John Whitehead

Position: Pitcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-2, 195lb (188cm, 88kg)

Born: April 27, 1909 in Coleman, TX us

Died: October 20, 1964 in Bonham, TX

Buried: Carson Cemetery, Ector, TX

Debut: April 19, 1935 (Age 25-357d, 7,851st in major league history)
vs. DET 9.0 IP, 6 H, 2 SO, 4 BB, 2 ER, W

Last Game: May 13, 1942 (Age 33-016d)
vs. PHA 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 SO, 0 BB, 0 ER

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1935 season

Full Name: John Henderson Whitehead

Nicknames: Silent John

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

10.7

ERA

4.60

172

119

944.0

254

WHIP

1.532

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 70 Home Runs Allowed

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

0 leading off, 0 walk-off, 9 tying, 14 go ahead

2 Tms
CHW	57
SLB	12

Platoon
vs RHB	40
vs LHB	29

Home/Road
Home	38
Away	31

Outs
2	26
0	22
1	21

7 Opps
DET	16
NYY	14
PHA	14
CLE	8
BOS	8
SLB	6
WSH	3

36 Batters
Bob Johnson	8
Hank Greenberg	5
Bill Dickey	4
Jimmie Foxx	3
Lou Gehrig	3
Bruce Campbell	3
Goose Goslin	3
Moose Solters	3
Red Rolfe	2
Ed Coleman	2
Billy Werber	2
Joe Cronin	2
Lou Finney	2
Buddy Lewis	2
Billy Rogell	2
Hal Trosky	2
Gee Walker	2
Jake Powell	1
Jim Tabor	1
Schoolboy Rowe	1
Ben Chapman	1
Pinky Higgins	1
Charlie Gehringer	1
Beau Bell	1
Joe DiMaggio	1
Tony Lazzeri	1
Rudy York	1
Chet Laabs	1
Babe Dahlgren	1
Tommy Henrich	1
Joe Gordon	1
Odell Hale	1
Taffy Wright	1
Eric Tipton	1
Joe Vosmik	1
Dick Siebert	1

7 Parks
ComiskeyPk 1 (CHI)	32
Yankee Stad (NYC)	8
Busch Stad 1 (STL)	8
ConnieMackSt (PHI)	7
Tiger Stad (DET)	7
League Pk II (CLE)	5
Fenway Pk (BOS)	2

Where Hit
7	31
9	21
89	4
8	3
78	2

General field locations
when available.

Game Totals
1·HR gms	44
2·HR gms	11
3·HR gms	1

Gms w/ this # = 0
are not shown.

