Billy Clingman

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 150 lb

BornNovember 21, 1869 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1890

Final gameJuly 16, 1903

Seasons10 (1890–1903)

Cincinnati Reds 1890; Cincinnati Kelly's Killers 1891; Pittsburgh Pirates 1895; Louisville Colonels 1896–1899; Chicago Orphans 1900; Washington Senators 1901; Cleveland Naps 1903

Percentile snapshot

1901 season — qualified batters

137

72.8

537

27.2

480

29.3

20.7

116

16.3

3.3

34.8

31.5

RBI

33.7

64.1

47.8

7.6

.242

9.8

OBP

.308

17.4

SLG

.304

10.9

OPS

.612

wRC+

74.7

10.9

OPS+

69.2

9.8

wOBA

.296

sWAR

0.7

22.8

of 93 qualified 1901 batters (min 427 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

77.4

7.9

OPS+

71.7

3.3

sWAR

3.9

76.5

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
1890	7	28	27	2	7	1	0	0	5	1	0	0	.259	.286	.296	.582	72.0	69.5	.281	0.0
1891	1	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.400	.600	64.7	70.7	.275	0.0
1895	107	439	386	69	99	16	4	0	45	41	43	19	.256	.331	.319	.650	75.6	67.9	.317	0.2
1896	121	487	423	57	99	10	2	2	37	57	51	19	.234	.329	.281	.611	72.1	61.7	.307	0.0
1897	115	453	403	61	92	14	7	2	47	37	52	14	.228	.301	.313	.614	67.8	62.0	.299	-0.3
1898	154	609	538	65	138	12	6	0	50	51	60	15	.257	.327	.301	.628	83.8	79.8	.314	1.3
1899	110	427	369	68	97	15	5	2	45	46	34	13	.263	.349	.347	.696	94.3	91.0	.342	1.6
1900	47	179	159	15	33	6	0	0	11	17	18	6	.208	.292	.245	.537	58.3	49.0	.272	-0.2
1901	137	537	480	66	116	10	7	2	55	42	36	10	.242	.308	.304	.612	74.7	69.2	.296	0.7
1903	21	78	64	10	18	1	1	0	7	11	9	2	.281	.387	.328	.715	125.4	118.5	.348	0.6

Career totals

820

3,242

2,854

413

700

RBI

302

303

.2453

OBP

.3229

SLG

.3062

OPS

.6291

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1901-09-21	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	2	0	4	0	7
1901-04-27	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	3	0	5
1901-08-01	MIN @ BAL Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	3	0	5
1901-07-26	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	4
1901-05-27	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-26	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-05-01	BAL @ MIN 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.