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Hank Thompson

Henry Curtis Thompson

Positions: Third Baseman, Outfielder and Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 174 lb.

Born: December 8, 1925 in Oklahoma City, OK
High School: Jackson HS (Los Angeles, CA)
Signed as a Free Agent with the St. Louis Browns in 1947. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 17, 1947
Teams (by GP): Giants/Browns 1947-1956

Final Game: September 30, 1956
Died: September 30, 1969 in Fresno, CA
Buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Fresno, CA
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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
1947 SLB AL 21 2B 19 18 17 115 55 55 5 15 .957 5.79 .978 5.46
1949 NYG NL 23 2B 69 69 69 387 197 175 15 44 .961 5.39 .976 5.57
1949 NYG NL 23 3B 1 1 1 6 1 5 0 0 1.000 6.00 .952 3.20
1950 NYG NL 24 3B 138 134 123 1175.2 465 136 303 26 43 .944 3.36 3.18 .948 3.31 3.27 MVP-33
1950 NYG NL 24 OF 10 8 7 72.0 20 18 2 0 1 1.000 2.50 2.00 .978 2.34 2.31 MVP-33
1950 NYG NL 24 RF 10 8 7 70.0 20 19 1 0 1 1.000 2.57 2.00 .976 1.86 1.85 MVP-33
1950 NYG NL 24 CF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 4.50 1.00 .980 2.70 2.70 MVP-33
1951 NYG NL 25 3B 71 68 60 611.1 199 64 120 15 16 .925 2.71 2.59 .953 3.37 3.36
1952 NYG NL 26 OF 72 69 66 611.1 191 182 5 4 1 .979 2.75 2.60 .981 2.31 2.29
1952 NYG NL 26 CF 51 51 50 448.0 141 134 3 4 1 .972 2.75 2.69 .983 2.75 2.73
1952 NYG NL 26 3B 46 43 38 378.0 154 47 96 11 8 .929 3.40 3.11 .954 3.15 3.12
1952 NYG NL 26 LF 20 17 16 160.1 51 50 0 1 0 .980 2.81 2.50 .979 2.02 2.00
1952 NYG NL 26 2B 4 2 1 16.0 15 7 7 1 2 .933 7.88 3.50 .975 5.46 5.42
1952 NYG NL 26 RF 1 1 0 3.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 3.00 1.00 .980 2.10 2.00
1953 NYG NL 27 3B 101 97 89 841.0 297 90 194 13 18 .956 3 4 3.04 2.81 .951 3.04 2.98 MVP-24
1953 NYG NL 27 OF 9 7 5 58.0 9 8 1 0 0 1.000 0 8 1.40 1.00 .980 2.37 2.32 MVP-24
1953 NYG NL 27 RF 8 7 5 57.0 9 8 1 0 0 1.000 0 8 1.42 1.13 .981 2.01 1.96 MVP-24
1953 NYG NL 27 2B 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -60 4.50 1.00 .970 5.40 5.30 MVP-24
1953 NYG NL 27 LF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.80 2.10 MVP-24
1954 NYG NL 28 3B 130 127 116 1130.0 415 125 267 23 27 .945 3 3 3.12 3.02 .952 3.17 3.15
1954 NYG NL 28 2B 2 0 0 3.1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0 72 5.40 1.00 .975 5.40 5.55
1954 NYG NL 28 LF 2 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1 480 4.50 0.50 .970 2.25 2.15
1954 NYG NL 28 OF 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1 480 4.50 1.00 .980 2.25 2.30
1955 NYG NL 29 3B 124 117 106 1034.2 388 104 262 22 23 .943 4 5 3.18 2.95 .951 3.13 3.10
1955 NYG NL 29 2B 7 4 4 37.1 21 9 12 0 2 1.000 -0 -10 5.06 3.00 .974 5.47 5.43
1955 NYG NL 29 SS 1 1 1 9.0 5 2 2 1 0 .800 -1 -173 4.00 4.00 .964 5.00 5.00
1956 NYG NL 30 3B 44 39 32 324.0 131 25 94 12 7 .908 4 13 3.31 2.70 .956 3.05 3.02
1956 NYG NL 30 OF 10 8 5 69.0 14 11 1 2 0 .857 -2 -30 1.57 1.20 .977 2.28 2.25
1956 NYG NL 30 LF 8 6 3 51.0 9 6 1 2 0 .778 -2 -35 1.24 0.88 .973 2.06 2.04
1956 NYG NL 30 RF 2 2 2 18.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -13 2.00 2.00 .975 2.00 1.95
1956 NYG NL 30 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 4.50 4.90
8 Seasons 3B 655 626 565 5494.2 2055 592 1341 122 142 .941 13 3 3.16 2.95 .951 3.19 3.15
