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Buck Weaver

George Daniel Weaver

Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: August 18, 1890 in Pottstown, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 11, 1912
Team: WhiteSox 1912-1920

Final Game: September 27, 1920
Died: January 31, 1956 in Chicago, IL
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago, IL
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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
1912 CHW AL 21 SS 147 938 342 525 71 53 .924 5.90 .921 5.32
1913 CHW AL 22 SS 151 982 392 520 70 73 .929 6.04 .935 5.39
1914 CHW AL 23 SS 134 815 367 389 59 50 .928 5.64 .937 5.35 MVP-7
1915 CHW AL 24 SS 148 800 281 470 49 54 .939 5.07 .937 5.15
1916 CHW AL 25 3B 85 337 124 193 20 22 .941 3.73 .939 3.40
1916 CHW AL 25 SS 66 350 142 192 16 27 .954 5.06 .938 5.18
1917 CHW AL 26 3B 107 392 154 218 20 18 .949 3.48 .941 3.36
1917 CHW AL 26 SS 10 60 20 39 1 9 .983 5.90 .931 5.08
1918 CHW AL 27 SS 98 96 93 542 191 319 32 53 .941 5.20 .939 5.39
1918 CHW AL 27 3B 11 10 10 29 10 18 1 0 .966 2.55 .948 3.37
1918 CHW AL 27 2B 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.00 .960 5.50
1919 CHW AL 28 3B 97 97 91 325 113 200 12 14 .963 3.23 .950 3.34
1919 CHW AL 28 SS 43 43 43 236 87 141 8 16 .966 5.30 .942 5.24
1920 CHW AL 29 3B 127 124 121 460 153 276 31 17 .933 3.38 .946 3.59
1920 CHW AL 29 SS 25 27 27 136 56 75 5 21 .963 5.24 .944 5.21
9 Seasons SS 822 166 163 4859 1878 2670 311 356 .936 5.53 .934 5.29
5 Seasons 3B 427 231 222 1543 554 905 84 71 .946 3.42 .944 3.43
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.00 .960 5.50
9 Seasons TOT 1250 397 385 6404 2432 3577 395 427 .938 4.81 .937 4.66
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
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Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1912 CHW AL 21 147 147 0 0 0 0 0 147 0 0 0 0 0
1913 CHW AL 22 151 151 0 0 0 0 0 151 0 0 0 0 0
1914 CHW AL 23 136 136 0 0 0 0 0 134 0 0 0 0 0
1915 CHW AL 24 148 148 0 0 0 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0
1916 CHW AL 25 151 151 0 0 0 0 85 66 0 0 0 0 0
1917 CHW AL 26 118 118 0 0 0 0 107 10 0 0 0 0 0
1918 CHW AL 27 112 112 0 0 0 1 11 98 0 0 0 0 0
1919 CHW AL 28 140 140 140 140 0 0 0 0 97 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1920 CHW AL 29 151 151 151 151 0 0 0 0 124 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 1254 291 1254 291 0 0 0 1 424 825 0 0 0 0 0 0 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1914 AL (7, 17%)
0.17 Career Shares (792nd)

Assists† s c a p y
1912 AL  525 (2nd)
1913 AL  520 (1st)
1915 AL  470 (4th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1912 AL  71 (1st)
1913 AL  70 (1st)
1914 AL  59 (1st)
1915 AL  49 (4th)
1916 AL  36 (5th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1920 AL  127 (2nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1917 AL  154 (5th)
1920 AL  153 (2nd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1920 AL  276 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1920 AL  31 (1st)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  147 (2nd)
1913 AL  151 (2nd)
1915 AL  148 (4th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  342 (2nd)
1913 AL  392 (1st)
1914 AL  367 (2nd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  525 (2nd)
1913 AL  520 (1st)
1915 AL  470 (3rd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  71 (1st)
1913 AL  70 (1st)
1914 AL  59 (1st)
1915 AL  49 (4th)
1918 AL  32 (5th)
Career  311 (63rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1916 AL  3.73 (2nd)
1917 AL  3.48 (3rd)
1920 AL  3.38 (3rd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1916 AL  .941 (4th)
1917 AL  .949 (1st)
1919 AL  .963 (2nd)
1920 AL  .933 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  5.90 (2nd)
1913 AL  6.04 (1st)
1914 AL  5.64 (2nd)
1915 AL  5.07 (5th)
Career  5.53 (18th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  .924 (5th)
1915 AL  .939 (5th)
1918 AL  .941 (3rd)

             

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