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Originally Posted by NoOne
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)
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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.)