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George Strickland

George Bevan Strickland (Bo)

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: January 10, 1926 in New Orleans, LA
High School: Peters HS (New Orleans, LA)
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1943. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 7, 1950
Teams (by GP): Indians/Pirates 1950-1960

Final Game: July 23, 1960
Died: February 21, 2010 in New Orleans, LA
Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA
Relatives: Cousin of Hal Bevan
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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 Awards
1950 PIT NL 24 SS 19 6 4 79.0 46 22 23 1 7 .978 5.13 2.37 .961 5.22 5.16
1950 PIT NL 24 3B 1 0 0 0.2 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 13.50 1.00 .950 4.05 3.30
1951 PIT NL 25 SS 125 123 110 1065.2 645 222 386 37 89 .943 5.13 4.86 .955 4.89 4.87
1951 PIT NL 25 2B 13 13 10 109.2 73 33 40 0 8 1.000 5.99 5.62 .976 5.70 5.68
1952 TOT MLB 26 SS 58 53 49 468.1 310 111 185 14 42 .955 5.69 5.10 .961 4.99 4.97
1952 TOT MLB 26 2B 46 39 36 356.2 233 95 127 11 30 .953 5.60 4.83 .975 5.48 5.43
1952 PIT NL 26 2B 45 39 36 353.2 233 95 127 11 30 .953 5.65 4.93 .975 5.48 5.43
1952 PIT NL 26 SS 28 26 24 230.1 145 47 90 8 24 .945 5.35 4.89 .960 5.04 5.00
1952 PIT NL 26 1B 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 9.00 1.00 .990 9.90 9.80
1952 PIT NL 26 3B 1 1 1 9.0 6 5 1 0 2 1.000 6.00 6.00 .953 3.20 3.10
1952 CLE AL 26 SS 30 27 25 238.0 165 64 95 6 18 .964 6.01 5.30 .962 4.94 4.94
1952 CLE AL 26 2B 1 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.70 5.60
1953 CLE AL 27 SS 122 122 116 1069.0 655 238 400 17 103 .974 15 17 5.37 5.23 .966 5.11 5.08
1953 CLE AL 27 1B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 9.90 9.70
1954 CLE AL 28 SS 112 108 93 973.1 535 193 321 21 61 .961 5 6 4.75 4.59 .960 5.00 4.97
1955 CLE AL 29 SS 128 126 88 1050.1 595 221 360 14 84 .976 -1 -1 4.98 4.54 .959 4.93 4.89
1956 CLE AL 30 2B 28 25 19 216.0 144 73 69 2 21 .986 -1 -6 5.92 5.07 .973 5.44 5.40
1956 CLE AL 30 SS 28 17 9 163.0 90 32 56 2 10 .978 3 20 4.86 3.14 .960 4.98 4.94
1956 CLE AL 30 3B 26 7 5 99.2 34 13 20 1 3 .971 1 13 2.98 1.27 .949 3.22 3.19
1957 CLE AL 31 2B 48 33 26 323.2 205 108 93 4 22 .980 -2 -7 5.59 4.19 .980 5.39 5.41
1957 CLE AL 31 SS 23 12 8 118.2 72 24 46 2 13 .972 -3 -27 5.31 3.04 .963 5.11 5.13
1957 CLE AL 31 3B 19 11 9 108.0 39 14 25 0 3 1.000 1 10 3.25 2.05 .951 3.23 3.24
1959 CLE AL 33 3B 80 72 65 642.0 206 69 131 6 11 .971 3 6 2.80 2.50 .952 3.21 3.19
1959 CLE AL 33 SS 50 48 45 440.0 236 80 145 11 42 .953 2 7 4.60 4.50 .959 4.87 4.84
1959 CLE AL 33 2B 4 2 1 15.0 10 4 5 1 1 .900 0 32 5.40 2.25 .976 5.28 5.25
1960 CLE AL 34 SS 14 4 2 55.1 26 6 19 1 5 .962 -1 -17 4.07 1.79 .960 5.11 5.10
1960 CLE AL 34 3B 12 6 4 60.0 15 4 11 0 0 1.000 2 30 2.25 1.25 .952 3.14 3.14
1960 CLE AL 34 2B 2 0 0 2.0 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 -0 -120 9.00 1.00 .980 5.40 5.45
10 Seasons SS 679 619 524 5482.2 3210 1149 1941 120 456 .963 21 5 5.07 4.55 .960 4.98 4.96
6 Seasons 2B 141 112 92 1023.0 667 314 335 18 83 .973 -3 -3 5.71 4.60 .976 5.47 5.44
6 Seasons 3B 139 97 84 919.1 301 105 189 7 19 .977 7 9 2.88 2.12 .952 3.21 3.19
2 Seasons 1B 2 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 4.50 0.50 .990 9.90 9.75
10 Seasons TOT 961 828 700 7427.0 4179 1569 2465 145 558 .965 25 4 4.89 4.20 .962 4.83 4.78
