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Bob Pettit
	Robert Henry Pettit


	Born: July 19, 1861 in Williamstown, MA
	Died: November 1, 1910 - 49 years old
	Bats: L	Throws: R	Ht: 5'9"	Wt: 160

Fielding Ratings(?)

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Comparison

Right Fielders				All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time	Hall of Famers		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	HoF	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Sam Thompson	1885 - 1906	RF	44.1	Pl	44.5	-7.1	0.0	-6.8
2	King Kelly	1878 - 1893	RF	43.2	Pl	49.5	-4.4	-1.0	1.0
3	Mike Tiernan	1887 - 1899	RF	41.6		43.4	-8.2	-0.7	-7.2
4	Oyster Burns	1884 - 1895	RF	25.9		29.8	-6.9	-0.3	-3.2
5	Orator Shaffer	1874 - 1890	RF	19.2		13.9	0.4	0.0	-4.9
6	Jimmy Wolf	1882 - 1892	RF	17.3		15.6	-2.3	-0.8	-4.8
7	Ed Swartwood	1881 - 1892	RF	17.2		18.4	-4.4	-0.1	-3.2
8	Jim Fogarty	1884 - 1890	RF	14.9		9.7	2.8	-0.4	-2.8
9	Tommy McCarthy	1884 - 1896	RF	14.7	Pl	13.2	-3.0	-1.5	-6.0
10	Paul Radford	1883 - 1894	RF	12.1		15.3	-3.0	-2.2	-2.0
11	Mike Dorgan	1877 - 1890	RF	8.6		8.8	-3.0	0.0	-2.8
12	Hugh Nicol	1881 - 1890	RF	4.1		-1.1	1.0	0.0	-4.2
13	John Sneed	1884 - 1891	RF	3.7		3.6	-1.3	0.0	-1.4
14	Piggy Ward	1883 - 1894	RF	3.5		4.8	-1.7	0.0	-0.4
15	Joe Visner	1885 - 1891	RF	2.8		3.2	-1.0	0.0	-0.6
16	Ted Scheffler	1888 - 1890	RF	2.5		2.1	-0.4	0.0	-0.8
17	Bill Johnson	1884 - 1892	RF	1.6		1.4	-0.8	0.0	-0.9
18	Count Campau	1888 - 1894	RF	1.3		1.5	-1.0	0.0	-0.8
19	John Rainey	1887 - 1890	RF	0.0		0.4	-0.4	0.0	-0.0
20	John Coleman	1883 - 1890	RF	-0.7		5.3	-4.2	-4.4	-2.6
21	Bob Pettit	1887 - 1891	RF	-1.0		-0.2	-0.8	-0.4	-0.4
22	Gene Moriarity	1884 - 1892	RF	-2.8		-2.3	-0.5	-0.4	-0.3
23	Jack McGeachey	1886 - 1891	RF	-5.9		-4.9	-2.8	-0.9	-2.8

	Bob Pettit	1887 - 1891	RF	-1.0		-0.2	-0.8	-0.4	-0.4

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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