Rube Walker

Albert Bluford Walker

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: May 16, 1926 in Lenoir, NC
High School: Lenoir HS (Lenoir, NC)
Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1944. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1948
Teams (by GP): Dodgers/Cubs 1948-1958

Final Game: June 15, 1958
Died: December 12, 1992 in Morganton, NC
Buried: Blue Ridge Memorial Park, Lenoir, NC
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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	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO
1948	CHC	NL	22	C	44	39	30		204	178	22	4	3	.980				4.55	.980		5.15	4	3	18	12	40%	40%	0
1949	CHC	NL	23	C	43	40	35		196	166	23	7	2	.964				4.40	.982		4.98	6	6	19	11	37%	43%	0
1950	CHC	NL	24	C	62	50	41	452.0	281	240	34	7	6	.975			5.46	4.42	.982	5.38	5.33	2	10	29	13	31%	38%	2
1951	TOT	NL	25	C	54	46	38	407.0	202	173	23	6	2	.970			4.33	3.63	.981	5.18	5.16	0	8	15	9	38%	41%	3
1951	CHC	NL	25	C	31	30	27	254.2	130	111	15	4	2	.969			4.45	4.06	.981	5.18	5.16	0	5	9	4	31%	41%	2
1951	BRO	NL	25	C	23	16	11	152.1	72	62	8	2	0	.972			4.14	3.04	.981	5.18	5.16	0	3	6	5	45%	41%	1
1952	BRO	NL	26	C	40	37	33	331.2	236	217	16	3	2	.987			6.32	5.83	.984	5.52	5.47	4	7	11	8	42%	44%	0
1953	BRO	NL	27	C	28	24	15	203.0	135	120	12	3	2	.978	0	0	5.85	4.71	.984	5.53	5.42	1	4	3	3	50%	40%	0
1954	BRO	NL	28	C	47	46	41	404.0	279	259	19	1	4	.996	2	6	6.19	5.91	.986	5.36	5.33	0	9	8	10	56%	44%	0
1955	BRO	NL	29	C	35	27	20	248.0	159	147	10	2	3	.987	-1	-5	5.70	4.49	.987	5.65	5.60	0	7	11	5	31%	46%	0
1956	BRO	NL	30	C	43	37	27	322.2	207	184	20	3	4	.986	0	0	5.69	4.74	.985	5.83	5.77	1	8	8	6	43%	40%	1
1957	BRO	NL	31	C	50	42	38	390.2	252	230	20	2	3	.992	5	15	5.76	5.00	.988	5.98	6.02	0	8	10	15	60%	40%	0
1958	LAD	NL	32	C	20	12	8	116.0	68	62	5	1	1	.985	-1	-10	5.20	3.35	.988	6.06	6.02	2	7	2	3	60%	39%	0
	11 Seasons			C	466	400	326	2875.0	2219	1976	204	39	32	.982	5	2	5.61	4.68	.984	5.56	5.44	20	77	134	95	41%	41%	6
	11 Seasons			TOT	466	400	326	2875.0	2219	1976	204	39	32	.982	5	2	5.61	4.68	.984	5.56	5.44	20	77	134	95	41%	41%	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.

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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.
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	Rctch
1948	CHC	NL	22	C
1949	CHC	NL	23	C
1950	CHC	NL	24	C
1951	CHC	NL	25	C
1951	BRO	NL	25	C
1952	BRO	NL	26	C
1953	BRO	NL	27	C	0	0	0
1954	BRO	NL	28	C	2	6	2
1955	BRO	NL	29	C	-1	-5	-1
1956	BRO	NL	30	C	0	0	0
1957	BRO	NL	31	C	5	15	5
1958	LAD	NL	32	C	-1	-10	-1
	11 Seasons			C	5	2	5
	11 Seasons			TOT	5	2	5

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1948	CHC	NL	22	79	39	79	44	44	35	0
1949	CHC	NL	23	56	40	56	43	43	13	0
1950	CHC	NL	24	74	50	74	62	62	17	0
1951	CHC	NL	25	37	30	37	32	32	6	0
1951	BRO	NL	25	36	16	36	22	22	15	1
1952	BRO	NL	26	46	37	46	40	40	6	0
1953	BRO	NL	27	43	24	43	28	28	15	0
1954	BRO	NL	28	50	46	50	46	46	4	0
1955	BRO	NL	29	48	27	48	35	35	13	0
1956	BRO	NL	30	54	37	54	43	43	11	0
1957	BRO	NL	31	60	42	60	50	50	12	0
1958	LAD	NL	32	25	12	25	20	20	6	0
	11 Seasons			608	400	608	465	465	153	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 -- C*

