Charlie Gehringer

Position: Second Baseman

Bats: Left • Throws: Right

5-11, 180lb (180cm, 81kg)

Born: May 11, 1903 in Fowlerville, MI us

Died: January 21, 1993 in Bloomfield Hills, MI

Buried: Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Southfield, MI

High School: Fowlerville HS (Fowlerville, MI)

School: University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

Debut: September 22, 1924 (Age 21-134d, 6,071st in major league history)
vs. BOS 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: September 27, 1942 (Age 39-139d)
vs. CLE 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1949. (Voted by BBWAA in Runoff Election on 159/187 ballots)
View Charlie Gehringer's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1926 season

Full Name: Charles Leonard Gehringer

Nicknames: The Mechanical Man

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

84.7

8860

2839

184

.320

1775

RBI

1427

181

OBP

.404

SLG

.481

OPS

.884

OPS+

125

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

1941 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1941 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 16	DET	@	SLB	L,1-8	CG	42	8.0	0	1	0	1	0
2	2	Apr 18	DET		CLE	W,4-2	CG	37	9.0	5	3	0	8	0
3	3	Apr 19	DET		CLE	L,1-2	CG	40	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
4	4	Apr 20	DET		CLE	L,2-4	CG	38	9.0	3	2	1	6	0
5	5	Apr 22	DET		CHW	L,3-6	CG	40	9.0	1	6	2	9	1
6	6	Apr 23	DET		CHW	W,13-5	CG	40	9.0	1	4	0	5	1
7	7	Apr 24	DET		SLB	W,4-2	CG	32	9.0	1	6	0	7	3
8	8	Apr 25	DET		SLB	W,12-11	CG	48	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
9	9	Apr 26	DET	@	CLE	L,3-6	CG	36	8.0	0	2	0	2	0
10	10	Apr 27	DET	@	CLE	L,1-2	CG	29	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
11	11	Apr 28	DET	@	CLE	L,2-7	CG	41	8.0	2	3	0	5	0
12	12	Apr 29	DET		BOS	W,5-3	CG	38	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
13	13	Apr 30	DET		BOS	W,12-8	CG	47	9.0	0	0	1	1	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
14	14	May 1	DET		BOS	L,9-15	CG	53	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
15	15	May 2	DET		PHA	W,15-1	CG	0	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
16	16	May 3	DET		PHA	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	3	4	0	7	2
17	17	May 4	DET		NYY	W,10-1	CG	33	9.0	2	3	1	6	0
18	18	May 5	DET		NYY	W,7-3	CG	38	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
19	19	May 6	DET		NYY	W,7-4	CG	34	9.0	2	8	0	10	0
20	20	May 7	DET		WSH	L,2-4	CG	38	9.0	5	4	0	9	0
21	21	May 8	DET		WSH	L,1-7	CG	45	9.0	5	6	0	11	0
22	22	May 10	DET	@	CHW	L,3-4	CG	0	8.0	3	5	0	8	2
23	23	May 11	DET	@	CHW	L,1-2	CG	0	8.2	3	4	0	7	1
24	24	May 13	DET	@	WSH	L,4-5	CG	35	8.0	1	3	0	4	1
25	25	May 14	DET	@	WSH	L,4-9	CG	42	8.0	3	5	1	9	0
26	26	May 15	DET	@	PHA	W,10-2	CG	38	9.0	0	1	0	1	1
27	27	May 16	DET	@	PHA	W,5-4	CG	40	9.0	0	3	0	3	1
28	28	May 17	DET	@	PHA	W,8-5	CG	39	9.0	0	4	0	4	0
29	29	May 18	DET	@	BOS	W,6-5	CG	43	11.0	5	4	0	9	2
