Earl Sheely

Earl Homer Sheely (Whitey)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: February 12, 1893 in Bushnell, IL (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1921
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Braves/Pirates 1921-1931

Final Game: September 27, 1931
Died: September 16, 1952 in Seattle, WA
Buried: East Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, CA
Relatives: Father of Bud Sheely
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	Awards
1921	CHW	AL	28	1B	154	154	154	1778	1637	119	22	135	.988	11.40	.991	10.63
1922	CHW	AL	29	1B	149	149	147	1627	1512	103	12	114	.993	10.84	.991	10.80
1923	CHW	AL	30	1B	156	156	154	1673	1563	96	14	113	.992	10.63	.990	10.59
1924	CHW	AL	31	1B	146	146	144	1516	1423	79	14	97	.991	10.29	.989	10.49
1925	CHW	AL	32	1B	153	153	151	1680	1565	95	20	136	.988	10.85	.988	10.46	MVP-6
1926	CHW	AL	33	1B	144	142	135	1478	1386	84	8	87	.995	10.21	.990	10.77
1927	CHW	AL	34	1B	36	34	30	336	315	15	6	25	.982	9.17	.988	10.71
1929	PIT	NL	36	1B	139	137	131	1380	1292	83	5	102	.996	9.89	.989	10.47
1931	BSN	NL	38	1B	143	143	119	1456	1374	70	12	108	.992	10.10	.990	10.11
	9 Seasons			1B	1220	1214	1165	12924	12067	744	113	917	.991	10.50	.990	10.55
	9 Seasons			TOT	1220	1214	1165	12924	12067	744	113	917	.991	10.50	.990	10.55

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	PH
1921	CHW	AL	28	154	154	154	154	154	0
1922	CHW	AL	29	149	149	149	149	149	0
1923	CHW	AL	30	156	156	156	156	156	0
1924	CHW	AL	31	147	146	147	147	147	0
1925	CHW	AL	32	153	153	153	153	153	0
1926	CHW	AL	33	145	142	145	144	144	1
1927	CHW	AL	34	45	34	45	36	36	9
1929	PIT	NL	36	139	137	139	139	139	0
1931	BSN	NL	38	147	143	147	143	143	4
	9 Seasons			1235	1214	1235	1221	1221	14

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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1925 AL (6, 27%) 0.27 Career Shares (641st)	Putouts† s c a p y 1921 AL 1,637 (1st) 1922 AL 1,512 (2nd) 1923 AL 1,563 (1st) 1924 AL 1,423 (3rd) 1925 AL 1,565 (1st) 1926 AL 1,386 (5th) 1931 NL 1,374 (3rd) Career 12,067 (89th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1921 AL 154 (1st) 1922 AL 149 (2nd) 1923 AL 156 (1st) 1924 AL 146 (3rd) 1925 AL 153 (1st) 1926 AL 144 (5th) 1931 NL 143 (4th) Career 1,220 (92nd)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1921 AL 1,637 (1st) 1922 AL 1,512 (2nd) 1923 AL 1,563 (1st) 1924 AL 1,423 (3rd) 1925 AL 1,565 (1st) 1926 AL 1,386 (5th) 1931 NL 1,374 (3rd) Career 12,067 (79th)
Assists as 1B s c a p y 1921 AL 119 (1st) 1922 AL 103 (2nd) 1923 AL 96 (1st) 1925 AL 95 (4th) 1926 AL 84 (5th) 1929 NL 83 (5th) 1931 NL 70 (4th) Career 744 (98th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1921 AL 22 (1st) 1923 AL 14 (3rd) 1924 AL 14 (4th) 1925 AL 20 (3rd) 1931 NL 12 (5th) Career 113 (95th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1921 AL 11.40 (1st) 1922 AL 10.84 (3rd) 1923 AL 10.63 (5th) 1924 AL 10.29 (5th) 1925 AL 10.85 (1st) 1931 NL 10.10 (3rd) Career 10.50 (35th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1922 AL .993 (4th) 1923 AL .992 (4th) 1924 AL .991 (5th) 1926 AL .995 (1st) 1929 NL .996 (1st) 1931 NL .992 (2nd)
Oldest s c a p y 1931 NL born 1893-02-12 (9th)

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