Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book of baseball milestones for errors by first basemen — including career error records marks at first, single season error records plateaus for first basemen, and game specific error records at first base.
"He (George Sisler - tied for American League record in errors scored by a first baseman during a 9-inning game) is the nearest thing to a perfect ballplayer." - Hall of Famer Ty Cobb
Error Records for First BasemenCareer Errors Records at First Base |
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Record | Lg | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most Errors In A Career by a First Baseman |
AL | Hal Chase | New York | 245 | 285 |
Chicago | 40 | ||||
NL | Cap Anson | Chicago | 583 | 583 | |
Error Records for First BasemenSingle Season Errors Records at First Base |
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Record | Lg | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Fewest Errors In A Season by a First Baseman 150+ Games Played at 1B |
AL | Stuffy McInnis | Boston | 1 | 1921 |
NL | Steve Garvey | San Diego | 0 | 1984 | |
Fewest Errors In A Season by a First Baseman By The League Leader |
AL | Adam Dunn | Chicago | 8 | 2013 |
Eric Hosmer | Kansas City | 2013 | |||
Nick Swisher | Cleveland | 2013 | |||
Mark Trumbo | Los Angeles | 2013 | |||
NL | Chris Carter | Milwaukee | 11 | 2016 | |
Ryan Howard | Philadelphia | 2016 | |||
Most Errors In A Season by a First Baseman |
AL | Jerry Freeman | Washington | 41 | 1908 |
NL | Cap Anson | Chicago | 58 | 1884 | |
Most Seasons Leading The League |
AL | Mo Vaughn | Boston | 6 | 1992 |
Boston | 1993 | ||||
Boston | 1994 | ||||
Boston | 1996 | ||||
Boston | 1997 | ||||
Anaheim | 2000 | ||||
NL | Cap Anson | Chicago | 5 | 1882 | |
Chicago | 1884 | ||||
Chicago | 1885 | ||||
Chicago | 1886 | ||||
Chicago | 1892 | ||||
Willie McCovey | San Francisco | 1967 | |||
San Francisco | 1968 | ||||
San Francisco | 1970 | ||||
San Francisco | 1971 | ||||
San Francisco | 1977 | ||||
Dick Stuart | Pittsburgh | 1958 | |||
Pittsburgh | 1959 | ||||
Pittsburgh | 1960 | ||||
Pittsburgh | 1961 | ||||
Pittsburgh | 1962 | ||||
ML | Dick Stuart | Pittsburgh [NL] | 7 | 1958 | |
Pittsburgh [NL] | 1959 | ||||
Pittsburgh [NL] | 1960 | ||||
Pittsburgh [NL] | 1961 | ||||
Pittsburgh [NL] | 1962 | ||||
Boston [AL] | 1963 | ||||
Boston [AL] | 1964 | ||||
Mo Vaughn | Boston [AL] | 1992 | |||
Boston [AL] | 1993 | ||||
Boston [AL] | 1994 | ||||
Boston [AL] | 1996 | ||||
Boston [AL] | 1997 | ||||
Boston [AL] | 2000 | ||||
New York [NL] | 2002 | ||||
Error Records for First BasemenGame Specific Errors Records at First Base |
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Record | Lg | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most Errors In A Game by a First Baseman 9 Innings |
AA | Lew Brown | Louisville | 5 | 09-10-1883 |
AL | Hal Chase | Chicago | 4 | 07-23-1913 | |
Buck Freeman | Boston | 09-23-1901 | |||
George Sisler | St. Louis | 04-14-1925 | |||
Jimmy Wasdell | Washington | 05-03-1939 | |||
NL | John Carbine | Louisville | 5 | 04-29-1876 | |
Roger Connor | Troy | 05-27-1882 | |||
Dude Esterbrook | Buffalo | 07-27-1880 | |||
Everett Mills | Hartford | 10-07-1876 | |||
George Zettlein | Philadelphia | 06-22-1876 | |||
UA | Jack Gorman | Kansas City | 5 | 06-28-1884 | |
Joe Quinn | St. Louis | 07-04-1884 | |||
Most Errors In Any Inning by a First Baseman |
AL | Catfish Metkovich | Boston | 3 | 04-17-1945 |
7th Inning | |||||
Brandon Moss | Oakland | 06-23-2012 | |||
6th Inning | |||||
Tommy McCraw | Chicago | 05-03-1968 | |||
3rd Inning | |||||
Willie Upshaw | Toronto | 07-01-1986 | |||
5th Inning | |||||
NL | Dolph Camilli | Philadelphia | 3 | 08-02-1935 | |
1st Inning | |||||
Jack Clark | St. Louis | 05-25-1987 | |||
2nd Inning | |||||
Al Oliver | Pittsburgh | 05-23-1969 | |||
4th Inning | |||||
Most Consecutive Errorless Games (In A Career by a First Baseman) |
AL | Kevin Youkilis | Boston | 238 | 07-05-2006 |
Boston | 06-06-2008 | ||||
NL | Steve Garvey | San Diego | 193 | 06-26-1983 | |
San Diego | 04-14-1985 | ||||
ML | Casey Kotchman | Los Angeles [AL] | 274 | 06-21-2008 | |
Atlanta [NL] | thru | ||||
Boston [AL] | |||||
Seattle [AL] | 08-20-2010 | ||||
Most Consecutive Errorless Games (In A Season by a First Baseman) |
AL | Kevin Youkilis | Boston | 135 | 04-02-2007 |
Boston | 09-30-2007 | ||||
NL | Steve Garvey | San Diego | 159 | 04-03-1984 | |
San Diego | 09-29-1984 | ||||
Record | Lg | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Error Records for First Basemen by Baseball Almanac |
Did you know that since 1900, not one major league ballplayer has ever had more than four errors in a nine-inning game while playing first base?
In the Union Association, Joe Quinn of the St. Louis Maroons played in one-hundred games in 1884, and set the all-time Major League record for most errors in a season by a first baseman with sixty-two!
On May 1, 1920, Walter Holke of Boston and Ed Konetchy of Brooklyn played in a twenty-six inning game and set the Major League record for longest single game ever played without a single error at first base by either first baseman.