Art Nichols
Chicago Orphans 1898–1900; St. Louis Cardinals 1901–1903
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1898 | 14 | 50 | 42 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 0 | .286 | .388 | .310 | .697 | 107.1 | 100.0 | .355 | 0.3 |
| 1899 | 17 | 50 | 47 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .255 | .286 | .362 | .647 | 75.1 | 76.8 | .306 | 0.1 |
| 1900 | 8 | 28 | 25 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .286 | .200 | .486 | 47.6 | 35.1 | .252 | 0.0 |
| 1901 | 93 | 338 | 308 | 50 | 75 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 33 | 10 | 35 | 14 | 0 | .244 | .290 | .308 | .598 | 75.8 | 74.8 | .288 | 0.5 |
| 1902 | 73 | 285 | 251 | 36 | 67 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 21 | 19 | 18 | 0 | .267 | .333 | .327 | .660 | 106.4 | 105.0 | .329 | 0.7 |
| 1903 | 36 | 137 | 120 | 13 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 0 | .192 | .281 | .208 | .490 | 51.4 | 41.0 | .255 | -0.6 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-05-08 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1902-07-23 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1901-06-10 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1901-06-25 | STL @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1901-06-29 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-04-19 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-20 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-21 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-23 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-24 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.