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Hack Simmons

George Washington Simmons

Positions: Second Baseman, Leftfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 179 lb.

Born: January 29, 1885 in Brooklyn, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1910
Teams (by GP): Terrapins/Highlanders/Tigers 1910-1915

Final Game: June 30, 1915
Died: April 26, 1942 in Arverne, NY
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
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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 G Awards
1910 DET AL 25 1B 22 246 229 13 4 10 .984 11.00 .983 11.07
1910 DET AL 25 3B 7 26 9 15 2 0 .923 3.43 .931 3.49
1910 DET AL 25 OF 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .955 1.85 0-1-1
1912 NYY AL 27 2B 88 390 162 207 21 23 .946 4.19 .945 4.91
1912 NYY AL 27 1B 13 137 131 4 2 7 .985 10.38 .983 10.38
1912 NYY AL 27 SS 4 15 6 8 1 0 .933 3.50 .921 5.32
1914 BAL FL 29 OF 73 113 91 10 12 3 .894 1.38 .951 1.94 61-0-12
1914 BAL FL 29 2B 26 88 32 53 3 4 .966 3.27 .951 5.17
1914 BAL FL 29 1B 4 30 27 2 1 2 .967 7.25 .985 10.50
1914 BAL FL 29 SS 2 7 4 2 1 1 .857 3.00 .929 5.25
1914 BAL FL 29 3B 1 8 0 8 0 0 1.000 8.00 .932 3.10
1915 BAL FL 30 2B 13 31 11 20 0 0 1.000 2.38 .951 5.07
1915 BAL FL 30 OF 13 25 21 1 3 0 .880 1.69 .963 2.06 13-0-0
3 Seasons 2B 127 509 205 280 24 27 .953 3.82 .946 4.98
3 Seasons OF 88 140 114 11 15 3 .893 1.42 .953 1.96 74-1-13
3 Seasons 1B 39 413 387 19 7 19 .983 10.41 .983 10.78
2 Seasons 3B 8 34 9 23 2 0 .941 4.00 .931 3.44
2 Seasons SS 6 22 10 10 2 1 .909 3.33 .923 5.30
4 Seasons TOT 268 1118 725 343 50 50 .955 3.99 .960 4.79 74-1-13
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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1910 DET AL 25 42 42 0 0 22 0 7 0 0 1 1 2 0
1912 NYY AL 27 110 110 0 0 13 88 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
1914 BAL FL 29 114 114 0 0 4 26 1 2 61 0 12 73 0
1915 BAL FL 30 39 39 0 0 0 13 0 0 13 0 0 13 0
4 Seasons 305 305 0 0 39 127 8 6 74 1 13 88 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1912 AL  .946 (5th)

                                         

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