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Oscar Walker

Oscar Walker

Positions: Centerfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 166 lb.

Born: March 18, 1854 in Brooklyn, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: September 17, 1875
Teams (by GP): Bisons/Atlantics/BrownStockings/Orioles 1875-1885

Final Game: September 4, 1885
Died: May 20, 1889 in Brooklyn, NY
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, 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 G Awards
1875 BRA NA 21 1B 1 5 2 0 3 1 .400 2.00 .936 10.90
1875 BRA NA 21 OF 1 2 0 1 1 0 .500 1.00 .820 1.90 0-0-1
1879 BUF NL 25 1B 72 907 828 30 49 52 .946 11.92 .953 11.13
1880 BUF NL 26 1B 24 278 248 7 23 16 .917 10.63 .959 10.55
1880 BUF NL 26 OF 11 26 19 3 4 1 .846 2.00 .855 1.85 3-7-1
1882 STL AA 28 OF 75 208 158 18 32 4 .846 2.35 .848 1.83 1-74-0
1882 STL AA 28 1B 1 12 12 0 0 1 1.000 12.00 .956 10.50
1882 STL AA 28 2B 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .880 6.00
1884 BRO AA 30 OF 59 114 87 12 15 0 .868 1.68 .847 1.64 16-43-0
1884 BRO AA 30 1B 36 413 389 8 16 12 .961 11.03 .958 10.64
1885 BAL AA 31 OF 4 6 4 0 2 0 .667 1.00 .878 1.88 0-0-4
5 Seasons OF 150 356 268 34 54 5 .848 2.01 .849 1.76 20-124-6
5 Seasons 1B 134 1615 1479 45 91 82 .944 11.37 .955 10.89
1 Season 2B 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .880 6.00
6 Seasons TOT 285 1973 1749 79 145 87 .927 6.41 .936 6.07 20-124-6
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
1875 BRA NA 21 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
1879 BUF NL 25 72 72 0 0 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1880 BUF NL 26 34 34 0 0 24 0 0 0 3 7 1 11 0
1882 STL AA 28 76 76 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 74 0 75 0
1884 BRO AA 30 95 95 0 0 36 0 0 0 16 43 0 59 0
1885 BAL AA 31 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0
6 Seasons 282 282 0 0 134 1 0 0 20 124 6 150 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
1879 NL  828 (1st)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1879 NL  72 (2nd)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1879 NL  828 (1st)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1879 NL  30 (1st)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1879 NL  49 (1st)
1880 NL  23 (5th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1882 AA  75 (5th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1882 AA  158 (3rd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1882 AA  18 (2nd)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1882 AA  32 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1879 NL  11.92 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1882 AA  2.35 (3rd)

             

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