Bobby Wallace

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 4, 1873 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1894

Final gameSeptember 2, 1918

Seasons25 (1894–1918)

Cleveland Spiders 1894–1898; St. Louis Perfectos 1899; St. Louis Cardinals 1900–1901; St. Louis Browns 1902–1916; St. Louis Cardinals 1917–1918

Percentile snapshot

1910 season — qualified batters

138

52.3

568

49.5

508

60.4

32.4

131

57.7

55.9

RBI

38.7

49.5

35.1

.258

33.3

OBP

.324

37.8

SLG

.323

28.8

OPS

.647

29.7

wRC+

106.0

44.1

OPS+

105.5

44.1

wOBA

.321

30.6

sWAR

3.0

of 112 qualified 1910 batters (min 489 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1896 season — qualified pitchers

6.8

18.2

84.1

11.4

SHO

68.2

167

97.7

86.4

34.1

88.6

145.3

4.5

ERA

3.34

88.6

WHIP

1.486

47.7

K/9

2.85

79.5

FIP

3.93

81.8

FIP-

90.2

81.8

ERA+

130.3

88.6

sWAR

2.6

47.7

of 45 qualified 1896 pitchers (min 135 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.5

51.2

OPS+

105.0

52.1

sWAR

55.6

99.2

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1894	4	13	13	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.154	.154	.231	.385	2.4	-8.4	.172	0.2
1895	30	112	98	16	21	2	3	0	10	6	17	0	0	.214	.274	.296	.570	55.4	46.7	.274	3.5
1896	45	164	149	19	35	6	3	1	17	11	21	2	0	.235	.288	.336	.623	67.2	63.8	.297	2.6
1897	130	580	516	99	173	33	21	4	112	48	32	14	0	.335	.394	.504	.898	128.2	135.9	.418	4.1
1898	154	671	593	81	160	25	13	3	99	63	14	7	0	.270	.344	.371	.715	103.9	104.5	.350	2.8
1899	151	638	577	91	170	28	14	12	108	54	20	17	0	.295	.357	.454	.811	116.2	121.5	.383	4.0
1900	126	532	485	70	130	25	9	4	70	40	17	7	0	.268	.328	.381	.709	94.5	95.3	.338	2.0
1901	134	583	550	69	178	34	15	2	91	20	35	15	0	.324	.351	.451	.802	128.0	133.4	.374	4.6
1902	133	549	494	71	141	32	9	1	63	45	12	18	0	.285	.350	.393	.743	108.0	108.0	.350	3.1
1903	135	552	511	63	136	21	7	1	54	28	42	10	0	.266	.309	.341	.650	97.3	97.3	.304	2.5
1904	139	593	541	57	149	29	4	2	69	42	45	20	0	.275	.330	.355	.685	121.9	121.6	.327	4.5
1905	156	641	587	67	159	25	9	1	59	45	34	13	0	.271	.324	.349	.673	116.7	118.0	.326	4.5
1906	139	551	476	64	123	21	7	2	67	58	24	24	0	.258	.344	.345	.688	121.4	118.4	.339	4.1
1907	147	604	538	56	138	20	7	0	70	54	32	16	0	.257	.328	.320	.647	110.1	108.0	.322	3.6
1908	137	560	487	59	123	24	4	1	60	52	47	5	0	.253	.327	.324	.652	116.5	114.3	.323	3.8
1909	116	451	403	36	96	12	2	0	35	38	25	7	0	.238	.310	.278	.588	90.0	87.5	.296	1.6
1910	138	568	508	47	131	19	7	0	37	49	38	12	0	.258	.324	.323	.647	106.0	105.5	.321	3.0
1911	125	464	410	35	95	12	2	0	31	46	37	8	0	.232	.312	.271	.583	68.2	63.7	.293	0.3
1912	100	372	323	39	78	14	5	0	31	43	27	3	8	.241	.332	.316	.648	90.5	86.9	.323	1.3
1913	55	172	147	11	31	5	0	0	21	14	16	1	0	.211	.293	.245	.538	60.9	58.7	.275	0.0
1914	26	82	73	3	16	2	1	0	5	5	13	1	1	.219	.269	.274	.543	60.4	65.3	.269	0.0
1915	9	18	13	1	3	0	1	0	4	5	0	0	1	.231	.444	.385	.829	162.9	151.9	.425	0.3
1916	14	22	18	0	5	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	.278	.350	.278	.628	95.4	91.8	.320	0.1
1917	8	12	10	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-59.0	-38.4	.095	-0.1
1918	32	108	98	3	15	1	0	0	4	6	9	1	0	.153	.202	.163	.365	6.8	12.8	.186	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1894	4	3	2	1	0	2	0	28	15	20	10	1	26.0	5.19	1.846	3.46	5.97	112.0	102.6	0.2
1895	30	28	12	14	1	22	1	271	104	87	63	3	228.7	4.09	1.566	2.48	4.45	93.2	116.6	3.5
1896	22	16	10	7	0	13	2	167	54	49	46	2	145.3	3.34	1.486	2.85	3.93	90.2	130.3	2.6
1902	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	2.0	0.00	1.500	4.50	1.81	51.9	—	3.1

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

2,383

93rd-most career G

9,612

115th-most career PA

8,618

102nd-most career AB

1,057

310th-most career R

2,309

155th-most career H

391

224th-most career 2B

143

61st-most career 3B

RBI

1,121

213th-most career RBI

774

295th-most career BB

560

201

364th-most career SB

.2679

OBP

.3316

SLG

.3583

OPS

.6899

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

402

SO (P)

120

BB allowed

156

ERA

3.873

WHIP

1.5547

K/9

2.69

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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1901-09-23	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	1	5	1	1	0	3	8
1905-08-18	ATH @ BAL Gameday	7	1	5	1	1	0	1	8
1902-06-21	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	1	4	2	1	0	2	8
1903-04-26	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	1	8
1906-08-24	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	SO
1902-09-28	CWS @ BAL Gameday	2.0	3	2	1
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	PIT @ STL Gameday	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, 1953 (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.