Blondie Purcell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 159 lb

BornMarch 16, 1854 · Paterson, NJ, USA

MLB debutMay 1, 1879

Final gameSeptember 16, 1890

Seasons12 (1879–1890)

Cincinnati Reds 1879; Syracuse Stars 1879; Cincinnati Reds 1880; Buffalo Bisons 1881; Cleveland Blues 1881; Buffalo Bisons 1882; Philadelphia Quakers 1883–1884; Boston Beaneaters 1885; Philadelphia Athletics 1885; Baltimore Orioles 1886–1888; Philadelphia Athletics 1888–1890

Percentile snapshot

1890 season — qualified batters

110

21.6

510

29.1

463

31.8

110

128

43.2

85.8

4.7

32.4

RBI

39.9

35.8

72.3

79.7

.276

48.6

OBP

.343

35.8

SLG

.363

43.9

OPS

.706

37.2

wRC+

104.6

43.9

OPS+

107.5

wOBA

.348

38.5

sWAR

1.5

30.4

of 149 qualified 1890 batters (min 409 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1880 season — qualified pitchers

33.3

6.7

46.7

33.3

SHO

235

53.3

73.3

196.0

26.7

ERA

3.21

WHIP

1.362

6.7

K/9

2.16

26.7

FIP

2.61

FIP-

109.9

ERA+

73.9

sWAR

2.2

26.7

of 16 qualified 1880 pitchers (min 83 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.9

41.3

OPS+

99.7

40.8

sWAR

12.0

88.8

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
1879	75	330	327	42	83	6	3	0	29	3	16	0	.254	.261	.291	.551	85.4	80.9	.248	-0.3
1880	77	330	325	48	95	13	6	1	24	5	13	0	.292	.303	.378	.681	120.5	128.0	.307	2.2
1881	50	206	193	18	47	9	3	0	21	13	16	0	.244	.291	.321	.613	94.4	91.2	.285	1.0
1882	84	394	380	79	105	18	6	2	40	14	27	0	.276	.302	.371	.673	110.5	114.6	.301	1.2
1883	97	438	425	70	114	20	5	1	32	13	26	0	.268	.290	.346	.636	93.2	91.0	.283	0.8
1884	103	457	428	67	108	11	7	1	31	29	30	0	.252	.300	.318	.618	97.0	94.7	.285	1.0
1885	87	413	391	80	109	16	6	0	25	19	15	0	.279	.317	.350	.668	108.3	111.6	.312	1.4
1886	26	104	85	17	19	0	1	0	8	17	0	13	.224	.365	.247	.612	105.5	93.8	.320	0.3
1887	140	623	567	101	142	25	8	4	96	46	38	88	.250	.318	.344	.662	88.1	83.4	.318	0.2
1888	119	508	472	63	107	12	5	2	45	32	40	26	.227	.281	.286	.568	86.7	81.7	.276	0.3
1889	129	562	507	72	160	19	7	0	85	50	27	22	.316	.383	.381	.763	114.1	117.3	.369	2.4
1890	110	510	463	110	128	28	3	2	59	43	0	48	.276	.343	.363	.706	104.6	107.5	.348	1.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1879	24	19	4	17	17	272	83	21	31	1	197.7	3.78	1.482	1.41	2.81	112.6	66.1	-0.3
1880	25	21	3	17	21	235	70	32	47	1	196.0	3.21	1.362	2.16	2.61	109.9	73.9	2.2
1881	9	5	4	1	5	62	19	9	15	2	61.7	2.77	1.151	2.19	3.06	110.3	100.1	1.0
1882	6	3	2	1	2	44	17	4	9	1	31.0	4.94	1.548	2.61	3.08	106.7	58.5	1.2
1883	11	9	2	6	7	110	39	12	30	0	80.0	4.39	1.525	3.38	2.95	94.0	71.4	0.8
1884	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	0	4.0	2.25	.750	2.25	2.36	79.2	132.3	1.0
1885	1	0	0	1	0	11	4	2	3	0	6.0	6.00	2.167	4.50	3.09	95.1	54.1	1.4
1886	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1.000	0.00	3.12	90.6	38.3	0.3
1887	1	0	0	0	0	8	7	4	2	0	4.0	15.75	3.000	4.50	6.20	144.5	27.2	0.2

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

1,097

4,875

4,563

767

1,217

177

RBI

495

284

248

197

374th-most career SB

.2667

OBP

.3136

SLG

.3403

OPS

.6539

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

581

SO (P)

138

BB allowed

ERA

3.731

WHIP

1.4278

K/9

2.14

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.