Bases
---	30
1--	22
-2-	8
12-	5
-23	2
123	1
1-3	1

118 Runs
RISP	17
0 on	30
1 on	30
2 on	8
3 on	1
Any on	39

Inning
1	6
2	9
3	4
4	9
5	9
6	11
7	5
8	6
9	9
Extra	1

1-3	19
4-6	29
7-end	21

RelScore
+4..	9
+3	6
+2	6
+1	8
Tied	8
-1	8
-2	7
-3	4
-4..	13

Ahead	29
Tied	8
Behind	32

Before event,
for batter

DefPos
1B	16
LF	14
3B	9
RF	8
C	5
PH	4
2B	4
CF	4
SS	4
P	1

OrderPos
5th	16
3rd	15
4th	14
6th	7
2nd	5
7th	4
1st	3
8th	3
9th	2

Leverage
High Lev	13
Medium Lev	22
Low Lev	30

Play By Play

WE and WPA Explanation

Play By Play
1935	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	Batter	@Bat			Score	Inn	Out	RoB	R	BOP	Pos	bWPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
1	1	1	1	1935-04-19	Charlie Gehringer	DET		CHW	behind 0-1	b 1	1	1--	2	3	4	17%	62%		Home Run (Deep RF); M. Cochrane Scores
2	2	2	1	1935-04-24	Billy Rogell	DET	@	CHW	behind 0-1	t 2	0	1--	2	6	6	15%	60%		Home Run (Deep RF); H. Greenberg Scores
3	3	3	1	1935-05-11	Babe Dahlgren	BOS	@	CHW	behind 1-7	t 5	2	1--	2	8	3	5%	9%		Home Run (Deep LF); M. Solters Scores/unER; B. Dahlgren Scores/unER
4	4	4	1	1935-05-26	Bob Johnson	PHA		CHW	behind 1-2	b 6	0	---	1	3	7	17%	58%		Home Run (Deep LF)
5	5	5	1	1935-05-30 (1)	Joe Vosmik	CLE	@	CHW	behind 2-6	t 5	2	-2-	2	2	7	11%	21%		Home Run (Deep RF); B. Knickerbocker Scores
6	6	6	1	1935-06-05	Ed Coleman	SLB		CHW	ahead 1-0	b 4	0	---	1	4	9	10%	77%		Home Run (Deep RF)
7	7	7	1	1935-06-09	Hank Greenberg	DET	@	CHW	ahead 2-0	t 5	2	1--	2	4	3	15%	86%		Home Run (Deep LF); C. Gehringer Scores
8	8	8	1	1935-06-20 (1)	Jimmie Foxx	PHA	@	CHW	tied 3-3	t 10	1	1--	2	4	3	41%	90%		Home Run (Deep LF); B. Johnson Scores
9	9	9	1	1935-06-28	Odell Hale	CLE		CHW	ahead 5-4	b 8	0	---	1	6	5	7%	93%		Home Run (Deep LF)
10	10	10	1	1935-07-22	Pinky Higgins	PHA		CHW	behind 0-2	b 2	0	1--	2	5	5	16%	55%		Home Run (Deep LF); J. Foxx Scores
11	11	11	2	1935-07-22	Bob Johnson	PHA		CHW	behind 2-7	b 6	1	---	1	3	7	4%	9%		Home Run (Deep LF)
12	12	12	1	1935-07-28 (2)	Moose Solters	SLB		CHW	behind 2-3	b 9	0	---	1	3	7
13	13	13	1	1935-08-03	Moose Solters	SLB	@	CHW	behind 0-4	t 4	2	---	1	3	7	6%	16%		Home Run (Deep RF)
14	14	14	1	1935-08-13	Billy Werber	BOS	@	CHW	tied 0-0	t 2	1	---	1	6	5	10%	57%		Home Run (Deep LF)
15	15	15	1	1935-08-19 (1)	Bob Johnson	PHA	@	CHW	behind 0-7	t 6	2	---	1	3	7	1%	2%		Home Run (Deep LF)
16	16	16	1	1935-08-28 (2)	Lou Gehrig	NYY	@	CHW	tied 1-1	t 3	2	1--	2	4	3	20%	66%		Home Run (Deep RF); B. Chapman Scores
17	17	17	1	1935-09-02 (1)	Schoolboy Rowe	DET		CHW	ahead 2-0	b 4	2	1--	2	9	1	13%	89%		Home Run (Deep LF); B. Rogell Scores
1936	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	Batter	@Bat			Score	Inn	Out	RoB	R	BOP	Pos	bWPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
18	18	1	1	1936-04-14	Beau Bell	SLB	@	CHW	tied 1-1	t 4	0	---	1	3	7	10%	60%		Home Run (Deep RF)
19	19	2	2	1936-04-14	Ed Coleman	SLB	@	CHW	ahead 2-1	t 4	1	---	1	5	9	10%	68%		Home Run (Deep LF)
20	20	3	1	1936-05-26 (1)	Goose Goslin	DET		CHW	ahead 4-2	b 3	0	---	1	4	7	7%	82%		Home Run (Deep RF)
