Otto Denning

Positions: Catcher and First Baseman

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-0, 180lb (183cm, 81kg)

Born: December 28, 1912 in Hays, KS us

Died: May 25, 1992 in Chicago, IL

Buried: St. Joseph Cemetery, River Grove, IL

Debut: April 15, 1942 (Age 29-108d, 9,221st in major league history)
vs. DET 4 AB, 2 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: June 4, 1943 (Age 30-158d)
vs. PHA 4 AB, 2 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 1 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1942 season

Full Name: Otto George Denning

Nicknames: Dutch

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Relatives: Greatuncle of Peter Bourjos; Uncle of Chris Bourjos

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

-0.9

343

.222

RBI

OBP

.273

SLG

.289

OPS

.561

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	CLE	@	DET	L,2-6	CG	36	8.0	0	2	0	2	0
2	3	Apr 16	CLE	@	DET	L,4-5	GS	26	5.1	0	0	0	0	0
3	4	Apr 17	CLE		CHW	L,0-1	GF	7	2.0	1	1	0	2	1
4	11 (6)	Apr 25	CLE	@	CHW	W,5-4	GF	12	4.0	4	1	0	5	0
5	12	Apr 26	CLE	@	CHW	W,3-2	GF	6	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
6	16 (3)	May 1	CLE	@	WSH	W,13-6	GF	14	3.0	0	0	0	0	0
7	18 (1)	May 3	CLE	@	BOS	L,4-8	GF	10	3.0	1	0	0	1	0
8	19	May 4	CLE	@	BOS	L,8-11	GF	17	3.0	3	1	0	4	0
9	21 (1)	May 6	CLE	@	NYY	L,0-3	GF	5	1.0	1	1	0	2	0
10	22	May 9	CLE	@	DET	L,0-1	CG	23	5.1	1	0	0	1	0
11	23	May 10 (1)	CLE		DET	L,1-5	CG	43	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
12	24	May 10 (2)	CLE		DET	W,6-5	GF	29	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
13	25	May 11	CLE		DET	W,8-5	CG	41	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
14	26	May 13	CLE		NYY	W,7-2	CG	34	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
15	27	May 16 (1)	CLE		WSH	W,5-4	CG	37	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
16	28	May 16 (2)	CLE		WSH	L,1-7	CG	41	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
17	29	May 17 (1)	CLE		PHA	W,4-1	CG	30	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
18	30	May 17 (2)	CLE		PHA	W,9-3	CG	37	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
19	31	May 18	CLE		PHA	W,7-4	CG	40	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
20	34 (2)	May 23	CLE		SLB	L,1-2	GF	8	2.0	2	0	0	2	0
21	36 (1)	May 24 (2)	CLE		SLB	L,1-4	CG	40	9.0	9	1	0	10	0
22	40 (3)	May 28	CLE	@	DET	L,2-6	GF	0		0	0	0	0	0
23	41	May 29	CLE	@	DET	L,3-14	GF	9	1.0	1	0	1	2	0
24	42	May 30 (1)	CLE		SLB	W,5-4	CG	35	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
25	45 (2)	May 31 (2)	CLE	@	SLB	L,3-8	CG	39	8.0	5	0	0	5	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
26	49 (3)	Jun 6	CLE	@	NYY	L,0-3	GF	6	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
27	50	Jun 7 (1)	CLE	@	NYY	W,5-4	GF	4	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
28	52 (1)	Jun 8	CLE	@	NYY	L,10-11	GF	9	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
29	53	Jun 9	CLE	@	WSH	W,7-6	GF	17	4.0	2	0	0	2	0
30	54	Jun 10	CLE	@	WSH	W,4-3	GF	22	5.0	3	1	0	4	0
31	55	Jun 11	CLE	@	WSH	W,8-6	GF	5	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
32	58 (2)	Jun 14 (1)	CLE	@	PHA	W,8-3	CG	38	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
33	59	Jun 14 (2)	CLE	@	PHA	L,1-5	CG	32	8.0	8	0	0	8	0
34	60	Jun 17	CLE		WSH	W,5-4	CG	37	9.0	5	3	0	8	1
35	61	Jun 18	CLE		WSH	L,1-7	CG	45	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
