Bones Ely

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 155 lb

BornJune 7, 1863 · North Girard, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 19, 1884

Final gameSeptember 24, 1902

Seasons14 (1884–1902)

Buffalo Bisons 1884; Louisville Colonels 1886; Syracuse Stars 1890; Brooklyn Grooms 1891; St. Louis Browns 1893–1895; Pittsburgh Pirates 1896–1900; Philadelphia Athletics 1901; Pittsburgh Pirates 1901; Washington Senators 1902

Percentile snapshot

1901 season — qualified batters

110

6.5

435

411

1.1

7.6

16.3

RBI

14.1

1.1

33.7

.212

2.2

OBP

.232

SLG

.265

4.3

OPS

.497

1.1

wRC+

41.7

1.1

OPS+

40.6

1.1

wOBA

.235

1.1

sWAR

-1.2

2.2

of 93 qualified 1901 batters (min 434 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

70.5

3.5

OPS+

67.6

1.7

sWAR

0.4

56.4

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
1884	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-49.3	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1886	10	34	32	5	5	0	0	0	6	2	0	1	.156	.206	.156	.362	39.6	14.4	.184	-0.5
1890	119	529	496	72	130	16	6	0	64	31	0	44	.262	.308	.319	.627	85.4	84.2	.309	0.3
1891	31	118	111	9	17	0	1	0	11	7	9	4	.153	.203	.171	.375	25.1	9.3	.190	-0.6
1893	44	195	178	25	45	1	6	0	16	17	13	2	.253	.318	.326	.644	76.2	71.0	.314	0.2
1894	127	553	510	85	156	20	12	12	89	30	34	23	.306	.344	.463	.807	90.7	92.9	.367	1.6
1895	118	503	471	68	122	16	2	1	47	19	18	29	.259	.288	.308	.596	59.6	53.5	.283	-0.6
1896	128	598	537	85	153	15	9	3	77	33	33	18	.285	.326	.363	.689	82.7	81.5	.328	1.1
1897	133	557	516	63	146	20	8	2	74	25	24	10	.283	.317	.364	.682	79.9	79.5	.323	0.9
1898	148	556	519	49	110	14	5	2	44	24	34	6	.212	.247	.270	.517	49.5	47.7	.252	-1.0
1899	139	582	526	67	146	18	6	3	72	22	31	8	.278	.313	.352	.665	81.5	81.9	.318	1.1
1900	130	503	475	60	116	6	6	0	51	17	29	6	.244	.272	.282	.554	55.2	52.9	.266	-0.6
1901	110	435	411	29	87	12	5	0	44	9	42	11	.212	.232	.265	.497	41.7	40.6	.235	-1.2
1902	105	417	381	39	100	11	2	1	62	21	23	3	.262	.301	.310	.611	68.9	67.9	.290	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1884	1	1	1	0	0	17	8	5	4	1	5.0	14.40	4.400	7.20	6.86	230.3	20.7	-0.6
1886	6	4	4	1	4	53	26	26	28	0	44.0	5.32	1.795	5.73	3.62	105.2	64.7	-0.5
1890	1	0	0	0	0	7	5	0	0	0	2.0	22.50	3.500	0.00	3.14	81.4	17.2	0.3
1894	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1.0	0.00	3.000	0.00	12.81	240.5	—	1.6

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

1,343

5,584

5,167

656

1,333

149

419th-most career 3B

RBI

657

257

292

165

498th-most career SB

.2580

OBP

.2946

SLG

.3271

OPS

.6217

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

6.750

WHIP

2.1346

K/9

5.54

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	BB	TB
1901-08-12	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	5
1902-07-28	CWS @ MIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	3	0	5
1901-05-15	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	0	4	0	0	0	3	0	4
1901-09-13	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	2	1	4
1902-08-25	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	STL @ PIT 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.