 Awards
1915 BSN NL 18 SS 1 7 3 3 1 1 .857 6.00 .931 5.40
1917 PHA AL 20 SS 10 10 10 56 18 31 7 2 .875 4.90 .931 5.08
1918 PHA AL 21 SS 45 44 44 265 105 133 27 25 .898 5.29 .939 5.39
1918 PHA AL 21 2B 26 26 24 152 50 90 12 14 .921 5.38 .958 5.48
1919 TOT AL 22 2B 116 116 116 602 237 344 21 53 .965 5.01 .961 5.35
1919 PHA AL 22 2B 37 38 38 192 66 116 10 12 .948 4.92 .961 5.35
1919 BOS AL 22 2B 79 78 78 410 171 228 11 41 .973 5.05 .961 5.35
1920 TOT AL 23 SS 55 56 54 262 90 154 18 21 .931 4.44 .944 5.21
1920 WSH AL 23 SS 31 32 30 135 47 77 11 9 .919 4.00 .944 5.21
1920 WSH AL 23 2B 16 13 13 67 26 39 2 5 .970 4.06 .962 5.70
1920 WSH AL 23 3B 15 15 15 53 16 32 5 1 .906 3.20 .946 3.59
1920 PHA AL 23 SS 24 24 24 127 43 77 7 12 .945 5.00 .944 5.21
1926 CHC NL 29 SS 13 12 12 70 25 42 3 6 .957 5.15 .948 5.85
3 Seasons 2B 158 155 153 821 313 473 35 72 .957 4.97 .961 5.41
5 Seasons SS 124 122 120 660 241 363 56 55 .915 4.87 .941 5.33
1 Season 3B 15 15 15 53 16 32 5 1 .906 3.20 .946 3.59
7 Seasons TOT 297 292 288 1534 570 868 96 128 .937 4.84 .952 5.28
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
  • 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
1915 BSN NL 18 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1917 PHA AL 20 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
1918 PHA AL 21 72 72 0 0 0 26 0 45 0 0 0 0 0
1919 BOS AL 22 80 78 80 79 0 0 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1919 PHA AL 22 40 38 40 38 0 0 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1920 WSH AL 23 62 60 62 62 0 0 0 13 15 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1920 PHA AL 23 25 24 25 24 0 0 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1921 PHA AL 24 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1926 CHC NL 29 19 12 19 13 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
7 Seasons 311 212 311 216 0 0 0 156 15 127 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 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
1918 AL  39 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1919 AL  21 (3rd)

Double Plays Turned as 2B s c a p y
1919 AL  53 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1919 AL  .965 (5th)

Youngest s c a p y
1915 NL  born 1897-02-11 (1st)
1917 AL  born 1897-02-11 (5th)

                                         

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