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Bobby Doerr
	Robert Pershing Doerr


	Born: April 7, 1918 in Los Angeles, CA
	95 years old
	Bats: R	Throws: R	Ht: 5'11"	Wt: 175

Fielding Ratings(?)

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Notes:
- Inducted into the Hall of Fame as a Player in 1986
- Purchased by the Boston Red Sox from Hollywood in 1935
- Served in the Army during World War II
- High School: Fremont (Los Angeles, CA)

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	Joe Gordon	1938 - 1950	2B	57.1	Pl	WW2	41.5	22.4	0.0	6.8
2	Billy Herman	1931 - 1947	2B	54.5	Pl	WW2	49.2	12.4	0.0	7.0
3	Bobby Doerr	1937 - 1951	2B	51.3	Pl	WW2	46.2	13.4	0.0	8.3
4	Red Schoendienst	1945 - 1963	2B	42.2	Pl	WW2	35.6	15.2	0.0	8.7
5	Eddie Stanky	1943 - 1953	2B	39.3			37.3	8.5	0.0	6.5
6	Lonny Frey	1933 - 1948	2B	38.8		WW2	32.4	13.3	0.0	6.9
7	Tony Cuccinello	1930 - 1945	2B	35.3			32.7	7.4	0.0	4.8
8	Snuffy Stirnweiss	1943 - 1952	2B	26.3			19.5	11.1	0.0	4.3
9	Jerry Priddy	1941 - 1953	2B	18.5		WW2	20.3	3.6	0.0	5.4
10	Connie Ryan	1942 - 1954	2B	16.9		WW2	16.8	5.3	0.0	5.2
11	Cass Michaels	1943 - 1954	2B	16.2			17.6	3.8	0.0	5.2
12	Jimmy Brown	1937 - 1946	2B	8.6		WW2	8.5	3.6	0.0	3.6
13	Frankie Gustine	1939 - 1950	2B	8.0			13.7	-0.7	0.0	5.1
14	Mickey Witek	1940 - 1949	2B	7.7		WW2	8.3	2.2	0.0	2.9
15	Alex Kampouris	1934 - 1943	2B	7.2		WW2	7.7	1.6	0.0	2.1
16	Lou Klein	1943 - 1951	2B	7.0		WW2	4.8	3.8	0.0	1.6
17	Danny Murtaugh	1941 - 1951	2B	6.3		WW2	8.4	1.5	0.0	3.6
18	George Myatt	1938 - 1947	2B	6.2			8.6	-1.1	0.0	1.3
19	Pep Young	1933 - 1945	2B	6.0			5.4	3.0	0.0	2.4
20	Burgess Whitehead	1933 - 1946	2B	5.9		WW2	1.8	7.2	0.0	3.2
21	Stu Martin	1936 - 1943	2B	5.6		WW2	6.1	1.4	0.0	1.9
22	Ray Mack	1938 - 1947	2B	5.2		WW2	4.2	4.7	0.0	3.7
23	Bama Rowell	1939 - 1948	2B	4.9		WW2	6.1	-1.2	0.0	0.1
24	Eddie Mayo	1936 - 1948	2B	4.8			3.0	4.7	0.0	2.9
25	Emil Verban	1944 - 1950	2B	4.5			4.1	4.4	0.0	4.0
26	Don Johnson	1943 - 1948	2B	4.4			4.8	2.2	0.0	2.6
27	Buddy Blattner	1942 - 1949	2B	4.1		WW2	4.5	0.5	0.0	0.9
28	Pete Coscarart	1938 - 1946	2B	3.8			5.3	2.8	0.0	4.3
29	Lou Stringer	1941 - 1950	2B	3.6		WW2	4.5	0.8	0.0	1.6
30	Woody Williams	1938 - 1945	2B	3.5			0.8	4.4	0.0	1.7
31	George Hausmann	1944 - 1949	2B	3.1			3.5	1.1	0.0	1.5
32	Dutch Meyer	1937 - 1946	2B	3.1		WW2	3.8	0.5	0.0	1.3
33	Roy Hughes	1935 - 1946	2B	2.8			4.6	0.8	0.0	2.6
34	Don Kolloway	1940 - 1953	2B	2.1		WW2	1.7	1.8	0.0	1.5
35	Jimmy Bloodworth	1937 - 1951	2B	2.0		WW2	2.4	3.5	0.0	3.9
36	Joe Orengo	1939 - 1945	2B	1.5			2.7	-0.8	0.0	0.4
37	Irv Hall	1943 - 1946	2B	1.0			2.7	1.2	0.0	2.9
38	Johnny Lucadello	1938 - 1947	2B	1.0		WW2	2.2	-0.6	0.0	0.7
39	Ben Steiner	1945 - 1947	2B	0.9			0.9	0.4	0.0	0.4
40	Benny Zientara	1941 - 1948	2B	0.5		WW2	0.3	1.3	0.0	1.0
41	Moon Mullen	1944 - 1944	2B	0.5		WW2	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.6
42	Joe Wood	1943 - 1943	2B	0.5		WW2	0.9	-0.3	0.0	0.1
43	Sherry Robertson	1940 - 1952	2B	0.3		WW2	2.1	-2.0	0.0	-0.1
44	Red Borom	1944 - 1945	2B	0.2		WW2	-0.1	0.5	0.0	0.2
45	Frank Drews	1944 - 1945	2B	0.2			-0.1	0.8	0.0	0.5
46	Steve Biras	1944 - 1944	2B	0.1			0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
47	Gene Mauch	1944 - 1957	2B	0.0		WW2	1.7	-0.5	0.0	1.1
48	Pat Capri	1944 - 1944	2B	-0.0			-0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
49	Lou Rochelli	1944 - 1944	2B	-0.0		WW2	-0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
50	Jackie Sullivan	1944 - 1944	2B	-0.0			-0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

	Bobby Doerr	1937 - 1951	2B	51.3	Pl	WW2	46.2	13.4	0.0	8.3

WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com