Tillie Shafer
1909–1913 · bats B / throws R · New York Giants
289G
.273AVG
.366OBP
.360SLG
More career statistics
212H
5HR
83RBI
60SB
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 | 289 | 290 |
| Batting · At bats | 776 | 779 |
| Batting · Doubles | 24 | 25 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 80 | 92 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 909 | 910 |
| Batting · RBI | 83 | 86 |
| Batting · Walks | 105 | 103 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 289 | 909 | 776 | 138 | 212 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 83 | 105 | 80 | 60 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 279 | .273 | .366 | .360 | .726 |
Streaks
9longest hitting streak · 1912-04-11 to 1912-04-24
12longest on-base streak
The rarest thing in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | Three-Steal Game | 1912-05-03 | 1 in 96 games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 159 | 455 | 96 | 5 | 42 | 61 | 58 | .253 | .345 | .356 |
| Away | 131 | 455 | 116 | 0 | 44 | 42 | 34 | .290 | .347 | .362 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 28 | 99 | 26 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 10 | .306 | .394 | .365 |
| May | 45 | 172 | 33 | 0 | 13 | 20 | 15 | .226 | .308 | .281 |
| June | 48 | 154 | 47 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 16 | .341 | .396 | .493 |
| July | 58 | 165 | 37 | 1 | 14 | 18 | 13 | .261 | .333 | .338 |
| August | 47 | 143 | 37 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 16 | .301 | .364 | .447 |
| September | 53 | 149 | 24 | 0 | 13 | 17 | 18 | .195 | .275 | .220 |
| October | 11 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | .364 | .500 | .455 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| boston-braves | 48 | 156 | 35 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 14 | .261 | .346 | .336 |
| chicago-cubs | 47 | 137 | 27 | 0 | 14 | 14 | 16 | .227 | .299 | .269 |
| philadelphia-phillies | 46 | 170 | 41 | 1 | 15 | 22 | 18 | .285 | .371 | .389 |
| st-louis-cardinals | 41 | 137 | 30 | 1 | 19 | 16 | 11 | .259 | .336 | .336 |
| brooklyn-dodgers | 40 | 105 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 13 | .264 | .352 | .299 |
| cincinnati-reds | 36 | 112 | 32 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 11 | .323 | .366 | .434 |
| pittsburgh-pirates | 32 | 93 | 24 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 9 | .300 | .355 | .487 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 |  New York Giants | 43 | 84 | 15 | – | 9 | 6 | .179 | – | – |
| 1910 | New York Giants | 31 | 22 | 4 | – | 1 | – | .182 | – | – |
| 1912 | New York Giants | 78 | 165 | 47 | – | 25 | 22 | .285 | – | – |
| 1913 | New York Giants | 138 | 508 | 146 | 5 | 51 | 32 | .287 | – | – |