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Art Butler

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Outfielder

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-9, 160lb (175cm, 72kg)

Born: December 19, 1887 in Fall River, MA us

Died: October 7, 1984 in Fall River, MA

Buried: Notre Dame Cemetery, Fall River, MA

Debut: April 14, 1911 (Age 23-116d, 3,455th in major league history)
vs. BRO 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: October 1, 1916 (Age 28-287d)
vs. CHC 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1912 season

Full Name: Arthur Edward Butler

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

2.3

AB

1289

H

311

HR

BA

.241

R

181

RBI

SB

OBP

.323

SLG

.303

OPS

.626

OPS+

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

1914 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1914 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 14	STL		PIT	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	4	2	1	7	0
2	2	Apr 15	STL		PIT	L,1-5	CG	0	9.0	1	1	1	3	0
3	3	Apr 16	STL		PIT	L,1-4	CG	0	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
4	4	Apr 17	STL		PIT	L,0-2	CG	0	9.0	1	4	1	6	0
5	5	Apr 18	STL		CHC	W,5-2	CG	0	9.0	2	5	0	7	2
6	6	Apr 19	STL		CHC	L,7-9	CG	0	9.0	4	5	1	10	1
7	7	Apr 20	STL		CHC	W,2-0	CG	0	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
8	8	Apr 21	STL		CHC	T,2-2	CG	0	15.0	2	7	0	9	1
9	9	Apr 23	STL	@	PIT	L,1-5	CG	0	8.0	0	3	0	3	0
10	10	Apr 24	STL	@	PIT	W,8-1	CG	0	9.0	0	4	0	4	0
11	11	Apr 26	STL	@	CIN	L,2-5	CG	0	8.0	1	1	1	3	0
12	12	Apr 27	STL	@	CIN	L,1-2	CG	0	8.0	5	3	0	8	0
13	13	Apr 28	STL	@	CIN	L,1-6	CG	0	8.0	2	4	0	6	0
14	14	Apr 29	STL	@	CIN	L,3-5	CG	0	8.0	3	3	0	6	0
15	15	Apr 30	STL	@	CHC	L,0-7	CG	0	8.0	3	1	0	4	1
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
16	16	May 1	STL	@	CHC	W,2-0	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
17	17	May 2	STL	@	CHC	W,9-4	CG	0	9.0	4	3	3	10	1
18	18	May 3	STL	@	CHC	L,1-6	CG	0	8.0	3	0	1	4	0
19	19	May 4	STL	@	CHC	W,6-1	CG	0	9.0	0	5	0	5	1
20	20	May 6	STL		CIN	L,0-3	CG	0	9.0	3	4	0	7	0
21	21	May 7	STL		CIN	W,9-1	CG	0	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
22	22	May 8	STL		CIN	L,0-3	CG	0	9.0	2	2	1	5	0
23	23	May 9	STL		CIN	L,0-3	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
24	24	May 10	STL		CIN	W,3-1	CG	0	9.0	1	4	0	5	1
25	25	May 11	STL		CHC	T,5-5	CG	0	13.0	3	3	0	6	1
26	26	May 13	STL		PHI	W,5-3	CG	0	9.0	0	5	1	6	0
27	27	May 14	STL		PHI	L,3-5	CG	0	14.0	2	4	0	6	0
28	28	May 15	STL		PHI	W,6-3	CG	0	9.0	2	3	1	6	0
29	29	May 16	STL		PHI	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	4	2	0	6	1
30	30	May 17	STL		BRO	W,5-2	GS	0		1	3	0	4	1
31	42 (11)	May 30 (1)	STL	@	CHC	L,4-6	CG	0	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
32	43	May 30 (2)	STL	@	CHC	W,4-2	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
33	44	May 31	STL	@	CHC	L,1-11	CG	0	8.0	1	1	1	3	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
34	45	Jun 1	STL		CIN	L,4-6	CG	0	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
35	46	Jun 2	STL		CIN	W,5-4	CG	0	9.0	1	3	1	5	0
36	47	Jun 3	STL	@	CIN	W,6-2	CG	0	9.0	1	5	0	6	0
37	48	Jun 5	STL	@	NYG	W,8-3	CG	0	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
