Babe Young

Norman Robert Young

Positions: First Baseman and Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: July 1, 1915 in Astoria, NY
High School: George Washington HS (New York, NY)
School: Fordham University (New York, NY) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 26, 1936
Teams (by GP): Giants/Reds/Cardinals 1936-1948

Final Game: October 2, 1948
Died: December 25, 1983 in Everett, MA
Buried: Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Windsor, CT
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	Awards
1939	NYG	NL	23	1B	22	21	20	227	214	9	4	18	.982	10.14	.989	10.24
1940	NYG	NL	24	1B	147	146	146	1604	1505	86	13	112	.992	10.82	.990	10.47	MVP-26
1941	NYG	NL	25	1B	150	148	147	1503	1395	87	21	124	.986	9.88	.989	10.16	MVP-21
1942	NYG	NL	26	CF	54	54	31	108	102	3	3	2	.972	1.94	.978	2.62
1942	NYG	NL	26	OF	54	54	31	108	101	4	3	2	.972	1.94	.981	2.34
1942	NYG	NL	26	1B	18	16	16	174	159	12	3	11	.983	9.50	.989	10.18
1946	NYG	NL	30	1B	49	47	46	482	452	24	6	25	.988	9.71	.991	9.98
1946	NYG	NL	30	OF	24	24	14	41	40	0	1	0	.976	1.67	.977	2.38
1946	NYG	NL	30	CF	17	17	11	30	30	0	0	0	1.000	1.76	.979	2.85
1946	NYG	NL	30	RF	7	7	3	11	10	0	1	0	.909	1.43	.976	2.09
1947	CIN	NL	31	1B	93	93	90	794	730	56	8	66	.990	8.45	.991	9.62
1948	TOT	NL	32	1B	66	62	58	559	527	29	3	54	.995	8.42	.990	9.61
1948	CIN	NL	32	1B	31	31	31	284	261	21	2	31	.993	9.10	.990	9.61
1948	CIN	NL	32	OF	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.00	.980	2.40
1948	CIN	NL	32	RF	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.00	.975	2.00
1948	STL	NL	32	1B	35	31	27	275	266	8	1	23	.996	7.83	.990	9.61
	7 Seasons			1B	545	533	523	5343	4982	303	58	410	.989	9.70	.990	10.07
	3 Seasons			OF	79	78	45	151	143	4	4	2	.974	1.86	.980	2.35
	2 Seasons			CF	71	71	42	138	132	3	3	2	.978	1.90	.978	2.67
	2 Seasons			RF	8	7	3	13	12	0	1	0	.923	1.50	.976	2.08
	8 Seasons			TOT	624	611	568	5494	5125	307	62	412	.989	8.71	.990	9.10

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos
1939	NYG	NL	23	1B
1940	NYG	NL	24	1B
1941	NYG	NL	25	1B
1942	NYG	NL	26	CF
1942	NYG	NL	26	1B
1946	NYG	NL	30	1B
1946	NYG	NL	30	CF
1946	NYG	NL	30	RF
1947	CIN	NL	31	1B
1948	CIN	NL	32	1B
1948	CIN	NL	32	RF
1948	STL	NL	32	1B
	7 Seasons			1B
	2 Seasons			CF
	2 Seasons			RF
	8 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1936	NYG	NL	20	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1939	NYG	NL	23	22	21	22	22	22	0	0	0	0	0
1940	NYG	NL	24	149	146	149	147	147	0	0	0	2	0
1941	NYG	NL	25	152	148	152	150	150	0	0	0	2	0
1942	NYG	NL	26	101	70	101	72	18	54	0	54	29	0
1946	NYG	NL	30	104	71	104	72	48	17	7	24	32	0
1947	CIN	NL	31	95	93	95	93	93	0	0	0	2	0
1947	NYG	NL	31	14	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	14	0
1948	CIN	NL	32	49	31	49	32	31	0	1	1	16	1
1948	STL	NL	32	41	31	41	35	35	0	0	0	6	0
	8 Seasons			728	611	728	623	544	71	8	79	104	1

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 -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1948	CIN	NL	32	801	70%	82%	27%	40	95%	0	183	5	176	2	16	18	13	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	24	1	0	0	20	1	4	0	4	10	100%
1948	STL	NL	32	349	67%	81%	27%	11	100%	0	68	4	63	1	4	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			1150	69%	81%	27%	51	96%	0	251	9	239	3	20	21	15	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	30	1	0	0	25	1	4	0	4	10	100%
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		94%																											90%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1940 NL (26, 2%) 1941 NL (21, 3%) 0.05 Career Shares (1113th)	Putouts† s c a p y 1940 NL 1,505 (3rd) 1941 NL 1,395 (3rd)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1940 NL 147 (3rd) 1941 NL 150 (3rd)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1940 NL 1,505 (3rd) 1941 NL 1,395 (3rd)
Assists as 1B s c a p y 1940 NL 86 (5th) 1941 NL 87 (5th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1940 NL 13 (3rd) 1941 NL 21 (2nd) 1947 NL 8 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1940 NL 10.82 (3rd) Career 9.70 (89th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1940 NL .992 (5th)
Youngest s c a p y 1936 NL born 1915-07-01 (7th)

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