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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1876-09-09 · Played 1898–1914 · Career WAR 46.9 (bWAR) ·

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1898	CHN	NL	53	147	32	41	4	3	1	14	7	7	14	.279	.338	.367	.705	0.4
1899	CHN	NL	64	192	37	55	6	2	1	22	10	15	9	.286	.351	.354	.705	1.4
1900	CHN	NL	56	149	26	44	9	3	0	13	8	15	12	.295	.413	.396	.809	1.8
1901	CHN	NL	69	241	38	67	12	4	0	36	27	29	24	.278	.376	.361	.737	1.6
1902	CHN	NL	76	242	40	70	9	4	1	31	29	37	23	.289	.401	.372	.773	2.6
1903	CHN	NL	125	441	83	144	24	10	2	81	67	78	41	.327	.439	.440	.879	5.8
1904	CHN	NL	124	451	89	140	16	10	6	49	42	36	21	.310	.382	.430	.812	5.9
1905	CHN	NL	118	392	92	124	16	12	2	70	38	78	26	.316	.450	.434	.884	5.6
1906	CHN	NL	136	474	103	151	24	10	3	71	57	70	31	.319	.419	.430	.849	7.3
1907	CHN	NL	111	382	58	112	19	2	1	49	35	51	21	.293	.395	.361	.756	4.8
1908	CHN	NL	129	452	65	123	27	4	2	55	27	37	37	.272	.338	.363	.701	3.7
1909	CHN	NL	93	324	53	88	16	4	0	46	29	30	32	.272	.341	.346	.687	2.0
1910	CHN	NL	88	295	54	88	12	8	0	36	16	37	15	.298	.395	.393	.788	2.7
1911	CHN	NL	31	88	23	21	6	3	1	17	9	25	13	.239	.432	.409	.841	1.1
1912	CHN	NL	2	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	.200	.500	.200	.700	0.1
1913	NYA	AL	12	24	3	5	0	0	0	6	1	8	1	.208	.406	.208	.614	0.1
1914	NYA	AL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0
Total			1288	4299	798	1274	200	79	20	596	403	556	320	.296	.377	.394	.771	46.9

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1898	CHN	NL	1B	3		16.0	18	0	2	0
1898	CHN	NL	C	33		159.0	62	14	4	3
1898	CHN	NL	OF	17		161.0	23	5	7	1
1899	CHN	NL	1B	1		2.0	2	0	0	0
1899	CHN	NL	C	57		454.0	166	64	12	6
1899	CHN	NL	OF	1		2.0	0	0	0	0
1900	CHN	NL	1B	1		5.0	5	1	1	0
1900	CHN	NL	C	51		395.0	155	65	16	2
1901	CHN	NL	1B	6		31.0	27	3	4	1
1901	CHN	NL	C	13		107.0	55	20	1	2
1901	CHN	NL	OF	51		389.0	61	7	5	0
1902	CHN	NL	1B	38		344.0	391	20	13	21
1902	CHN	NL	C	30		233.0	118	28	4	2
1902	CHN	NL	OF	4		22.0	4	0	0	0
1903	CHN	NL	1B	121		1045.0	1204	68	36	49
1903	CHN	NL	C	2		14.0	8	0	1	0
1904	CHN	NL	1B	123	122	1077.0	1205	106	13	48
1904	CHN	NL	C	1	1	13.0	8	1	0	0
1905	CHN	NL	1B	115	115	1043.0	1165	75	13	54
1906	CHN	NL	1B	136	136	1221.0	1376	82	16	71
1907	CHN	NL	1B	109	109	949.0	1129	80	10	64
1908	CHN	NL	1B	126	125	1090.0	1291	86	15	56
1909	CHN	NL	1B	92	92	798.0	901	40	6	43
1910	CHN	NL	1B	87	87	717.0	773	38	3	48
1911	CHN	NL	1B	29			289	11	3	12
1912	CHN	NL	1B	2			22	0	0	1
1913	NYA	AL	1B	7			86	5	0	2
1914	NYA	AL	1B	1			1	0	0	0
Total				1257	787	10287.0	10545	819	185	486

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1909	Baseball Magazine All-Star	NL
1910	Baseball Magazine All-Star	NL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1936	BBWAA	5	170	No
1937	BBWAA	49	151	No
1938	BBWAA	133	197	No
1939	BBWAA	158	206	No
1942	BBWAA	136	175	No
1945	BBWAA	179	186	No
1946	Final Ballot	150	198	No
1946	Nominating Vote	144		No
1946	Old Timers			Yes

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