Nick Etten

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Full Name: Nicholas Raymond Thomas Etten	Primary Position: 1B
Height/Weight: 6' 2"/198	First Game: September 8, 1938
Birthdate: September 19, 1913	Final Game: May 9, 1947
Birthplace: Spring Grove, Illinois	MLB Experience: 9 years
Died: October 18, 1990
Deathplace: Hinsdale, Illinois
Bat/Throw: Left/Left

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1 Biography
2 Statistics
- 2.1 Batting Stats
- 2.2 Fielding Stats
3 Transactions
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Nick Etten (Nicholas Raymond Thomas Etten) was born on September 19, 1913 in Spring Grove, Illinois. He made his Major League debut on September 8, 1938 for the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1939, his rookie year, he hit .252 with 3 home runs and 29 RBI. Etten played for the Philadelphia Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees over the course of his 9 year career.

Most people believe that Nick Etten's best season was 1944, when he slugged 22 home runs, hit for a .293 average and knocked in 91 runs.

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[edit] Batting Stats

Year	Team		G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	2B	3B	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SB	IBB	GDP
1938	PHI	A	22	81	6	21	0	11	.259	.333	.383	6	2	9	7	0	0	1	0	0
1939	PHI	A	43	155	20	39	3	29	.252	.322	.406	11	2	16	11	0	3	0	0	4
1941	PHI	N	151	540	78	168	14	79	.311	.405	.454	27	4	82	33	3	2	9	0	10
1942	PHI	N	139	459	37	121	8	41	.264	.357	.375	21	3	67	26	0	5	3	0	8
1943	NY	A	154	583	78	158	14	107	.271	.355	.420	35	5	76	31	0	6	3	0	13
1944	NY	A	154	573	88	168	22	91	.293	.399	.466	25	4	97	29	4	6	4	0	14
1945	NY	A	152	565	77	161	18	111	.285	.387	.437	24	4	90	23	4	4	2	0	21
1946	NY	A	108	323	37	75	9	49	.232	.315	.365	14	1	38	35	1	2	0	0	5
1947	PHI	N	14	41	5	10	1	8	.244	.326	.415	4	0	5	4	0	0	0	0	2
Total	NL		304	1040	120	299	23	128	.287	.381	.417	52	7	154	63	3	7	12	0	20
Total	AL		633	2280	306	622	66	398	.273	.366	.426	115	18	326	136	9	21	10	0	57
Total			937	3320	426	921	89	526	.277	.371	.423	167	25	480	199	12	28	22	0	77

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year	Team		POS	G	GS	INN	PO	A	ERR	DP	TP	PB	SB	CS	PkO	AVG
1938	PHI	A	1B	22	0	0	212	10	3	20	0	0	0	0	0	.987
1939	PHI	A	1B	41	0	0	376	19	4	29	0	0	0	0	0	.990
1941	PHI	N	1B	150	0	0	1286	89	23	124	0	0	0	0	0	.984
1942	PHI	N	1B	135	0	0	1152	83	19	99	0	0	0	0	0	.985
1943	NY	A	1B	154	0	0	1410	79	17	148	0	0	0	0	0	.989
1944	NY	A	1B	154	0	0	1382	106	16	144	0	0	0	0	0	.989
1945	NY	A	1B	152	0	0	1401	94	17	149	0	0	0	0	0	.989
1946	NY	A	1B	84	0	0	717	55	7	80	0	0	0	0	0	.991
1947	PHI	N	1B	11	0	0	94	10	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	.990
Total			1B	903	0	0	8030	545	107	797	0	0	0	0	0	.988

[edit] Transactions

Sold by Philadelphia Athletics to Baltimore (International) (June 14, 1939).
Traded by Philadelphia Phillies to New York Yankees in exchange for Ed Levy, Al Gettel and $10000 (January 22, 1943); Ed Levy returned to New York Yankees and Al Gettel returned to New York Yankees (March 26, 1943); New York Yankees sent Tom Padden and Al Gerheauser (March 26, 1943) to complete trade. Sold by New York Yankees to Philadelphia Phillies (April 14, 1947).
Returned to New York Yankees (May 12, 1947).

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