Sammy White

Sammy Charles White

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: July 7, 1927 in Wenatchee, WA
High School: Lincoln HS (Seattle, WA)
School: University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1949. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 26, 1951
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Phillies/Braves 1951-1962

Final Game: August 23, 1962
Died: August 4, 1991 in Princeville, HI
Cremated
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All-Star

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	Awards
1951	BOS	AL	23	C	4	4	2	28.0	16	15	1	0	2	1.000			5.14	4.00	.982	5.01	5.00	0	1	3	0	0%	46%	0
1952	BOS	AL	24	C	110	103	94	905.0	532	464	59	9	7	.983			5.20	4.75	.985	5.44	5.44	4	14	21	26	55%	46%	3	MVP-27,RoY-3
1953	BOS	AL	25	C	131	121	110	1088.2	665	588	68	9	9	.986	-1	-1	5.42	5.01	.985	5.18	5.15	5	20	33	29	47%	51%	2	AS
1954	BOS	AL	26	C	133	124	114	1112.2	773	677	80	16	11	.979	-6	-6	6.12	5.69	.986	5.40	5.36	11	16	47	32	41%	48%	5
1955	BOS	AL	27	C	143	142	138	1255.2	754	671	71	12	8	.984	1	1	5.32	5.19	.988	5.58	5.54	5	28	39	35	47%	47%	3	MVP-24
1956	BOS	AL	28	C	114	112	98	973.0	617	547	60	10	13	.984	2	2	5.61	5.32	.988	5.91	5.86	6	21	25	27	52%	44%	1
1957	BOS	AL	29	C	111	105	76	888.0	546	489	49	8	13	.985	-1	-1	5.45	4.85	.991	5.92	5.94	7	18	23	21	48%	47%	3
1958	BOS	AL	30	C	102	91	79	805.2	494	450	38	6	8	.988	4	6	5.45	4.78	.990	6.01	5.95	5	13	19	25	57%	47%	2
1959	BOS	AL	31	C	119	111	92	940.1	619	557	56	6	8	.990	-1	-1	5.87	5.15	.989	6.08	6.04	7	29	30	24	44%	40%	3
1961	MLN	NL	33	C	20	18	15	162.2	115	107	5	3	0	.974	1	7	6.20	5.60	.985	6.39	6.32	0	2	3	2	40%	38%	0
1962	PHI	NL	34	C	40	31	21	257.0	197	173	19	5	4	.975	2	9	6.72	4.80	.987	6.72	6.66	2	12	17	11	39%	34%	3
	11 Seasons			C	1027	962	839	8416.2	5328	4738	506	84	83	.984	1	0	5.61	5.11	.988	5.71	5.69	52	174	260	232	47%	46%	25
	11 Seasons			TOT	1027	962	839	8416.2	5328	4738	506	84	83	.984	1	0	5.61	5.11	.988	5.71	5.69	52	174	260	232	47%	46%	25

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
1951	BOS	AL	23	C
1952	BOS	AL	24	C
1953	BOS	AL	25	C	-1	-1	-1
1954	BOS	AL	26	C	-6	-6	-6
1955	BOS	AL	27	C	1	1	1
1956	BOS	AL	28	C	2	2	2
1957	BOS	AL	29	C	-1	-1	-1
1958	BOS	AL	30	C	4	6	4
1959	BOS	AL	31	C	-1	-1	-1
1961	MLN	NL	33	C	1	7	1
1962	PHI	NL	34	C	2	9	2
	11 Seasons			C	1	0	1
	11 Seasons			TOT	1	0	1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1951	BOS	AL	23	4	4	4	4	4	0	0
1952	BOS	AL	24	115	103	115	111	111	6	2
1953	BOS	AL	25	136	121	136	131	131	8	0
1954	BOS	AL	26	137	124	137	133	133	5	2
1955	BOS	AL	27	143	142	143	143	143	0	0
1956	BOS	AL	28	114	112	114	114	114	0	0
1957	BOS	AL	29	111	105	111	111	111	0	0
1958	BOS	AL	30	102	91	102	102	102	0	0
1959	BOS	AL	31	119	111	119	119	119	1	0
1961	MLN	NL	33	21	18	21	20	20	1	0
1962	PHI	NL	34	41	31	41	40	40	2	1
	11 Seasons			1043	962	1043	1028	1028	23	5

