Bob Fothergill

Positions: Leftfielder and Pinch Hitter

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-10, 230lb (178cm, 104kg)

Born: August 16, 1897 in Massillon, OH us

Died: March 20, 1938 in Detroit, MI

Buried: Massillon Cemetery, Massillon, OH

Debut: April 18, 1922 (Age 24-245d, 5,429th in major league history)
vs. CHW 3 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: July 5, 1933 (Age 35-323d)
vs. PHA 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1922 season

Full Name: Robert Roy Fothergill

Nicknames: Fats

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

13.9

3269

1064

.326

452

RBI

582

OBP

.368

SLG

.459

OPS

.828

OPS+

115

Many detailed statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by Retrosheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1912 to 1968 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary of data completeness) for some players prior to 1969 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts.

Summary of 36 Home Runs

(For more accurate walk-off HR totals, see the Batting Event Finder)

0 leading off, 0 walk-off, 5 tying, 9 go ahead

2 Tms
DET	26
CHW	10

Platoon
vs RHP	20
vs LHP	16

Home/Road
Home	19
Away	17

Outs
0	16
1	10
2	10

8 Opps
PHA	10
SLB	8
BOS	5
CLE	4
NYY	4
CHW	3
WSH	1
DET	1

26 Pitchers
Lefty Grove	4
Eddie Rommel	3
Ted Lyons	2
Waite Hoyt	2
Tony Welzer	2
Jake Miller	2
Bump Hadley	2
Art Herring	1
Sam Gray	1
Milt Gaston	1
Fred Stiely	1
Ernie Wingard	1
Elam Vangilder	1
Wilcy Moore	1
Ed Walsh	1
Wally Hebert	1
Garland Buckeye	1
Lefty Gomez	1
Ted Wingfield	1
Herb Pennock	1
Fred Heimach	1
Clint Brown	1
Tom Zachary	1
George Earnshaw	1
Bob Weiland	1
Rube Walberg	1

7 Parks
Tiger Stad (DET)	17
ConnieMackSt (PHI)	5
ComiskeyPk 1 (CHI)	4
Yankee Stad (NYC)	4
Busch Stad 1 (STL)	3
Fenway Pk (BOS)	2
Braves Fld (BOS)	1

Where Hit
7	27
9	3
78	3
8	1

1 Inside the Park

General field locations
when available.

Game Totals
1·HR gms	34
2·HR gms	1

Gms w/ this # = 0
are not shown.

