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Burgess Whitehead

Burgess Urquhart Whitehead (Whitey)

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: June 29, 1910 in Tarboro, NC
School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 30, 1933
Teams (by GP): Giants/Cardinals/Pirates 1933-1946

Final Game: September 29, 1946
Died: November 25, 1993 in Windsor, NC
Buried: St. Thomas Church Cemetery, Windsor, NC
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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
1933 STL NL 23 SS 9 0 0 6 3 3 0 1 1.000 0.67 .948 5.40
1933 STL NL 23 2B 3 0 0 5 1 4 0 0 1.000 1.67 .968 5.80
1934 STL NL 24 2B 48 37 35 237 88 140 9 27 .962 4.75 .965 5.88
1934 STL NL 24 SS 29 8 8 77 40 33 4 5 .948 2.52 .951 5.34
1934 STL NL 24 3B 28 26 22 80 30 47 3 6 .963 2.75 .945 2.96
1935 STL NL 25 2B 80 63 63 398 172 218 8 43 .980 4.88 .963 5.76 AS
1935 STL NL 25 3B 8 7 5 20 7 12 1 2 .950 2.38 .941 2.86 AS
1935 STL NL 25 SS 6 3 3 20 9 10 1 2 .950 3.17 .947 5.27 AS
1936 NYG NL 26 2B 153 153 145 1026 442 552 32 107 .969 6.50 .963 5.94 MVP-11
1937 NYG NL 27 2B 152 152 145 932 394 514 24 106 .974 5.97 .959 5.70 AS
1939 NYG NL 29 2B 91 89 79 569 232 320 17 60 .970 6.07 .968 5.69
1939 NYG NL 29 SS 4 3 3 22 7 15 0 2 1.000 5.50 .953 5.50
1939 NYG NL 29 3B 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 2.00 .940 3.00
1940 NYG NL 30 3B 74 74 74 209 68 130 11 5 .947 2.68 .948 3.01
1940 NYG NL 30 2B 57 57 54 369 164 200 5 45 .986 6.39 .964 5.61
1940 NYG NL 30 SS 4 2 2 12 6 6 0 0 1.000 3.00 .950 5.50
1941 NYG NL 31 2B 104 100 98 591 288 285 18 60 .970 5.51 .962 5.60
1941 NYG NL 31 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.30
1946 PIT NL 36 2B 30 24 21 135 66 64 5 14 .963 4.33 .970 5.55
1946 PIT NL 36 3B 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0.25 .950 3.08
1946 PIT NL 36 SS 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 5.20
9 Seasons 2B 718 675 640 4262 1847 2297 118 462 .972 5.77 .963 5.74
6 Seasons 3B 116 107 101 312 106 191 15 14 .952 2.56 .947 2.99
6 Seasons SS 53 16 16 138 65 68 5 10 .964 2.51 .951 5.36
9 Seasons TOT 887 798 757 4712 2018 2556 138 486 .971 5.16 .962 5.36
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
1933 STL NL 23 12 0 12 12 0 0 0 3 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1934 STL NL 24 100 71 100 99 0 0 0 47 28 30 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1935 STL NL 25 107 73 107 91 0 0 0 79 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 12 4
1936 NYG NL 26 154 153 154 153 0 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1937 NYG NL 27 152 152 152 152 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1939 NYG NL 29 95 92 95 95 0 0 0 91 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1940 NYG NL 30 133 133 133 133 0 0 0 57 74 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1941 NYG NL 31 116 100 116 105 0 0 0 103 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
1946 PIT NL 36 55 24 55 35 0 0 0 30 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 12 8
9 Seasons 924 798 924 875 0 0 0 715 118 55 0 0 0 0 0 25 24
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
1956 BBWAA ( 0.5%)

All-Star Games
1935 *
1937 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1936 NL (11, 8%)
0.08 Career Shares (972nd)

Assists† s c a p y
1936 NL  552 (3rd)
1937 NL  514 (2nd)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1936 NL  153 (1st)
1937 NL  152 (1st)
1939 NL  91 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1936 NL  442 (2nd)
1937 NL  394 (1st)
1939 NL  232 (5th)
1941 NL  288 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1936 NL  552 (2nd)
1937 NL  514 (2nd)
1939 NL  320 (4th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1936 NL  32 (1st)
1939 NL  17 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1936 NL  6.50 (1st)
1937 NL  5.97 (2nd)
1939 NL  6.07 (1st)
1941 NL  5.51 (5th)
Career  5.77 (23rd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1935 NL  .980 (2nd)
1936 NL  .969 (4th)
1937 NL  .974 (1st)
1939 NL  .970 (3rd)
1941 NL  .970 (3rd)

                           

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