38	49	Jun 6	STL	@	NYG	L,4-6	CG	0	8.0	0	2	1	3	0
39	50	Jun 8	STL	@	NYG	L,1-4	CG	0	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
40	51	Jun 9	STL	@	NYG	W,5-2	CG	0	10.0	3	2	0	5	0
41	52	Jun 10	STL	@	BRO	W,6-4	GS	0		3	4	0	7	0
42	56 (3)	Jun 16	STL	@	PHI	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	2	3	0	5	1
43	57	Jun 17	STL	@	PHI	L,4-5	CG	0	9.1	4	3	0	7	1
44	58	Jun 18	STL	@	BSN	W,6-5	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
45	59	Jun 19	STL	@	BSN	L,5-7	CG	0	8.0	1	2	0	3	0
46	60	Jun 20	STL	@	BSN	L,2-3	CG	0	8.0	1	2	0	3	0
47	61	Jun 22	STL	@	BSN	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	0	3	2	5	0
48	62	Jun 23	STL	@	PHI	W,7-5	CG	0	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
49	63	Jun 24	STL	@	PIT	W,3-0	CG	0	9.0	2	4	1	7	0
50	64	Jun 25	STL	@	PIT	L,1-4	CG	0	8.0	1	2	0	3	0
51	65	Jun 26	STL	@	PIT	L,2-3	CG	0	9.1	1	4	1	6	0
52	66	Jun 27	STL	@	PIT	L,2-4	CG	0	7.0	2	0	1	3	0
53	67	Jun 28 (1)	STL		CHC	W,6-0	CG	0	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
54	68	Jun 28 (2)	STL		CHC	L,5-8	CG	0	9.0	3	3	0	6	0
55	69	Jun 29	STL		PIT	L,1-4	CG	0	9.0	2	8	0	10	0
56	70	Jun 30	STL		PIT	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
57	71	Jul 1	STL		PIT	W,5-1	CG	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
58	72	Jul 3	STL		CIN	L,3-5	CG	0	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
59	73	Jul 4 (1)	STL		CIN	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	1	6	0	7	2
60	74	Jul 4 (2)	STL		CIN	W,8-1	CG	0	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
61	75	Jul 5	STL		CIN	L,0-7	CG	0	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
62	76	Jul 8	STL		NYG	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	2	3	0	5	1
63	77	Jul 9	STL		NYG	W,5-4	CG	0	13.0	4	3	0	7	0
64	78	Jul 10	STL		NYG	W,2-0	CG	0	9.0	4	3	0	7	1
65	79	Jul 11	STL		NYG	L,9-13	CG	0	9.0	0	2	1	3	0
66	80	Jul 12	STL		BSN	L,5-12	GS	0		0	2	0	2	0
67	81	Jul 13	STL		BSN	L,7-8	CG	0	12.0	7	0	1	8	0
68	83 (1)	Jul 15	STL		BSN	W,5-3	GF	0		1	0	0	1	0
69	96 (12)	Jul 30	STL	@	BSN	L,1-2	GF	0		0	0	0	0	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
70	99 (2)	Aug 3	STL	@	BSN	L,0-1	CG	0	8.1	1	4	1	6	1
71	107 (7)	Aug 12	STL	@	NYG	L,2-3	GF	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
72	109 (1)	Aug 13 (2)	STL	@	PIT	L,2-5	GF	0		1	1	1	3	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
73	141 (31)	Sep 19 (2)	STL	@	PHI	L,6-7	CG	0	8.0	2	2	0	4	0
74	142	Sep 21	STL	@	PHI	W,6-3	CG	0	10.0	3	4	0	7	1
75	143	Sep 22	STL	@	PHI	W,5-4	CG	0	9.0	2	0	3	5	0
76	144	Sep 23 (1)	STL	@	NYG	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	3	5	0	8	0
77	145	Sep 23 (2)	STL	@	NYG	W,9-0	CG	0	9.0	2	3	1	6	1
78	146	Sep 24	STL	@	NYG	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
79	147	Sep 25	STL	@	NYG	L,1-3	CG	0	8.0	0	1	0	1	0
80	148	Sep 26 (1)	STL	@	BRO	L,3-6	CG	0	8.0	2	7	0	9	1
81	149	Sep 26 (2)	STL	@	BRO	W,3-0	CG	0	9.0	1	6	1	8	0
82	150	Sep 28	STL	@	BRO	L,3-7	CG	0	8.0	1	2	1	4	0
83	151	Sep 30	STL	@	PIT	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
84	152	Oct 2	STL		CHC	W,5-0	CG	0	9.0	2	6	0	8	0
							84gm		726.0	155	228	30	413	24

1914 Fielding Game Log (as SS)

1914 Fielding Game Log (as CF)

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