Baseball may be over, but check out our Football, Basketball, and Hockey Sites.
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > John Stone

John Stone
John Thomas Stone (Rocky)

Bats Left, Throws Right
Height 6' 1", Weight 178 lb.
School Maryville College

Debut August 31, 1928
Final Game June 17, 1938
Born October 10, 1905 in Mulberry, TN
Died November 30, 1955 in Shelbyville, TN

 About biographical information

BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this person (what's this?)
Oracle: Find all of this player's teammates.

Let people know you like this site. Sponsor this page for $10.

  

Batting  Glossary / Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1928 22 DET AL  26  113   20   40  10  3   2   21   1  0   5   8  .354  .387  .549  142   62   3           1    
 1929 23 DET AL  51  150   23   39  11  2   2   15   1  1  11  13  .260  .311  .400   82   60   2           0    
 1930 24 DET AL 127  425   60  132  29 11   3   56   6  9  32  49  .311  .360  .452  103  192   7           1    
 1931 25 DET AL 147  584   86  191  28 11  10   76  13 13  56  48  .327  .388  .464  120  271   5           2     MVP-16
 1932 26 DET AL 145  582  106  173  35 12  17  108   2  1  58  64  .297  .361  .486  114  283   3           0    
 1933 27 DET AL 148  574   86  161  33 11  11   80   1  4  54  37  .280  .344  .434  103  249   2           2    
 1934 28 WSH AL 113  419   77  132  28  7   7   67   1  2  52  26  .315  .395  .465  125  195   9           3    
 1935 29 WSH AL 125  455   78  143  27 18   1   78   4  5  39  29  .314  .372  .459  117  209   1           3    
 1936 30 WSH AL 123  437   95  149  22 11  15   90   8  0  60  26  .341  .421  .545  142  238   3           0    
 1937 31 WSH AL 139  542   84  179  33 15   6   88   6  4  66  36  .330  .403  .480  125  260   1           0    
 1938 32 WSH AL  56  213   24   52  12  4   3   28   2  1  30  16  .244  .337  .380   85   81   1           0    
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 11 Seasons         4494      1391    105      707     40     352  .310  .376  .467  116       37   0   0  12   0
               1200       739      268     77       45    463                            2100
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        607  100  188  36 14  10   95   6  5  63  48  .310  .376  .467  116  284   5   0   0   2   0
 Career High    148  584  106  191  35 18  17  108  13 13  66  64  .341  .421  .545  142  283   9   0   0   3   0
Special Batting  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1928 22 DET AL  122   76   24   8.4   109| .354  .290| .387  .355| .549  .412| .936  .767| 142  .741   6.5   0.6 100%
 1929 23 DET AL  163  114   18   4.2   112| .260  .292| .311  .358| .400  .421| .711  .780|  82  .427  -4.5  -0.4  50%
 1930 24 DET AL  465  309   66   5.7   117| .311  .298| .360  .362| .452  .438| .812  .800| 103  .535   1.1   0.1  40%
 1931 25 DET AL  647  411  102   6.6   110| .327  .290| .388  .358| .464  .415| .852  .772| 120  .634  16.8   1.6  50%
 1932 26 DET AL  643  413  102   6.6   114| .297  .290| .361  .361| .486  .426| .847  .788| 114  .625  10.2   1.0  66%
 1933 27 DET AL  632  419   84   5.4   108| .280  .283| .344  .355| .434  .408| .778  .763| 103  .557   1.2   0.1  20%
 1934 28 WSH AL  483  298   76   6.8   108| .315  .283| .395  .356| .465  .408| .860  .764| 125  .635  16.8   1.6  33%
 1935 29 WSH AL  498  318   76   6.4   109| .314  .284| .372  .356| .459  .410| .831  .766| 117  .608  10.0   0.9  44%
 1936 30 WSH AL  500  291  102   9.3   117| .341  .292| .421  .367| .545  .429| .966  .796| 142  .721  28.8   2.5 100%
 1937 31 WSH AL  609  368  104   7.5   113| .330  .285| .403  .359| .480  .424| .883  .784| 125  .655  22.1   2.0  60%
 1938 32 WSH AL  244  163   27   4.4   112| .244  .281| .337  .359| .380  .419| .717  .778|  85  .413  -4.5  -0.4  66%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 11 Seasons     5006 3180  781   6.6   112| .310  .288| .376  .359| .467  .419| .843  .778| 116  .614 104.3   9.6  52%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  LF   CF   RF
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1928 22 DET AL OF 26 49 2 2 0 .962 .973 1.96 2.22 26 0 0 1929 23 DET AL OF 36 68 4 1 0 .986 .966 2.00 2.28 35 0 2 1930 24 DET AL OF 109 223 5 8 1 .966 .965 2.09 2.16 93 11 6 1931 25 DET AL OF 147 319 11 14 6 .959 .969 2.24 2.25 143 5 0 1932 26 DET AL OF 142 334 11 14 2 .961 .967 2.43 2.28 90 53 0 1933 27 DET AL OF 141 280 11 9 1 .970 .970 2.06 2.21 18 0 124 1934 28 WSH AL OF 112 245 13 9 3 .966 .968 2.30 2.16 0 16 98 1935 29 WSH AL OF 114 224 12 11 4 .955 .970 2.07 2.30 19 7 90 1936 30 WSH AL OF 114 249 12 9 5 .967 .968 2.29 2.29 109 0 6 1937 31 WSH AL OF 137 300 15 5 3 .984 .969 2.30 2.28 37 7 95 1938 32 WSH AL OF 53 107 5 3 0 .974 .972 2.11 2.28 29 1 26
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1928 22 DET AL OF 26 49 2 2 0 .962 .973 1.96 2.22 26 0 0 1929 23 DET AL OF 36 68 4 1 0 .986 .966 2.00 2.28 35 0 2 1930 24 DET AL OF 109 223 5 8 1 .966 .965 2.09 2.16 93 11 6 1931 25 DET AL OF 147 319 11 14 6 .959 .969 2.24 2.25 143 5 0 1932 26 DET AL OF 142 334 11 14 2 .961 .967 2.43 2.28 90 53 0 1933 27 DET AL OF 141 280 11 9 1 .970 .970 2.06 2.21 18 0 124 1934 28 WSH AL OF 112 245 13 9 3 .966 .968 2.30 2.16 0 16 98 1935 29 WSH AL OF 114 224 12 11 4 .955 .970 2.07 2.30 19 7 90 1936 30 WSH AL OF 114 249 12 9 5 .967 .968 2.29 2.29 109 0 6 1937 31 WSH AL OF 137 300 15 5 3 .984 .969 2.30 2.28 37 7 95 1938 32 WSH AL OF 53 107 5 3 0 .974 .972 2.11 2.28 29 1 26
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+ Position Total OF 1131 2398 101 85 25 .967 .968 2.21 2.25 599 100 447 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+ Overall Total 1131 2398 101 85 25 .967 .968 2.21 2.25
An Important note about our fielding stats

Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

MVP (YrLg-Rk-Shr)
1931-AL-16-0.08
Car-949-0.08 shares

Batting Average
1931 AL-.327-10
1936 AL-.341-10

On-base %
1936 AL-.421-9

Slugging %
1936 AL-.545-8

OPS
1936 AL-.965-8

Hits
1931 AL-191-7

Total Bases
1932 AL-283-9

Triples
1931 AL-11-10
1932 AL-12-8
1935 AL-18-2
1936 AL-11-9
1937 AL-15-3

Home Runs
1932 AL-17-10

RBI
1932 AL-108-10

Strikeouts
1932 AL-64-7

Stolen Bases
1931 AL-13-10

Singles
1931 AL-142-1

Adjusted OPS+
1936 AL-142-7

Adjusted Batting Runs
1936 AL-29-9

Batting Wins
1936 AL-2.5-9

Extra-Base Hits
1932 AL-64-10
1933 AL-55-10

Offensive Win%
1936 AL-.721-8

Hit By Pitch
1934 AL-3-9

Caught Stealing
1931 AL-13-5

Power/Speed Number
1931 AL-11.3-6

     

Gray Ink: Batting - 29 (785) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 26.0 (377) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 30.0 (583) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.


Similar Batters  View in Pop-up

Compare Stats
  1. Carl Reynolds (958)
  2. Curt Walker (935)
  3. Irish Meusel (930)
  4. Bibb Falk (930)
  5. Bruce Campbell (925)
  6. Roy Johnson (921)
  7. Mike Greenwell (921)
  8. Tip O'Neill (914)
  9. Tommy Holmes (910)
  10. Ross Youngs (909) *
Most Similar by Age 

Click on C to compare their stats
Mouse over numbers to view names
  1. Gee Walker (980)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Dick Wakefield (970)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Austin McHenry (968)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Sam West (960)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Sam West (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Sam West (962)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Sam West (946)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Gee Walker (939)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Enos Slaughter (951) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

December 20, 1933: Traded by the Detroit Tigers to the Washington Senators for Goose Goslin.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
Uniforms 
View John Stone's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit

Other References 
Error?     Compare     Search Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: John Stone    

Viewed 20891 times through November 19, 2008.
Name and misspellings: james jon John jimmy jim jim jimmy John james jon Rocky Thomas Stone

Pages Updated through October 30,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > John Stone
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through October 30, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.