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Joe Adcock
	Joseph Wilbur Adcock


	Born: October 30, 1927 in Coushatta, LA
	Died: May 3, 1999 - 71 years old
	Bats: R	Throws: R	Ht: 6'4"	Wt: 210

Fielding Ratings(?)

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Notes:
- Signed by the Cincinnati Reds as an Amateur Free Agent in 1947
- High School: Coushatta (Coushatta, LA)
- College/Univ: Louisiana State University (1947)
- Visit Adcock's Managerial Page

Comparison

First Basemen				All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time	Hall of Famers		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	HoF	Mil	NgLg	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Willie McCovey	1959 - 1980	1B	64.4	Pl			71.7	-21.8	0.0	-14.6
2	Harmon Killebrew	1954 - 1975	1B	60.4	Pl			71.3	-18.8	0.0	-7.9
3	Norm Cash	1958 - 1974	1B	52.1		MIL		50.0	-9.3	0.0	-11.4
4	Orlando Cepeda	1958 - 1974	1B	50.1	Pl			50.1	-14.0	0.0	-14.0
5	Gil Hodges	1943 - 1963	1B	45.0		WW2		41.7	-5.4	0.0	-8.7
6	Bill White	1956 - 1969	1B	38.8		MIL		32.1	-3.2	0.0	-9.8
7	Ron Fairly	1958 - 1978	1B	35.2				34.5	-12.5	0.0	-13.2
8	Mickey Vernon	1939 - 1960	1B	34.6		WW2		36.6	-13.3	0.0	-11.3
9	Joe Adcock	1950 - 1966	1B	33.3				34.7	-10.4	0.0	-9.0
10	Earl Torgeson	1947 - 1961	1B	32.9		WW2		32.8	-6.3	0.0	-6.4
11	Ted Kluszewski	1947 - 1961	1B	32.2				35.6	-10.0	0.0	-6.5
12	Bill Skowron	1954 - 1967	1B	27.0				23.2	-4.3	0.0	-8.0
13	Roy Sievers	1949 - 1965	1B	25.6				34.1	-17.2	0.0	-8.6
14	Don Mincher	1960 - 1972	1B	23.0				20.9	-4.8	0.0	-6.9
15	Joe Cunningham	1954 - 1966	1B	22.4		KOR		23.3	-6.2	0.0	-5.4
16	Norm Siebern	1956 - 1968	1B	20.9				21.6	-7.4	0.0	-6.8
17	Jim Gentile	1957 - 1966	1B	17.0				18.1	-5.7	0.0	-4.7
18	Vic Power	1954 - 1965	1B	15.5				9.4	-0.8	0.0	-6.9
19	Eddie Robinson	1942 - 1957	1B	15.0		WW2		15.3	-5.9	0.0	-5.6
20	Joe Collins	1948 - 1957	1B	12.2		WW2		9.7	-1.2	0.0	-3.6
21	Dale Long	1951 - 1963	1B	10.3				12.8	-6.5	0.0	-4.1
22	Ed Bouchee	1956 - 1962	1B	8.5				9.9	-4.7	0.0	-3.3
23	Dick Stuart	1958 - 1969	1B	7.8				14.8	-12.9	0.0	-5.9
24	Gordy Coleman	1959 - 1967	1B	7.5		MIL		7.3	-3.4	0.0	-3.7
25	Dick Gernert	1952 - 1962	1B	6.5				5.8	-3.2	0.0	-4.0
26	Bob Boyd	1951 - 1961	1B	6.5		MIL	Y	6.7	-3.1	0.0	-2.8
27	George Crowe	1952 - 1961	1B	6.2		WW2	Y	7.3	-3.0	0.0	-1.9
28	Deron Johnson	1960 - 1976	1B	6.2				12.1	-15.1	0.0	-9.2
29	Norm Larker	1958 - 1963	1B	5.5				5.0	-2.4	0.0	-3.0
30	Dee Fondy	1951 - 1958	1B	5.5		WW2		6.6	-5.0	0.0	-3.9
31	Steve Bilko	1949 - 1962	1B	4.9				4.1	-1.4	0.0	-2.2
32	Frank Torre	1956 - 1963	1B	3.9				3.4	-1.7	0.0	-2.1
33	Walt Dropo	1949 - 1961	1B	3.2				3.5	-5.9	0.0	-5.6
34	Pancho Herrera	1958 - 1961	1B	2.5			Y	3.3	-2.3	0.0	-1.5
35	Rocky Nelson	1949 - 1961	1B	1.7		WW2		1.2	-1.2	0.0	-1.7
36	Norm Zauchin	1951 - 1959	1B	1.3				0.3	-0.5	0.0	-1.5
37	Jack Phillips	1947 - 1957	1B	1.2		WW2		1.5	-1.4	0.0	-1.1
38	Marv Blaylock	1950 - 1957	1B	0.9				0.7	-0.8	0.0	-1.0
39	Jim Marshall	1958 - 1962	1B	0.6				1.6	-2.3	0.0	-1.2
40	Ron Jackson	1954 - 1960	1B	0.4				0.1	-0.3	0.0	-0.7
41	Marv Throneberry	1955 - 1963	1B	0.4				1.3	-2.8	0.0	-1.9
42	Wayne Belardi	1950 - 1956	1B	0.3				0.9	-1.4	0.0	-0.7
43	Preston Ward	1948 - 1959	1B	0.2				1.7	-3.7	0.0	-2.2
44	Gail Harris	1955 - 1960	1B	0.2				0.6	-2.4	0.0	-2.0
45	Rance Pless	1956 - 1956	1B	0.2				-0.1	0.2	0.0	-0.1
46	Jim McManus	1960 - 1960	1B	0.2				0.2	-0.0	0.0	-0.0
47	R.C. Stevens	1958 - 1961	1B	0.1				-0.2	0.1	0.0	-0.3
48	Harry Bright	1958 - 1965	1B	-0.1				0.7	-1.4	0.0	-0.6
49	Tom Alston	1954 - 1957	1B	-0.1		WW2		-0.3	-0.2	0.0	-0.4
50	Ray Barker	1960 - 1967	1B	-0.2				-0.1	-0.6	0.0	-0.6

	Joe Adcock	1950 - 1966	1B	33.3				34.7	-10.4	0.0	-9.0

WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com