Gabby Street

Charles Evard Street (Old Sarge)

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

Born: September 30, 1882 in Huntsville, AL (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1904
Teams (by GP): Senators/Reds/Highlanders/Beaneaters/Cardinals 1904-1931

Final Game: September 20, 1931
Died: February 6, 1951 in Joplin, MO
Buried: Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery, Joplin, MO
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
1904	CIN	NL	21	C	11			74	55	17	2	0	.973	6.55	.964	6.01	4	11	13	54%	46%
1905	TOT	NL	22	C	30			184	123	53	8	1	.957	5.87	.963	6.20	8	40	37	48%	45%
1905	CIN	NL	22	C	1			6	3	3	0	0	1.000	6.00	.963	6.20	0	1	2	67%	45%
1905	BSN	NL	22	C	3			18	10	4	4	0	.778	4.67	.963	6.20	0	6	3	33%	45%
1905	CIN	NL	22	C	26			160	110	46	4	1	.975	6.00	.963	6.20	8	33	32	49%	45%
1908	WSH	AL	25	C	128			766	578	167	21	14	.973	5.82	.969	6.28	10	115	107	48%	45%
1909	WSH	AL	26	C	137			942	714	210	18	18	.981	6.74	.969	6.46	15	193	142	42%	45%
1910	WSH	AL	27	C	86			581	417	151	13	8	.978	6.60	.968	6.88	12	103	95	48%	45%
1911	WSH	AL	28	C	71			477	362	102	13	10	.973	6.54	.965	6.80	6	85	67	44%	45%
1912	NYY	AL	29	C	29			192	141	43	8	4	.958	6.34	.961	6.78	10	42	27	39%	42%
1931	STL	NL	48	C	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.00	.980	4.60	0	0	0
	8 Seasons			C	493	1	0	3218	2391	744	83	55	.974	6.36	.967	6.52	65	589	488	45%	45%
	8 Seasons			TOT	493	1	0	3218	2391	744	83	55	.974	6.36	.967	6.52	65	589	488	45%	45%

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.
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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1904	CIN	NL	21	11		11		11
1905	CIN	NL	22	31		31		27
1905	BSN	NL	22	3		3		3
1908	WSH	AL	25	131		131		128
1909	WSH	AL	26	137		137		137
1910	WSH	AL	27	89		89		86
1911	WSH	AL	28	72		72		71
1912	NYY	AL	29	29		29		29
1931	STL	NL	48	1	1	1	1	1	0	0
	8 Seasons			504	1	504	1	493	0	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

Hall of Fame 1937 BBWAA ( 0.5%) 1938 BBWAA ( 0.4%) 1953 BBWAA ( 0.4%)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1908 AL 128 (2nd) 1909 AL 137 (1st) 1910 AL 86 (3rd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1908 AL 578 (1st) 1909 AL 714 (1st) 1910 AL 417 (3rd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1908 AL 167 (2nd) 1909 AL 210 (1st) 1910 AL 151 (2nd) 1911 AL 102 (5th) Career 744 (87th)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1908 AL 21 (2nd) 1909 AL 18 (3rd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1908 AL 10 (4th) 1909 AL 15 (1st) 1910 AL 12 (2nd) 1912 AL 10 (3rd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1908 AL 115 (3rd) 1909 AL 193 (1st) 1910 AL 103 (4th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1908 AL 107 (2nd) 1909 AL 142 (1st) 1910 AL 95 (2nd) Career 488 (69th)
Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1908 AL 48.2 (5th) Career 45.3 (87th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1908 AL 5.82 (3rd) 1909 AL 6.74 (2nd) 1910 AL 6.60 (1st)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1908 AL .973 (5th) 1909 AL .981 (3rd) 1910 AL .978 (1st)	Oldest s c a p y 1931 NL born 1882-09-30 (1st)

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