30	30	May 19	DET	@	BOS	W,4-2	CG	32	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
31	31	May 20	DET	@	BOS	L,2-4	CG	32	8.0	1	4	0	5	3
32	32	May 21	DET	@	NYY	L,4-5	CG	47	9.1	1	2	0	3	0
33	33	May 22	DET	@	NYY	L,5-6	CG	38	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
34	34	May 23 (1)	DET		CHW	L,1-7	GS	0		0	3	1	4	1
35	35	May 23 (2)	DET		CHW	W,9-0	CG	0	9.0	4	3	0	7	1
36	36	May 24	DET		CHW	W,1-0	CG	31	9.0	3	1	0	4	1
37	37	May 25	DET		CHW	L,3-7	CG	0	9.0	4	2	0	6	1
38	38	May 26	DET	@	CLE	W,5-3	CG	36	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
39	39	May 27	DET	@	CLE	W,9-6	CG	39	9.0	1	7	0	8	0
40	40	May 28	DET		CLE	W,8-5	CG	44	9.0	5	2	0	7	0
41	41	May 29	DET		CLE	L,0-9	CG	47	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
42	42	May 30 (1)	DET		SLB	W,6-5	CG	42	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
43	43	May 30 (2)	DET		SLB	W,10-6	CG	44	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
44	44	Jun 1 (1)	DET		BOS	L,6-7	CG	42	9.0	3	4	0	7	1
45	45	Jun 1 (2)	DET		BOS	L,5-6	CG	40	9.0	4	1	0	5	1
46	46	Jun 2	DET		BOS	L,1-9	GS	0		1	0	0	1	0
47	47	Jun 3	DET		NYY	W,4-2	CG	37	9.0	3	5	0	8	1
48	48	Jun 5	DET		NYY	W,5-4	CG	45	10.0	2	2	0	4	0
49	49	Jun 6	DET		WSH	W,11-8	CG	43	9.0	2	4	0	6	1
50	50	Jun 7	DET		WSH	W,10-6	CG	38	9.0	1	3	0	4	1
51	51	Jun 8	DET		WSH	L,3-9	CG	0	9.0	3	5	0	8	1
52	52	Jun 10	DET		PHA	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
53	53	Jun 11	DET		PHA	W,5-2	CG	0	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
54	54	Jun 12	DET		PHA	L,3-5	CG	38	9.0	3	8	0	11	3
55	55	Jun 15 (1)	DET	@	WSH	L,5-7	CG	0	8.0	3	4	0	7	1
56	56	Jun 15 (2)	DET	@	WSH	W,4-2	CG	0	6.0	0	3	0	3	1
57	57	Jun 16	DET	@	WSH	L,1-3	CG	36	8.0	2	2	0	4	0
58	58	Jun 17 (1)	DET	@	BOS	L,6-14	GS	42	7.0	2	2	0	4	0
59	59	Jun 17 (2)	DET	@	BOS	W,8-5	CG	43	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
60	60	Jun 18	DET	@	BOS	W,5-2	CG	35	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
61	61	Jun 19	DET	@	BOS	L,4-6	CG	38	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
62	62	Jun 20	DET	@	NYY	L,4-14	GS	18	3.0	0	2	0	2	0
63	63	Jun 21	DET	@	NYY	W,7-2	CG	36	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
64	64	Jun 22	DET	@	NYY	L,4-5	CG	42	8.2	5	2	0	7	1
65	65	Jun 24	DET	@	PHA	W,2-1	CG	37	9.0	4	3	0	7	3
66	66	Jun 25	DET	@	PHA	L,4-5	CG	0	8.0	0	3	0	3	0
67	67	Jun 26	DET	@	PHA	L,4-8	CG	40	8.0	4	5	0	9	1
68	68	Jun 27	DET		SLB	L,0-9	CG	47	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
69	69	Jun 28	DET		SLB	L,1-3	CG	42	10.0	2	3	0	5	1
70	70	Jun 29	DET		SLB	W,3-1	CG	35	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
71	71	Jun 30	DET	@	CHW	L,6-7	CG	0	8.1	2	4	0	6	1
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
72	73 (1)	Jul 2	DET	@	CHW	W,1-0	CG	31	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
73	75 (1)	Jul 4 (2)	DET		CHW	W,10-6	GS	34	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
74	76	Jul 5 (1)	DET	@	SLB	L,3-9	GS	30	5.0	1	1	0	2	0
