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Rabbit Benton
	Stanley W. Benton
	(Stan)

	Born: September 29, 1901 in Cannel City, KY
	Died: June 7, 1984 - 82 years old
	Bats: R	Throws: R	Ht: 5'7"	Wt: 150

Fielding Ratings(?)

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Notes:

Comparison

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

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	HoF	Mil	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Rogers Hornsby	1915 - 1937	2B	127.0	Pl		121.6	13.9	0.0	8.6
2	Eddie Collins	1906 - 1930	2B	124.0	Pl	WW1	119.7	8.1	0.0	3.8
3	Frankie Frisch	1919 - 1937	2B	70.4	Pl		56.8	21.6	0.0	8.0
4	Johnny Evers	1902 - 1929	2B	47.8	Pl	WW1	33.2	15.4	0.0	0.8
5	Del Pratt	1912 - 1924	2B	45.5			41.8	5.6	0.0	1.9
6	Marty McManus	1920 - 1934	2B	33.4		WW1	33.2	4.8	0.0	4.5
7	George Grantham	1922 - 1934	2B	32.4		WW1	35.1	-2.1	0.0	0.7
8	George Cutshaw	1912 - 1923	2B	16.1			13.2	4.7	0.0	1.8
9	Sparky Adams	1922 - 1934	2B	16.0			10.9	10.3	0.0	5.3
10	Bucky Harris	1919 - 1931	2B	15.1	Ma		16.9	2.0	0.0	3.7
11	Aaron Ward	1917 - 1928	2B	13.5		WW1	9.6	7.1	0.0	3.2
12	Sam Bohne	1916 - 1926	2B	7.3			4.0	5.9	0.0	2.5
13	Cotton Tierney	1920 - 1925	2B	5.6			7.0	0.4	0.0	1.8
14	Johnny Rawlings	1914 - 1926	2B	5.1			1.4	7.4	0.0	3.7
15	Bill Wambsganss	1914 - 1926	2B	3.8		WW1	9.8	-2.1	0.0	4.0
16	Red Shannon	1915 - 1926	2B	3.0		WW1	3.9	0.4	0.0	1.3
17	Ralph Young	1913 - 1922	2B	1.4		WW2	8.3	-5.5	0.0	1.5
18	Lloyd Christenbury	1919 - 1922	2B	1.1			1.6	-0.6	0.0	-0.1
19	Howard Berry	1921 - 1922	2B	0.1		WW1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
20	Jewel Ens	1922 - 1925	2B	-0.0		WW1	0.3	-0.3	0.0	0.1
21	Marty Shay	1916 - 1924	2B	-0.2			0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.1
22	Rabbit Benton	1922 - 1922	2B	-0.2			-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0
23	Frank Fuller	1915 - 1923	2B	-0.3		WW1	-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
24	Frank Parkinson	1921 - 1924	2B	-0.3		WW1	-0.5	1.9	0.0	1.7
25	Snooks Dowd	1919 - 1926	2B	-0.4		WW1	-0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
26	Joe Klugmann	1921 - 1925	2B	-0.5			-0.1	-0.3	0.0	0.2
27	Stuffy Stewart	1916 - 1929	2B	-0.7			-0.2	-0.2	0.0	0.2
28	Jack Hammond	1915 - 1922	2B	-0.8			-0.5	-0.3	0.0	-0.0
29	Ed Sicking	1916 - 1927	2B	-1.0		WW1	-0.6	0.4	0.0	0.8
30	Heinie Scheer	1922 - 1923	2B	-1.6			-1.4	0.1	0.0	0.3
31	Chick Fewster	1917 - 1927	2B	-2.4		WWB	2.3	-3.5	0.0	1.2
32	Freddie Maguire	1922 - 1931	2B	-2.7			-4.4	3.7	0.0	2.0

	Rabbit Benton	1922 - 1922	2B	-0.2			-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0

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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James