Rollie Hemsley

Position: Catcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-10, 170lb (178cm, 77kg)

Born: June 24, 1907 in Syracuse, OH us

Died: July 31, 1972 in Washington, DC

Buried: George Washington Cemetery, Adelphi, MD

Debut: April 19, 1928 (Age 20-300d, 6,722nd in major league history)
vs. STL 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: April 17, 1947 (Age 39-297d)
vs. NYG 3 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1928 season

Full Name: Ralston Burdett Hemsley

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

3.7

5047

1321

.262

562

RBI

555

OBP

.311

SLG

.360

OPS

.671

OPS+

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

1929 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1929 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	2 (1)	Apr 17	PIT	@	CHC	L,2-13	GF	13	2.0	2	2	0	4	1
2	3	Apr 18	PIT	@	CHC	L,1-11	CG	45	8.0	5	2	1	8	0
3	5 (1)	Apr 22	PIT	@	CIN	L,4-9	CG	42	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
4	7 (1)	Apr 26	PIT		CHC	L,6-9	CG	46	9.0	6	1	0	7	0
5	8	Apr 27	PIT		CHC	L,7-8	GF	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
6	9	Apr 28	PIT	@	STL	W,6-2	CG	36	9.0	5	2	0	7	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
7	11 (1)	May 1	PIT	@	STL	T,4-4	GS	50	12.0	8	2	1	11	0
8	12	May 4	PIT	@	BSN	L,3-5	CG	36	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
9	14 (1)	May 6	PIT	@	BSN	W,4-3	GF	6	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
10	17 (2)	May 9	PIT	@	NYG	W,4-3	GF	12	3.0	0	1	0	1	0
11	18	May 10	PIT	@	PHI	W,13-9		11	2.0	2	1	0	3	0
12	19	May 11	PIT	@	PHI	L,6-11	GF	5	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
13	22 (2)	May 16	PIT		STL	L,9-10		23	5.0	3	0	0	3	0
14	25 (2)	May 19	PIT	@	CHC	W,4-1	GF	12	3.1	2	0	0	2	0
15	26	May 20	PIT	@	CHC	L,1-6	CG	35	8.0	1	0	0	1	0
16	27	May 21	PIT	@	CHC	L,6-8	CG	39	8.0	3	1	1	5	0
17	28	May 22	PIT		CIN	W,11-2	CG	37	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
18	30 (1)	May 25	PIT		CIN	W,6-4	GF	4	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
19	31	May 26 (1)	PIT	@	STL	W,12-8	GF	19	4.0	2	0	0	2	0
20	36 (4)	May 30 (1)	PIT		CHC	L,1-5	CG	41	9.0	6	1	1	8	1
21	38 (1)	May 31	PIT		PHI	L,7-10	GF	14	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
22	44 (5)	Jun 8	PIT		BRO	W,9-2	GF	7	1.2	0	0	0	0	0
23	45	Jun 9	PIT	@	BRO	L,6-9	CG	41	8.0	2	2	1	5	0
24	46	Jun 10	PIT		BRO	L,6-7	CG	40	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
25	47	Jun 11	PIT		BRO	W,3-2	CG	38	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
26	48	Jun 12	PIT		NYG	W,7-6	GF	10	3.0	0	0	0	0	0
27	49	Jun 13	PIT		NYG	W,11-7	CG	42	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
28	50	Jun 14	PIT		NYG	L,2-7	CG	39	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
29	51	Jun 15	PIT		NYG	L,15-20	CG	75	14.0	7	0	0	7	0
30	52	Jun 16 (1)	PIT	@	CIN	W,8-3	CG	37	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
31	53	Jun 16 (2)	PIT	@	CIN	L,1-8	GS	28	5.0	1	0	3	4	0
32	54	Jun 17	PIT	@	CIN	W,2-1	CG	36	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
33	59 (4)	Jun 23	PIT	@	CHC	W,8-7	GF	20	4.1	2	0	0	2	0
34	61 (1)	Jun 26	PIT		CIN	L,4-6	GF	7	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
35	62	Jun 27	PIT		CIN	W,5-3	GF	13	3.0	1	0	0	1	0
36	65 (2)	Jun 29 (2)	PIT		CIN	L,2-3	GF	6	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
