Joe Ginsberg

Position: Catcher

Bats: Left • Throws: Right

5-11, 180lb (180cm, 81kg)

Born: October 11, 1926 in New York, NY us

Died: November 2, 2012 in West Bloomfield, MI

Buried: Montrose Township Cemetery, Montrose, MI

High School: Cooley HS (Detroit, MI)

Debut: September 15, 1948 (Age 21-340d, 10,548th in major league history)
vs. WSH 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: April 15, 1962 (Age 35-186d)
vs. PIT 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1950 season

Full Name: Myron Nathan Ginsberg

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

0.0

1716

414

.241

168

RBI

182

OBP

.332

SLG

.320

OPS

.652

OPS+

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1952 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1952 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	6 (5)	Apr 20 (1)	DET	@	CLE	L,2-3	CG	31	8.1	5	1	0	6	0	C
2	9 (2)	Apr 26	DET		CLE	W,13-0	CG	29	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
3	10	Apr 27	DET		CLE	W,1-0	CG	38	9.0	10	0	0	10	0	C
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
4	12 (1)	May 1	DET	@	NYY	W,5-4	CG	39	9.0	5	0	1	6	0	C
5	14 (1)	May 3	DET	@	NYY	W,6-3	CG	39	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
6	16 (1)	May 4 (2)	DET	@	PHA	L,5-6	CG	42	8.1	5	0	0	5	0	C
7	17	May 6	DET	@	WSH	L,2-5	CG	36	8.0	3	1	0	4	0	C
8	18	May 7	DET	@	WSH	L,2-6	CG	39	8.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
9	19	May 8	DET	@	WSH	T,4-4	GS	39	8.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
10	20	May 9	DET		CHW	L,5-8	GF	18	3.0	1	0	0	1	0	PH C
11	21	May 10	DET		CHW	L,3-6	CG	43	9.0	1	1	0	2	0	C
12	23 (1)	May 11 (2)	DET		CHW	W,2-1	CG	35	9.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
13	24	May 13	DET		WSH	L,3-4	CG	36	9.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
14	25	May 14	DET		WSH	W,3-2	CG	36	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
15	26	May 15	DET		WSH	W,1-0	CG	31	9.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
16	27	May 16	DET		NYY	L,2-3	CG	0	9.0	5	3	0	8	0
17	29 (1)	May 19	DET		BOS	L,2-3	GF	7	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	PH C
18	30	May 21	DET		PHA	W,5-1	CG	35	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
19	31	May 23	DET	@	CHW	W,9-2	CG	37	9.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
20	32	May 25 (1)	DET	@	CHW	L,0-3	CG	33	8.0	5	2	0	7	0	C
21	33	May 25 (2)	DET	@	CHW	L,0-1	CG	33	8.0	3	1	1	5	0	C
22	34	May 27	DET	@	CLE	W,6-4	GS	27	6.0	4	0	1	5	0	C
23	35	May 28	DET		CLE	W,6-2	CG	31	9.0	8	0	0	8	0	C
24	36	May 29	DET		CLE	L,4-11	CG	44	9.0	9	0	0	9	0	C
25	37	May 30 (1)	DET	@	SLB	L,2-3	CG	35	8.1	4	0	0	4	0	C
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
26	40 (2)	Jun 1 (2)	DET	@	WSH	W,6-3	CG	35	9.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
27	41	Jun 2	DET	@	WSH	L,2-5	CG	34	8.0	6	2	0	8	0	C
28	44 (2)	Jun 5	DET	@	PHA	W,12-2	CG	35	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
29	45	Jun 6	DET	@	BOS	W,4-2	CG	38	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
30	46	Jun 7	DET	@	BOS	L,9-11	CG	42	8.0	1	0	0	1	0	C
31	47	Jun 8 (1)	DET	@	BOS	L,2-5	CG	36	8.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
32	48	Jun 8 (2)	DET	@	BOS	L,2-5	CG	37	8.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
33	49	Jun 9	DET	@	BOS	L,8-9	CG	42	8.0	5	1	0	6	0	C
34	50	Jun 10	DET	@	NYY	L,0-4	CG	34	8.0	7	1	0	8	0	C
35	51	Jun 11	DET	@	NYY	L,2-7	CG	36	8.0	2	1	0	3	0	C
36	52	Jun 12	DET	@	NYY	L,0-3	CG	33	8.0	7	1	0	8	0	C
37	53	Jun 14	DET		WSH	W,7-6	GF	11	3.0	0	0	0	0	0	PH C
38	54	Jun 15 (1)	DET		WSH	W,6-3	CG	36	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
39	55	Jun 15 (2)	DET		WSH	L,2-4	CG	39	9.0	8	0	0	8	0	C
40	56	Jun 17	DET		NYY	W,7-6	GS	32	7.0	6	0	0	6	0
41	57	Jun 18	DET		NYY	L,6-10	CG	44	9.0	6	1	0	7	0	C
42	58	Jun 19	DET		NYY	L,0-8	CG	0	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
43	59	Jun 20	DET		PHA	L,1-3	GF	0	4.0	2	0	0	2	0
44	61 (1)	Jun 22 (2)	DET		PHA	L,0-10	CG	51	9.0	5	0	1	6	0
45	62	Jun 23	DET		BOS	L,6-12	GF	3	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	PH C
46	64 (1)	Jun 25	DET		BOS	L,3-10	GS	34	8.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
