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Hal Leathers
Leathers in the minor leagues, 1923
Shortstop / Second baseman
Born: (1898-12-02)December 2, 1898 Selma, California, US
Died: April 12, 1977(1977-04-12) (aged 78) Modesto, California, US
Batted: Left^[a] Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 13, 1920, for the Chicago Cubs
Last MLB appearance
October 2, 1920, for the Chicago Cubs
Career statistics
Batting average	.304
Home runs	1
Runs batted in	0^[b]
Stats at Baseball Reference

Teams
Chicago Cubs (1920)

Harold Langford Leathers (December 2, 1898 – April 12, 1977) was a professional baseball middle infielder who played in nine games for the 1920 Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). Listed at 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) and 152 pounds (69 kg), he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

Biography

Leathers' minor league baseball career spanned 1918 to 1924, plus a final season in 1926.^[2] He appeared in 778 minor league games, compiling a .253 batting average.^[2] Defensively, he played 480 games as a shortstop and 142 games as a second baseman.^[2]

From mid-September to early October 1920, Leathers appeared in nine major league games with the Chicago Cubs.^[3] He registered a .304 batting average (7-for-23) with one home run,^[3]^[b] which was hit off of Joe Oeschger of the Boston Braves.^[5]^[6] Defensively, Leathers made six appearances at shortstop (four starts) and three appearances at second base, recording an .837 fielding percentage.^[7] He committed three errors in his first major league start at shortstop,^[8] one of which led to an unearned run, the difference in a 1–0 Cubs loss to the Brooklyn Robins.^[9]^[10]

Leathers was born in 1898 in Selma, California.^[3]^[11] As of February 1942, he was living in Los Angeles and was self-employed as a gardener.^[11] He died in 1977 in Modesto, California, and was interred in Hughson, California.^[3]

Notes

^ Leathers was listed as a switch hitter in the Cubs' 1921 pre-season roster.^[1]
^ ^a ^b Somehow, official baseball records of the era do not credit him with a run batted in (RBI) for his home run,^[3] creating a discrepancy in his MLB career record.^[4] For an overview of discrepancies in historical baseball records, see this discussion at Retrosheet.

References

^ "Chicago Cubs' Roster for 1921". Brooklyn Standard Union. March 23, 1921. p. 13. Retrieved August 6, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Hal Leathers Minor Leagues Statistics & History". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Hal Leathers". Retrosheet. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
^ "Discrepancy File for Hal Leathers". Retrosheet. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
^ "Boston Braves 4, Chicago Cubs 2". Retrosheet. September 21, 1920. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
^ O'Leary, James C. (September 22, 1920). "Braves Beat Cubs in Last of Series". The Boston Globe. p. 11. Retrieved August 6, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Hal Leathers Stats". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
^ "The 1920 CHI N Regular Season Fielding Log for Hal Leathers". Retrosheet. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
^ "Thanks to Harold Leathers". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. September 16, 1920. p. 22. Retrieved August 6, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Brooklyn Robins 1, Chicago Cubs 0". Retrosheet. September 15, 1920. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Draft Registration Card". Selective Service System. February 1942. Retrieved August 6, 2020 – via fold3.com.

External links

Career statistics from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet

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