6 Seasons 2B 102 93 91 58.2 541 270 250 21 63 .961 -0 -4 5.83 5.10 .976 5.46 5.53
5 Seasons OF 102 92 83 812.1 235 219 10 6 2 .974 -1 -1 2.54 2.25 .980 2.31 2.29
2 Seasons CF 52 51 50 450.0 142 135 3 4 1 .972 2.76 2.65 .983 2.75 2.73
4 Seasons LF 31 23 19 214.1 61 56 2 3 0 .951 -1 -4 2.44 1.87 .978 2.03 2.02
4 Seasons RF 21 18 14 148.0 34 32 2 0 1 1.000 0 2 2.07 1.62 .977 1.94 1.91
2 Seasons SS 2 1 1 10.0 5 2 2 1 0 .800 -1 -168 3.60 2.00 .964 4.95 4.95
9 Seasons TOT 861 812 740 6375.2 2836 1083 1603 150 207 .947 11 2 3.10 3.12 .958 3.10 3.34
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
1947 SLB AL 21 2B
1949 NYG NL 23 2B
1949 NYG NL 23 3B
1950 NYG NL 24 3B
1950 NYG NL 24 RF
1950 NYG NL 24 CF
1951 NYG NL 25 3B
1952 NYG NL 26 CF
1952 NYG NL 26 3B
1952 NYG NL 26 LF
1952 NYG NL 26 2B
1952 NYG NL 26 RF
1953 NYG NL 27 3B 3 4 3 0 2 0
1953 NYG NL 27 RF 0 8 -1 0 -1 1
1953 NYG NL 27 2B -0 -60 -0 -0 0 0
1953 NYG NL 27 LF 0 0 0 0 0
1954 NYG NL 28 3B 3 3 1 3 -2 2
1954 NYG NL 28 2B 0 72 0 0 0 0
1954 NYG NL 28 LF 1 480 -0 -0 0 1
1955 NYG NL 29 3B 4 5 5 7 -2 -1
1955 NYG NL 29 2B -0 -10 -0 0 -0 0
1955 NYG NL 29 SS -1 -173 -1 -1 0 0
1956 NYG NL 30 3B 4 13 4 1 2 0
1956 NYG NL 30 LF -2 -35 -2 -0 -1 0
1956 NYG NL 30 RF -0 -13 -0 -0 0 0
1956 NYG NL 30 SS -0 -120 -0 0 -0 0
8 Seasons 3B 13 3 12 12 0 1
6 Seasons 2B -0 -4 -0 0 -0 0
2 Seasons CF
4 Seasons LF -1 -4 -2 -1 -1 1
4 Seasons RF 0 2 -1 -0 -1 1
2 Seasons SS -1 -168 -1 -1 -0 0
9 Seasons TOT 11 2 8 10 -1 1 2
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
1947 SLB AL 21 27 18 27 19 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1949 NYG NL 23 75 70 75 70 0 0 0 69 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1950 NYG NL 24 148 142 148 146 0 0 0 0 138 0 0 1 10 10 0 3 0
1951 NYG NL 25 87 68 87 71 0 0 0 0 71 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
1952 NYG NL 26 128 114 128 120 0 0 0 4 46 0 20 51 1 72 0 12 0
1953 NYG NL 27 114 104 114 111 0 0 0 1 101 0 1 0 8 9 0 5 1
1954 NYG NL 28 136 127 136 132 0 0 0 2 130 0 2 0 0 2 0 5 0
1955 NYG NL 29 135 122 135 131 0 0 0 7 124 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1956 NYG NL 30 82 47 82 54 0 0 0 0 44 1 8 0 2 10 0 32 0
9 Seasons 932 812 932 854 0 0 0 102 655 2 31 52 21 103 0 100 1
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 -- 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%
1949 NYG NL 23 44 77% 84% 36% 5 80% 0 1 0 0 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1950 NYG NL 24 3680 66% 81% 27% 337 87% 1 102 78 10 15 217 147 61 3 7 22 1 19 2 18 38 29 0 34 4 2 0 15 53%
1951 NYG NL 25 2044 63% 83% 27% 160 86% 1 53 40 6 7 99 74 21 0 3 13 1 10 2 9 14 10 1 11 3 1 2 2 50%
1952 NYG NL 26 1401 68% 78% 26% 133 89% 4 43 31 5 7 89 70 14 2 3 9 1 6 2 7 8 4 0 5 2 1 1 10 60%
1953 NYG NL 27 3504 59% 81% 28% 299 85% 3 86 72 4 10 184 151 27 3 5 12 0 8 4 11 18 13 1 16 1 1 0 5 20%
1954 NYG NL 28 4620 67% 79% 27% 390 89% 2 116 88 14 14 254 200 48 3 5 21 1 18 2 16 28 22 0 24 3 1 2 13 85%
1955 NYG NL 29 3619 65% 80% 28% 300 88% 2 83 65 7 11 202 159 34 1 7 18 1 15 2 16 16 10 1 12 3 2 1 12 75%
1956 NYG NL 30 1267 67% 79% 27% 125 85% 2 24 18 2 4 88 76 11 0 0 12 0 11 1 9 7 5 2 7 0 0 0 13 85%
8 Seasons 20179 65% 80% 27% 1749 87% 15 508 392 48 69 1136 880 217 12 30 107 5 87 15 86 129 93 5 109 16 8 6 70 67%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 89% 67%

