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Old 04-17-2018, 03:39 PM   #19
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1919 he started 15gs/17 pitching appearances and ~130 total games played. they probably didn't do a whole lot of doubling up of duties. must have done some though, otherwise the math adds up to a 167 game season (*154g then?) if he did not do some batting between those GS. (132-15 + (15*4) = 167g roughly and that assumes no day off after the last GS... which could add another few days, if you wanted to)
According to Retrosheet's stats page for Ruth, in 1919 he started 106 games in LF, 15 games as a pitcher, and 5 games at 1B. He played the entire game at a given position as follows: 96 games in LF, 12 games as pitcher, 4 games at 1B.

Here is Retrosheet's daily fielding log for Ruth for the 1919 season. There are box scores available for every game. (Play-by-play data, however. is not available.)
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