Ray Schalk

Position: Catcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-9, 165lb (175cm, 74kg)

Born: August 12, 1892 in Harvel, IL us

Died: May 19, 1970 in Chicago, IL

Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen Park, IL

High School: Litchfield HS (Litchfield, IL)

Debut: August 11, 1912 (Age 19-365d, 3,756th in major league history)
vs. PHA 3 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: September 15, 1929 (Age 37-034d)
vs. STL 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1955. (Voted by Veteran's Committee)
View Ray Schalk's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1913 season

Full Name: Ray William Schalk

Nicknames: Cracker

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

33.0

5306

1345

.254

579

RBI

593

177

OBP

.340

SLG

.316

OPS

.656

OPS+

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

1919 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1919 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 23	CHW	@	SLB	W,13-4	CG	39	9.0	8	0	0	8	0
2	2	Apr 24	CHW	@	SLB	W,5-2	CG	35	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
3	3	Apr 25	CHW	@	SLB	L,2-7	GS	13	2.0	1	0	1	2	0
4	5 (1)	Apr 27	CHW	@	DET	W,6-4	CG	36	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
5	6	Apr 29	CHW	@	DET	W,3-1	CG	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
6	7	Apr 30	CHW	@	DET	W,9-7	CG	42	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
7	8	May 2	CHW		SLB	L,4-11	GS	0	7.0	3	1	0	4	0
8	9	May 4	CHW		SLB	W,4-2	CG	17	5.0	1	0	0	1	0
9	10	May 6	CHW		DET	W,3-1	CG	30	9.0	6	1	0	7	0
10	11	May 7	CHW		DET	W,9-3	CG	38	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
11	12	May 8	CHW	@	CLE	W,4-1	CG	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
12	13	May 10	CHW	@	CLE	L,5-6	CG	44	10.2	5	1	0	6	0
13	14	May 11	CHW	@	CLE	W,10-2	CG	38	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
14	15	May 12	CHW		SLB	W,4-3	CG	35	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
15	16	May 13	CHW		SLB	L,1-2	CG	37	9.0	6	2	1	9	1
16	17	May 14	CHW		BOS	W,1-0	CG	31	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
17	18	May 15	CHW		BOS	L,5-6	CG	51	12.0	5	1	0	6	0
18	19	May 16	CHW		BOS	W,7-4	CG	36	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
19	20	May 17	CHW		PHA	L,0-1	CG	30	9.0	8	4	0	12	1
20	21	May 18	CHW		PHA	W,1-0	CG	31	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
21	22	May 20	CHW		PHA	W,2-1	CG	33	9.0	0	1	1	2	0
22	23	May 22	CHW		NYY	W,1-0	CG	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
23	24	May 23	CHW		NYY	W,5-0	CG	36	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
24	25	May 24	CHW		NYY	L,1-2	CG	32	9.0	3	3	0	6	0
25	26	May 25	CHW		WSH	W,6-5	CG	36	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
26	27	May 26	CHW		WSH	W,3-2	CG	35	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
27	28	May 27	CHW		WSH	W,4-3	CG	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
28	29	May 30 (1)	CHW		CLE	W,4-1	CG	32	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
29	30	May 30 (2)	CHW		CLE	W,3-2	CG	33	9.0	4	4	0	8	0
30	31	May 31	CHW		CLE	W,5-2	CG	34	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
31	32	Jun 1	CHW		CLE	L,3-5	CG	41	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
