Billy Sunday

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornNovember 19, 1862 · Ames, IA, USA

MLB debutMay 22, 1883

Final gameOctober 4, 1890

Seasons8 (1883–1890)

Chicago White Stockings 1883–1887; Pittsburg Alleghenys 1888–1889; Philadelphia Phillies 1890; Pittsburg Alleghenys 1890

Percentile snapshot

1890 season — qualified batters

117

28.4

534

39.2

477

37.8

41.2

123

34.5

11.5

4.7

12.2

RBI

5.4

49.3

42.6

.258

32.4

OBP

.337

31.1

SLG

.302

13.5

OPS

.639

21.6

wRC+

91.3

26.4

OPS+

86.4

wOBA

.319

22.3

sWAR

1.0

of 149 qualified 1890 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

sWAR

2.7

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
1883	14	55	54	6	13	4	0	0	5	1	18	0	.241	.255	.315	.569	77.7	70.7	.253	0.0
1884	43	180	176	25	39	4	1	4	28	4	36	0	.222	.239	.324	.563	80.6	75.5	.253	0.0
1885	46	184	172	36	44	3	3	2	20	12	33	0	.256	.304	.343	.647	106.9	108.7	.303	0.6
1886	28	110	103	16	25	2	2	0	6	7	26	10	.243	.291	.301	.592	85.2	79.9	.279	0.0
1887	50	221	199	41	58	6	6	3	32	21	20	34	.291	.362	.427	.789	114.4	118.0	.362	1.1
1888	120	519	505	69	119	14	3	0	15	12	36	71	.236	.256	.275	.532	72.7	69.1	.247	0.2
1889	81	352	321	62	77	10	6	2	25	27	33	47	.240	.307	.327	.634	80.3	76.2	.307	-0.1
1890	117	534	477	84	123	12	3	1	39	50	27	84	.258	.337	.302	.639	91.3	86.4	.319	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1890	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0.0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0	1.0

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

499

2,155

2,007

339

498

RBI

170

134

229

246

250th-most career SB

.2481

OBP

.2998

SLG

.3174

OPS

.6172

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

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.