Bases
---	21
-2-	6
1--	6
123	1
12-	1
1-3	1

56 RBI
RISP	9
0 on	21
1 on	11
2 on	3
3 on	1
Any on	15

Inning
1	7
2	1
3	1
4	1
5	3
6	6
7	6
8	8
9	3

1-3	9
4-6	10
7-end	17

RelScore
+4..	5
+3	1
+2	2
+1	2
Tied	8
-1	4
-2	6
-4..	8

Ahead	10
Tied	8
Behind	18

Before event,
for batter

DefPos
LF	30
RF	4
CF	2

OrderPos
4th	17
5th	6
6th	5
2nd	4
3rd	4

Leverage
High Lev	3
Medium Lev	14
Low Lev	15

Play By Play

WE and WPA Explanation

Play By Play
1923	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	@Bat			Pitcher	Score	Inn	Out	RoB	RBI	BOP	Pos	WPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
1	1	1	1	1923-08-16	DET		PHA	Fred Heimach	ahead 2-0	b 7	0	---	1	5	7	0.055	94%		Home Run (Deep LF)
1925	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	@Bat			Pitcher	Score	Inn	Out	RoB	RBI	BOP	Pos	WPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
2	2	1	1	1925-06-08	DET	@	PHA	Lefty Grove	ahead 4-2	t 7	0	---	1	3	7	0.082	87%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF)
3	3	2	1	1925-09-10 (2)	DET		CLE	Garland Buckeye	behind 0-1	b 4	0	---	1	4	8	0.123	56%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF)
1926	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	@Bat			Pitcher	Score	Inn	Out	RoB	RBI	BOP	Pos	WPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
4	4	1	1	1926-06-01	DET	@	SLB	Elam Vangilder	tied 6-6	t 7	0	---	1	4	8	0.183	68%		Home Run (Deep LF)
5	5	2	1	1926-07-06	DET		SLB	Ernie Wingard	tied 0-0	b 1	2	---	1	3	7	0.099	61%		Home Run (Deep RF)
6	6	3	1	1926-09-26 (1)	DET		BOS	Tony Welzer	ahead 9-2	b 8	1	1--	2	3	7			Cycle
1927	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	@Bat			Pitcher	Score	Inn	Out	RoB	RBI	BOP	Pos	WPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
7	7	1	1	1927-04-20	DET		SLB	Tom Zachary	ahead 1-0	b 5	1	1-3	3	4	7	0.153	92%		Home Run (Line Drive to Deep LF); J. Tavener Scores; H. Manush Scores
8	8	2	1	1927-06-08	DET	@	BOS	Ted Wingfield	tied 1-1	t 6	0	---	1	4	7	0.155	65%		Home Run (Deep LF)
9	9	3	1	1927-06-09	DET	@	BOS	Tony Welzer	behind 2-0	t 8	0	---	1	4	7			IPHR
10	10	4	1	1927-06-29	DET		SLB	Milt Gaston	ahead 4-3	b 8	0	---	1	4	7	0.074	93%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF)
11	11	5	1	1927-07-16	DET		PHA	Eddie Rommel	behind 0-9	b 7	0	---	1	4	7	0.003	1%		Home Run (Deep LF)
12	12	6	1	1927-07-18	DET		PHA	Lefty Grove	behind 0-2	b 1	2	-2-	2	4	7	0.167	51%		Home Run (Deep RF); C. Gehringer Scores
13	13	7	1	1927-07-19	DET		PHA	Rube Walberg	tied 0-0	b 1	2	1--	2	4	7	0.174	70%		Home Run (Deep LF); H. Manush Scores
14	14	8	1	1927-07-26 (1)	DET	@	PHA	Lefty Grove	tied 0-0	t 1	2	1--	2	4	7	0.169	64%		Home Run (Deep LF); H. Manush Scores
15	15	9	1	1927-09-12	DET	@	PHA	Eddie Rommel	behind 1-3	t 7	0	---	1	6	7	0.121	32%		Home Run (Deep LF)
1928	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	@Bat			Pitcher	Score	Inn	Out	RoB	RBI	BOP	Pos	WPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
16	16	1	1	1928-05-20	DET		CHW	Ted Lyons	behind 0-1	b 9	1	---	1	5	7	0.464	59%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF)
17	17	2	1	1928-05-27	DET	@	CHW	Ted Lyons	behind 1-3	t 5	1	---	1	6	7	0.109	33%		Home Run (Deep LF)
18	18	3	1	1928-08-28	DET		CLE	Jake Miller	behind 2-3	b 3	1	12-	3	6	7
1929	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	@Bat			Pitcher	Score	Inn	Out	RoB	RBI	BOP	Pos	WPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
19	19	1	1	1929-05-14	DET		PHA	Eddie Rommel	behind 6-10	b 9	0	1--	2	4	9	0.058	10%		Home Run (Line Drive to Deep LF); C. Gehringer Scores
20	20	2	1	1929-06-14	DET	@	NYY	Waite Hoyt	behind 2-12	t 6	1	---	1	2	7	0.002	0%		Inside-the-park Home Run (Deep LF-CF)
21	21	3	2	1929-06-14	DET	@	NYY	Waite Hoyt	behind 3-15	t 8	2	---	1	2	7	0.000	0%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep RF)
22	22	4	1	1929-06-25	DET		CHW	Ed Walsh	tied 0-0	b 1	1	---	1	2	7	0.095	62%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF Line)
23	23	5	1	1929-06-29	DET		CLE	Jake Miller	behind 2-10	b 6	0	---	1	2	7	0.010	2%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF)
24	24	6	1	1929-07-07	DET		WSH	Bump Hadley	ahead 5-1	b 8	0	---	1	4	9	0.008	99%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF)
1930	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	@Bat			Pitcher	Score	Inn	Out	RoB	RBI	BOP	Pos	WPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
25	25	1	1	1930-05-10	DET	@	NYY	Lefty Gomez	behind 2-3	t 6	1	---	1	5	7	0.149	46%		Home Run (Deep LF)
26	26	2	1	1930-05-17	DET		SLB	Fred Stiely	ahead 8-5	b 8	1	123	4	5	7	0.019	100%		Home Run; L. Funk Scores; C. Gehringer Scores; M. McManus Scores/unER
1931	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	@Bat			Pitcher	Score	Inn	Out	RoB	RBI	BOP	Pos	WPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
27	27	1	1	1931-05-03	CHW		SLB	Sam Gray	behind 2-9	b 8	0	---	1	3	7	0.006	1%		Home Run (Deep LF)
28	28	2	1	1931-07-05 (2)	CHW	@	SLB	Wally Hebert	behind 1-3	t 5	2	-2-	2	5	9	0.204	44%		Home Run (Deep LF); C. Reynolds Scores
29	29	3	1	1931-07-28	CHW	@	NYY	Herb Pennock	behind 4-12	t 8	1	-2-	2	5	7	0.003	1%		Home Run; L. Fonseca Scores/unER
1932	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	@Bat			Pitcher	Score	Inn	Out	RoB	RBI	BOP	Pos	WPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
30	30	1	1	1932-04-24	CHW	@	DET	Art Herring	ahead 7-2	t 7	0	---	1	4	9	0.019	98%		Home Run (Deep LF)
31	31	2	1	1932-05-15	CHW	@	BOS	Wilcy Moore	ahead 6-0	t 2	2	1--	3	6	7
32	32	3	1	1932-06-14	CHW		BOS	Bob Weiland	behind 2-4	b 6	0	---	1	6	7	0.135	41%		Home Run (Line Drive to Deep LF)
33	33	4	1	1932-07-03	CHW	@	SLB	Bump Hadley	tied 0-0	t 1	2	-2-	2	4	7	0.155	63%		Home Run (Deep LF); J. Hayes Scores
34	34	5	1	1932-07-07 (1)	CHW	@	PHA	George Earnshaw	tied 0-0	t 1	2	-2-	2	4	7	0.157	64%		Home Run (Line Drive to Deep LF); B. Sullivan Scores
35	35	6	1	1932-07-09 (1)	CHW	@	PHA	Lefty Grove	ahead 4-0	t 6	0	-2-	2	4	7	0.041	96%		Home Run (Deep LF); B. Sullivan Scores
36	36	7	1	1932-07-24 (1)	CHW		CLE	Clint Brown	behind 2-9	b 9	2	1--	2	4	7	0.000	0%		Home Run (Deep LF); L. Appling Scores

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