Tom York

Thomas Jefferson York

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: July 13, 1850 in Brooklyn, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: May 9, 1871
Teams (by GP): Grays/DarkBlues/Canaries/Orioles/Blues/... 1871-1885

Final Game: October 1, 1885
Died: February 17, 1936 in New York, NY
Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G
1871	TRO	NA	20	OF	29	76	60	5	11	2	.855	2.24	.832	1.98	0-29-0
1872	BAL	NA	21	OF	51	166	145	7	14	2	.916	2.98	.820	1.94	51-0-1
1873	BAL	NA	22	OF	57	219	181	10	28	1	.872	3.35	.803	2.00	56-1-0
1874	PHI	NA	23	OF	50	194	161	6	27	0	.861	3.34	.802	2.02	49-1-0
1875	HAR	NA	24	OF	86	227	190	7	30	1	.868	2.29	.818	1.88	86-0-0
1876	HAR	NL	25	OF	67	179	153	8	18	1	.899	2.40	.847	2.11	66-1-0
1877	HAR	NL	26	OF	56	156	130	5	21	1	.865	2.41	.831	1.88	56-0-0
1878	PRO	NL	27	OF	62	118	89	14	15	3	.873	1.66	.834	1.77	62-0-0
1879	PRO	NL	28	OF	81	137	114	9	14	2	.898	1.52	.838	1.89	81-0-0
1880	PRO	NL	29	OF	53	106	94	5	7	1	.934	1.87	.855	1.85	50-1-2
1881	PRO	NL	30	OF	85	205	159	17	29	1	.859	2.07	.871	2.06	85-0-0
1882	PRO	NL	31	OF	81	194	159	11	24	3	.876	2.10	.855	1.93	81-0-0
1883	CLV	NL	32	OF	100	221	176	15	30	3	.864	1.91	.849	1.96	100-0-0
1884	BAL	AA	33	OF	83	127	100	7	20	1	.843	1.29	.847	1.64	68-0-15
1885	BAL	AA	34	OF	22	48	41	4	3	1	.938	2.05	.879	1.87	2-1-19
	15 Seasons			OF	963	2373	1952	130	291	23	.877	2.16	.836	1.92	893-34-37
	15 Seasons			TOT	963	2373	1952	130	291	23	.877	2.16	.836	1.92	893-34-37

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	LF	CF	RF	OF
1871	TRO	NA	20	29	29	0	29	0	29
1872	BAL	NA	21	51	51	51	0	1	51
1873	BAL	NA	22	57	57	56	1	0	57
1874	PHI	NA	23	50	50	49	1	0	50
1875	HAR	NA	24	86	86	86	0	0	86
1876	HAR	NL	25	67	67	66	1	0	67
1877	HAR	NL	26	56	56	56	0	0	56
1878	PRO	NL	27	62	62	62	0	0	62
1879	PRO	NL	28	81	81	81	0	0	81
1880	PRO	NL	29	53	53	50	1	2	53
1881	PRO	NL	30	85	85	85	0	0	85
1882	PRO	NL	31	81	81	81	0	0	81
1883	CLV	NL	32	100	100	100	0	0	100
1884	BAL	AA	33	83	83	68	0	15	83
1885	BAL	AA	34	22	22	2	1	19	22
	15 Seasons			963	963	893	34	37	963

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 OF s c a p y 1871 NA 29 (5th) 1872 NA 51 (4th) 1873 NA 57 (2nd) 1875 NA 86 (1st) 1876 NL 67 (3rd) 1878 NL 62 (2nd) 1879 NL 81 (3rd) 1881 NL 85 (1st) 1883 NL 100 (1st)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1872 NA 145 (3rd) 1873 NA 181 (2nd) 1874 NA 161 (3rd) 1875 NA 190 (2nd) 1877 NL 130 (2nd) 1881 NL 159 (5th) 1882 NL 159 (5th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1871 NA 5 (3rd) 1872 NA 7 (2nd) 1873 NA 10 (3rd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1871 NA 11 (4th) 1875 NA 30 (4th) 1881 NL 29 (2nd) Career 291 (10th)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1872 NA 2.98 (1st) 1873 NA 3.35 (2nd) 1874 NA 3.34 (2nd) 1875 NA 2.29 (5th) 1877 NL 2.41 (2nd)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1872 NA .916 (3rd) 1873 NA .872 (1st) 1876 NL .899 (5th) 1877 NL .865 (5th) 1878 NL .873 (4th) 1879 NL .898 (4th) 1880 NL .934 (1st)	Oldest s c a p y 1882 NL born 1850-07-13 (9th) 1883 NL born 1850-07-13 (9th) 1884 AA born 1850-07-13 (4th) 1885 AA born 1850-07-13 (3rd)

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