Lou Gehrig Career Stolen Base Attempts Overview

During Lou Gehrig's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 203 stolen base attempts, an average of 12 stolen base attempts per season. 1931 was his best season with 29 stolen base attempts and his worst season was 1923 when he had 0 stolen base attempts. Lou Gehrig is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (60.1204), The Greatest Generation (33.4294), mlb (60.408), 1B (47.6998), and Y (255.352) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Stolen base attempts (SBA) is the number of times a player or team player tries to take a base they are not entitled to, regardless of outcome. Generally, for Stolen Base Attempts, higher is better. (Source)

Lou Gehrig Lifetime Stolen Base Attempts

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Lou Gehrig
Stolen Base Attempts
Career203
Season Avg.12
162 Game Avg.15
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Lou Gehrig Stolen Base Attempts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lou Gehrig's yearly Stolen Base Attempts 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.
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Lou Gehrig Cumulative Stolen Base Attempts by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Lou Gehrig's career Stolen Base Attempts progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Lou Gehrig's career Stolen Base Attempts at the end of that season.
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Lou Gehrig Stolen Base Attempts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lou Gehrig and related player groups by summarizing Stolen Base Attempts 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!
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Lou Gehrig Stolen Base Attempts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lou Gehrig Stolen Base Attempts 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.
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