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
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
1950 PIT NL 24 SS
1950 PIT NL 24 3B
1951 PIT NL 25 SS
1951 PIT NL 25 2B
1952 PIT NL 26 2B
1952 PIT NL 26 SS
1952 PIT NL 26 1B
1952 PIT NL 26 3B
1952 CLE AL 26 SS
1952 CLE AL 26 2B
1953 CLE AL 27 SS 15 17 12 11 1 3
1953 CLE AL 27 1B 0 0 0 0 0
1954 CLE AL 28 SS 5 6 6 4 2 -1
1955 CLE AL 29 SS -1 -1 -3 -2 -0 2
1956 CLE AL 30 2B -1 -6 -1 2 -3 0
1956 CLE AL 30 SS 3 20 3 3 -0 0
1956 CLE AL 30 3B 1 13 1 2 -0 0
1957 CLE AL 31 2B -2 -7 -2 -1 -1 0
1957 CLE AL 31 SS -3 -27 -3 -3 0 0
1957 CLE AL 31 3B 1 10 1 0 1 0
1959 CLE AL 33 3B 3 6 3 4 -1 0
1959 CLE AL 33 SS 2 7 0 -1 1 2
1959 CLE AL 33 2B 0 32 0 0 -0 0
1960 CLE AL 34 SS -1 -17 -1 -0 -0 0
1960 CLE AL 34 3B 2 30 2 1 0 0
1960 CLE AL 34 2B -0 -120 -0 -0 0 0
10 Seasons SS 21 5 15 11 4 6
6 Seasons 2B -3 -3 -3 2 -5 0
6 Seasons 3B 7 9 7 7 0 0
2 Seasons 1B 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons TOT 25 4 19 20 -1 6
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1950 PIT NL 24 23 6 23 20 0 0 0 0 1 19 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1951 PIT NL 25 138 136 138 137 0 0 0 13 0 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1952 PIT NL 26 76 66 76 73 0 0 1 44 1 29 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1952 CLE AL 26 31 27 31 31 0 0 0 1 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 CLE AL 27 123 122 123 123 0 0 1 0 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 CLE AL 28 112 108 112 112 0 0 0 0 0 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 CLE AL 29 130 126 130 129 0 0 0 0 0 129 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1956 CLE AL 30 85 49 85 79 0 0 0 29 26 28 0 0 0 0 0 2 14
1957 CLE AL 31 89 56 89 88 0 0 0 48 19 23 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1959 CLE AL 33 132 122 132 131 0 0 0 4 80 50 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1960 CLE AL 34 32 10 32 28 0 0 0 2 12 14 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
10 Seasons 971 828 971 951 0 0 2 141 139 681 0 0 0 0 0 14 19
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 -- SS*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1950 PIT NL 24 258 72% 86% 24% 18 94% 0 15 6 6 3 17 15 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 7 1 0 5 0 0 7 1 5 0 0 0
1951 PIT NL 25 3417 67% 83% 28% 365 89% 2 165 90 54 21 265 194 57 2 5 27 0 20 7 22 61 22 4 11 2 7 51 26 20 8 6 2
1952 CLE AL 26 977 53% 82% 29% 130 88% 1 66 32 25 9 90 69 18 0 1 6 0 5 1 5 18 8 1 5 1 1 17 10 7 1 1 0
1952 PIT NL 26 854 69% 78% 28% 96 94% 0 44 24 16 4 77 52 22 0 2 5 0 4 1 3 20 9 1 4 3 0 18 10 8 2 0 1
1953 CLE AL 27 4495 59% 83% 28% 485 93% 4 236 106 119 11 401 310 74 1 6 17 0 14 3 13 104 37 9 25 9 12 97 47 46 7 3 3
1954 CLE AL 28 4052 61% 82% 26% 423 88% 1 196 98 76 22 313 248 56 0 3 21 0 16 5 19 61 17 1 24 4 3 51 18 31 9 5 4
1955 CLE AL 29 4465 62% 77% 22% 464 91% 1 259 151 93 15 317 229 77 1 3 14 0 13 1 6 85 37 6 23 6 4 78 43 34 2 1 1
1956 CLE AL 30 671 67% 79% 26% 68 96% 0 32 16 14 2 56 39 15 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 10 2 0 5 0 1 8 2 6 1 1 0
1957 CLE AL 31 531 69% 82% 26% 47 91% 1 23 8 13 2 45 31 12 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 13 4 0 4 4 0 13 4 9 0 0 0
1959 CLE AL 33 1862 63% 77% 27% 187 92% 1 81 43 29 9 148 104 36 0 3 11 0 9 2 8 42 17 3 8 3 1 37 20 12 3 1 2
