Zeb Terry

Zebulon Alexander Terry

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 129 lb.

Born: June 17, 1891 in Denison, TX
High School: Polytechnic HS (Long Beach, CA)
School: Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 1916
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Pirates/WhiteSox/Braves 1916-1922

Final Game: October 1, 1922
Died: March 14, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA
Cremated
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1916	CHW	AL	25	SS	93			418	148	243	27	36	.935	4.20	.938	5.18
1917	CHW	AL	26	SS	1			1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.00	.930	5.10
1918	BSN	NL	27	SS	27	27	27	175	57	114	4	17	.977	6.33	.934	5.80
1919	PIT	NL	28	SS	127	126	122	627	207	395	25	44	.960	4.74	.943	5.66
1920	CHC	NL	29	SS	70	70	68	418	153	249	16	32	.962	5.74	.941	5.73
1920	CHC	NL	29	2B	63	63	63	369	138	222	9	30	.976	5.71	.963	5.73
1921	CHC	NL	30	2B	122	122	117	705	272	413	20	57	.972	5.61	.962	5.70
1922	CHC	NL	31	2B	125	125	119	768	298	442	28	75	.964	5.92	.961	5.76
1922	CHC	NL	31	SS	4	1	1	21	10	10	1	2	.952	5.00	.945	5.78
1922	CHC	NL	31	3B	3	3	3	11	2	9	0	0	1.000	3.67	.948	3.03
	6 Seasons			SS	322	224	218	1660	575	1012	73	131	.956	4.93	.940	5.55
	3 Seasons			2B	310	310	299	1842	708	1077	57	162	.969	5.76	.962	5.73
	1 Season			3B	3	3	3	11	2	9	0	0	1.000	3.67	.948	3.03
	7 Seasons			TOT	635	537	520	3513	1285	2098	130	293	.963	5.33	.952	5.63

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	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1916	CHW	AL	25	94		94		0	0	93
1917	CHW	AL	26	2		2		0	0	1
1918	BSN	NL	27	28		28		0	0	27
1919	PIT	NL	28	129	126	129	127	0	0	127	2	0
1920	CHC	NL	29	133	133	133	133	63	0	70	0	0
1921	CHC	NL	30	123	122	123	122	122	0	0	1	0
1922	CHC	NL	31	131	129	131	131	125	3	4	0	0
	7 Seasons			640	510	640	513	310	3	322	3	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

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1921 NL 122 (3rd) 1922 NL 125 (3rd)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1921 NL 272 (4th) 1922 NL 298 (3rd)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1921 NL 413 (4th) 1922 NL 442 (3rd)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1921 NL 20 (5th) 1922 NL 28 (3rd)
Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1919 NL 127 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1921 NL 5.61 (5th) 1922 NL 5.92 (2nd)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1921 NL .972 (3rd) 1922 NL .964 (5th)	Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1919 NL .960 (1st)

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