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Specs Toporcer

George Toporcer
played as Toporcer

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: February 9, 1899 in New York, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: April 13, 1921
Team: Cardinals 1921-1928

Final Game: June 2, 1928
Died: May 17, 1989 in Huntington Station, NY
Buried: Melville Cemetery, Melville, NY
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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
1921 STL NL 22 2B 12 11 11 65 24 37 4 6 .938 5.08 .962 5.70
1921 STL NL 22 SS 2 1 1 6 1 5 0 0 1.000 3.00 .952 5.85
1922 STL NL 23 SS 91 72 67 441 168 246 27 34 .939 4.55 .945 5.78
1922 STL NL 23 3B 6 4 3 11 2 7 2 1 .818 1.50 .948 3.05
1922 STL NL 23 2B 1 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 3.00 .960 5.80
1922 STL NL 23 OF 1 1 1 3 2 0 1 0 .667 2.00 .963 2.40
1922 STL NL 23 RF 1 1 1 3 2 0 1 0 .667 2.00 .953 2.20
1923 STL NL 24 2B 52 49 48 309 130 162 17 39 .945 5.62 .959 5.90
1923 STL NL 24 SS 33 21 20 146 62 77 7 18 .952 4.21 .939 5.80
1923 STL NL 24 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10.60
1923 STL NL 24 3B 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .945 3.10
1924 STL NL 25 3B 33 30 26 78 22 54 2 2 .974 2.30 .956 2.93
1924 STL NL 25 SS 25 17 17 86 32 49 5 6 .942 3.24 .949 5.76
1924 STL NL 25 2B 3 2 1 5 2 2 1 0 .800 1.33 .960 5.97
1925 STL NL 26 SS 66 64 63 371 141 215 15 40 .960 5.39 .942 5.73
1925 STL NL 26 2B 7 6 6 25 8 16 1 1 .960 3.43 .967 5.84
1926 STL NL 27 2B 27 12 12 58 22 35 1 3 .983 2.11 .965 5.78
1926 STL NL 27 SS 5 0 0 5 2 3 0 0 1.000 1.00 .948 5.84
1926 STL NL 27 3B 1 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.00 .955 3.00
1927 STL NL 28 3B 54 52 44 147 49 95 3 8 .980 2.67 .945 2.96
1927 STL NL 28 SS 27 17 15 108 37 62 9 13 .917 3.67 .944 5.50
1927 STL NL 28 2B 2 0 0 5 3 2 0 1 1.000 2.50 .966 5.95
1927 STL NL 28 1B 1 1 0 11 9 1 1 1 .909 10.00 .989 10.50
1928 STL NL 29 1B 1 1 1 10 7 3 0 0 1.000 10.00 .989 10.50
1928 STL NL 29 2B 1 0 0 5 5 0 0 1 1.000 5.00 .970 5.90
7 Seasons SS 249 192 183 1163 443 657 63 111 .946 4.42 .944 5.74
8 Seasons 2B 105 80 78 475 195 256 24 51 .949 4.30 .961 5.84
5 Seasons 3B 95 89 75 240 74 159 7 11 .971 2.45 .949 2.96
3 Seasons 1B 3 2 1 21 16 4 1 1 .952 6.67 .989 10.53
1 Season OF 1 1 1 3 2 0 1 0 .667 2.00 .963 2.40
1 Season RF 1 1 1 3 2 0 1 0 .667 2.00 .953 2.20
8 Seasons TOT 453 364 338 1902 730 1076 96 174 .950 3.99 .949 5.20
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% 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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1921 STL NL 22 22 12 22 14 0 0 0 12 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 1
1922 STL NL 23 116 77 116 99 0 0 0 1 6 91 0 0 1 1 0 23 0
1923 STL NL 24 97 72 97 85 0 0 0 53 2 32 0 0 0 0 0 11 1
1924 STL NL 25 70 49 70 60 0 0 0 3 33 25 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1925 STL NL 26 83 70 83 73 0 0 0 7 0 66 0 0 0 0 0 9 1
1926 STL NL 27 64 13 64 34 0 0 0 27 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 30 1
1927 STL NL 28 86 70 86 78 0 0 1 2 55 26 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1928 STL NL 29 8 1 8 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
8 Seasons 546 364 546 445 0 0 2 106 97 248 0 0 1 1 0 104 4
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

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1922 NL  .939 (5th)

                                         

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