MLB / Players

Billy Hamilton

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 165 lb

BornFebruary 15, 1866 · Newark, NJ, USA

MLB debutJuly 31, 1888

Final gameSeptember 16, 1901

Seasons14 (1888–1901)

Kansas City Cowboys 1888–1889; Philadelphia Phillies 1890–1895; Boston Beaneaters 1896–1901

Percentile snapshot

1900 season — qualified batters

136

72.5

635

90.2

520

64.7

103

80.4

173

82.4

62.7

29.4

17.6

RBI

23.5

107

47.1

72.5

.333

80.4

OBP

.449

94.1

SLG

.396

56.9

OPS

.845

78.4

wRC+

137.3

82.4

OPS+

134.1

76.5

wOBA

.416

86.3

sWAR

5.4

96.1

of 52 qualified 1900 batters (min 440 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

141.5

96.8

OPS+

144.4

sWAR

64.2

99.5

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
1888	35	137	129	21	34	4	4	0	11	4	13	19	.264	.307	.357	.663	107.2	111.9	.316	0.4
1889	137	635	534	144	161	17	12	3	77	87	41	111	.301	.413	.395	.808	126.3	130.1	.395	3.7
1890	123	588	496	133	161	13	9	2	49	83	37	102	.325	.430	.399	.829	137.3	141.9	.408	4.2
1891	133	636	527	141	179	23	7	2	60	102	28	111	.340	.453	.421	.874	148.5	154.8	.427	5.5
1892	139	643	554	132	183	21	7	3	53	81	29	57	.330	.423	.410	.833	144.5	151.6	.408	5.1
1893	82	431	355	110	135	22	7	5	44	63	7	43	.380	.490	.524	1.014	156.4	169.1	.482	4.5
1894	132	702	558	198	225	25	15	4	90	128	19	100	.403	.521	.523	1.044	146.5	152.0	.490	6.6
1895	123	629	517	166	201	22	6	7	74	96	30	97	.389	.490	.495	.985	147.4	154.3	.469	6.0
1896	131	642	524	153	192	24	10	3	55	110	29	83	.366	.478	.468	.946	146.0	149.6	.455	6.1
1897	127	622	507	152	174	17	5	3	61	105	30	66	.343	.461	.414	.875	133.7	131.8	.429	4.9
1898	110	508	417	110	154	16	5	3	50	87	30	54	.369	.480	.453	.933	164.6	167.3	.458	6.1
1899	84	375	297	63	92	7	1	1	33	72	16	19	.310	.446	.350	.796	127.2	119.3	.403	2.7
1900	136	635	520	103	173	20	5	1	47	107	22	32	.333	.449	.396	.845	137.3	134.1	.416	5.4
1901	102	425	348	71	100	11	2	3	38	64	31	20	.287	.404	.356	.760	126.8	120.8	.376	3.0

Career totals

1,594

7,608

352nd-most career PA

6,283

450th-most career AB

1,697

28th-most career R

2,164

204th-most career H

242

186th-most career 3B

RBI

742

1,189

67th-most career BB

362

914

3rd-most career SB

.3444

11th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4552

4th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4323

OPS

.8875

87th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1901-07-20	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	0	0	6
1901-06-19	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	3	0	6
1901-08-22	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	0	5
1901-09-13	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	0	5
1901-06-20	CHC @ ATL Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1961 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.