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 > Lou Stringer

Lou Stringer
Louis Bernard Stringer

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 5' 11", Weight 173 lb.

Debut April 15, 1941
Final Game September 23, 1950
Born May 13, 1917 in Grand Rapids, MI

Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1937. (All Transactions)

 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 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1941 24 CHC NL 145  512   59  126  31  4   5   53   3     59  86  .246  .324  .352   94  180  10           0   5
 1942 25 CHC NL 121  406   45   96  10  5   9   41   3     31  55  .236  .292  .352   91  143  10           1   8
 1946 29 CHC NL  80  209   26   51   3  1   3   19   0     26  34  .244  .328  .311   83   65   8           0   5
 1948 31 BOS AL   4   11    1    1   0  0   1    1   0  0   0   3  .091  .091  .364   15    4   0           0   1
 1949 32 BOS AL  35   41   10   11   4  0   1    6   0  0   5  10  .268  .348  .439  102   18   0           0   1
 1950 33 BOS AL  24   17    7    5   1  0   0    2   1  0   0   4  .294  .294  .353   59    6   0           0   1
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 6 Seasons      409 1196  148  290  49 10  19  122   7  0 121 192  .242  .313  .348   90  416  28   0   0   1  21
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        474   59  115  19  4   8   48   3  0  48  76  .242  .313  .348   90  165  11   0   0   0   8
 Career High    145  512   59  126  31  5   9   53   3  0  59  86  .246  .328  .352   94  180  10   0   0   1   8
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% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1941 24 CHC NL  581  401   58   3.9    91| .246  .261| .324  .331| .352  .368| .676  .699|  94  .468  -3.2  -0.3     
 1942 25 CHC NL  448  328   42   3.4    84| .236  .251| .292  .322| .352  .349| .644  .672|  91  .455  -6.2  -0.7     
 1946 29 CHC NL  243  171   21   3.3    91| .244  .260| .328  .335| .311  .364| .639  .699|  83  .407  -4.4  -0.5     
 1948 31 BOS AL   11   11    0   0.0   110| .091  .279| .091  .365| .364  .403| .455  .768|  15  .000  -1.6  -0.2   0%
 1949 32 BOS AL   46   31    6   5.1   112| .268  .279| .348  .372| .439  .405| .787  .778| 102  .554   0.1   0.0   0%
 1950 33 BOS AL   17   13    2   4.1   122| .294  .290| .294  .379| .353  .435| .647  .814|  59  .412  -1.2  -0.1 100%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 6 Seasons      1346  955  129   3.6    90| .242  .259| .313  .331| .348  .363| .661  .695|  90  .449 -16.4  -1.8     

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary / Sort by Position, then Year
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1941 24 CHC NL 2B 137 356 455 34 84 .960 .962 5.92 5.25 SS 7 3 7 4 1 .714 .952 1.43 4.81 1942 25 CHC NL 2B 113 268 343 29 59 .955 .968 5.41 5.19 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00 1946 29 CHC NL 2B 62 135 150 13 17 .956 .970 4.60 5.09 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.80 SS 1 0 2 0 0 1.000 .952 2.00 4.70 1948 31 BOS AL 2B 2 5 13 1 5 .947 .978 9.00 5.40 1949 32 BOS AL 2B 9 25 20 1 12 .978 .974 5.00 5.13 1950 33 BOS AL 3B 3 3 4 2 1 .778 .959 2.33 3.03 2B 1 1 2 0 0 1.000 .968 3.00 5.40 SS 1 0 1 0 1 1.000 1.000 1.00 4.70
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1941 24 CHC NL 2B 137 356 455 34 84 .960 .962 5.92 5.25 1942 25 CHC NL 2B 113 268 343 29 59 .955 .968 5.41 5.19 1946 29 CHC NL 2B 62 135 150 13 17 .956 .970 4.60 5.09 1948 31 BOS AL 2B 2 5 13 1 5 .947 .978 9.00 5.40 1949 32 BOS AL 2B 9 25 20 1 12 .978 .974 5.00 5.13 1950 33 BOS AL 2B 1 1 2 0 0 1.000 .968 3.00 5.40 1942 25 CHC NL 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00 1946 29 CHC NL 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.80 1950 33 BOS AL 3B 3 3 4 2 1 .778 .959 2.33 3.03 1941 24 CHC NL SS 7 3 7 4 1 .714 .952 1.43 4.81 1946 29 CHC NL SS 1 0 2 0 0 1.000 .952 2.00 4.70 1950 33 BOS AL SS 1 0 1 0 1 1.000 1.000 1.00 4.70
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Position Total 2B 324 790 983 78 177 .958 .966 5.47 5.20 SS 9 3 10 4 2 .765 .956 1.44 4.79 3B 5 3 4 2 1 .778 .959 1.40 2.98 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Overall Total 338 796 997 84 180 .955 .966 5.30 5.15
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.

Doubles
1941 NL-31-8

Strikeouts
1941 NL-86-4

Gray Ink: Batting - 2 (2067) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 2.0 (3488) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
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. Milt Bolling (989)
  2. Greg Olson (986)
  3. Pete Daley (983)
  4. Steve Lombardozzi (980)
  5. Steve Dillard (980)
  6. Domingo Cedeno (978)
  7. Fran Healy (974)
  8. Ken Hubbs (974)
  9. Ollie Bejma (972)
  10. Enrique Wilson (971)
Most Similar by Age 

Click on C to compare their stats
Mouse over numbers to view names
  1. Wid Conroy (980)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Jerry Hairston (986)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Joe Ginsberg (981)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Pete Daley (984)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Greg Olson (984)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Mike Difelice (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

Before 1937 Season: Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent.

February 9, 1948: Selected off waivers by the New York Giants from the Chicago Cubs.

April 1, 1948: Purchased by the Chicago White Sox from the New York Giants.

September 19, 1948: Purchased by the Boston Red Sox from the Chicago White Sox.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
Uniforms 
View Lou Stringer'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: Lou Stringer    

Viewed 11932 times through December 2, 2008.
Name and misspellings: Louis Bernard lew loe Lou lu lue Stringer

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 > Lou Stringer
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.