Rick Ferrell

Position: Catcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-10, 160lb (178cm, 72kg)

Born: October 12, 1905 in Durham, NC us

Died: July 27, 1995 in Bloomfield Hills, MI

Buried: New Garden Cemetery, Greensboro, NC

High School: Guilford HS (Guilford, NC)

School: Guilford College (Greensboro, NC)

Debut: April 19, 1929 (Age 23-189d, 6,895th in major league history)
vs. CHW 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: September 14, 1947 (Age 41-337d)
vs. DET 4 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1984. (Voted by Veteran's Committee)
View Rick Ferrell's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1929 season

Full Name: Richard Benjamin Ferrell

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Relatives: Brother of Wes Ferrell

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

30.8

6028

1692

.281

687

RBI

734

OBP

.378

SLG

.363

OPS

.741

OPS+

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

1942 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1942 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	2 (1)	Apr 15	SLB	@	CHW	W,6-5	GF	9	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
2	3	Apr 16	SLB	@	CHW	W,13-3	CG	37	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
3	4	Apr 17	SLB		DET	W,7-6	CG	38	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
4	7 (2)	Apr 19 (2)	SLB		DET	L,0-1	CG	38	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
5	8	Apr 20	SLB	@	CLE	L,3-4	CG	36	8.0	1	0	1	2	0
6	9	Apr 21	SLB	@	CLE	L,2-4	CG	35	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
7	12 (2)	Apr 24	SLB		CLE	L,0-2	CG	36	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
8	13	Apr 25	SLB	@	DET	L,2-4	CG	35	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
9	14	Apr 26 (1)	SLB	@	DET	L,5-10	GF	17	3.0	1	0	0	1	0
10	15	Apr 26 (2)	SLB	@	DET	L,5-7	CG	0	8.0	4	0	0	4	0
11	18 (2)	Apr 30	SLB	@	NYY	L,0-3	GF	7	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
12	19	May 1	SLB	@	BOS	W,10-6	CG	40	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
13	21 (1)	May 3 (1)	SLB	@	WSH	L,8-9	GF	0		1	0	0	1	0
14	22	May 3 (2)	SLB	@	WSH	W,5-1	CG	36	9.0	5	1	0	6	1
15	25 (2)	May 9	SLB		CHW	L,1-2	GS	31	8.0	8	1	0	9	0
16	27 (1)	May 10 (2)	SLB		CHW	L,7-9	GS	0		3	0	1	4	0
17	28	May 12	SLB		PHA	L,4-5	GF	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
18	29	May 13	SLB		PHA	L,9-10	GF	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
19	30	May 14	SLB		BOS	W,6-3	CG	38	9.0	4	1	1	6	0
20	33 (2)	May 17 (2)	SLB		NYY	L,2-3	GS	29	7.0	4	1	0	5	0
21	34	May 20	SLB		WSH	W,10-1	CG	37	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
22	35	May 21	SLB		WSH	L,2-5	GF	11	3.0	1	0	0	1	0
23	36	May 23	SLB	@	CLE	W,2-1	CG	35	10.0	8	4	1	13	0
24	38 (1)	May 24 (2)	SLB	@	CLE	W,4-1	CG	36	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
25	39	May 25	SLB		DET	W,3-2	GS	0		2	0	0	2	0
26	40	May 26	SLB		DET	L,1-3	CG	37	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
27	41	May 27	SLB		DET	W,5-2	CG	38	9.0	6	1	0	7	0
28	42	May 28	SLB		CHW	W,6-4	GF	11	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
29	43	May 29	SLB		CHW	L,8-12	CG	45	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
30	45 (1)	May 30 (2)	SLB	@	CLE	W,2-0	CG	32	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
31	47 (1)	May 31 (2)	SLB		CLE	W,8-3	CG	37	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
32	48	Jun 2	SLB	@	WSH	L,1-4	GS	0	7.0	5	1	0	6	1
33	51 (2)	Jun 5	SLB	@	PHA	W,1-0	CG	62	16.0	12	1	0	13	0
34	53 (1)	Jun 7 (1)	SLB	@	PHA	W,5-2	CG	38	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
35	56 (2)	Jun 10	SLB	@	BOS	L,3-10	CG	45	8.0	5	1	0	6	0
36	60 (3)	Jun 14 (2)	SLB	@	NYY	L,4-5	CG	36	8.0	6	0	1	7	0
37	63 (2)	Jun 19	SLB		PHA	W,4-0	CG	31	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
38	66 (2)	Jun 21 (2)	SLB		PHA	L,3-4	GS	0		4	0	0	4	0
39	68 (1)	Jun 24	SLB		NYY	L,4-6	CG	42	9.0	6	2	0	8	0
40	70 (1)	Jun 27	SLB		WSH	W,8-3	CG	39	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
41	71	Jun 28 (1)	SLB		WSH	L,13-14	GF	0		1	0	0	1	0
