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Fred Hancock
	Fred James Hancock


	Born: March 28, 1920 in Allenport, PA
	Died: March 12, 1986 - 65 years old
	Bats: R	Throws: R	Ht: 5'8"	Wt: 170

Fielding Ratings(?)

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Notes:

Comparison

Shortstops				All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time	Hall of Famers		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	HoF	Mil	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Luke Appling	1930 - 1950	SS	74.5	Pl	WW2	70.4	19.0	0.0	15.0
2	Pee Wee Reese	1940 - 1958	SS	66.2	Pl	WW2	55.4	25.6	0.0	14.8
3	Lou Boudreau	1938 - 1952	SS	63.0	Pl		50.3	23.4	0.0	10.7
4	Vern Stephens	1941 - 1955	SS	45.4			45.5	9.1	0.0	9.2
5	Alvin Dark	1946 - 1960	SS	42.9		WW2	41.4	12.2	-0.1	10.5
6	Phil Rizzuto	1941 - 1956	SS	40.6	Pl	WW2	28.1	22.9	0.0	10.4
7	Johnny Pesky	1942 - 1954	SS	31.8		WW2	29.8	6.6	0.0	4.6
8	Marty Marion	1940 - 1953	SS	31.8			17.7	25.0	0.0	11.0
9	Eddie Joost	1936 - 1955	SS	30.6			30.0	10.1	0.0	9.5
10	Solly Hemus	1949 - 1959	SS	25.5			24.1	5.5	0.0	4.1
11	Eddie Miller	1936 - 1950	SS	23.7			15.1	19.0	0.0	10.4
12	Granny Hamner	1944 - 1962	SS	18.6		WW2	19.2	9.0	-0.3	9.3
13	Buddy Kerr	1943 - 1951	SS	11.5			10.0	8.7	0.0	7.2
14	Eddie Lake	1939 - 1950	SS	10.7			12.2	3.5	-0.3	4.8
15	Johnny Lipon	1942 - 1954	SS	5.8		WW2	5.2	5.1	0.0	4.5
16	Stan Rojek	1942 - 1952	SS	5.3		WW2	4.5	4.1	0.0	3.4
17	Roy Smalley	1948 - 1958	SS	2.9			6.0	2.1	0.0	5.3
18	Dick Culler	1936 - 1949	SS	2.5			2.4	2.9	0.0	2.8
19	Claude Corbitt	1945 - 1949	SS	1.1		WW2	0.8	1.5	0.0	1.2
20	Merl Combs	1947 - 1952	SS	-0.0		WW2	-0.4	0.9	0.0	0.5
21	Jim Baumer	1949 - 1961	SS	-0.0		KOR	-0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
22	Al Naples	1949 - 1949	SS	-0.1			-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
23	Tod Davis	1949 - 1951	SS	-0.2		WW2	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1
24	Sammy Meeks	1948 - 1951	SS	-0.2			-0.0	0.1	0.0	0.3
25	Rudy Rufer	1949 - 1950	SS	-0.3			-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
26	Fred Hancock	1949 - 1949	SS	-0.3			-0.3	0.1	0.0	0.1
27	Johnny Bero	1948 - 1951	SS	-0.3		WW2	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.3
28	Billy DeMars	1948 - 1951	SS	-1.5		WW2	-0.2	-1.0	0.0	0.4
29	Andy Anderson	1948 - 1949	SS	-1.8		WW2	-1.1	-0.3	0.0	0.5
30	Neil Berry	1948 - 1954	SS	-2.1		WW2	-1.0	0.6	0.0	1.7
31	Tommy Brown	1944 - 1953	SS	-2.3		WW2	0.6	-2.2	0.0	0.8
32	Virgil Stallcup	1947 - 1953	SS	-2.4		WW2	-1.2	2.6	0.0	3.8
33	Eddie Pellagrini	1946 - 1954	SS	-3.1		WW2	-1.1	-0.2	0.0	1.8
34	Sam Dente	1947 - 1955	SS	-3.4		WW2	-1.1	1.2	0.0	3.6
35	John Sullivan	1942 - 1949	SS	-4.3		WW2	1.7	-2.2	0.0	3.8

	Fred Hancock	1949 - 1949	SS	-0.3			-0.3	0.1	0.0	0.1

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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James