News: s-r blog:Player Birthdays

 

Photo of Amos Strunk


Amos Strunk

Amos Aaron Strunk (Lightning)

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: January 22, 1889 in Philadelphia, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 24, 1908
Teams (by GP): Athletics/WhiteSox/RedSox 1908-1924

Final Game: June 28, 1924
Died: July 22, 1979 in Llanerch, PA
Buried: Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
View Player Bio from the SABR BioProject
    About biographical information

View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

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
1908 PHA AL 19 OF 11 31 27 1 3 1 .903 2.55 .954 1.84 1-10-0
1909 PHA AL 20 OF 9 12 10 2 0 0 1.000 1.33 .951 1.86 1-8-0
1910 PHA AL 21 OF 14 34 33 1 0 0 1.000 2.43 .954 1.83 0-14-0
1911 PHA AL 22 OF 62 144 127 11 6 4 .958 2.23 .950 1.99 19-43-0
1911 PHA AL 22 1B 2 21 18 0 3 1 .857 9.00 .978 10.35
1912 PHA AL 23 OF 116 297 278 16 3 3 .990 2.53 .951 2.04 65-51-0
1913 PHA AL 24 OF 81 184 168 9 7 3 .962 2.19 .953 2.01 0-81-0
1914 PHA AL 25 OF 120 298 280 14 4 3 .987 2.45 .956 2.00 12-108-0
1915 PHA AL 26 OF 111 254 225 24 5 4 .980 2.24 .958 2.05 0-59-52
1915 PHA AL 26 1B 19 200 188 8 4 17 .980 10.32 .987 10.78
1916 PHA AL 27 OF 143 318 291 20 7 5 .978 2.17 .963 2.12 6-119-18
1916 PHA AL 27 1B 7 82 77 4 1 9 .988 11.57 .988 10.99
1917 PHA AL 28 OF 146 364 346 13 5 5 .986 2.46 .967 2.22 0-146-0
1918 BOS AL 29 OF 113 112 109 246 230 13 3 4 .988 2.15 .962 2.26 1-112-0
1918 BOS AL 29 CF 112 112 109 246 230 13 3 4 .988 2.17 .967 2.63
1918 BOS AL 29 LF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.20
1919 TOT AL 30 OF 100 99 97 233 216 11 6 0 .974 2.27 .958 2.26
1919 TOT AL 30 CF 57 57 57 149 140 4 5 0 .966 2.53 .961 2.64
1919 BOS AL 30 CF 48 48 48 126 118 4 4 0 .968 2.54 .961 2.64
1919 BOS AL 30 OF 48 48 48 126 118 4 4 0 .968 2.54 .958 2.26
1919 PHA AL 30 OF 52 51 49 107 98 7 2 0 .981 2.02 .958 2.26
1919 PHA AL 30 RF 43 42 40 84 76 7 1 0 .988 1.93 .951 1.94
1919 PHA AL 30 CF 9 9 9 23 22 0 1 0 .957 2.44 .961 2.64
1920 TOT AL 31 OF 103 99 95 203 195 5 3 2 .985 1.94 .962 2.25
1920 TOT AL 31 RF 56 54 53 97 91 4 2 0 .979 1.70 .958 1.91
1920 TOT AL 31 CF 34 32 30 68 68 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .966 2.55
1920 TOT AL 31 LF 14 13 12 39 36 2 1 2 .974 2.71 .962 2.30
1920 PHA AL 31 OF 54 53 51 100 97 2 1 1 .990 1.83 .962 2.25
1920 PHA AL 31 CF 27 27 26 51 51 0 0 0 1.000 1.89 .966 2.55
1920 PHA AL 31 RF 19 18 18 28 27 1 0 0 1.000 1.47 .958 1.91
1920 PHA AL 31 LF 9 8 7 21 19 1 1 1 .952 2.22 .962 2.30
1920 CHW AL 31 OF 49 46 44 103 98 3 2 1 .981 2.06 .962 2.25
1920 CHW AL 31 RF 37 36 35 69 64 3 2 0 .971 1.81 .958 1.91
1920 CHW AL 31 CF 7 5 4 17 17 0 0 0 1.000 2.43 .966 2.54
1920 CHW AL 31 LF 5 5 5 18 17 1 0 1 1.000 3.60 .962 2.30
1921 CHW AL 32 OF 111 103 97 231 214 10 7 2 .970 2.02 .960 2.33
1921 CHW AL 32 CF 71 67 63 157 147 6 4 2 .975 2.15 .962 2.67
1921 CHW AL 32 RF 33 30 29 60 53 4 3 0 .950 1.73 .958 1.96
1921 CHW AL 32 LF 8 6 5 14 14 0 0 0 1.000 1.75 .958 2.38
1922 CHW AL 33 OF 74 70 66 181 170 9 2 2 .989 2.42 .964 2.31
1922 CHW AL 33 CF 51 51 47 146 136 7 3 1 .979 2.80 .968 2.70
1922 CHW AL 33 LF 14 13 13 29 27 2 0 1 1.000 2.07 .969 2.40
1922 CHW AL 33 RF 10 6 6 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 0.70 .954 1.85
1922 CHW AL 33 1B 7 6 6 77 73 4 0 4 1.000 11.00 .991 10.80
1923 CHW AL 34 OF 5 2 1 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 2.60 .965 2.38
1923 CHW AL 34 CF 3 1 0 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 2.33 .969 2.70
1923 CHW AL 34 LF 3 1 1 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .967 2.33
1923 CHW AL 34 1B 2 0 0 6 5 0 1 0 .833 2.50 .990 10.60
