Billy Alvord

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 187 lb

BornAugust 10, 1863 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 30, 1885

Final gameJuly 8, 1893

Seasons5 (1885–1893)

St. Louis Maroons 1885; Kansas City Cowboys 1889; Toledo Maumees 1890; Cleveland Spiders 1891; Washington Statesmen 1891; Cleveland Spiders 1893

Percentile snapshot

1890 season — qualified batters

116

517

31.1

495

54.7

22.3

135

51.4

18.2

91.2

32.4

RBI

23.6

3.4

72.3

29.1

.273

46.6

OBP

.304

16.2

SLG

.376

51.4

OPS

.679

30.4

wRC+

94.5

29.7

OPS+

99.6

35.8

wOBA

.327

26.4

sWAR

1.5

30.4

of 149 qualified 1890 batters (min 415 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.3

66.2

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
1885	2	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	9.9	-42.6	.123	0.0
1889	50	196	186	23	43	8	9	0	18	10	35	3	.231	.270	.371	.641	81.5	81.6	.301	0.3
1890	116	517	495	69	135	13	16	2	52	22	0	21	.273	.304	.376	.679	94.5	99.6	.327	1.5
1891	94	383	371	35	90	10	5	1	37	11	45	3	.243	.266	.305	.571	65.6	63.4	.275	-0.3
1893	3	12	12	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	2.2	-11.4	.159	-0.1

Career totals

265

1,114

1,069

129

270

RBI

109

.2526

OBP

.2828

SLG

.3461

OPS

.6289

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.