Lou Gehrig Double Plays

Lou Gehrig Career Double Plays Overview

During Lou Gehrig's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1575 double plays, an average of 92.65 double plays per season. 1938 was his best season with 157 double plays and his worst season was 1924 when he had 0 double plays. Lou Gehrig outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (126.165), The Greatest Generation (235.011), Y (536.536), mlb (129.291), and 1B (378.246) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Double plays are events where two separate outs are recorded on a single play and is awarded to a player who either has a putout, assits, or both during the play. Generally, for Double Plays, higher is better. (Source)

Lou Gehrig Lifetime Double Plays

Stats similar to Double Plays for Lou Gehrig

	Lou Gehrig Double Plays
Career	1575
Season Avg.	92.65
162 Game Avg.	118.84
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Lou Gehrig Double Plays By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lou Gehrig's yearly Double Plays for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Lou Gehrig Cumulative Double Plays by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Lou Gehrig's career Double Plays progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Lou Gehrig's career Double Plays at the end of that season.

Lou Gehrig Double Plays By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lou Gehrig and related player groups by summarizing Double Plays for each season played by Lou Gehrig. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!

Lou Gehrig Double Plays Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lou Gehrig Double Plays stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Lou Gehrig career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.