Bill Hart

HandednessThrows Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 163 lb

BornJuly 19, 1865 · Louisville, KY, USA

MLB debutJuly 26, 1886

Final gameJuly 30, 1901

Seasons8 (1886–1901)

Philadelphia Athletics 1886–1887; Brooklyn Grooms 1892; Pittsburgh Pirates 1895; St. Louis Browns 1896–1897; Pittsburgh Pirates 1898; Cleveland Blues 1901

Percentile snapshot

1901 season — qualified pitchers

7.6

4.5

68.2

7.6

SHO

180

93.9

87.9

59.1

10.6

71.2

157.7

6.1

ERA

3.77

28.8

WHIP

1.503

7.6

K/9

2.74

36.4

FIP

3.83

15.2

FIP-

105.9

21.2

ERA+

96.0

34.8

sWAR

1.2

24.2

of 67 qualified 1901 pitchers (min 138 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

87.0

2.6

sWAR

5.4

80.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1886	22	76	73	3	10	1	1	0	1	3	0	1	.137	.171	.178	.349	33.4	9.8	.171	1.8
1887	3	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.077	.077	.077	.154	-21.7	-57.3	.073	0.1
1892	37	133	125	14	24	3	4	2	17	7	22	4	.192	.241	.328	.569	71.6	71.3	.273	2.2
1895	36	110	106	8	25	5	2	0	11	1	12	1	.236	.243	.321	.564	48.7	44.5	.260	2.4
1896	49	169	161	9	30	4	5	0	15	3	15	7	.186	.206	.273	.479	30.9	25.7	.224	0.5
1897	46	157	156	14	39	1	2	2	14	1	13	4	.250	.255	.321	.575	52.0	51.2	.268	-2.4
1898	16	51	50	4	12	0	1	0	3	1	2	1	.240	.255	.280	.535	52.7	52.9	.258	-0.4
1901	20	66	64	7	14	0	0	0	6	1	8	0	.219	.231	.219	.450	33.0	25.8	.214	1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1886	22	22	9	13	0	22	2	183	66	66	78	7	186.0	3.19	1.339	3.77	3.95	114.7	107.8	1.8
1887	3	3	1	2	0	3	0	28	13	17	4	1	26.0	4.50	1.731	1.38	5.72	133.3	95.3	0.1
1892	28	23	9	12	1	16	2	188	71	96	65	3	195.0	3.28	1.456	3.00	3.55	108.2	100.2	2.2
1895	36	29	14	17	1	24	0	293	138	135	85	4	261.7	4.75	1.636	2.92	4.85	101.6	100.6	2.4
1896	42	41	12	29	0	37	0	411	191	141	65	11	336.0	5.12	1.643	1.74	4.72	108.4	85.2	0.5
1897	39	38	9	27	0	31	0	395	205	148	67	10	294.7	6.26	1.843	2.05	4.98	115.7	68.7	-2.4
1898	16	15	5	9	1	13	1	141	67	44	19	4	125.0	4.82	1.480	1.37	4.10	113.9	74.7	-0.4
1901	20	19	7	11	0	16	0	180	66	57	48	3	157.7	3.77	1.503	2.74	3.83	105.9	96.0	1.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

229

775

748

155

RBI

.2072

OBP

.2269

SLG

.2821

OPS

.5090

Pitching

G (P)

206

190

120

335th-most career L

162

195th-most career CG

SHO

1,582

SO (P)

431

BB allowed

704

386th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.648

WHIP

1.5948

K/9

2.45

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	RBI	TB
1901-04-27	CLE @ CWS Gameday	4	3	2	1	2
1901-07-18	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	2	2	1	2
1901-05-20	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	0	2
1901-05-02	BAL @ CLE Gameday	4	0	1	1	1
1901-05-06	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	0	1	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1901-07-22	MIN @ CLE Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	1	7
1901-07-26	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	10	6	4	5	7
1901-04-27	CLE @ CWS Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	3	6
1901-06-19	CLE @ ATH Gameday	8.0	7	4	1	1	6
1901-06-11	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	8	5	0	2	3

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.