					Pitching Stats						Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	ERA	RAvg	Fld	F2O%	XI	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	SO	Tot	1B	2B	3B	K23	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	263	n23	GB	bFld	bF2O%
1948	CHC	NL	22	314	3.38	5.00	6	100%	0	0	47	5	0	1	41	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949	CHC	NL	23	872	5.47	5.98	15	87%	0	1	103	10	0	8	85	12	3	0	0	2	3	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	4	50%
1950	CHC	NL	24	1631	4.37	4.88	34	91%	0	1	204	18	3	12	171	29	5	0	1	2	7	0	2	5	1	6	0	1	3	4	50%
1951	CHC	NL	25	997	4.13	4.44	21	100%	0	0	98	13	0	4	81	17	5	1	0	1	4	0	1	3	0	2	1	0	1	3	100%
1951	BRO	NL	25	624	3.60	4.14	9	78%	0	1	62	4	0	2	56	8	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	50%
1952	BRO	NL	26	1417	3.91	4.26	28	96%	0	0	217	21	2	4	189	16	5	0	0	1	3	0	1	2	1	2	0	1	1	0
1953	BRO	NL	27	853	3.55	3.95	15	93%	0	0	125	11	0	2	112	8	1	0	0	2	3	0	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
1954	BRO	NL	28	1751	4.59	4.97	33	97%	0	0	259	26	0	4	229	18	4	0	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	3	100%
1955	BRO	NL	29	1082	4.03	4.72	12	100%	0	0	146	7	1	4	134	10	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	6	100%
1956	BRO	NL	30	1375	3.68	4.30	27	89%	0	2	184	15	0	3	166	16	8	0	0	1	3	2	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	8	75%
1957	BRO	NL	31	1612	3.25	3.64	26	92%	0	0	230	17	1	6	206	20	5	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	3	0	0	1	6	83%
1958	LAD	NL	32	491	4.58	4.81	7	86%	0	0	64	5	0	2	57	5	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	100%
	11 Seasons			13019	4.05	4.53	233	93%	0	5	1739	152	7	52	1527	162	42	2	1	13	32	5	9	18	4	30	1	2	8	39	77%
	MLB Averages				4.03	4.54		95%																							86%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PB	WP	SBO	SB	CS	CSctch	CS%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	RBA	RK	SBlev	CSlev
1948	CHC	NL	22	3	3	120	3	2	2	40%	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	3	1.77	1.10
1949	CHC	NL	23	2	6	359	16	6	4	27%	14	4	2	1	0	1	0	0	30	6	1.08	1.16
1950	CHC	NL	24	1	10	622	24	13	12	35%	18	13	4	0	2	0	2	0	47	18	1.19	0.78
1951	CHC	NL	25	0	5	391	8	4	4	33%	8	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	19	7	0.80	0.89
1951	BRO	NL	25	0	3	218	6	5	5	45%	4	5	1	0	1	0	1	0	14	6	1.05	1.02
1952	BRO	NL	26	4	7	542	11	8	8	42%	11	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	33	10	1.30	0.97
1953	BRO	NL	27	1	4	316	3	3	3	50%	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	4	1.01	0.98
1954	BRO	NL	28	0	9	702	8	10	10	56%	8	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	24	10	0.99	1.31
1955	BRO	NL	29	0	7	421	11	5	5	31%	6	5	3	0	2	0	0	0	23	8	1.50	1.04
1956	BRO	NL	30	1	8	489	8	6	6	43%	8	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	21	10	1.14	1.11
1957	BRO	NL	31	0	8	594	10	15	14	60%	8	13	2	2	0	0	0	0	25	20	1.38	0.83
1958	LAD	NL	32	2	7	178	2	3	3	60%	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	14	3	1.16	0.19
	11 Seasons			14	77	4952	110	80	76	42%	92	74	12	5	6	1	6	0	275	105	1.19	0.96
	MLB Averages									44%											1.19	1.18

* 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

Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1949 NL 7 (5th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1950 NL 29 (4th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1957 NL 15 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1954 NL 2 (4th) 1957 NL 5 (1st)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1949 NL 7 (5th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1950 NL 29 (4th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1957 NL 15 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1954 NL 2 (4th)
1957 NL 5 (1st)

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