Bill Dahlen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 5, 1870 · Nelliston, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1891

Final gameOctober 12, 1911

Seasons21 (1891–1911)

Chicago Colts 1891–1897; Chicago Orphans 1898; Brooklyn Superbas 1899–1903; New York Giants 1904–1907; Boston Doves 1908–1909; Brooklyn Superbas 1910; Brooklyn Dodgers 1911

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

144

58.7

588

65.4

524

59.6

46.2

125

76.9

23.1

RBI

65.4

51.9

38.5

.239

20.2

OBP

.296

SLG

.307

33.7

OPS

.604

26.9

wRC+

90.3

27.9

OPS+

91.3

29.8

wOBA

.297

26.9

sWAR

2.3

57.7

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 483 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.4

64.5

OPS+

110.5

62.6

sWAR

58.5

99.3

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1891	135	623	549	114	143	18	13	9	76	67	60	21	.260	.348	.390	.738	111.7	114.6	.356	3.0
1892	143	631	581	114	170	23	19	5	58	45	56	60	.293	.349	.423	.772	123.8	132.8	.369	4.5
1893	116	548	485	113	146	28	15	5	64	58	30	31	.301	.381	.452	.833	115.1	120.8	.396	3.1
1894	122	596	507	150	182	32	14	15	108	76	33	43	.359	.445	.566	1.011	132.7	142.2	.460	4.7
1895	129	592	516	106	131	19	10	7	62	61	51	38	.254	.344	.370	.714	88.1	84.0	.343	1.5
1896	125	573	474	137	167	30	19	9	74	64	36	51	.352	.438	.553	.990	148.3	160.0	.459	5.8
1897	75	339	276	67	80	18	8	6	40	43	25	15	.290	.399	.478	.877	125.9	130.7	.413	2.5
1898	142	619	521	96	151	35	8	1	79	58	41	27	.290	.385	.393	.779	122.5	122.9	.383	4.4
1899	121	514	428	87	121	22	7	4	76	67	23	29	.283	.398	.395	.793	119.4	117.5	.389	3.6
1900	133	565	483	87	125	16	11	1	69	73	27	31	.259	.364	.344	.708	100.7	95.8	.349	2.5
1901	131	553	511	69	136	17	9	4	82	30	43	23	.266	.313	.358	.671	93.8	94.6	.320	2.1
1902	138	587	527	67	139	25	8	2	74	43	43	20	.264	.329	.353	.682	109.8	110.1	.337	3.5
1903	138	566	474	71	124	17	9	1	64	82	50	34	.262	.373	.342	.715	111.3	106.4	.356	3.4
1904	145	579	523	70	140	26	2	2	80	44	47	47	.268	.326	.337	.662	104.0	103.9	.323	3.1
1905	148	601	520	67	126	20	4	7	81	62	43	37	.242	.337	.337	.673	104.0	100.9	.332	3.2
1906	143	565	471	63	113	18	3	1	49	76	48	16	.240	.357	.297	.655	112.3	104.1	.337	3.7
1907	143	529	464	40	96	20	1	0	34	51	34	11	.207	.291	.254	.545	71.2	69.5	.280	0.9
1908	144	588	524	50	125	23	2	3	48	35	45	10	.239	.296	.307	.604	90.3	91.3	.297	2.3
1909	69	231	197	22	46	6	1	2	16	29	21	4	.234	.332	.305	.636	95.6	91.7	.322	1.0
1910	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.1	-100.0	.000	0.0
1911	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-110.5	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

2,444

73rd-most career G

10,405

60th-most career PA

9,036

74th-most career AB

1,590

50th-most career R

2,461

111th-most career H

413

170th-most career 2B

163

33rd-most career 3B

RBI

1,234

144th-most career RBI

1,064

103rd-most career BB

759

548

28th-most career SB

.2724

OBP

.3579

SLG

.3820

OPS

.7399

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
1905-05-23	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1901-07-13	LAD @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	3	7
1909-04-14	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	3	7
1901-09-03	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	3	7
1901-06-03	LAD @ CIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	ATL @ LAD 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.