Steve Yerkes

Stephen Douglas Yerkes

Positions: Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: May 15, 1888 in Hatboro, PA
High School: Millville Senior HS (Millville, NJ)
School: University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1909
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Rebels/Cubs 1909-1916

Final Game: October 1, 1916
Died: January 31, 1971 in Lansdale, PA
Buried: Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham, PA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1909	BOS	AL	21	SS	2	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.50	.927	5.35
1911	BOS	AL	23	SS	116	614	232	337	45	37	.927	4.91	.926	5.57
1911	BOS	AL	23	2B	14	73	40	30	3	2	.959	5.00	.949	5.16
1911	BOS	AL	23	3B	11	41	16	21	4	0	.902	3.36	.929	3.32
1912	BOS	AL	24	2B	131	601	244	323	34	39	.943	4.33	.945	4.91
1913	BOS	AL	25	2B	129	586	220	341	25	31	.957	4.35	.954	4.98
1914	BOS	AL	26	2B	91	430	177	241	12	38	.972	4.59	.953	4.93
1914	PBS	FL	26	SS	39	234	89	139	6	13	.974	5.85	.929	5.24
1915	PBS	FL	27	2B	114	583	242	322	19	38	.967	4.95	.951	5.07
1915	PBS	FL	27	SS	8	32	13	14	5	4	.844	3.38	.929	5.22
1916	CHC	NL	28	2B	41	210	79	114	17	14	.919	4.71	.951	5.12
	6 Seasons			2B	520	2483	1002	1371	110	162	.956	4.56	.951	4.99
	4 Seasons			SS	165	883	335	492	56	54	.937	5.01	.927	5.47
	1 Season			3B	11	41	16	21	4	0	.902	3.36	.929	3.32
	7 Seasons			TOT	696	3407	1353	1884	170	216	.950	4.65	.944	5.08

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	Batting	2B	3B	SS
1909	BOS	AL	21	5	5	0	0	2
1911	BOS	AL	23	142	142	14	11	116
1912	BOS	AL	24	131	131	131	0	0
1913	BOS	AL	25	137	137	129	0	0
1914	BOS	AL	26	92	92	91	0	0
1914	PBS	FL	26	39	39	0	0	39
1915	PBS	FL	27	121	121	114	0	8
1916	CHC	NL	28	44	44	41	0	0
	7 Seasons			711	711	520	11	165

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 1945 BBWAA ( 0.4%)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1911 AL 52 (5th)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1912 AL 131 (3rd) 1913 AL 129 (4th) 1915 FL 114 (4th)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1912 AL 244 (4th) 1913 AL 220 (5th) 1915 FL 242 (4th)
Assists as 2B s c a p y 1912 AL 323 (4th) 1913 AL 341 (5th) 1915 FL 322 (3rd)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1912 AL 34 (3rd) 1913 AL 25 (5th)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1911 AL 45 (5th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1913 AL .957 (5th) 1914 AL .972 (1st) 1915 FL .967 (3rd)
Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1911 AL .927 (5th)	Youngest s c a p y 1909 AL born 1888-05-15 (9th)

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