1960 CLE AL 34 259 60% 79% 28% 22 82% 0 6 2 3 1 18 11 6 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 3 0 1 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0
10 Seasons 21841 62% 81% 26% 2305 91% 11 1123 576 448 99 1747 1302 375 4 23 107 1 83 23 80 426 157 25 115 32 29 381 184 179 33 18 13
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 90%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1951 PIT NL 25 361 63% 81% 30% 36 97% 0 21 12 5 4 26 23 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0
1952 PIT NL 26 1193 60% 85% 28% 108 90% 0 70 23 35 13 92 67 20 0 0 9 1 8 0 8 23 11 1 7 2 22 9 12 1 1 0
1952 CLE AL 26 12 67% 92% 33% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 CLE AL 30 968 65% 80% 23% 86 95% 0 76 29 37 10 68 53 14 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 22 9 3 6 1 21 7 14 1 1 0
1957 CLE AL 31 1418 66% 78% 23% 121 92% 0 106 38 47 21 91 78 11 0 4 4 0 3 1 3 22 9 4 4 0 19 4 15 2 0 1
1959 CLE AL 33 60 68% 77% 33% 6 100% 0 4 1 2 1 5 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 CLE AL 34 9 56% 78% 22% 1 0% 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
6 Seasons 4021 64% 81% 25% 358 92% 0 278 103 127 49 283 227 47 0 4 16 1 13 2 13 71 30 9 17 3 64 20 43 5 3 1
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 93%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1950 PIT NL 24 4 100% 100% 50% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 CLE AL 30 406 61% 78% 25% 36 92% 2 13 12 0 1 21 12 7 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 1 100%
1957 CLE AL 31 484 67% 83% 20% 44 89% 0 14 13 0 1 26 16 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 4 0%
1959 CLE AL 33 2784 59% 79% 25% 217 93% 2 71 62 3 6 138 115 21 1 0 6 0 6 0 4 11 9 0 9 0 0 0 13 62%
1960 CLE AL 34 243 45% 75% 26% 17 88% 0 4 4 0 0 11 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 3921 60% 79% 25% 315 92% 4 102 91 3 8 197 154 39 2 2 7 0 7 0 5 17 15 0 15 0 0 0 18 50%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 89% 64%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1952 PIT NL 26 8 63% 88% 13% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 CLE AL 27 3 33% 100% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 11 55% 91% 9% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 93% 86%

* 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

Assists† s c a p y
1951 NL  426 (4th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1951 NL  37 (2nd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1951 NL  125 (4th)
1953 AL  122 (5th)
1955 AL  128 (4th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1951 NL  222 (4th)
1953 AL  238 (4th)
1954 AL  193 (5th)
1955 AL  221 (4th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1951 NL  386 (4th)
1953 AL  400 (5th)
1955 AL  360 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1951 NL  37 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1959 AL  3 (5th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1959 AL  .971 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1953 AL  15 (3rd)
1954 AL  5 (5th)
1956 AL  3 (4th)
1959 AL  2 (4th)
Career  21 (74th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1951 NL  5.13 (2nd)
1953 AL  5.37 (2nd)
1955 AL  4.98 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1951 NL  4.86 (3rd)
1953 AL  5.23 (2nd)
1955 AL  4.54 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1953 AL  .974 (2nd)
1954 AL  .961 (5th)
1955 AL  .976 (1st)

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