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This day in baseball · September 16, 1871: the New York Mutuals visited the Boston Red Stockings at South End Grounds I. Boston Red Stockings 9, New York Mutuals 7. W1871 in baseball↗

From the vault · October 15, 2008 · 2008 NLCS, Game 5: The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5–1 at Dodger Stadium to win the NL pennant, 4 games to 1. ▶ Video ↗

Al SpaldingWWikipedia↗

Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1850-09-02 · Played 1871–1878 · Career WAR 60.2 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=spaldal01, LAHMAN=spaldal01, MLBAM=122558, RETROSHEET=spala101

Photo: George Grantham Bain, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1871	BS1	NA	31		144	43	39	10	1	1	31	2	0	8	1	.271	.309	.375	.684	-0.1
1872	BS1	NA	48		237	60	84	12	5	0	47	3	0	3	1	.354	.362	.447	.809	1.2
1873	BS1	NA	60		323	83	106	15	1	1	71	9	0	3	2	.328	.334	.390	.724	1.3
1874	BS1	NA	71		362	80	119	13	1	0	54	2	1	3	0	.329	.334	.370	.704	1.8
1875	BS1	NA	74		343	68	107	15	3	0	56	2	2	3	3	.312	.318	.373	.691	1.4
1876	CHN	NL	66		292	54	91	14	2	0	44			6	3	.312	.326	.373	.699	0.8
1877	CHN	NL	60		254	29	65	7	6	0	35			3	16	.256	.265	.331	.596	0.4
1878	CHN	NL	1		4	0	2	0	0	0	0			0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	0.0
Total			411		1959	417	613	86	19	2	338	18	3	29	26	.313	.323	.379	.702	6.8

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1871	BS1	NA	19	10	31	31	22	1	0	257.1	333	96	2	38	23	3.36	1.442	3.7
1872	BS1	NA	38	8	48	48	41	3	0	404.2	417	83	0	27	28	1.85	1.097	11.0
1873	BS1	NA	41	14	60	54	46	1	3	496.2	643	165	5	36	50	2.99	1.367	7.9
1874	BS1	NA	52	16	71	69	65	4	0	617.1	755	132	1	19	31	1.92	1.254	8.9
1875	BS1	NA	54	5	72	62	52	7	9	570.2	573	101	1	18	75	1.59	1.036	12.8
1876	CHN	NL	47	12	61	60	53	8	0	528.2	542	103	6	26	39	1.75	1.074	9.4
1877	CHN	NL	1	0	4	1	0	0	1	11.0	17	4	0	0	2	3.27	1.545	-0.3
Total			252	65	347	325	279	24	13	2886.1	3280	684	15	164	248	2.13	1.193	53.4

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1871	BS1	NA	OF	9	0	14.0	3	0	0	0
1871	BS1	NA	P	31	31	257.0	11	48	17	2
1872	BS1	NA	OF	7	0	6.0	1	0	0	0
1872	BS1	NA	P	48	48	405.0	28	101	14	2
1873	BS1	NA	OF	14		39.0	5	0	1	0
1873	BS1	NA	P	60		497.0	36	125	21	5
1874	BS1	NA	OF	6	2	39.0	5	0	1	0
1874	BS1	NA	P	71	69	617.0	38	143	31	3
1875	BS1	NA	1B	4		22.0	28	0	0	0
1875	BS1	NA	OF	18		79.0	11	0	6	0
1875	BS1	NA	P	72		571.0	51	133	19	10
1876	CHN	NL	1B	3		6.0	6	0	0	0
1876	CHN	NL	OF	10		44.0	7	2	3	0
1876	CHN	NL	P	61		529.0	45	92	7	7
1876	CHN	NL	SS	1		1.0	0	0	0	0
1877	CHN	NL	1B	45		387.0	472	21	21	23
1877	CHN	NL	2B	13		124.0	37	50	8	6
1877	CHN	NL	3B	2		17.0	0	5	3	0
1877	CHN	NL	P	4		11.0	2	6	1	0
1878	CHN	NL	2B	1		9.0	3	0	4	0
Total				480	150	3674.0	789	726	157	58

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1936	Veterans	4	59	No
1939	Old Timers			Yes