Baby Doll Jacobson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 215 lb

BornAugust 16, 1890 · Cable, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1915

Final gameSeptember 22, 1927

Seasons11 (1915–1927)

Detroit Tigers 1915; St. Louis Browns 1915; St. Louis Browns 1917; St. Louis Browns 1919–1925; Boston Red Sox 1926; St. Louis Browns 1926; Boston Red Sox 1927; Cleveland Indians 1927; Philadelphia Athletics 1927

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified batters

148

82.3

635

81.6

576

49.4

172

84.2

98.1

8.2

74.7

RBI

87.3

39.9

26.6

25.3

.299

48.1

OBP

.337

26.6

SLG

.436

59.5

OPS

.772

47.5

wRC+

95.0

OPS+

99.2

39.2

wOBA

.356

40.5

sWAR

1.6

47.5

of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.8

59.3

OPS+

110.8

63.6

sWAR

26.2

95.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1915	71	203	180	18	38	12	3	1	13	15	40	3	5	.211	.290	.328	.618	82.7	85.0	.306	0.0
1917	148	572	529	53	131	23	7	4	55	31	67	10	0	.248	.294	.340	.635	90.6	95.2	.310	0.9
1919	120	492	455	70	147	31	8	4	51	24	47	9	0	.323	.362	.453	.815	122.8	123.9	.382	2.9
1920	154	673	609	97	216	34	14	9	122	46	37	11	7	.355	.402	.501	.903	133.8	134.2	.416	5.1
1921	151	663	599	90	211	38	14	5	92	42	30	8	8	.352	.398	.487	.885	119.3	119.4	.405	3.9
1922	145	629	555	88	176	22	16	9	102	46	36	19	6	.317	.379	.463	.842	115.7	115.7	.387	3.4
1923	147	643	592	76	183	29	6	8	81	29	27	6	6	.309	.343	.419	.762	92.4	95.8	.355	1.7
1924	152	642	579	103	184	41	12	19	97	35	45	6	8	.318	.361	.528	.889	121.4	126.5	.404	4.0
1925	142	602	540	103	184	30	9	15	76	45	26	8	11	.341	.392	.513	.905	120.0	121.9	.414	3.7
1926	148	635	576	62	172	51	2	8	90	31	36	5	3	.299	.337	.436	.772	95.0	99.2	.356	1.6
1927	94	318	293	27	72	17	3	1	42	11	19	1	0	.246	.280	.334	.615	54.2	58.6	.286	-1.0

Career totals

1,472

6,072

5,507

787

1,714

472nd-most career H

328

383rd-most career 2B

194th-most career 3B

RBI

821

495th-most career RBI

355

410

.3112

109th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3572

SLG

.4502

481st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8074

431st-highest career OPS

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	TB
1922-09-09	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	0	3	0	4	10
1924-06-24	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	4	10
1924-04-17	BAL @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	1	10
1926-07-27	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	1	5	9
1922-09-21	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	3	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-04-14	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-15	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-16	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-17	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-18	CWS @ DET 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.