37	72 (6)	Jul 7	PIT	@	BRO	W,17-6	GF	6	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
38	74 (1)	Jul 9	PIT	@	BRO	W,3-1	GF	19	5.0	0	0	0	0	0
39	81 (6)	Jul 17 (1)	PIT	@	BSN	L,4-7	GF	10	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
40	82	Jul 17 (2)	PIT	@	BSN	W,13-5	GF	9	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
41	85 (2)	Jul 20 (2)	PIT	@	NYG	L,4-8	GF	19	5.0	5	0	0	5	0
42	87 (1)	Jul 22	PIT		BRO	W,13-3	GF	10	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
43	93 (5)	Jul 29	PIT		BSN	L,9-10	GF	7	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
44	94	Jul 30	PIT		PHI	L,5-13	GF	29	6.0	3	2	0	5	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
45	96 (1)	Aug 1	PIT		PHI	W,3-1	CG	36	9.0	8	0	0	8	0
46	97	Aug 2	PIT		PHI	L,0-2	CG	37	9.0	7	1	0	8	1
47	98	Aug 5	PIT		NYG	L,10-11	CG	45	9.0	9	1	0	10	0
48	99	Aug 6	PIT		NYG	L,3-5	GS	21	4.2	3	0	0	3	0
49	100	Aug 7	PIT		NYG	W,4-3	CG	32	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
50	101	Aug 8	PIT		STL	W,5-1	CG	33	9.0	3	0	1	4	0
51	102	Aug 9	PIT		STL	W,7-6	CG	39	9.0	6	3	0	9	0
52	103	Aug 10 (1)	PIT	@	BRO	W,6-4	CG	38	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
53	105 (1)	Aug 11	PIT	@	BRO	L,3-5	CG	33	8.0	4	0	0	4	0
54	106	Aug 12	PIT	@	BRO	L,2-4	GS	34	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
55	112 (5)	Aug 19 (2)	PIT	@	PHI	L,5-8	CG	41	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
56	115 (2)	Aug 22	PIT	@	NYG	W,6-2	CG	34	9.0	4	0	1	5	0
57	116	Aug 24 (1)	PIT	@	NYG	L,8-14	CG	47	8.0	5	0	1	6	1
58	118 (1)	Aug 25	PIT	@	NYG	L,5-10	CG	37	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
59	119	Aug 27	PIT	@	PHI	L,4-7	CG	39	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
60	121 (1)	Aug 28 (2)	PIT		CHC	W,7-6	CG	39	9.0	8	0	0	8	0
61	122	Aug 29	PIT		CHC	W,5-4	CG	39	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
62	123	Aug 30	PIT		CHC	W,15-0	CG	31	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
63	125 (1)	Sep 1	PIT	@	CIN	W,9-7	CG	56	12.0	5	0	0	5	0
64	126	Sep 2 (1)	PIT		CIN	L,5-7	CG	41	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
65	128 (1)	Sep 4	PIT	@	CIN	L,4-5	CG	33	8.0	0	2	0	2	0
66	129	Sep 5	PIT	@	CIN	W,10-5	CG	38	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
67	131 (1)	Sep 6 (2)	PIT		BRO	W,8-1	CG	38	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
68	132	Sep 7	PIT		BRO	W,6-2	CG	39	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
69	134 (1)	Sep 9	PIT		BRO	W,9-7	CG	42	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
70	135	Sep 10	PIT		BRO	W,7-6	CG	39	9.0	6	1	0	7	0
71	137 (1)	Sep 11 (2)	PIT		NYG	L,5-10	GS	30	6.0	3	0	0	3	0
72	138	Sep 12	PIT		NYG	L,5-8	CG	39	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
73	139	Sep 16 (1)	PIT		PHI	W,3-2	CG	36	10.0	3	1	0	4	0
74	141 (1)	Sep 17	PIT		PHI	W,11-7	GF	11	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
75	142	Sep 18 (1)	PIT		BSN	L,4-5	CG	37	9.0	3	2	3	8	1
76	145 (2)	Sep 20	PIT		BSN	W,10-3	CG	35	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
77	146	Sep 21	PIT		BSN	W,4-0	CG	31	9.0	7	1	0	8	1
78	147	Sep 26	PIT	@	STL	L,1-2	CG	34	8.2	3	0	0	3	0
79	148	Sep 27	PIT	@	STL	L,2-4	CG	33	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
80	151 (2)	Sep 29 (2)	PIT	@	STL	L,2-10	CG	41	8.0	6	0	0	6	0
81	152	Oct 5 (1)	PIT		STL	L,1-3	CG	41	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
							80gm		555.0	240	48	14	302	7