MLB / Players

Bibb Falk

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 27, 1899 · Austin, TX, USA

MLB debutJuly 17, 1920

Final gameSeptember 23, 1931

Seasons12 (1920–1931)

Chicago White Sox 1920–1928; Cleveland Indians 1929–1931

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

125

488

48.2

426

47.6

42.7

133

70.7

57.9

77.4

RBI

79.9

54.3

50.6

20.7

20.1

.312

54.3

OBP

.374

SLG

.507

75.6

OPS

.881

69.5

wRC+

119.1

65.9

OPS+

120.6

67.7

wOBA

.396

66.5

sWAR

2.1

56.1

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.4

64.4

OPS+

112.6

67.6

sWAR

18.7

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
1920	7	19	17	1	5	1	1	0	2	0	5	0	0	.294	.294	.471	.765	93.2	101.0	.344	0.0
1921	152	648	585	62	167	31	11	5	82	37	69	4	4	.285	.330	.402	.732	84.7	87.2	.338	0.2
1922	131	534	483	58	144	27	1	12	79	27	55	2	6	.298	.335	.433	.768	95.9	99.1	.351	0.8
1923	87	316	274	44	84	18	6	5	38	25	12	5	5	.307	.367	.471	.837	117.7	120.1	.388	1.3
1924	138	594	526	77	185	37	8	6	99	47	21	6	6	.352	.406	.487	.893	130.1	130.9	.415	3.5
1925	154	677	602	80	181	35	9	4	99	51	25	4	5	.301	.357	.409	.766	97.3	98.2	.358	1.2
1926	155	657	566	86	195	43	4	8	108	66	22	9	10	.345	.415	.477	.892	137.9	137.0	.416	4.4
1927	145	613	535	76	175	35	6	9	83	52	19	5	7	.327	.391	.465	.856	124.2	124.8	.396	3.1
1928	98	321	286	42	83	18	4	1	37	25	16	5	1	.290	.347	.392	.739	94.9	95.1	.343	0.5
1929	125	488	426	65	133	30	7	13	93	42	14	4	4	.312	.374	.507	.881	119.1	120.6	.396	2.1
1930	82	218	191	34	62	12	1	4	36	23	8	2	0	.325	.397	.461	.858	114.0	112.9	.390	0.9
1931	79	179	161	30	49	13	1	2	28	17	13	1	1	.304	.371	.435	.806	105.4	105.4	.372	0.5

Career totals

1,353

5,264

4,652

655

1,463

300

492nd-most career 2B

RBI

784

412

279

.3145

85th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3717

263rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4488

496th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8205

347th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1926-08-11	CWS @ CLE Gameday	6	3	5	1	1	2	0	9
1922-05-31	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1930-05-11	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	5	5	3	0	5	1	8
1927-08-02	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	4	4	1	1	2	0	8
1926-07-12	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-04-14	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-17	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-21	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-22	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-24	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.