Joe Hoover

Position: Shortstop

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-11, 175lb (180cm, 79kg)

Born: April 15, 1915 in Brawley, CA us

Died: September 2, 1965 in Los Angeles, CA

Buried: San Gorgonio Memorial Park, Banning, CA

High School: Pomona HS (Pomona, CA)

Debut: April 21, 1943 (Age 28-006d, 9,409th in major league history)
vs. CLE 3 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: September 23, 1945 (Age 30-161d)
vs. SLB 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1943 season

Full Name: Robert Joseph Hoover

View Player Info from the B-R Bullpen

1945 World Series

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

1.2

1238

301

.243

177

RBI

OBP

.300

SLG

.316

OPS

.616

OPS+

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

1944 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1944 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	9 (8)	Apr 29	DET		CLE	L,6-7	CG	0	12.0	8	4	0	12	1
2	10	Apr 30 (1)	DET		CLE	L,1-2	CG	39	9.0	0	4	0	4	0
3	11	Apr 30 (2)	DET		CLE	W,4-2	CG	33	9.0	3	5	0	8	2
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
4	12	May 2	DET	@	SLB	W,4-3	CG	35	9.0	1	4	0	5	2
5	13	May 3	DET	@	SLB	L,4-7	CG	36	8.0	1	2	0	3	1
6	14	May 4	DET	@	SLB	L,0-2	CG	34	8.0	2	2	0	4	2
7	15	May 6	DET		CHW	L,2-4	CG	0	9.0	1	4	0	5	1
8	16	May 7 (1)	DET		CHW	L,1-4	CG	38	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
9	17	May 7 (2)	DET		CHW	L,2-4	CG	0	9.0	4	1	2	7	0
10	18	May 10	DET	@	NYY	W,4-2	CG	33	9.0	3	5	0	8	3
11	19	May 11	DET	@	NYY	L,2-5	CG	37	8.0	3	4	0	7	1
12	20	May 12	DET	@	NYY	W,10-4	CG	35	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
13	21	May 13	DET	@	BOS	L,2-4	CG	34	8.0	1	5	0	6	1
14	22	May 14 (1)	DET	@	BOS	W,6-1	CG	35	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
15	23	May 14 (2)	DET	@	BOS	W,9-0	CG	0	9.0	1	8	0	9	2
16	24	May 15	DET	@	PHA	L,2-6	CG	40	8.2	1	1	1	3	1
17	25	May 16	DET	@	PHA	L,3-4	CG	0	9.2	3	7	1	11	1
18	26	May 17	DET	@	PHA	W,2-1	CG	33	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
19	27	May 18	DET	@	PHA	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	7	4	0	11	3
20	28	May 19	DET	@	WSH	W,4-1	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
21	29	May 20	DET	@	WSH	W,6-2	CG	35	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
22	30	May 21 (1)	DET	@	WSH	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
23	31	May 21 (2)	DET	@	WSH	W,7-1	CG	0	9.0	0	4	2	6	0
24	32	May 24	DET		PHA	L,4-8	GS	0		3	0	1	4	0
25	33	May 25	DET		PHA	L,0-2	CG	0	9.0	1	4	0	5	1
26	34	May 26	DET		PHA	L,2-3	CG	0	9.0	0	2	1	3	1
27	35	May 27	DET		PHA	W,2-1	CG	0	10.0	3	7	1	11	1
28	36	May 28 (1)	DET		WSH	L,2-4	CG	37	9.0	1	0	0	1	1
29	39 (2)	May 30 (1)	DET		NYY	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
30	40	May 30 (2)	DET		NYY	W,4-1	CG	0	9.0	3	4	0	7	3