75	77	Jul 5 (2)	DET	@	SLB	L,1-10	CG	42	8.0	1	0	1	2	0
76	79 (1)	Jul 6 (2)	DET	@	SLB	L,3-5	GF	10	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
77	81 (1)	Jul 12 (1)	DET		BOS	L,5-7	CG	40	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
78	82	Jul 12 (2)	DET		BOS	L,2-10	CG	0	9.0	3	5	0	8	0
79	83	Jul 13	DET		PHA	L,4-5	CG	47	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
80	84	Jul 14	DET		PHA	W,4-2	CG	35	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
81	89 (4)	Jul 19 (2)	DET		NYY	L,2-6	CG	43	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
82	90	Jul 20	DET		NYY	L,6-12	CG	77	17.0	3	2	0	5	2
83	94 (3)	Jul 25	DET	@	PHA	L,5-11	CG	45	8.0	1	3	1	5	0
84	95	Jul 26	DET	@	PHA	W,4-2	CG	42	9.0	2	4	0	6	2
85	96	Jul 27 (1)	DET	@	PHA	L,1-8	GS	31	6.0	1	1	0	2	0
86	97	Jul 27 (2)	DET	@	PHA	L,0-7	CG	35	8.0	1	3	0	4	0
87	98	Jul 29	DET	@	NYY	W,6-3	CG	37	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
88	100 (1)	Jul 31 (2)	DET	@	NYY	L,0-5	CG	32	7.0	3	4	0	7	1
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
89	102 (1)	Aug 3	DET	@	BOS	W,6-3	CG	43	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
90	104 (1)	Aug 6	DET	@	CLE	W,11-2	GS	27	7.0	2	2	0	4	1
91	105	Aug 7	DET	@	CLE	W,4-3	CG	52	13.0	3	5	0	8	0
92	106	Aug 9	DET		SLB	W,3-0	CG	34	9.0	3	1	0	4	1
93	107	Aug 10	DET		SLB	L,3-7	CG	43	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
94	108	Aug 12 (1)	DET		CLE	W,2-0	CG	35	9.0	5	4	0	9	0
95	112 (3)	Aug 14 (2)	DET	@	CHW	L,0-3	CG	31	8.0	0	1	0	1	0
96	113	Aug 15	DET	@	SLB	L,1-6	CG	37	8.0	2	3	0	5	0
97	114	Aug 16	DET	@	SLB	L,2-3	CG	39	8.1	3	1	0	4	0
98	115	Aug 17 (1)	DET	@	SLB	W,8-1	GS	0		0	0	0	0	0
99	116	Aug 17 (2)	DET	@	SLB	L,1-6	GS	0		3	1	0	4	0
100	117	Aug 19 (1)	DET		NYY	W,12-3	CG	42	9.0	3	2	1	6	0
101	119 (1)	Aug 20	DET		NYY	W,1-0	CG	33	10.0	1	5	0	6	1
102	120	Aug 21 (1)	DET		WSH	L,3-6	CG	47	9.0	6	3	1	10	0
103	122 (1)	Aug 22	DET		WSH	W,5-4	CG	38	9.0	4	3	0	7	0
104	123	Aug 23	DET		WSH	W,6-5	CG	43	10.0	1	1	0	2	0
105	124	Aug 24	DET		PHA	W,7-4	CG	39	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
106	125	Aug 26 (1)	DET		PHA	L,1-9	CG	45	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
107	128 (2)	Aug 28	DET		BOS	W,8-7	CG	42	9.0	4	5	0	9	1
108	130 (1)	Aug 31 (1)	DET	@	CLE	W,7-5	CG	38	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
109	132 (1)	Sep 1 (1)	DET		SLB	W,9-5	CG	0	9.0	4	1	0	5	1
110	144 (11)	Sep 15	DET	@	WSH	L,5-8	CG	39	8.0	3	3	0	6	0
111	146 (1)	Sep 17	DET	@	PHA	W,3-2	CG	38	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
112	148 (1)	Sep 21 (1)	DET	@	CHW	W,6-3	CG	35	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
113	150 (1)	Sep 22	DET	@	CHW	W,11-0	GS	17	5.0	0	1	0	1	1
114	151	Sep 23	DET	@	SLB	W,4-1	CG	0	10.0	2	3	0	5	1
115	152	Sep 24	DET	@	SLB	L,1-3	CG	33	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
116	154 (1)	Sep 27	DET		CHW	L,6-10	CG	43	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
							116gm		999.0	279	324	11	614	59