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Harry Swacina

Harry Joseph Swacina (Swats)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: August 22, 1881 in St. Louis, MO (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1907
Teams (by GP): Terrapins/Pirates 1907-1915

Final Game: August 26, 1915
Died: June 21, 1944 in Birmingham, AL
Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, AL
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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 Awards
1907 PIT NL 25 1B 26 259 246 12 1 9 .996 9.92 .984 10.58
1908 PIT NL 26 1B 50 529 501 19 9 19 .983 10.40 .986 11.07
1914 BAL FL 32 1B 158 1746 1616 104 26 74 .985 10.89 .985 10.50
1915 BAL FL 33 1B 75 803 735 57 11 50 .986 10.56 .987 10.79
1915 BAL FL 33 2B 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 5.10
4 Seasons 1B 309 3337 3098 192 47 152 .986 10.65 .986 10.67
1 Season 2B 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 5.10
4 Seasons TOT 310 3338 3098 193 47 152 .986 10.62 .986 10.65
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
1907 PIT NL 25 26 26 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1908 PIT NL 26 53 53 0 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 BAL FL 32 158 158 0 0 158 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 BAL FL 33 85 85 0 0 75 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 322 322 0 0 309 1 0 0 0 0 0 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

Putouts† s c a p y
1914 FL  1,616 (1st)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1914 FL  158 (1st)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1914 FL  1,616 (1st)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1914 FL  104 (1st)
1915 FL  57 (5th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1914 FL  26 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1914 FL  10.89 (2nd)

                           

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