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Harry Wolverton

Harry Sterling Wolverton (Fighting Harry)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: December 6, 1873 in Mount Vernon, OH
School: Kenyon College (Gambier, OH) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 25, 1898
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Beaneaters/Orphans/Senators/Highlanders 1898-1912

Final Game: September 25, 1912
Died: February 4, 1937 in Oakland, CA
Buried: Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
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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
1898 CHC NL 24 3B 13 66 21 35 10 1 .848 4.31 .902 3.48
1899 CHC NL 25 3B 98 407 123 227 57 12 .860 3.57 .902 3.59
1899 CHC NL 25 SS 1 3 1 1 1 0 .667 2.00 .910 5.60
1900 TOT NL 26 3B 104 412 124 239 49 16 .881 3.49 .895 3.82
1900 CHC NL 26 3B 3 8 2 5 1 0 .875 2.33 .895 3.83
1900 PHI NL 26 3B 101 404 122 234 48 16 .881 3.52 .895 3.82
1901 PHI NL 27 3B 93 330 114 190 26 9 .921 3.27 .888 3.21
1902 TOT MLB 28 3B 93 394 130 230 34 19 .914 3.87 .912 3.54
1902 WSH AL 28 3B 59 249 86 139 24 8 .904 3.81 .912 3.57
1902 PHI NL 28 3B 34 145 44 91 10 11 .931 3.97 .913 3.50
1903 PHI NL 29 3B 123 456 182 247 27 8 .941 3.49 .913 3.44
1904 PHI NL 30 3B 102 361 143 191 27 15 .925 3.27 .899 3.24
1905 BSN NL 31 3B 122 423 139 256 28 12 .934 3.24 .921 3.20
1912 NYY AL 38 3B 8 28 13 10 5 1 .821 2.88 .920 3.38
9 Seasons 3B 756 2877 989 1625 263 93 .909 3.46 .905 3.43
1 Season SS 1 3 1 1 1 0 .667 2.00 .910 5.60
9 Seasons TOT 757 2880 990 1626 264 93 .908 3.46 .905 3.43
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
1898 CHC NL 24 13 13 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0
1899 CHC NL 25 99 99 0 0 0 0 98 1 0 0 0 0 0
1900 PHI NL 26 101 101 0 0 0 0 101 0 0 0 0 0 0
1900 CHC NL 26 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
1901 PHI NL 27 93 93 0 0 0 0 93 0 0 0 0 0 0
1902 WSH AL 28 59 59 0 0 0 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 0
1902 PHI NL 28 34 34 0 0 0 0 34 0 0 0 0 0 0
1903 PHI NL 29 123 123 0 0 0 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 0
1904 PHI NL 30 102 102 0 0 0 0 102 0 0 0 0 0 0
1905 BSN NL 31 122 122 0 0 0 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0
1912 NYY AL 38 34 34 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 783 783 0 0 0 0 756 1 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

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1900 NL  104 (5th)
1901 NL  93 (4th)
1903 NL  123 (4th)
1905 NL  122 (5th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1903 NL  182 (2nd)
Career  989 (89th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1903 NL  247 (3rd)
1905 NL  256 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1899 NL  57 (3rd)
1900 NL  49 (4th)
Career  263 (42nd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1899 NL  3.57 (5th)
1901 NL  3.27 (3rd)
1903 NL  3.49 (5th)
1904 NL  3.27 (4th)
1905 NL  3.24 (4th)
Career  3.46 (15th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1901 NL  .921 (1st)
1903 NL  .941 (1st)
1904 NL  .925 (1st)
1905 NL  .934 (2nd)

Oldest s c a p y
1912 AL  born 1873-12-06 (10th)

             

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