36	62	Jun 19	CLE		NYY	W,5-4	CG	39	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
37	63	Jun 20	CLE		NYY	W,1-0	CG	29	9.0	6	1	0	7	0
38	64	Jun 21 (1)	CLE		NYY	W,3-2	CG	35	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
39	65	Jun 21 (2)	CLE		NYY	L,0-4	CG	37	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
40	66	Jun 23	CLE		PHA	W,7-5	CG	38	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
41	67	Jun 24	CLE		PHA	W,9-0	CG	32	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
42	68	Jun 25	CLE		PHA	W,4-1	CG	30	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
43	69	Jun 26	CLE		BOS	L,2-3	GS	28	7.0	3	1	0	4	0
44	70	Jun 27	CLE		BOS	L,3-6	CG	38	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
45	72 (1)	Jun 28 (2)	CLE		BOS	W,3-2	CG	36	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
46	78 (5)	Jul 4 (1)	CLE		DET	W,10-3	CG	43	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
47	80 (1)	Jul 5 (1)	CLE	@	DET	L,1-10	GS	29	6.0	1	0	0	1	0
48	83 (2)	Jul 10	CLE	@	PHA	W,4-2	CG	33	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
49	84	Jul 11	CLE	@	PHA	W,3-1	CG	34	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
50	85	Jul 12 (1)	CLE	@	WSH	W,9-7	CG	44	10.0	6	2	0	8	0
51	87 (1)	Jul 13	CLE	@	WSH	L,0-7	GF	4	1.0	3	0	0	3	0
52	89 (1)	Jul 16	CLE	@	NYY	L,5-8	GF	25	6.0	3	0	0	3	0
53	90	Jul 17	CLE	@	NYY	L,1-8	CG	38	8.0	4	1	0	5	1
54	91	Jul 19 (1)	CLE	@	BOS	W,10-7	GF	6	2.0	3	0	0	3	0
55	92	Jul 19 (2)	CLE	@	BOS	W,4-0	CG	26	7.0	4	0	0	4	0
56	93	Jul 21	CLE		NYY	L,3-8	CG	41	9.0	4	1	0	5	1
57	94	Jul 22	CLE		NYY	L,1-5	CG	45	10.0	6	0	0	6	0
58	97 (2)	Jul 24 (2)	CLE		WSH	W,5-4	GS	40	8.0	6	0	0	6	0
59	98	Jul 25	CLE		WSH	L,6-10	GS	29	6.0	1	0	0	1	0
60	99	Jul 26 (1)	CLE		WSH	L,0-2	GS	29	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
61	103 (3)	Jul 29	CLE		BOS	W,7-6	GF	13	3.0	1	0	0	1	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
62	106 (2)	Aug 2 (1)	CLE		PHA	W,4-3	GF	3	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
63	113 (6)	Aug 11 (2)	CLE		DET	L,2-3	CG	38	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
64	114	Aug 12 (1)	CLE		DET	L,2-4	CG	43	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
65	118 (3)	Aug 16 (2)	CLE		SLB	L,1-6	GF	6	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
66	120 (1)	Aug 19	CLE	@	DET	L,1-6	GF	7	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
67	122 (1)	Aug 22	CLE		CHW	L,1-3	CG	40	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
68	124 (1)	Aug 23 (2)	CLE		CHW	W,1-0	CG	34	10.0	3	0	0	3	0
69	125	Aug 25 (1)	CLE	@	BOS	L,3-4	GS	30	8.0	4	1	0	5	0
70	128 (2)	Aug 27	CLE	@	BOS	W,4-2	GS	29	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
71	129	Aug 28	CLE	@	NYY	L,0-3	CG	30	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
72	132 (2)	Aug 30 (2)	CLE	@	WSH	L,0-2	GF	3	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
73	134 (1)	Sep 2	CLE	@	PHA	W,12-3	GS	18	5.0	2	1	0	3	1
74	138 (3)	Sep 5 (2)	CLE	@	SLB	L,3-4	CG	32	8.0	5	1	0	6	0
75	140 (1)	Sep 6 (2)	CLE	@	SLB	W,6-5	CG	0	9.0	5	1	1	7	1
76	143 (2)	Sep 11	CLE		BOS	L,2-15	GF	0		4	1	0	5	0
77	144	Sep 12	CLE		BOS	L,6-8	GF	11	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
78	146 (1)	Sep 13 (2)	CLE		NYY	L,1-4	CG	41	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
79	147	Sep 14	CLE		NYY	L,3-8	GF	7	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
80	151 (3)	Sep 20 (2)	CLE	@	DET	L,5-6	GF	16	2.0	2	0	0	2	0
							80gm		511.0	217	36	2	255	6