Zack Wheat

Zachariah Davis Wheat (Buck)

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: May 23, 1888 in Hamilton, MO (All Transactions)
Debut: September 11, 1909
Teams (by GP): Robins/Superbas/Dodgers/Athletics 1909-1927

Final Game: September 21, 1927
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Player in 1959.
View Zack Wheat Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
Died: March 11, 1972 in Sedalia, MO
Buried: Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, MO
Relatives: Brother of Mack Wheat
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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
1909	BRO	NL	21	OF	26				62	54	5	3	1	.952		2.27	.961		2.07	25-1-0
1910	BRO	NL	22	OF	156				390	354	21	15	6	.962		2.40	.959		2.17	156-0-0
1911	BRO	NL	23	OF	136				313	287	12	14	0	.955		2.20	.960		2.15	135-1-0
1912	BRO	NL	24	OF	120				308	285	13	10	2	.968		2.48	.956		2.24	120-0-0
1913	BRO	NL	25	OF	135				359	338	13	8	7	.978		2.60	.960		2.21	135-0-0
1914	BRO	NL	26	OF	144				366	331	21	14	5	.962		2.44	.957		2.13	144-0-0	MVP-9
1915	BRO	NL	27	OF	144				381	345	18	18	4	.953		2.52	.959		2.12	144-0-0
1916	BRO	NL	28	OF	149				356	333	14	9	0	.975		2.33	.967		2.15	149-1-0
1917	BRO	NL	29	OF	98				233	216	12	5	5	.979		2.33	.963		2.20	98-0-0
1918	BRO	NL	30	OF	105	104	102		235	219	11	5	2	.979		2.19	.962		2.26	105-0-0
1918	BRO	NL	30	LF	104	103	101		233	216	12	5	2	.979		2.19	.965		2.22
1918	BRO	NL	30	CF	1	1	1		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.960		2.70
1919	BRO	NL	31	LF	137	137	132		318	300	9	9	2	.972		2.26	.966		2.21
1919	BRO	NL	31	OF	137	137	132		315	297	9	9	2	.971		2.23	.964		2.26
1920	BRO	NL	32	LF	148	148	136		307	287	11	9	5	.971		2.01	.967		2.18
1920	BRO	NL	32	OF	148	148	136		306	287	10	9	5	.971		2.01	.964		2.34
1921	BRO	NL	33	LF	148	148	138		312	283	18	11	3	.965		2.03	.963		2.35
1921	BRO	NL	33	OF	148	148	138		312	283	18	11	3	.965		2.03	.965		2.40
1922	BRO	NL	34	LF	152	152	145		334	317	14	3	1	.991		2.18	.958		2.22
1922	BRO	NL	34	OF	152	152	145		334	317	14	3	1	.991		2.18	.962		2.40
1923	BRO	NL	35	OF	87	84	71		153	135	4	14	1	.908		1.60	.964		2.44
1923	BRO	NL	35	LF	86	84	71		153	135	4	14	1	.908		1.62	.966		2.26
1923	BRO	NL	35	RF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.20
1924	BRO	NL	36	LF	139	139	129		313	289	13	11	4	.965		2.17	.964		2.26		MVP-3
1924	BRO	NL	36	OF	139	139	129		312	288	13	11	4	.965		2.17	.965		2.39		MVP-3
1925	BRO	NL	37	LF	149	149	141		340	320	7	13	2	.962		2.19	.967		2.26		MVP-15
1925	BRO	NL	37	OF	149	149	141		340	320	7	13	2	.962		2.19	.967		2.48		MVP-15
1926	BRO	NL	38	LF	102	101	93		221	202	9	10	3	.955		2.07	.961		2.21
1926	BRO	NL	38	OF	102	101	93		221	202	9	10	3	.955		2.07	.965		2.42
1927	PHA	AL	39	OF	62	59	55		115	105	8	2	1	.983		1.82	.964		2.35
1927	PHA	AL	39	LF	57	56	52		117	108	7	2	1	.983		2.02	.967		2.38
1927	PHA	AL	39	RF	3	3	3		3	2	1	0	0	1.000		1.00	.953		1.97
1927	PHA	AL	39	CF	2	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		0.50	.970		2.70
	19 Seasons			OF	2337	1221	1142		5411	4996	232	183	54	.966		2.24	.962		2.28	2433-6-4
	10 Seasons (incomplete)			LF	1222	1217	1138		2648	2457	104	87	24	.967		2.10	.964		2.25
	2 Seasons			RF	4	3	3		3	2	1	0	0	1.000		0.75	.953		2.03
	2 Seasons (incomplete)			CF	3	1	1		3	3	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.963		2.70
	19 Seasons			TOT	2337	1221	1142		5411	4996	232	183	54	.966		2.24	.962		2.28	2433-6-4
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	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.