21	21	4	1	1936-05-30 (1)	Hal Trosky	CLE		CHW	behind 2-3	b 6	1	---	1	5	3	16%	55%		Home Run (Deep RF)
22	22	5	1	1936-06-04	Red Rolfe	NYY		CHW	behind 0-4	b 3	2	1--	2	2	5	14%	31%		Home Run (Deep RF); F. Crosetti Scores
23	23	6	1	1936-07-13	Lou Gehrig	NYY		CHW	behind 1-4	b 6	2	-2-	2	4	3	19%	35%		Home Run (Deep RF); R. Rolfe Scores
24	24	7	1	1936-07-18 (2)	Bob Johnson	PHA		CHW	behind 6-12	b 5	0	---	1	6	4	4%	10%		Home Run (Deep CF)
25	25	8	1	1936-08-13	Moose Solters	SLB	@	CHW	behind 1-2	t 6	0	12-	3	3	7	25%	75%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF); L. Lary Scores; H. Clift Scores
26	26	9	1	1936-08-16 (2)	Goose Goslin	DET	@	CHW	behind 0-4	t 4	1	1--	2	4	7	12%	27%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep RF); C. Gehringer Scores
27	27	10	1	1936-09-07 (1)	Gee Walker	DET	@	CHW	behind 0-2	t 2	2	12-	3	1	9	23%	55%		Home Run (Deep LF); R. Hayworth Scores; S. Rowe Scores
28	28	11	1	1936-09-23 (1)	Hal Trosky	CLE		CHW	ahead 13-2	b 7	0	-2-	2	4	3	0%	100%		Home Run; E. Averill Scores
1937	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	Batter	@Bat			Score	Inn	Out	RoB	R	BOP	Pos	bWPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
29	29	1	1	1937-04-23	Hank Greenberg	DET	@	CHW	ahead 7-0	t 9	0	---	1	4	3	0%	100%		Home Run (Deep LF)
30	30	2	2	1937-04-23	Billy Rogell	DET	@	CHW	ahead 8-0	t 9	2	1--	2	8	6	0%	100%		Home Run (Deep RF); G. Goslin Scores
31	31	3	1	1937-06-11	Buddy Lewis	WSH	@	CHW	behind 6-14	t 9	0	1--	2	2	5	0%	0%		Home Run (Deep RF); M. Almada Scores
32	32	4	1	1937-06-20 (2)	Bill Dickey	NYY		CHW	ahead 3-0	b 5	2	1--	2	5	2	9%	94%		Home Run (Deep RF); L. Gehrig Scores
33	33	5	1	1937-07-23	Joe DiMaggio	NYY	@	CHW	tied 0-0	t 1	1	1--	2	3	8	15%	65%		Home Run (LF-CF); R. Rolfe Scores
34	34	6	2	1937-07-23	Red Rolfe	NYY	@	CHW	behind 2-6	t 6	1	---	1	2	5	5%	13%		Home Run (Deep RF)
35	35	7	3	1937-07-23	Jake Powell	NYY	@	CHW	behind 3-9	t 9	0	---	1	7	7	0%	1%		Home Run
36	36	8	1	1937-08-03 (2)	Tony Lazzeri	NYY		CHW	tied 0-0	b 2	2	---	1	7	4	10%	61%		Home Run
37	37	9	2	1937-08-03 (2)	Bill Dickey	NYY		CHW	behind 1-3	b 8	1	123	4	5	2	52%	92%		Home Run; R. Rolfe Scores; J. DiMaggio Scores; L. Gehrig Scores
38	38	10	1	1937-08-12 (2)	Goose Goslin	DET		CHW	behind 2-4	b 8	2	1--	2	6	PH	39%	53%		Home Run (CF-RF); H. Greenberg Scores
39	39	11	1	1937-08-19	Gee Walker	DET	@	CHW	ahead 3-0	t 2	1	-2-	2	1	7	9%	86%		Home Run (Deep LF); B. Rogell Scores
40	40	12	1	1937-09-02 (2)	Joe Cronin	BOS	@	CHW	behind 2-8	t 7	2	---	1	3	6	1%	2%		Home Run (Line Drive to Deep LF)
41	41	13	1	1937-09-05	Rudy York	DET		CHW	tied 0-0	b 2	0	---	1	5	2	9%	65%		Home Run
1938	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	Batter	@Bat			Score	Inn	Out	RoB	R	BOP	Pos	bWPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
42	42	1	1	1938-04-19	Hank Greenberg	DET	@	CHW	behind 1-4	t 5	2	---	1	4	3	7%	22%		Home Run (Deep LF)
43	43	2	2	1938-04-19	Chet Laabs	DET	@	CHW	behind 2-4	t 9	1	---	1	9	PH	6%	11%		Home Run (Deep LF)
44	44	3	1	1938-05-25	Bob Johnson	PHA	@	CHW	ahead 2-0	t 5	2	---	1	5	8	9%	78%		Home Run (Deep LF)