47	65	Jun 26	DET	@	SLB	W,6-0	GF	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
48	68 (2)	Jun 29	DET	@	SLB	L,2-3	GF	9	1.2	1	0	0	1	0	C
49	69	Jun 30	DET		CHW	L,2-7	GF	14	3.0	3	0	0	3	0	PH C
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
50	70	Jul 1	DET		CHW	W,6-4	GF	29	7.1	3	0	0	3	0	C
51	72 (1)	Jul 4 (1)	DET		CLE	L,0-11	GF	16	4.0	2	0	0	2	0	PH C
52	73	Jul 4 (2)	DET		CLE	L,1-10	GF	9	2.0	2	0	0	2	0	PH C
53	75 (1)	Jul 6	DET		SLB	W,8-6	CG	38	9.0	3	0	1	4	0	C
54	76	Jul 11 (1)	DET	@	BOS	L,6-16	CG	47	8.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
55	79 (2)	Jul 13 (1)	DET	@	NYY	L,1-11	CG	43	8.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
56	81 (1)	Jul 14	DET	@	NYY	W,8-2	CG	44	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
57	82	Jul 15 (1)	DET	@	WSH	L,2-8	CG	40	8.0	3	1	2	6	1	C
58	83	Jul 15 (2)	DET	@	WSH	L,8-9	GF	7	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	C
59	84	Jul 16	DET	@	WSH	W,9-0	CG	30	9.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
60	85	Jul 17	DET	@	WSH	L,0-1	CG	29	8.1	3	0	0	3	0	C
61	86	Jul 18	DET	@	PHA	W,2-1	GF	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
62	87	Jul 19	DET	@	PHA	L,4-5	CG	35	8.2	7	0	0	7	0	C
63	88	Jul 20 (1)	DET	@	PHA	L,7-8	GF	16	3.1	2	0	0	2	0	PH C
64	89	Jul 20 (2)	DET	@	PHA	T,3-3	CG	36	9.0	8	1	0	9	0	C
65	90	Jul 22	DET		WSH	W,1-0	CG	29	9.0	11	0	0	11	0	C
66	91	Jul 23	DET		WSH	L,2-5	CG	61	16.0	10	0	0	10	0	C
67	94 (2)	Jul 26	DET		NYY	W,10-6	CG	47	11.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
68	95	Jul 27 (1)	DET		NYY	W,8-3	CG	38	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
69	99 (3)	Jul 29 (2)	DET		PHA	W,10-8	GS	32	5.0	1	0	0	1	0
70	100	Jul 30	DET		PHA	L,3-4	CG	39	9.0	6	3	0	9	1	C
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
71	104 (3)	Aug 2	DET		BOS	L,5-10	CG	42	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
72	106 (1)	Aug 5	DET	@	SLB	L,1-5	GF	0	2.0	1	1	0	2	0
73	107	Aug 6	DET	@	SLB	L,0-1	CG	0	11.2	12	2	0	14	1
74	110 (2)	Aug 8 (2)	DET	@	CHW	L,1-2	CG	30	8.0	7	1	0	8	1	C
75	111	Aug 9	DET	@	CHW	W,6-1	GS	21	6.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
76	113 (1)	Aug 10 (2)	DET	@	CHW	L,4-5	CG	33	8.0	5	1	0	6	1	C
77	114	Aug 13	DET		CHW	L,1-7	CG	45	9.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
78	118 (3)	Aug 17 (2)	DET		SLB	W,4-2	CG	0	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
79	119	Aug 19 (1)	DET	@	PHA	L,3-4	CG	40	8.2	5	0	0	5	0	C
80	121 (1)	Aug 20	DET	@	PHA	L,3-4	CG	39	8.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
81	122	Aug 22	DET	@	WSH	W,2-0	CG	34	9.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
82	123	Aug 23	DET	@	WSH	W,6-3	CG	41	9.0	4	1	0	5	1	C
83	126 (2)	Aug 26	DET	@	BOS	L,3-11	CG	40	8.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
84	128 (1)	Aug 28 (1)	DET		CLE	L,3-9	CG	41	9.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
85	130 (1)	Aug 29	DET		CLE	L,2-4	GF	17	4.0	2	0	0	2	0
86	131	Aug 30	DET	@	SLB	L,1-2	CG	32	8.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
87	134 (2)	Sep 2 (2)	DET	@	CHW	L,4-7	CG	41	8.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
88	135	Sep 3	DET	@	CLE	W,11-8	CG	41	9.0	7	1	0	8	1	C
89	136	Sep 4	DET	@	CLE	L,0-2	CG	31	8.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
90	137	Sep 6	DET		CHW	L,3-4	GF	19	4.0	0	0	0	0	0	C
91	138	Sep 7	DET		CHW	W,4-2	CG	38	9.0	10	1	0	11	0	C
92	139	Sep 9	DET		BOS	W,4-3	CG	43	11.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
93	141 (1)	Sep 11	DET		BOS	W,5-4	GF	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	C
94	142	Sep 12	DET		PHA	L,6-7	CG	41	9.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
95	143	Sep 13	DET		PHA	L,5-11	CG	45	9.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
96	145 (1)	Sep 15	DET		WSH	W,5-4	CG	44	9.0	8	0	0	8	0	C
97	148 (2)	Sep 19	DET	@	CLE	L,1-4	CG	33	8.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
98	149	Sep 20	DET	@	CLE	L,3-11	CG	41	8.0	4	0	1	5	0	C
99	150	Sep 21	DET	@	CLE	L,1-7	CG	38	8.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
100	153 (2)	Sep 24	DET		SLB	L,4-7	GS	0	8.0	1	0	0	1	0
101	155 (1)	Sep 27	DET		CLE	L,6-11	CG	45	9.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
							101gm		766.2	442	41	8	491	7