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Norm Sherry

Norman Burt Sherry

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: July 16, 1931 in New York, NY
High School: Fairfax HS (Los Angeles, CA)
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1950. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 1959
Teams (by GP): Dodgers/Mets 1959-1963

Final Game: September 26, 1963
Relatives: Brother of Larry Sherry
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1959 LAD NL 27 C 2 1 1 10.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.60 2.00 .990 6.30 6.30 0 0 0 0 0
1960 LAD NL 28 C 44 39 35 356.0 299 282 15 2 3 .993 -2 -7 7.51 6.75 .986 6.58 6.57 3 12 10 5 33% 40% 0
1961 LAD NL 29 C 45 31 24 295.2 271 253 16 2 3 .993 -3 -12 8.19 5.98 .985 6.39 6.32 3 14 19 5 21% 38% 0
1962 LAD NL 30 C 34 25 18 239.1 236 221 13 2 2 .992 0 0 8.80 6.88 .987 6.72 6.66 4 11 9 6 40% 34% 0
1963 NYM NL 31 C 61 52 31 416.1 297 265 26 6 6 .980 3 9 6.29 4.77 .986 7.07 7.05 3 10 17 18 51% 42% 1
5 Seasons C 186 148 109 1317.1 1107 1025 70 12 14 .989 -2 -2 7.48 5.89 .986 6.72 6.68 13 47 55 34 38% 39% 1
5 Seasons TOT 186 148 109 1317.1 1107 1025 70 12 14 .989 -2 -2 7.48 5.89 .986 6.72 6.68 13 47 55 34 38% 39% 1
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-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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1959 LAD NL 27 C 0 0 0
1960 LAD NL 28 C -2 -7 -2
1961 LAD NL 29 C -3 -12 -3
1962 LAD NL 30 C 0 0 0
1963 NYM NL 31 C 3 9 3
5 Seasons C -2 -2 -2
5 Seasons TOT -2 -2 -2

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1959 LAD NL 27 2 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 LAD NL 28 47 39 47 44 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1961 LAD NL 29 47 31 47 45 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1962 LAD NL 30 35 25 35 34 0 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1963 NYM NL 31 63 52 63 60 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
5 Seasons 194 148 194 185 0 185 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 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.

Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1959 LAD NL 27 42 2.70 2.70 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 LAD NL 28 1493 3.51 3.82 24 83% 0 0 286 14 4 5 263 15 4 0 0 4 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 100%
1961 LAD NL 29 1290 4.38 4.75 29 100% 0 0 251 19 0 3 228 17 8 1 0 3 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 100%
1962 LAD NL 30 1041 4.06 4.47 16 94% 0 0 221 11 0 8 202 13 3 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 100%
1963 NYM NL 31 1815 4.06 4.78 25 96% 2 0 266 23 3 7 232 24 1 0 0 1 6 0 4 2 1 6 0 0 0 1 100%
5 Seasons 5681 3.98 4.44 94 94% 2 0 1028 67 7 23 929 69 16 2 0 9 12 1 6 5 1 13 0 0 0 13 100%
MLB Averages 3.83 4.35 95% 87%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1959 LAD NL 27 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 LAD NL 28 3 12 515 10 5 5 33% 8 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 31 8 1.12 0.84
1961 LAD NL 29 3 14 494 19 5 4 21% 17 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 50 7 1.15 1.51
1962 LAD NL 30 4 11 431 9 6 6 40% 7 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 33 7 1.12 1.62
1963 NYM NL 31 3 10 684 17 18 16 51% 15 16 1 1 1 1 1 0 41 25 1.19 1.10
5 Seasons 13 47 2143 55 34 31 38% 47 29 5 3 3 2 1 0 155 47 1.15 1.21
MLB Averages 38% 1.18 1.16

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1963 NL  51.4 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1963 NL  3 (4th)

                           

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