45	45	4	1	1938-06-09	Bill Dickey	NYY		CHW	behind 1-3	b 4	0	1--	2	5	2	18%	57%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep RF); L. Gehrig Scores
46	46	5	1	1938-06-15	Lou Gehrig	NYY	@	CHW	ahead 1-0	t 6	0	---	1	4	3	11%	75%		Home Run (Deep RF)
47	47	6	1	1938-07-09	Hank Greenberg	DET		CHW	ahead 1-0	b 4	1	---	1	5	3	10%	75%		Home Run (Deep LF)
48	48	7	2	1938-07-09	Hank Greenberg	DET		CHW	ahead 2-0	b 7	0	---	1	5	3	6%	93%		Home Run (Deep CF)
49	49	8	1	1938-07-14	Bob Johnson	PHA		CHW	ahead 1-0	b 1	2	-2-	2	5	8	14%	77%		Home Run (Deep LF); B. Werber Scores
50	50	9	1	1938-08-03 (1)	Bob Johnson	PHA	@	CHW	ahead 1-0	t 1	2	-2-	2	5	8
51	51	10	2	1938-08-03 (1)	Lou Finney	PHA	@	CHW	ahead 3-0	t 2	2	1--	2	1	3
52	52	11	1	1938-08-13 (1)	Bruce Campbell	CLE	@	CHW	ahead 6-0	t 1	2	-23	3	2	9	6%	96%		Home Run (Deep LF); K. Keltner Scores; R. Hemsley Scores
53	53	12	1	1938-09-15 (1)	Billy Werber	PHA	@	CHW	behind 1-5	t 8	1	12-	3	6	5
1939	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	Batter	@Bat			Score	Inn	Out	RoB	R	BOP	Pos	bWPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
54	54	1	1	1939-04-25	Bruce Campbell	CLE		CHW	ahead 2-0	b 2	2	-23	3	3	9	15%	90%		Home Run (CF-RF); B. Feller Scores; S. Webb Scores
55	55	2	2	1939-04-25	Bruce Campbell	CLE		CHW	ahead 5-1	b 7	1	-2-	2	3	9	2%	99%		Home Run (CF-RF); S. Webb Scores
56	56	3	1	1939-05-14	Ben Chapman	CLE	@	CHW	ahead 6-3	t 5	1	1--	2	5	9	10%	91%		Home Run (Deep LF); H. Trosky Scores
57	57	4	1	1939-06-01	Buddy Lewis	WSH	@	CHW	ahead 6-1	t 6	0	---	1	3	5	2%	96%		Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep CF)
58	58	5	1	1939-06-08	Jimmie Foxx	BOS	@	SLB	ahead 4-0	t 3	0	---	1	4	3	5%	89%		Home Run (Deep LF)
59	59	6	2	1939-06-08	Lou Finney	BOS	@	SLB	behind 5-7	t 8	2	1--	2	8	PH	30%	41%		Home Run (CF-RF); J. Cronin Scores
60	60	7	1	1939-06-11 (1)	Joe Gordon	NYY	@	SLB	ahead 3-0	t 1	2	-2-	2	7	4	11%	84%		Home Run; B. Dickey Scores
61	61	8	1	1939-06-16	Bob Johnson	PHA		SLB	behind 5-8	b 7	1	1-3	3	4	7	33%	55%		Home Run (Deep LF); W. Moses Scores; D. Miles Scores
62	62	9	1	1939-07-14	Taffy Wright	WSH	@	SLB	behind 8-9	t 9	2	12-	3	4	PH	74%	89%		Home Run (Deep RF); J. Early Scores; J. Welaj Scores
63	63	10	1	1939-07-22	Jimmie Foxx	BOS	@	SLB	ahead 3-0	t 5	1	---	1	3	3	7%	87%		Home Run (Deep LF)
64	64	11	1	1939-07-26	Tommy Henrich	NYY		SLB	ahead 9-0	b 6	1	---	1	3	9	0%	100%		Home Run
65	65	12	2	1939-07-26	Bill Dickey	NYY		SLB	ahead 10-0	b 6	1	1--	2	5	2	0%	100%		Home Run; J. DiMaggio Scores
66	66	13	1	1939-08-06 (2)	Eric Tipton	PHA		SLB	tied 1-1	b 4	0	1--	2	6	7	17%	78%		Home Run (Deep LF); S. Chapman Scores
1940	#car	#yr	#gm	Date	Batter	@Bat			Score	Inn	Out	RoB	R	BOP	Pos	bWPA	bWE	Notes	Play Description
67	67	1	1	1940-05-03	Joe Cronin	BOS		SLB	behind 5-8	b 8	2	1--	2	5	6	15%	22%		Home Run (Deep LF); T. Williams Scores
68	68	2	2	1940-05-03	Jim Tabor	BOS		SLB	behind 7-8	b 9	0	---	1	7	5	43%	65%		Home Run (Deep LF)
69	69	3	1	1940-08-03	Dick Siebert	PHA	@	SLB	ahead 8-7	t 9	1	12-	3	5	3	13%	98%		Home Run (Deep RF); W. Moses Scores; B. Johnson Scores

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