Oldest ever to play in Center Field
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Jones, Cramer, Williams, and Cooney shouldn't count -- they played "farewell" games in their last season, or in the Federal League after a 6-year retirement, or during WWII. That leaves Finley (42 yr, 2 mo, 18 days), Mays (42 yr, 3 mo, 19 days), Yaz (42 yr, 11 mo, 9 days), and Henderson (43 yr, 6 mo, 29 days). And perhaps Sam Rice, who played 10 games in center some time during 1933, when he began the season 43 years and 2 months old.
NOTE on creating Positional Leaderboards
Player ages are computed as their age on June 30th
Cnt Player **HR** From To Ages G PA AB R H 2B 3B RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions Teams ----+-----------------+-------+----+----+-----+----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+----+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+----------- 1 Carl Yastrzemski 26 1982 1983 42-43 250 960 839 91 227 46 1 128 113 12 79 4 0 4 25 0 1 .271 .358 .421 .779 *D/387 BOS 2 Rickey Henderson 15 2001 2003 42-44 225 771 630 117 141 24 4 63 130 0 147 8 0 3 11 36 9 .224 .362 .346 .708 *7/8D9 SDP-BOS-LAD 3 Willie Mays 6 1973 1973 42-42 66 239 209 24 44 10 0 25 27 0 47 1 1 1 7 1 0 .211 .303 .344 .647 /*83 NYM 4 Sam Rice 3 1932 1934 42-44 276 779 708 125 216 39 11 79 62 0 22 4 5 0 0 12 7 .305 .364 .404 .768 9/78 WSH-CLE 5 Steve Finley 1 2007 2007 42-42 43 102 94 9 17 3 0 2 8 1 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 .181 .245 .245 .490 /*89 COL 6 Doc Cramer 0 1948 1948 42-42 4 7 4 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .429 .000 .429 /8 DET 7 Johnny Cooney 0 1943 1944 42-43 54 53 46 8 11 0 0 4 5 0 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 .239 .314 .239 .553 /837 BRO-TOT 8 Cy Williams 0 1930 1930 42-42 21 21 17 1 8 2 0 2 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .471 .571 .588 1.159 /879 PHI 9 Fielder Jones 0 1914 1915 42-43 12 10 9 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .111 .200 .111 .311 /98 SLM Seasons/Careers found: 9.
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