Frank O'Rourke

Positions: Third Baseman, Shortstop and Second Baseman

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-10, 165lb (178cm, 74kg)

Born: November 28, 1891 in Hamilton, Canada ca

Died: May 14, 1986 in Chatham, NJ

Buried: Graceland Memorial Park, Kenilworth, NJ

Debut: June 11, 1912 (Age 20-196d, 3,701st in major league history)
vs. STL 4 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: July 28, 1931 (Age 39-242d)
vs. PHA 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1912 season

Full Name: James Francis O'Rourke

Nicknames: Blackie

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

-1.3

4069

1032

.254

547

RBI

429

100

OBP

.315

SLG

.334

OPS

.649

OPS+

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

1925 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1925 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 14	DET		CHW	W,4-3	CG	40	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
2	2	Apr 15	DET		CHW	L,6-9	CG	45	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
3	3	Apr 16	DET		CHW	L,2-4	CG	39	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
4	4	Apr 17	DET		CHW	W,9-3	CG	40	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
5	5	Apr 18	DET		CLE	L,3-5	CG	39	9.0	6	2	0	8	1
6	6	Apr 20	DET		CLE	L,4-5	CG	63	15.0	6	2	0	8	0
7	7	Apr 21	DET		CLE	W,4-3	CG	39	9.0	2	4	0	6	0
8	8	Apr 22	DET	@	CHW	L,1-3	CG	35	8.0	3	5	0	8	0
9	9	Apr 23	DET	@	CHW	L,0-1	CG	34	8.1	3	4	0	7	1
10	10	Apr 24	DET	@	CHW	L,3-4	CG	32	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
11	11	Apr 25	DET	@	CHW	L,2-4	CG	31	8.0	3	3	0	6	1
12	12	Apr 26	DET		SLB	L,4-6	CG	35	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
13	13	Apr 27	DET		SLB	L,8-10	CG	44	9.0	2	5	0	7	1
14	14	Apr 28	DET		SLB	L,3-5	CG	43	10.0	2	4	0	6	1
15	15	Apr 29	DET		SLB	W,11-5	CG	41	9.0	5	5	1	11	1
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
16	16	May 1	DET	@	CLE	L,7-8	CG	49	9.1	2	4	0	6	0
17	17	May 2	DET	@	CLE	L,7-8	CG	50	10.2	3	6	0	9	0
18	18	May 3	DET	@	CLE	T,6-6	GS	8	2.0	1	3	0	4	1
19	19	May 4	DET	@	SLB	L,4-5	GS	28	7.0	0	2	0	2	0
20	20	May 5	DET	@	SLB	W,14-8	CG	47	9.0	5	2	0	7	0
21	21	May 6	DET	@	SLB	W,11-4	CG	38	9.0	3	2	0	5	1
22	22	May 7	DET	@	SLB	L,5-6	CG	40	8.1	5	4	1	10	1
23	23	May 8	DET		BOS	L,7-15	CG	51	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
24	24	May 9	DET		BOS	W,5-4	CG	39	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
25	25	May 10	DET		BOS	W,13-5	CG	40	9.0	0	1	0	1	1
26	26	May 11	DET		BOS	L,4-7	CG	0	9.0	3	4	0	7	0
27	27	May 12	DET		PHA	L,3-4	CG	32	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
28	28	May 13	DET		PHA	L,1-3	CG	0	9.0	5	5	1	11	1
29	29	May 14	DET		PHA	L,2-4	CG	36	9.0	2	3	0	5	3
30	30	May 15	DET		PHA	L,7-8	CG	40	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
31	31	May 16	DET		NYY	L,3-12	CG	47	8.0	3	2	0	5	0
32	32	May 17	DET		NYY	W,3-2	CG	0	9.0	3	5	0	8	1
33	33	May 18	DET		NYY	L,7-9	GS	38	8.0	2	4	1	7	1
