Shortstop Chance Records

Baseball Almanac invites you to examine chance records for shortstops. Research is complete through completion of the previous season and includes all of the possible chance record variations.
"On the day before the season started, the manager came into the clubhouse and laid brand-new uniforms on a table. I kept looking and I didn't find one for me, so I knew I didn't make the team. I cried all the way home." - HOF shortstop Dave Bancroft
Chances Records

Shortstop
Fewest
In A Season (150+ Games)		 AL Jackie Gutierrez 575 1984
NL Kevin Elster 609 1989
Fewest
In A Season
By The League Leader		 AL Luis Aparicio 695 1957
NL Mark Grudzielanek 683 1997
Most
In A Career		 AL Luis Aparicio 12,564
NL Ozzie Smith 12,624
Most
In A Doubleheader		 AL George McBride
Roger Peckinpaugh
Topper Rigney		 24 08-19-1908
09-08-1919
07-15-1926
NL Danny Richardson 25 06-20-1892
Most
In A Game		 AL Bobby Wallace 17 06-10-1902
NL Eddie Joost
Danny Richardson		 19 05-07-1941
06-20-1892
Most
In A Season		 AL Donie Bush 969 1914
NL Dave Bancroft 984 1922
Most Seasons
Leading The League		 AL Luis Aparicio 7
NL Ozzie Smith 8


On June 27, 1939, Eddie Miller of Boston played twenty-three innings at shortstop and handled twenty-one chances setting the major league record for most chances by a shortstop in an extra inning game!

The longest games with no chances offered to a shortstop? Twelve innings! John Gochnaur of Cleveland on July 14, 1903, Irv Ray of Boston on August 15, 1888, and Billy Rogell of Detroit on June 16, 1937!

Frankie Crosetti and Honus Wagner are the only two shortstops to ever play a game on Opening Day and not receive a single chance at shortstop!
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