32	33	Jun 2 (1)	CHW	@	DET	L,3-5	CG	33	8.0	2	2	1	5	0
33	35 (1)	Jun 3	CHW	@	DET	L,3-7	CG	36	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
34	36	Jun 5	CHW	@	NYY	W,5-1	CG	33	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
35	37	Jun 7	CHW	@	NYY	L,4-6	CG	37	8.0	4	0	1	5	0
36	38	Jun 8	CHW	@	NYY	L,0-4	CG	38	8.0	2	0	1	3	0
37	39	Jun 10	CHW	@	BOS	W,5-3	CG	39	9.0	7	0	1	8	0
38	41 (1)	Jun 12	CHW	@	BOS	L,0-4	CG	34	8.0	2	3	0	5	0
39	42	Jun 13	CHW	@	BOS	L,1-6	GS	31	6.0	4	0	1	5	0
40	43	Jun 14	CHW	@	PHA	W,6-3	CG	59	14.0	7	3	0	10	0
41	44	Jun 16	CHW	@	PHA	W,5-1	CG	34	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
42	45	Jun 17	CHW	@	PHA	W,7-6	CG	41	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
43	46	Jun 18	CHW	@	WSH	L,0-2	CG	29	8.0	4	0	0	4	0
44	47	Jun 19	CHW	@	WSH	W,5-4	CG	39	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
45	48	Jun 20	CHW	@	WSH	W,5-2	CG	31	9.0	7	2	0	9	0
46	49	Jun 21	CHW	@	WSH	L,3-6	GS	21	4.1	2	0	1	3	0
47	50	Jun 22	CHW	@	DET	L,4-5	CG	35	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
48	51	Jun 23	CHW		CLE	L,2-3	CG	33	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
49	52	Jun 24	CHW		CLE	L,0-2	CG	34	9.0	4	1	0	5	1
50	53	Jun 25	CHW		CLE	W,7-1	CG	37	9.0	4	4	0	8	1
51	54	Jun 26	CHW	@	SLB	L,2-3	CG	51	12.2	5	0	0	5	0
52	55	Jun 27	CHW	@	SLB	L,1-4	CG	31	8.0	6	0	0	6	1
53	56	Jun 28	CHW	@	SLB	W,3-2	CG	35	9.0	5	0	1	6	0
54	57	Jun 29	CHW	@	SLB	L,3-5	GS	25	6.0	2	0	0	2	0
55	58	Jun 30	CHW	@	CLE	W,5-2	CG	32	9.0	4	1	0	5	1
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
56	59	Jul 1	CHW	@	CLE	L,9-14	GS	13	2.0	1	1	0	2	0
57	60	Jul 2	CHW	@	CLE	W,6-4	CG	41	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
58	61	Jul 3	CHW	@	CLE	W,17-1	CG	35	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
59	62	Jul 4 (1)	CHW		DET	W,8-1	CG	38	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
60	63	Jul 4 (2)	CHW		DET	W,2-1	CG	33	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
61	64	Jul 5	CHW		DET	L,3-6	CG	39	9.0	3	0	1	4	0
62	65	Jul 6	CHW		DET	W,4-1	CG	38	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
63	66	Jul 7	CHW		DET	W,8-3	CG	39	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
64	67	Jul 9 (1)	CHW		PHA	W,8-7	CG	40	9.0	6	3	0	9	1
65	68	Jul 9 (2)	CHW		PHA	W,6-2	GS	25	7.0	1	1	0	2	0
66	69	Jul 10	CHW		PHA	W,9-2	GS	26	7.0	1	0	0	1	0
67	70	Jul 11	CHW		PHA	W,7-1	CG	36	9.0	5	2	0	7	0
68	71	Jul 12	CHW		BOS	L,4-12	GS	24	5.0	2	1	0	3	0
69	72	Jul 13	CHW		BOS	W,14-9	CG	43	9.0	9	0	0	9	0
70	73	Jul 14	CHW		BOS	W,9-3	CG	34	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
71	74	Jul 15	CHW		BOS	W,3-1	CG	32	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
72	75	Jul 16	CHW		WSH	L,1-11	GS	25	5.0	5	2	1	8	0
73	77 (1)	Jul 18	CHW		WSH	W,3-0	CG	30	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
74	78	Jul 19	CHW		WSH	W,6-5	CG	46	11.0	5	1	0	6	0
75	79	Jul 20	CHW		NYY	W,2-1	CG	33	10.0	3	0	0	3	0
76	80	Jul 21 (1)	CHW		NYY	W,7-6	CG	41	9.0	8	1	0	9	0
77	81	Jul 21 (2)	CHW		NYY	W,5-4	CG	41	10.0	5	0	0	5	0
78	82	Jul 22	CHW		NYY	L,1-6	CG	42	9.0	6	1	0	7	0
79	83	Jul 24	CHW		SLB	W,1-0	CG	36	10.0	5	0	0	5	0
80	84	Jul 25	CHW		SLB	W,6-4	CG	41	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
81	87 (2)	Jul 29	CHW	@	NYY	L,1-10	GS	28	5.0	1	0	0	1	0
82	88	Jul 30 (1)	CHW	@	NYY	L,5-6	CG	44	9.1	6	1	0	7	0