31	41	May 31	DET		NYY	W,6-2	CG	34	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
32	48 (6)	Jun 11 (1)	DET	@	CHW	L,2-4	CG	34	8.0	3	6	1	10	2
33	49	Jun 11 (2)	DET	@	CHW	W,1-0	CG	30	9.0	3	5	0	8	1
34	50	Jun 12	DET	@	CLE	L,5-6	CG	38	8.0	2	2	1	5	0
35	51	Jun 14 (1)	DET	@	CLE	W,3-0	CG	0	9.0	5	2	0	7	3
36	52	Jun 14 (2)	DET	@	CLE	W,11-3	CG	0	9.0	2	5	0	7	3
37	53	Jun 15	DET	@	CLE	L,2-3	CG	0	12.1	7	4	2	13	1
38	54	Jun 16	DET		SLB	L,1-14	GS	0		0	1	0	1	1
39	55	Jun 17	DET		SLB	L,0-5	GS	9	2.1	4	1	0	5	1
40	63 (7)	Jun 25 (1)	DET	@	SLB	L,4-5	GF	0		2	1	0	3	1
41	64	Jun 25 (2)	DET	@	SLB	L,2-5	CG	0	8.0	0	3	0	3	0
42	67 (2)	Jun 30	DET	@	WSH	L,2-4	GS	0		0	6	0	6	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
43	68	Jul 1	DET	@	PHA	W,9-4	CG	37	9.0	6	1	0	7	0
44	69	Jul 2 (1)	DET	@	PHA	W,8-0	CG	32	9.0	2	8	1	11	3
45	70	Jul 2 (2)	DET	@	PHA	L,0-2	CG	33	8.0	3	8	1	12	2
46	71	Jul 4 (1)	DET	@	BOS	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
47	72	Jul 4 (2)	DET	@	BOS	L,4-7	CG	0	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
48	73	Jul 5	DET	@	BOS	W,8-1	CG	0	9.0	1	5	0	6	2
49	74	Jul 6	DET	@	BOS	L,3-13	CG	47	8.0	1	2	0	3	0
50	75	Jul 7	DET	@	NYY	L,1-3	CG	34	8.0	1	5	0	6	1
51	76	Jul 8	DET	@	NYY	W,6-2	CG	32	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
52	77	Jul 9 (1)	DET	@	NYY	L,3-4	CG	45	8.1	1	1	0	2	0
53	78	Jul 9 (2)	DET	@	NYY	L,2-8	CG	0	8.0	3	2	0	5	0
54	79	Jul 13	DET		CHW	W,9-1	CG	32	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
55	80	Jul 14	DET		CHW	W,2-0	CG	0	9.0	1	3	1	5	0
56	81	Jul 15 (1)	DET		CHW	L,4-5	CG	42	9.0	2	2	1	5	2
57	82	Jul 15 (2)	DET		CHW	W,8-2	CG	38	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
58	83	Jul 16 (1)	DET		CHW	L,2-7	CG	39	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
59	84	Jul 16 (2)	DET		CHW	W,7-3	CG	0	9.0	3	5	3	11	3
60	85	Jul 18	DET		WSH	W,6-5	CG	41	11.0	4	5	0	9	2
61	86	Jul 19	DET		WSH	W,2-1	CG	0	10.0	3	0	0	3	0
62	87	Jul 20	DET		WSH	W,7-6	CG	0	9.0	2	3	0	5	1
63	88	Jul 21	DET		WSH	W,6-5	CG	0	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
64	89	Jul 22	DET		PHA	W,4-3	CG	41	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
65	90	Jul 23 (1)	DET		PHA	L,3-13	CG	53	9.0	0	3	2	5	0
66	91	Jul 23 (2)	DET		PHA	L,2-3	CG	36	9.0	3	4	2	9	0
67	92	Jul 24	DET		PHA	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	3	5	1	9	1
68	93	Jul 25	DET		BOS	L,3-7	CG	0	9.0	2	1	1	4	1
69	97 (3)	Jul 29	DET		NYY	W,3-2	CG	45	10.0	2	1	2	5	0
70	98	Jul 30 (1)	DET		NYY	L,2-10	CG	47	9.0	4	4	1	9	1
71	99	Jul 30 (2)	DET		NYY	W,13-7	CG	43	9.0	1	5	0	6	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
72	100	Aug 1	DET		NYY	W,8-4	CG	41	9.0	1	0	1	2	0
73	101	Aug 5	DET	@	CHW	W,5-3	CG	42	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
74	102	Aug 6 (1)	DET	@	CHW	W,10-3	CG	36	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