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%
1951	BOS	AL	23	126	6.11	6.75	1	100%	0	0	16	1	0	2	13	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
1952	BOS	AL	24	3869	3.83	4.34	71	93%	0	3	463	46	5	21	390	56	11	1	1	7	9	1	6	2	2	7	0	0	0	10	90%
1953	BOS	AL	25	4699	3.65	4.14	94	95%	0	1	583	68	6	13	495	69	15	1	1	14	11	1	7	3	1	9	0	0	0	8	75%
1954	BOS	AL	26	4889	4.10	4.78	99	96%	0	2	681	72	11	16	582	79	21	0	3	12	16	2	2	12	0	11	0	4	4	14	86%
1955	BOS	AL	27	5432	3.76	4.26	96	94%	0	0	686	67	3	20	596	64	14	3	0	6	12	1	8	3	1	8	0	1	2	7	86%
1956	BOS	AL	28	4151	4.03	4.68	53	92%	0	1	535	36	2	9	488	54	9	2	1	6	9	1	2	6	1	12	1	2	5	6	83%
1957	BOS	AL	29	3671	3.80	4.35	56	96%	1	2	466	44	2	12	408	47	7	2	1	6	7	0	2	5	0	13	0	1	3	9	78%
1958	BOS	AL	30	3437	4.28	4.72	46	96%	0	0	452	33	1	16	402	38	7	1	0	3	6	1	0	5	0	8	0	1	1	8	88%
1959	BOS	AL	31	4049	4.03	4.54	78	97%	1	1	551	57	3	13	478	54	15	2	2	9	6	0	3	3	1	8	0	2	3	7	71%
1961	MLN	NL	33	657	3.54	3.60	10	100%	0	0	108	8	0	0	100	4	2	0	0	1	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	100%
1962	PHI	NL	34	1135	4.52	5.04	8	75%	2	0	175	5	1	8	161	19	0	0	0	3	5	0	3	2	0	5	0	0	1	0
	11 Seasons			36115	3.94	4.47	612	95%	4	10	4716	437	34	130	4113	485	101	12	9	67	84	8	33	43	6	82	1	11	19	71	83%
	MLB Averages				3.95	4.46		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
1951	BOS	AL	23	0	1	54	3	0	0	0%	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0.40
1952	BOS	AL	24	4	14	1490	21	26	26	55%	20	23	1	3	0	0	3	0	55	33	1.13	1.04
1953	BOS	AL	25	5	20	1852	33	29	28	47%	29	23	4	4	0	2	2	0	81	42	1.31	1.34
1954	BOS	AL	26	11	16	1943	47	32	32	41%	42	27	4	5	1	0	5	0	107	38	1.33	1.12
1955	BOS	AL	27	4	28	2102	39	35	33	47%	36	23	3	10	0	2	4	1	91	40	1.09	1.13
1956	BOS	AL	28	6	21	1647	24	26	25	52%	22	23	2	2	0	1	1	0	77	31	1.51	1.13
1957	BOS	AL	29	7	18	1403	22	21	21	49%	21	18	1	2	0	1	3	0	72	27	1.36	1.30
1958	BOS	AL	30	5	13	1324	19	25	24	57%	16	23	2	1	1	1	2	0	46	34	1.19	1.37
1959	BOS	AL	31	7	29	1630	30	24	21	44%	29	17	1	5	0	2	3	0	94	29	0.93	1.25
1961	MLN	NL	33	0	2	197	3	2	0	40%	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	11	3	1.29	3.88
1962	PHI	NL	34	2	12	443	17	11	10	39%	15	10	2	0	0	1	3	0	45	16	1.07	0.79
	11 Seasons			51	174	14085	258	231	220	47%	236	188	20	32	2	11	26	1	683	294	1.21	1.20
	MLB Averages									42%											1.18	1.16

* 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

All-Star Games 1953	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1952 AL (27, 1%) 1955 AL (24, 0%) 0.01 Career Shares (1497th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1952 AL 110 (5th) 1953 AL 131 (2nd) 1954 AL 133 (3rd) 1955 AL 143 (2nd) 1956 AL 114 (4th) 1957 AL 111 (3rd) 1958 AL 102 (4th) 1959 AL 119 (3rd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1953 AL 588 (1st) 1954 AL 677 (2nd) 1955 AL 671 (2nd) 1956 AL 547 (4th) 1957 AL 489 (4th) 1959 AL 557 (4th)
Assists as C s c a p y 1952 AL 59 (4th) 1953 AL 68 (1st) 1954 AL 80 (1st) 1955 AL 71 (1st) 1956 AL 60 (1st) 1957 AL 49 (5th) 1959 AL 56 (3rd)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1952 AL 9 (2nd) 1953 AL 9 (3rd) 1954 AL 16 (1st) 1955 AL 12 (2nd) 1956 AL 10 (2nd) 1957 AL 8 (2nd) 1958 AL 6 (4th) 1959 AL 6 (3rd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1954 AL 11 (1st) 1956 AL 6 (4th) 1957 AL 7 (4th) 1959 AL 7 (4th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1953 AL 33 (1st) 1954 AL 47 (1st) 1955 AL 39 (1st) 1956 AL 25 (3rd) 1957 AL 23 (4th)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1952 AL 26 (3rd) 1953 AL 29 (3rd) 1954 AL 32 (3rd) 1955 AL 35 (1st) 1956 AL 27 (1st) 1957 AL 21 (5th) 1958 AL 25 (4th) 1959 AL 24 (4th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1952 AL 55.3 (1st) 1955 AL 47.3 (4th) 1956 AL 51.9 (5th) 1957 AL 47.7 (5th) 1958 AL 56.8 (1st) 1959 AL 44.4 (5th) Career 47.2 (49th)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1956 AL 2 (5th) 1958 AL 4 (2nd)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1953 AL 5.42 (1st) 1954 AL 6.12 (1st) 1955 AL 5.32 (5th) 1959 AL 5.87 (5th)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1953 AL 5.01 (1st) 1954 AL 5.69 (1st) 1955 AL 5.19 (4th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1953 AL .986 (5th) 1958 AL .988 (5th) 1959 AL .990 (3rd)

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