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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.
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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
1909	BRO	NL	21	26		26		0	0	0	0	0	0	25	1	0	26	0
1910	BRO	NL	22	156		156		0	0	0	0	0	0	156	0	0	156	0
1911	BRO	NL	23	140		140		0	0	0	0	0	0	135	1	0	136	0
1912	BRO	NL	24	123		123		0	0	0	0	0	0	120	0	0	120	0
1913	BRO	NL	25	138		138		0	0	0	0	0	0	135	0	0	135	0
1914	BRO	NL	26	145		145		0	0	0	0	0	0	144	0	0	144	0
1915	BRO	NL	27	146		146		0	0	0	0	0	0	144	0	0	144	0
1916	BRO	NL	28	149		149		0	0	0	0	0	0	149	1	0	149	0
1917	BRO	NL	29	109		109		0	0	0	0	0	0	98	0	0	98	0
1918	BRO	NL	30	105		105		0	0	0	0	0	0	105	0	0	105	0
1919	BRO	NL	31	137	137	137	137	0	0	0	0	0	0	137	0	0	137	0	0	0
1920	BRO	NL	32	148	148	148	148	0	0	0	0	0	0	148	0	0	148	0	0	0
1921	BRO	NL	33	148	148	148	148	0	0	0	0	0	0	148	0	0	148	0	0	0
1922	BRO	NL	34	152	152	152	152	0	0	0	0	0	0	152	0	0	152	0	0	0
1923	BRO	NL	35	98	84	98	87	0	0	0	0	0	0	86	0	1	87	0	11	0
1924	BRO	NL	36	141	139	141	139	0	0	0	0	0	0	139	0	0	139	0	2	0
1925	BRO	NL	37	150	149	150	149	0	0	0	0	0	0	149	0	0	149	0	1	0
1926	BRO	NL	38	111	101	111	102	0	0	0	0	0	0	102	0	0	102	0	9	0
1927	PHA	AL	39	88	59	88	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	57	2	3	62	0	26	0
	19 Seasons			2410	1117	2410	1124	0	0	0	0	0	0	2329	5	4	2337	0	49	0
Lg				G	GS	Batting	Defense	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR

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

Hall of Fame 1937 BBWAA ( 2.5%) 1938 BBWAA ( 2.7%) 1939 BBWAA ( 1.5%) 1942 BBWAA ( 1.3%) 1945 BBWAA ( 0.8%) 1946 Nominating Vote ( 3.0%) 1947 BBWAA (23.0%) 1948 BBWAA (12.4%) 1949 BBWAA ( 9.8%) 1950 BBWAA (10.1%) 1951 BBWAA ( 8.4%) 1952 BBWAA (12.8%) 1953 BBWAA (12.1%) 1954 BBWAA (13.1%) 1955 BBWAA (20.3%) 1956 BBWAA (13.5%) 1959 Veterans (inducted) Selected to HOF in 1959 by Veteran's Committee	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1914 NL (9, 16%) 1924 NL (3, 50%) 1925 NL (15, 5%) 0.71 Career Shares (339th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 NL 104 (2nd) 1919 NL 137 (2nd) 1920 NL 148 (3rd) 1921 NL 148 (1st) 1922 NL 152 (2nd) 1924 NL 139 (1st) 1925 NL 149 (1st) 1926 NL 102 (3rd) Career 1,222 (34th)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 NL 216 (2nd) 1919 NL 300 (1st) 1920 NL 287 (3rd) 1921 NL 283 (4th) 1922 NL 317 (2nd) 1924 NL 289 (1st) 1925 NL 320 (1st) 1926 NL 202 (2nd) Career 2,457 (27th)
Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 NL 12 (4th) 1919 NL 9 (5th) 1921 NL 18 (4th) 1922 NL 14 (5th) 1924 NL 13 (2nd) 1925 NL 7 (5th) 1926 NL 9 (3rd) Career 104 (23rd)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 NL 5 (5th) 1919 NL 9 (2nd) 1920 NL 9 (3rd) 1921 NL 11 (2nd) 1923 NL 14 (3rd) 1924 NL 11 (3rd) 1925 NL 13 (1st) 1926 NL 10 (1st) Career 87 (9th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1910 NL 156 (1st) 1919 NL 137 (3rd) 1921 NL 148 (4th) 1922 NL 152 (4th) 1924 NL 139 (3rd) 1925 NL 149 (3rd) Career 2,337 (16th)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1910 NL 354 (3rd) 1913 NL 338 (2nd) 1914 NL 331 (1st) 1915 NL 345 (4th) 1916 NL 333 (2nd) 1919 NL 297 (5th) 1924 NL 288 (5th) Career 4,996 (18th)
Assists as OF s c a p y Career 232 (29th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1911 NL 14 (4th) 1915 NL 18 (2nd) 1925 NL 13 (2nd) Career 183 (44th)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 NL 2.19 (4th) 1919 NL 2.26 (1st) 1922 NL 2.18 (3rd) 1924 NL 2.17 (5th) 1925 NL 2.19 (4th) 1926 NL 2.07 (3rd) Career 2.10 (46th)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 NL .979 (2nd) 1919 NL .972 (3rd) 1920 NL .971 (4th) 1921 NL .965 (5th) 1922 NL .991 (1st) 1924 NL .965 (5th) 1925 NL .962 (4th) 1926 NL .955 (5th)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1913 NL 2.60 (2nd) 1914 NL 2.44 (4th) 1915 NL 2.52 (3rd)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1912 NL .968 (5th) 1913 NL .978 (4th) 1917 NL .979 (4th) 1918 NL .979 (4th) 1922 NL .991 (1st)	Oldest s c a p y 1924 NL born 1888-05-23 (10th) 1925 NL born 1888-05-23 (7th) 1926 NL born 1888-05-23 (6th) 1927 AL born 1888-05-23 (8th)

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