34	34	May 19	DET		NYY	W,11-5	CG	38	9.0	2	2	1	5	1
35	35	May 20	DET		WSH	W,7-3	CG	40	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
36	36	May 21	DET		WSH	L,2-6	CG	38	9.0	6	5	0	11	5
37	37	May 23	DET		WSH	W,15-2	CG	33	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
38	38	May 24	DET		WSH	W,5-2	CG	0	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
39	39	May 26	DET	@	CHW	W,8-1	CG	31	9.0	4	1	0	5	2
40	40	May 27	DET	@	CHW	L,6-10	CG	41	8.0	5	3	0	8	0
41	41	May 28	DET	@	CHW	W,7-5	GS	36	8.0	5	1	0	6	0
42	42	May 29	DET	@	CHW	W,13-9	GS	26	6.0	2	3	0	5	1
43	43	May 30 (1)	DET		CLE	W,12-7	CG	44	9.0	4	5	1	10	2
44	44	May 30 (2)	DET		CLE	W,10-2	CG	34	9.0	1	3	0	4	1
45	45	May 31	DET		CLE	L,4-6	CG	41	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
46	46	Jun 1	DET		CHW	W,8-6	CG	39	9.0	4	3	1	8	1
47	47	Jun 2	DET		CHW	W,16-15	GS	31	6.0	2	1	0	3	0
48	48	Jun 3	DET		CHW	L,7-12	CG	46	9.0	5	5	0	10	1
49	49	Jun 5	DET	@	PHA	L,6-8	CG	41	8.0	4	4	0	8	1
50	50	Jun 6	DET	@	PHA	W,6-4	CG	39	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
51	51	Jun 8	DET	@	PHA	W,7-6	CG	43	9.0	3	2	0	5	1
52	52	Jun 9	DET	@	PHA	L,3-4	CG	37	8.2	1	1	0	2	1
53	53	Jun 10	DET	@	WSH	L,7-11	CG	45	8.0	1	2	1	4	0
54	54	Jun 11	DET	@	WSH	W,7-4	CG	0	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
55	55	Jun 12	DET	@	WSH	L,2-7	CG	36	8.0	3	2	0	5	1
56	56	Jun 13	DET	@	WSH	L,3-11	CG	40	8.0	2	1	1	4	1
57	57	Jun 14	DET	@	NYY	L,3-8	CG	43	8.0	1	0	0	1	1
58	58	Jun 16	DET	@	NYY	W,5-3	CG	37	9.0	7	4	1	12	3
59	59	Jun 17	DET	@	NYY	W,19-1	GS	20	5.0	1	3	0	4	0
60	60	Jun 18	DET	@	NYY	W,6-3	CG	36	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
61	61	Jun 19	DET	@	BOS	W,6-3	CG	0	10.0	5	5	0	10	1
62	62	Jun 20	DET	@	BOS	W,11-9	CG	47	9.0	4	2	1	7	0
63	63	Jun 22	DET	@	BOS	W,8-4	CG	36	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
64	64	Jun 25	DET		SLB	W,3-2	CG	38	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
65	65	Jun 26	DET		SLB	W,4-3	GS	31	8.0	0	4	0	4	1
66	66	Jun 27	DET		SLB	W,5-4	GS	35	7.0	1	3	0	4	0
67	67	Jun 28	DET		SLB	L,2-8	GS	27	6.0	1	2	1	4	2
68	68	Jun 29 (1)	DET	@	CLE	W,4-1	CG	36	9.0	1	7	0	8	1
69	69	Jun 29 (2)	DET	@	CLE	W,7-4	CG	38	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
70	70	Jun 30	DET	@	CLE	L,3-6	CG	36	8.0	4	3	1	8	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
71	71	Jul 1 (1)	DET	@	CLE	L,0-11	CG	39	8.0	4	3	0	7	1
72	72	Jul 1 (2)	DET	@	CLE	W,4-1	CG	36	9.0	4	2	1	7	0
73	73	Jul 2	DET	@	CLE	L,3-11	CG	45	8.0	3	2	1	6	0
74	75 (1)	Jul 4 (1)	DET	@	SLB	W,7-1	CG	0	9.0	3	4	0	7	0
75	76	Jul 4 (2)	DET	@	SLB	L,10-12	GS	0		2	3	1	6	0
76	82 (5)	Jul 11	DET		PHA	W,4-3	CG	37	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
77	83	Jul 12	DET		PHA	L,1-8	CG	46	9.0	0	4	0	4	0
78	84	Jul 13	DET		PHA	L,1-4	CG	40	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
79	85	Jul 14	DET		PHA	L,4-12	CG	46	9.0	3	1	1	5	0
80	86	Jul 15	DET		WSH	W,5-2	CG	36	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