42	72	Jun 28 (2)	SLB		WSH	L,6-7	CG	0	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
43	80 (7)	Jul 10	SLB	@	NYY	L,2-5	CG	34	8.0	6	0	0	6	0
44	81	Jul 11	SLB	@	NYY	W,5-2	CG	38	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
45	82	Jul 12 (1)	SLB	@	BOS	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	5	2	0	7	1
46	83	Jul 12 (2)	SLB	@	BOS	W,10-6	GF	0		3	0	0	3	0
47	84	Jul 14	SLB	@	BOS	W,3-2	CG	39	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
48	86 (1)	Jul 16	SLB	@	PHA	W,5-1	CG	33	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
49	87	Jul 17 (1)	SLB	@	PHA	W,4-2	GF	16	4.0	1	0	0	1	0
50	88	Jul 17 (2)	SLB	@	PHA	W,11-1	CG	34	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
51	89	Jul 18	SLB	@	WSH	L,0-3	CG	32	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
52	90	Jul 19 (1)	SLB	@	WSH	W,5-3	GF	0		1	0	0	1	0
53	91	Jul 19 (2)	SLB	@	WSH	W,6-3	CG	0	9.0	9	0	0	9	0
54	92	Jul 21	SLB		PHA	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
55	93	Jul 22	SLB		PHA	L,8-11	CG	46	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
56	94	Jul 23	SLB		PHA	W,9-6	GF	15	4.0	1	0	0	1	0
57	95	Jul 24 (1)	SLB		BOS	L,3-5	CG	0	9.0	6	2	0	8	1
58	96	Jul 24 (2)	SLB		BOS	W,3-1	CG	0	11.0	9	0	0	9	0
59	97	Jul 25	SLB		BOS	L,8-9	GF	21	4.0	2	1	0	3	1
60	98	Jul 26 (1)	SLB		BOS	W,9-2	CG	33	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
61	99	Jul 26 (2)	SLB		BOS	W,4-3	CG	37	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
62	100	Jul 28	SLB		WSH	L,4-9	CG	0	9.0	2	0	1	3	0
63	101	Jul 29	SLB		WSH	L,10-11	CG	48	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
64	102	Jul 30	SLB		WSH	L,6-11	GF	0		0	0	0	0	0
65	103	Jul 31 (1)	SLB		NYY	W,9-8	CG	48	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
66	104	Jul 31 (2)	SLB		NYY	L,0-8	CG	44	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
67	105	Aug 1	SLB		NYY	W,7-3	GF	6	2.0	1	1	0	2	0
68	106	Aug 2 (1)	SLB		NYY	L,2-4	CG	39	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
69	107	Aug 2 (2)	SLB		NYY	L,0-10	CG	48	9.0	8	0	0	8	0
70	108	Aug 5	SLB		CLE	L,5-8	CG	41	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
71	109	Aug 7	SLB		DET	W,3-2	CG	37	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
72	111 (1)	Aug 9 (1)	SLB		DET	L,3-9	GS	31	6.0	1	0	0	1	0
73	113 (1)	Aug 11	SLB		CHW	W,9-2	CG	35	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
74	115 (1)	Aug 13	SLB		CHW	W,8-3	CG	43	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
75	116	Aug 16 (1)	SLB	@	CLE	L,2-3	GF	19	4.2	0	1	0	1	0
76	117	Aug 16 (2)	SLB	@	CLE	W,6-1	CG	36	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
77	118	Aug 17	SLB	@	CLE	W,5-2	CG	34	9.0	6	2	0	8	0
78	120 (1)	Aug 20	SLB	@	CHW	L,5-8	GF	3	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
79	121	Aug 21	SLB	@	DET	L,1-4	GF	3	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
80	122	Aug 23 (1)	SLB	@	DET	W,2-1	CG	37	9.0	9	0	0	9	0
81	125 (2)	Aug 25 (2)	SLB	@	WSH	W,3-2	CG	49	11.0	8	0	0	8	0
82	126	Aug 28	SLB	@	PHA	W,5-4	GS	34	8.0	4	1	0	5	0
83	127	Aug 30 (1)	SLB	@	BOS	W,4-1	CG	37	9.0	4	2	0	6	1
84	129 (1)	Aug 31	SLB	@	BOS	L,6-8	CG	38	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
85	130	Sep 2 (1)	SLB	@	NYY	L,2-3	CG	41	9.2	4	0	0	4	0
86	133 (2)	Sep 4 (2)	SLB		CLE	W,4-0	CG	0	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
87	134	Sep 5 (1)	SLB		CLE	W,6-2	GF	7	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
88	135	Sep 5 (2)	SLB		CLE	W,4-3	CG	35	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
89	136	Sep 6 (1)	SLB		CLE	W,3-2	CG	41	9.0	3	3	0	6	0
90	138 (1)	Sep 7 (1)	SLB	@	DET	L,3-5	CG	0	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
91	140 (1)	Sep 8	SLB	@	DET	W,4-1	CG	35	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
92	141	Sep 9	SLB		NYY	L,3-8	CG	41	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
93	145 (3)	Sep 13 (1)	SLB		PHA	W,7-0	CG	33	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
94	147 (1)	Sep 14	SLB		PHA	W,5-4	GF	0		4	3	0	7	2
95	148	Sep 16	SLB		BOS	W,3-0	CG	0	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
96	150 (1)	Sep 20 (1)	SLB		CHW	L,5-6	CG	0	9.0	8	0	0	8	0
							95gm		721.0	356	57	6	419	7