1924 PHA AL 35 OF 8 7 4 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 0.88 .970 2.39
1924 PHA AL 35 LF 5 4 3 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .964 2.34
1924 PHA AL 35 RF 3 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.33 .970 2.03
1924 PHA AL 35 CF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.80
17 Seasons OF 1327 492 469 3050 2830 159 61 38 .980 2.25 .959 2.15 150-1080-215
7 Seasons (incomplete) CF 329 320 306 774 729 30 15 7 .981 2.31 .965 2.64
5 Seasons (incomplete) RF 145 135 129 249 228 15 6 0 .976 1.68 .956 1.93
6 Seasons (incomplete) LF 45 37 34 93 88 4 1 3 .989 2.04 .964 2.35
5 Seasons 1B 37 6 6 386 361 16 9 31 .977 10.19 .988 10.79
17 Seasons TOT 1364 498 475 3436 3191 175 70 69 .980 2.47 .962 2.38 150-1080-215
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1908 PHA AL 19 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 11 0
1909 PHA AL 20 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 0 9 0
1910 PHA AL 21 16 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 14 0
1911 PHA AL 22 74 74 0 0 2 0 0 0 19 43 0 62 0
1912 PHA AL 23 122 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 65 51 0 116 0
1913 PHA AL 24 94 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 81 0 81 0
1914 PHA AL 25 122 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 108 0 120 0
1915 PHA AL 26 132 132 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 59 52 111 0
1916 PHA AL 27 150 150 0 0 7 0 0 0 6 119 18 143 0
1917 PHA AL 28 148 148 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 146 0 146 0
1918 BOS AL 29 114 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 112 0 113 0
1919 PHA AL 30 60 51 60 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 43 52 0 8 0
1919 BOS AL 30 48 48 48 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 0 48 0 0 0
1920 PHA AL 31 58 53 58 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 27 19 54 0 4 0
1920 CHW AL 31 52 46 52 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 37 49 0 3 0
1921 CHW AL 32 121 103 121 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 71 33 112 0 10 0
1922 CHW AL 33 92 76 92 81 0 0 8 0 0 0 14 51 10 75 0 11 0
1923 CHW AL 34 54 2 54 7 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 3 0 5 0 47 0
1924 PHA AL 35 30 7 30 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 3 8 0 22 0
1924 CHW AL 35 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
17 Seasons 1511 386 1511 411 0 0 38 0 0 0 149 968 215 1329 0 106 0
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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

Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1918 AL  112 (3rd)

Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1918 AL  230 (4th)

Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1918 AL  13 (4th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1914 AL  280 (5th)
1917 AL  346 (5th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1915 AL  24 (2nd)

Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1918 AL  .988 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1912 AL  2.53 (3rd)
1913 AL  2.19 (5th)
1914 AL  2.45 (3rd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1912 AL  .990 (1st)
1914 AL  .987 (1st)
1915 AL  .980 (4th)
1916 AL  .978 (4th)
1917 AL  .986 (1st)
1918 AL  .988 (1st)
1920 AL  .985 (2nd)

Youngest s c a p y
1908 AL  born 1889-01-22 (2nd)
1909 AL  born 1889-01-22 (5th)

                                         

Other Resources & Links

Error?     Compare     Search SABR's Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Amos Strunk    

Viewed 9,987 times through June 1, 2012.
Name and misspellings: Amos Aaron Amos Lightning Strunk

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.