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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1879-06-11 · Played 1897–1915 · Career WAR 43.2 (bWAR) ·

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1897	WAS	NL	6	16	1	6	0	0	0	3	0		1	2	.375	.412	.375	.787	0.1
1900	CHN	NL	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.2
1901	BLA	AL	86	295	40	79	9	9	1	32	10		23	33	.268	.323	.369	.692	-0.2
1902	BLA	AL	65	235	30	64	8	6	4	34	12		21	16	.272	.337	.409	.746	1.3
1902	NY1	NL	51	178	16	51	9	3	1	22	6		16	26	.287	.352	.388	.740
1903	NY1	NL	113	406	87	142	30	8	4	55	34		61	45	.350	.443	.493	.936	4.3
1904	NY1	NL	109	402	81	114	22	7	5	33	13		58	40	.284	.381	.410	.791	3.4
1905	NY1	NL	104	331	58	100	18	3	0	46	11		50	21	.302	.411	.375	.786	4.5
1906	NY1	NL	124	405	69	114	22	4	0	43	25		81	43	.281	.419	.356	.775	5.6
1907	NY1	NL	110	328	57	83	9	7	4	38	15		61	26	.253	.380	.360	.740	3.3
1908	NY1	NL	140	449	70	127	25	3	1	54	14		83	33	.283	.401	.359	.760	5.9
1909	SLN	NL	72	234	27	57	4	1	0	23	11		46	19	.244	.370	.269	.639	2.6
1910	SLN	NL	88	234	35	65	15	3	0	27	13		55	17	.278	.419	.368	.787	2.8
1911	SLN	NL	81	227	22	63	17	8	3	41	4		45	19	.278	.404	.463	.867	3.1
1912	SLN	NL	48	108	8	36	7	2	1	15	4		14	9	.333	.419	.463	.882	1.5
1913	CHN	NL	69	162	20	37	5	2	1	21	7		21	11	.228	.324	.302	.626	0.2
1914	CHN	NL	101	248	42	69	10	4	0	24	14		49	20	.278	.401	.351	.752	3.0
1915	CHN	NL	77	221	19	45	8	1	1	19	19	3	29	23	.204	.296	.262	.558	1.1
Total			1446	4481	682	1252	218	71	26	530	212	3	714	403	.279	.378	.377	.756	42.3

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1897	WAS	NL	4	0	6	5	3	1	41.0	52	18	1	10	12	3.95	1.512	1.0
1901	BLA	AL	0	1	2	1	0	0	6.0	10	4	0	4	3	6.00	2.333	-0.2
1910	SLN	NL	0	0	1	0	0	0	3.1	6	0	0	1	0	0.00	2.100	0.1
Total			4	1	9	6	3	1	50.1	68	22	1	15	15	3.93	1.649	0.9

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1897	WAS	NL	OF	1		2.0	0	0	0	0
1897	WAS	NL	P	6		41.0	2	7	0	0
1900	CHN	NL	C	1		1.0	0	0	0	0
1901	BLA	AL	2B	2		19.0	9	2	1	1
1901	BLA	AL	3B	4		12.0	2	3	0	0
1901	BLA	AL	C	69		573.0	199	63	23	3
1901	BLA	AL	OF	8		51.0	9	1	2	0
1901	BLA	AL	P	2		6.0	0	2	1	0
1902	BLA	AL	3B	30		236.0	33	55	12	4
1902	BLA	AL	C	22		188.0	67	22	5	0
1902	BLA	AL	OF	15		113.0	26	3	5	0
1902	NY1	NL	1B	4		38.0	41	3	2	1
1902	NY1	NL	3B	1		2.0	0	0	0	0
1902	NY1	NL	C	16		146.0	85	22	5	4
1902	NY1	NL	OF	27		205.0	29	6	2	1
1902	NY1	NL	SS	4		38.0	9	9	4	2
1903	NY1	NL	1B	13		106.0	101	9	7	4
1903	NY1	NL	3B	4		40.0	3	12	3	0
1903	NY1	NL	C	11		83.0	46	11	5	1
1903	NY1	NL	OF	84		724.0	150	14	6	6
1904	NY1	NL	1B	10	8	81.0	83	8	5	0
1904	NY1	NL	2B	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0
1904	NY1	NL	3B	1	1	6.0	0	0	2	0
1904	NY1	NL	OF	93	91	795.0	151	14	8	9
1904	NY1	NL	SS	4	3	22.0	7	7	0	4
1905	NY1	NL	C	87	86	767.0	492	114	19	15
1905	NY1	NL	OF	8	7	54.0	11	1	0	0
1906	NY1	NL	C	82	81	703.0	407	125	14	6
1906	NY1	NL	OF	40	40	352.0	71	6	3	2
1907	NY1	NL	1B	6	6	54.0	58	2	3	1
1907	NY1	NL	3B	1	1	13.0	1	3	2	0
1907	NY1	NL	C	95	93	784.0	483	94	8	11
1907	NY1	NL	OF	2	2	23.0	5	2	0	0
1908	NY1	NL	C	139	139	1156.0	657	140	12	12
1909	SLN	NL	2B	9	9	72.0	11	25	2	6
1909	SLN	NL	3B	1	1	10.0	2	2	2	0
1909	SLN	NL	C	59	53	439.0	211	78	12	3
1910	SLN	NL	C	77	75	619.0	295	100	16	11
1910	SLN	NL	OF	2	1	10.0	1	0	0	0
1910	SLN	NL	P	1	0	3.0	0	3	0	1
1911	SLN	NL	2B	2			2	3	1	0
1911	SLN	NL	C	77			325	102	14	9
1912	SLN	NL	C	28			138	49	5	4
1913	CHN	NL	C	58			194	67	10	2
1914	CHN	NL	2B	14			11	18	1	0
1914	CHN	NL	C	85			365	113	11	6
1914	CHN	NL	OF	1			1	0	0	0
1915	CHN	NL	C	68			345	95	8	9
Total				1375	697	8589.0	5138	1416	241	138

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1908	Baseball Magazine All-Star	NL
1908	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML
1909	Baseball Magazine All-Star	NL
1911	Baseball Magazine All-Star	NL
1911	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1936	BBWAA	47	170	No
1937	BBWAA	43	151	No
1938	BBWAA	67	197	No
1939	BBWAA	67	206	No
1942	BBWAA	57	175	No
1945	BBWAA	133	186	No
1945	Old Timers			Yes

Ejections (11)

Date	As	Reason
1914-06-12	Player	Call at 1B
1914-07-10	Player	Fair/foul call
1914-08-11	Player	Fighting
1914-08-24	Player	Balls and strikes
1914-10-03	Player	Balls and strikes
1915-05-15	Manager	Balls and strikes
1915-07-05	Player	Out of batters box
1915-07-13	Manager	Call at 3B (Appeal play)
1915-08-14	Manager	Balls and strikes
1915-09-07	Manager	Called third strike
1915-09-13	Manager	Call at 3B