Dick Siebert

Richard Walther Siebert

Positions: First Baseman and Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 19, 1912 in Fall River, MA
High School: Concordia Academy (St. Paul, MN)
School: Concordia University-Saint Paul (St. Paul, MN) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 7, 1932
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Cardinals/Dodgers 1932-1945

Final Game: September 23, 1945
Died: December 9, 1978 in Minneapolis, MN
Buried: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN
Relatives: Father of Paul Siebert
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	Awards
1932	BRO	NL	20	1B	2	1	1	13	13	0	0	0	1.000	6.50	.990	10.20
1936	BRO	NL	24	OF	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.00	.970	2.40
1936	BRO	NL	24	RF	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.00	.970	2.10
1937	STL	NL	25	1B	7	6	6	48	44	3	1	2	.979	6.71	.989	10.31
1938	PHA	AL	26	1B	46	46	44	444	403	41	0	35	1.000	9.65	.990	9.77
1939	PHA	AL	27	1B	99	98	92	957	874	74	9	73	.991	9.58	.990	9.64
1940	PHA	AL	28	1B	154	154	145	1463	1322	119	22	112	.985	9.36	.989	9.80
1941	PHA	AL	29	1B	123	123	114	1220	1102	106	12	95	.990	9.82	.990	9.92	MVP-17
1942	PHA	AL	30	1B	152	152	147	1465	1345	104	16	109	.989	9.53	.989	10.08
1943	PHA	AL	31	1B	145	145	135	1458	1332	111	15	117	.990	9.95	.991	10.05	AS,MVP-33
1944	PHA	AL	32	1B	74	74	68	714	661	48	5	60	.993	9.58	.990	10.07	MVP-29
1944	PHA	AL	32	OF	58	58	29	108	98	5	5	0	.954	1.78	.974	2.47	MVP-29
1944	PHA	AL	32	LF	42	42	20	79	70	5	4	0	.949	1.79	.972	2.35	MVP-29
1944	PHA	AL	32	RF	17	16	9	29	28	0	1	0	.966	1.65	.971	2.08	MVP-29
1945	PHA	AL	33	1B	147	146	143	1576	1427	135	14	129	.991	10.63	.989	10.10
	10 Seasons			1B	949	945	895	9358	8523	741	94	732	.990	9.76	.990	9.95
	2 Seasons			OF	59	58	29	109	98	6	5	0	.954	1.76	.974	2.47
	1 Season			LF	42	42	20	79	70	5	4	0	.949	1.79	.972	2.35
	2 Seasons			RF	18	16	9	30	28	1	1	0	.967	1.61	.971	2.08
	11 Seasons			TOT	1008	1003	924	9467	8621	747	99	732	.990	9.29	.989	9.51

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	RF	OF	PH
1932	BRO	NL	20	6	1	6	2	2	0	0	0	4
1936	BRO	NL	24	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	1
1937	STL	NL	25	22	6	22	7	7	0	0	0	15
1938	PHA	AL	26	48	46	48	46	46	0	0	0	2
1938	STL	NL	26	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
1939	PHA	AL	27	101	98	101	99	99	0	0	0	2
1940	PHA	AL	28	154	154	154	154	154	0	0	0	0
1941	PHA	AL	29	123	123	123	123	123	0	0	0	0
1942	PHA	AL	30	153	152	153	152	152	0	0	0	1
1943	PHA	AL	31	146	145	146	145	145	0	0	0	1
1944	PHA	AL	32	132	132	132	132	74	42	17	58	0
1945	PHA	AL	33	147	146	147	147	147	0	0	0	0
	11 Seasons			1035	1003	1035	1008	949	42	18	59	27

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

All-Star Games 1943 (1B)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1941 AL (17, 3%) 1943 AL (33, 0%) 1944 AL (29, 1%) 0.04 Career Shares (1177th)	Putouts† s c a p y 1940 AL 1,322 (5th) 1942 AL 1,345 (5th) 1945 AL 1,427 (2nd)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1940 AL 154 (4th) 1942 AL 152 (2nd) 1943 AL 145 (5th) 1945 AL 147 (3rd)
Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1940 AL 1,322 (5th) 1942 AL 1,345 (5th) 1945 AL 1,427 (2nd)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 1939 AL 74 (5th) 1940 AL 119 (2nd) 1941 AL 106 (5th) 1942 AL 104 (4th) 1943 AL 111 (3rd) 1945 AL 135 (1st) Career 741 (99th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1940 AL 22 (1st) 1941 AL 12 (2nd) 1942 AL 16 (3rd) 1943 AL 15 (2nd) 1945 AL 14 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1939 AL 9.58 (4th) 1941 AL 9.82 (4th) 1943 AL 9.95 (4th) 1945 AL 10.63 (1st) Career 9.76 (81st)
Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1941 AL .990 (5th) 1945 AL .991 (3rd)	Youngest s c a p y 1932 NL born 1912-02-19 (2nd)

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