83	90 (1)	Jul 31	CHW	@	NYY	W,7-2	CG	34	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
84	91	Aug 2 (1)	CHW	@	BOS	L,3-5	CG	38	8.0	4	0	0	4	0
85	92	Aug 2 (2)	CHW	@	BOS	W,10-1	CG	32	9.0	5	1	1	7	0
86	93	Aug 4	CHW	@	BOS	L,1-2	CG	39	8.0	7	4	0	11	0
87	94	Aug 7 (1)	CHW	@	PHA	W,2-1	CG	37	9.0	8	2	0	10	0
88	95	Aug 7 (2)	CHW	@	PHA	L,2-3	CG	35	8.0	4	0	0	4	0
89	96	Aug 8 (1)	CHW	@	PHA	L,4-5	CG	58	12.1	4	1	0	5	0
90	97	Aug 8 (2)	CHW	@	PHA	W,6-2	CG	36	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
91	98	Aug 9	CHW	@	WSH	L,6-11	GS	26	5.0	1	1	0	2	0
92	99	Aug 10	CHW	@	WSH	W,1-0	CG	42	12.0	6	1	0	7	0
93	100	Aug 11	CHW	@	WSH	W,7-4	CG	37	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
94	101	Aug 14	CHW		BOS	L,6-15	GS	28	5.0	4	0	0	4	1
95	102	Aug 15	CHW		BOS	W,6-5	CG	46	11.0	6	0	0	6	0
96	103	Aug 16	CHW		BOS	W,7-6	CG	40	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
97	104	Aug 17	CHW		PHA	W,3-1	CG	22	6.0	3	0	0	3	0
98	105	Aug 18	CHW		PHA	W,11-6	GS	25	6.0	5	0	0	5	0
99	106	Aug 19	CHW		PHA	W,8-7	CG	45	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
100	107	Aug 20	CHW		WSH	W,10-3	CG	38	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
101	108	Aug 21	CHW		WSH	W,11-4	GS	28	7.0	3	1	0	4	0
102	109	Aug 22	CHW		WSH	W,3-0	CG	33	9.0	4	2	0	6	1
103	110	Aug 23	CHW		NYY	W,10-2	CG	32	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
104	111	Aug 24	CHW		NYY	W,4-1	CG	35	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
105	112	Aug 25	CHW		NYY	L,5-6	CG	41	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
106	113	Aug 26	CHW	@	SLB	W,4-3	GS	24	6.0	1	1	0	2	0
107	114	Aug 27	CHW	@	SLB	W,6-5	CG	38	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
108	115	Aug 29	CHW	@	CLE	W,3-2	CG	35	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
109	116	Aug 30	CHW	@	CLE	L,0-4	CG	36	8.0	6	4	0	10	0
110	117	Aug 31	CHW	@	CLE	L,1-6	CG	38	8.0	5	1	0	6	1
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
111	118	Sep 1 (1)	CHW	@	DET	W,6-0	CG	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
112	119	Sep 1 (2)	CHW	@	DET	W,5-1	CG	34	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
113	120	Sep 2	CHW	@	DET	L,3-4	CG	60	15.1	5	2	0	7	0
114	121	Sep 5	CHW		CLE	W,9-1	CG	38	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
115	122	Sep 6	CHW		CLE	L,2-11	GS	27	5.0	6	0	1	7	0
116	123	Sep 7	CHW		CLE	W,8-3	CG	35	9.0	3	1	0	4	1
117	124	Sep 9	CHW	@	WSH	W,2-0	CG	32	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
118	125	Sep 11 (1)	CHW	@	WSH	L,3-4	CG	33	8.0	6	0	0	6	0
119	127 (1)	Sep 12	CHW	@	PHA	W,7-0	CG	37	9.0	3	1	0	4	1
120	128	Sep 13	CHW	@	PHA	W,8-2	CG	34	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
121	129	Sep 15	CHW	@	PHA	W,11-10	CG	44	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
122	130	Sep 17 (1)	CHW	@	NYY	W,2-0	CG	33	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
123	131	Sep 17 (2)	CHW	@	NYY	W,11-2	GS	18	5.0	2	0	0	2	0
124	132	Sep 18	CHW	@	NYY	L,4-6	CG	40	8.0	4	0	0	4	0
125	133	Sep 19	CHW	@	BOS	W,3-2	CG	33	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
126	134	Sep 20 (1)	CHW	@	BOS	L,3-4	CG	31	8.1	9	1	0	10	0
127	136 (1)	Sep 24	CHW		SLB	W,6-5	CG	39	9.0	9	1	0	10	0
128	139 (2)	Sep 27	CHW		DET	L,5-7	GS	13	3.0	3	0	0	3	0
129	140	Sep 28	CHW		DET	L,9-10	GS	0	3.0	1	0	0	1	0
							129gm		1083.0	551	130	13	694	11