81	87	Jul 16	DET		WSH	L,1-2	CG	0	10.0	3	4	0	7	1
82	88	Jul 17	DET		WSH	W,6-3	CG	36	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
83	89	Jul 18	DET		NYY	W,7-3	CG	35	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
84	90	Jul 19	DET		NYY	W,18-12	CG	0	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
85	91	Jul 20	DET		NYY	W,9-5	CG	39	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
86	92	Jul 21	DET		NYY	L,4-5	CG	43	11.0	6	4	1	11	3
87	93	Jul 23	DET		CHW	L,4-8	CG	45	9.0	5	3	1	9	1
88	94	Jul 24	DET		CHW	W,6-4	CG	43	9.0	0	4	0	4	0
89	95	Jul 25	DET		CHW	L,2-6	GS	38	9.0	5	2	0	7	0
90	96	Jul 26	DET		CHW	L,6-8	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
91	97	Jul 28	DET	@	PHA	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	4	3	1	8	1
92	98	Jul 29	DET	@	PHA	L,2-10	CG	41	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
93	99	Jul 30	DET	@	PHA	L,0-9	GS	37	7.0	2	1	0	3	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
94	100	Aug 1	DET	@	WSH	L,5-9	CG	41	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
95	103 (2)	Aug 4	DET	@	WSH	L,2-5	CG	34	8.0	1	1	1	3	0
96	105 (1)	Aug 7	DET	@	NYY	W,3-1	CG	35	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
97	108 (2)	Aug 10	DET	@	BOS	W,8-7	GF	0		0	2	0	2	0
98	110 (1)	Aug 12	DET	@	BOS	L,2-7	CG	0	8.0	1	4	0	5	0
99	111	Aug 15	DET	@	CHW	L,5-12	CG	43	8.0	8	4	0	12	1
100	112	Aug 16	DET	@	CHW	W,11-9	CG	47	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
101	128 (15)	Sep 7 (1)	DET		SLB	W,7-6	GF	8	2.0	0	1	0	1	0
102	130 (1)	Sep 8	DET		SLB	W,11-1	CG	43	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
103	132 (1)	Sep 10 (2)	DET		CLE	L,2-7	GF	9	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
104	133	Sep 11	DET		CLE	W,5-4	CG	43	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
105	136 (2)	Sep 13	DET		CLE	L,6-8	CG	44	10.0	3	3	0	6	2
106	137	Sep 15	DET	@	WSH	L,3-5	CG	33	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
107	138	Sep 17 (1)	DET	@	WSH	W,12-9	CG	0	9.0	3	3	0	6	0
108	139	Sep 17 (2)	DET	@	WSH	L,0-1	CG	0	5.0	0	0	0	0	0
109	140	Sep 18 (1)	DET	@	PHA	L,2-4	CG	34	8.0	4	1	0	5	0
110	141	Sep 18 (2)	DET	@	PHA	L,3-7	CG	40	8.0	1	3	0	4	0
111	142	Sep 19	DET	@	PHA	W,9-5	CG	41	9.0	0	7	1	8	0
112	143	Sep 21	DET	@	PHA	L,7-10	GS	27	5.0	4	2	0	6	2
113	144	Sep 22 (1)	DET	@	BOS	W,11-8	GS	0		1	2	1	4	0
114	145	Sep 22 (2)	DET	@	BOS	W,7-2	CG	0	9.0	3	6	0	9	2
115	146	Sep 23	DET	@	BOS	W,15-1	GS	0		1	2	0	3	1
116	147	Sep 24	DET	@	BOS	L,0-5	CG	40	8.0	0	1	0	1	0
117	148	Sep 25	DET	@	BOS	W,10-5	GS	0		3	2	0	5	0
118	149	Sep 26	DET	@	NYY	L,1-3	CG	35	8.0	2	2	0	4	0
119	150	Sep 27 (1)	DET	@	NYY	W,10-5	CG	38	9.0	2	7	0	9	1
120	151	Sep 27 (2)	DET	@	NYY	T,1-1	CG	20	5.0	0	0	0	0	0
121	152	Sep 28 (1)	DET	@	NYY	W,6-2	CG	36	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
122	153	Sep 28 (2)	DET	@	NYY	L,6-7	CG	42	8.2	1	2	0	3	0
123	154	Oct 1	DET	@	SLB	L,3-4	CG	35	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
							124gm		1022.0	316	391	22	729	67