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
1949 NYG NL 23 1403 69% 82% 27% 122 93% 2 109 39 57 14 91 74 14 0 0 10 1 6 3 7 24 9 3 3 5 21 8 13 3 2 1
1952 NYG NL 26 38 55% 92% 50% 7 71% 0 1 0 1 0 6 5 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1953 NYG NL 27 7 57% 86% 29% 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 NYG NL 28 14 79% 86% 36% 1 100% 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 NYG NL 29 171 63% 80% 24% 13 100% 0 10 2 1 7 12 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 1633 68% 82% 27% 143 93% 2 122 41 59 23 110 89 18 0 0 11 1 7 3 8 27 9 3 4 5 24 9 13 3 2 1
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 93%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1950 NYG NL 24 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 0 0 10 60% 80% 50% 2 50%
1952 NYG NL 26 4 0 3 1 0 3 0 1 1 1 32 24 1 16 2 0 3 2 0 4 0 1 5 3 0 60 31 51.7% 27 2 3.3% 1 1628 55% 83% 30% 217 53%
2 Seasons 4 0 3 1 0 3 0 1 1 1 32 24 1 16 2 0 3 2 0 4 0 1 5 3 0 60 31 51.7% 27 2 3.3% 1 1638 55% 83% 30% 219 53%
MLB Averages 45.4% 2.8% 63% 81% 31% 59%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1952 NYG NL 26 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 4 2 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 8 72.7% 3 0 0.0% 0 578 64% 79% 36% 72 64%
1953 NYG NL 27 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 0 0 4 50% 75% 25% 0
1954 NYG NL 28 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0% 0 1 100.0% 0 9 67% 100% 33% 1 100%
1956 NYG NL 30 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 3 60.0% 2 0 0.0% 1 175 64% 85% 26% 17 35%
4 Seasons 3 0 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 8 3 1 5 5 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 17 11 64.7% 5 1 5.9% 1 766 64% 80% 34% 90 59%
MLB Averages 57.8% 2.6% 63% 81% 31% 50%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1950 NYG NL 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 6 3 50.0% 3 0 0.0% 1 260 69% 83% 34% 25 64%
1952 NYG NL 26 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 0 0 11 64% 82% 27% 1 100%
1953 NYG NL 27 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 66.7% 2 0 0.0% 1 244 64% 82% 32% 22 41%
1956 NYG NL 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 2 66.7% 1 0 0.0% 0 73 77% 74% 27% 6 67%
4 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 9 5 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 15 9 60.0% 6 0 0.0% 2 588 68% 81% 32% 54 56%
MLB Averages 43.7% 3.3% 63% 81% 31% 54%

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
1955 NYG NL 29 47 57% 77% 13% 3 100% 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 NYG NL 30 6 83% 83% 17% 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 53 60% 77% 13% 3 100% 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 90%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1950 NL (33, 1%)
1953 NL (24, 0%)
0.01 Career Shares (1497th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1950 NL  26 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1949 NL  15 (3rd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  138 (2nd)
1954 NL  130 (3rd)
1955 NL  124 (5th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  136 (4th)
1954 NL  125 (3rd)
1955 NL  104 (5th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  303 (2nd)
1954 NL  267 (3rd)
1955 NL  262 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  26 (1st)
1951 NL  15 (4th)
1954 NL  23 (2nd)
1955 NL  22 (1st)

Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1952 NL  4 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1954 NL  3 (3rd)
1955 NL  4 (4th)
1956 NL  4 (5th)
Career  13 (89th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1950 NL  3.36 (2nd)
1954 NL  3.12 (3rd)
1955 NL  3.18 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  3.18 (3rd)
1954 NL  3.02 (4th)
1955 NL  2.95 (5th)
Career  2.95 (98th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1953 NL  .956 (5th)
1954 NL  .945 (5th)

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