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1907–1913 · bats R / throws R · Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Guardians, New York Yankees
508G
.250AVG
.295OBP
.314SLG
More career statistics
404H
4HR
151RBI
92SB
1Rare feat
Career summary: MLB’s official regular-season totals. Season lines, splits and historical game logs below are reconstructed from the covered Retrosheet records and can differ in coverage or scorer revisions. Compare sources and coverage.
Why official totals and the game-record sums differ
The sources can disagree on historical scorer decisions, appearances, and which games belong to a major-league record. The career summary uses the official total; the source game rows retain their recorded values.
| Statistic | MLB official | Recorded game sum |
|---|---|---|
| Batting · Games | 508 | 514 |
| Batting · At bats | 1,613 | 1,630 |
| Batting · Doubles | 56 | 58 |
| Batting · Hits | 404 | 407 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 13 | 311 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 1,776 | 1,804 |
| Batting · Runs | 163 | 164 |
| Batting · RBI | 151 | 157 |
| Batting · Stolen bases | 92 | 89 |
| Batting · Triples | 17 | 16 |
| Batting · Walks | 99 | 108 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 508 | 1,776 | 1,613 | 163 | 404 | 56 | 17 | 4 | 151 | 99 | 13 | 92 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 506 | .250 | .295 | .314 | .609 |
Streaks
12longest hitting streak · 1911-07-01 to 1911-07-23
12longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | First-Inning Ejection | 1911-08-20 | 1 in 187 games | box score ↗ |
| 29 | struck out 4 times | 1909-04-27 | 1 in 728 player-games | box score ↗ |
| 15 | 2 stolen bases | 1908-05-09 | 1 in 199 player-games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 260 | 891 | 204 | 1 | 82 | 48 | 145 | .253 | .283 | .309 |
| Away | 254 | 913 | 203 | 3 | 75 | 60 | 166 | .246 | .288 | .316 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 28 | 90 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 17 | .178 | .278 | .233 |
| May | 74 | 269 | 66 | 0 | 28 | 18 | 54 | .268 | .312 | .321 |
| June | 104 | 364 | 81 | 0 | 31 | 25 | 61 | .249 | .291 | .311 |
| July | 98 | 334 | 75 | 1 | 28 | 17 | 60 | .252 | .275 | .312 |
| August | 106 | 390 | 96 | 0 | 34 | 18 | 54 | .266 | .292 | .330 |
| September | 92 | 318 | 63 | 3 | 25 | 15 | 59 | .216 | .245 | .288 |
| October | 12 | 39 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | .371 | .410 | .457 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 77 | 272 | 67 | 1 | 29 | 18 | 52 | .275 | .312 | .352 |
| boston-red-sox | 77 | 278 | 55 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 48 | .215 | .234 | .281 |
| chicago-white-sox | 72 | 239 | 52 | 0 | 24 | 12 | 46 | .244 | .268 | .300 |
| detroit-tigers | 70 | 251 | 60 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 39 | .256 | .279 | .308 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 68 | 238 | 51 | 0 | 14 | 16 | 46 | .239 | .282 | .291 |
| new-york-yankees | 59 | 211 | 50 | 1 | 20 | 18 | 33 | .265 | .322 | .354 |
| st-louis-browns | 56 | 203 | 42 | 0 | 21 | 17 | 28 | .233 | .291 | .283 |
| cleveland-guardians | 35 | 112 | 30 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 19 | .297 | .330 | .347 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 |  New York Yankees | 16 | 52 | 10 | – | 4 | 1 | .192 | – | – |
| 1908 | New York Yankees | 133 | 450 | 111 | – | 37 | 32 | .247 | – | – |
| 1909 | Cleveland Guardians, New York Yankees | 104 | 352 | 89 | 1 | 26 | 19 | .253 | – | – |
| 1910 |  Cleveland Guardians | 58 | 123 | 25 | – | 13 | 2 | .203 | – | – |
| 1911 | Cleveland Guardians | 116 | 414 | 122 | 3 | 52 | 21 | .295 | – | – |
| 1912 | Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Guardians | 60 | 181 | 40 | – | 21 | 11 | .221 | – | – |
| 1913 |  Boston Red Sox | 27 | 58 | 10 | – | 4 | 3 | .172 | – | – |