75	103	Aug 6 (2)	DET	@	CHW	W,3-1	CG	32	9.0	3	5	0	8	0
76	104	Aug 9	DET	@	WSH	W,4-2	CG	0	9.0	2	1	1	4	1
77	105	Aug 10	DET	@	WSH	W,3-2	GS	0		0	6	0	6	0
78	106	Aug 11	DET	@	WSH	W,11-4	CG	0	9.0	2	3	1	6	0
79	107	Aug 12	DET	@	WSH	W,12-5	CG	42	9.0	2	4	1	7	1
80	108	Aug 13 (1)	DET	@	PHA	L,1-6	CG	39	8.0	2	3	1	6	0
81	117 (8)	Aug 20 (1)	DET	@	NYY	W,4-3	CG	36	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
82	118	Aug 20 (2)	DET	@	NYY	W,9-8	CG	45	9.0	1	6	0	7	0
83	119	Aug 21	DET	@	NYY	L,1-5	CG	33	8.0	2	2	0	4	0
84	120	Aug 22	DET	@	NYY	L,7-9	CG	42	8.0	2	5	1	8	1
85	121	Aug 25	DET		SLB	W,1-0	CG	33	9.0	1	6	1	8	1
86	122	Aug 26	DET		SLB	W,5-0	CG	36	9.0	3	4	1	8	2
87	123	Aug 27 (1)	DET		SLB	W,5-3	CG	39	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
88	124	Aug 27 (2)	DET		SLB	L,2-17	GS	0		2	1	1	4	0
89	125	Aug 29	DET		CHW	W,7-0	CG	0	9.0	4	3	0	7	1
90	126	Aug 30	DET		CHW	L,3-8	CG	0	9.0	6	2	0	8	2
91	127	Aug 31	DET	@	SLB	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	3	5	0	8	1
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
92	128	Sep 1	DET	@	SLB	W,6-3	CG	35	9.0	0	4	0	4	2
93	129	Sep 2	DET	@	SLB	W,6-3	CG	0	9.0	3	3	0	6	0
94	130	Sep 3	DET	@	SLB	L,1-4	CG	35	8.0	0	2	1	3	0
95	131	Sep 4 (1)	DET	@	CHW	W,12-2	CG	37	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
96	132	Sep 4 (2)	DET	@	CHW	L,3-6	CG	35	8.0	2	2	0	4	1
97	133	Sep 5	DET	@	CHW	W,6-0	CG	34	9.0	3	4	1	8	1
98	134	Sep 6	DET	@	CHW	W,3-2	CG	0	9.0	3	5	0	8	2
99	135	Sep 7	DET		CLE	W,3-0	CG	32	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
100	136	Sep 9	DET		CLE	W,15-6	CG	0	9.0	3	3	1	7	2
101	137	Sep 10 (1)	DET		CLE	W,5-0	CG	33	9.0	4	2	2	8	2
102	138	Sep 10 (2)	DET		CLE	L,4-7	CG	0	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
103	139	Sep 15 (1)	DET	@	CLE	L,3-4	CG	46	11.2	6	4	0	10	0
104	140	Sep 15 (2)	DET	@	CLE	W,9-1	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
105	141	Sep 17 (1)	DET	@	CLE	W,7-2	CG	36	9.0	2	1	2	5	0
106	142	Sep 17 (2)	DET	@	CLE	W,3-0	CG	34	9.0	0	3	0	3	1
107	143	Sep 19	DET		NYY	W,4-1	CG	34	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
108	144	Sep 20	DET		NYY	W,8-2	CG	33	9.0	3	5	0	8	1
109	145	Sep 21	DET		NYY	L,4-5	GS	28	7.0	1	2	0	3	1
110	146	Sep 22 (1)	DET		BOS	W,7-4	CG	36	9.0	3	3	0	6	2
111	147	Sep 22 (2)	DET		BOS	W,8-6	GS	0		0	2	0	2	0
112	148	Sep 23	DET		BOS	W,8-2	CG	36	9.0	4	6	2	12	4
113	149	Sep 24	DET		BOS	W,9-5	CG	38	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
114	150	Sep 25	DET		PHA	L,1-2	CG	35	9.0	2	5	0	7	2
115	151	Sep 26	DET		PHA	W,6-0	CG	33	9.0	0	7	0	7	1
116	152	Sep 27	DET		PHA	W,4-0	CG	31	9.0	1	3	0	4	1
117	153	Sep 29 (1)	DET		WSH	W,5-2	CG	38	9.0	2	1	0	3	1
118	154	Sep 29 (2)	DET		WSH	L,2-9	CG	45	9.0	3	5	0	8	0
119	155	Sep 30	DET		WSH	W,7-3	CG	39	9.0	2	4	0	6	0
120	156	Oct 1	DET		WSH	L,1-4	CG	0	9.0	1	4	1	6	1
							120gm		1042.0	258	406	48	712	103