Buck Ewing

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 188 lb

BornOctober 17, 1859 · Hoagland, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1880

Final gameMay 27, 1897

Seasons18 (1880–1897)

Troy Trojans 1880–1882; New York Gothams 1883–1884; New York Giants 1885–1892; Cleveland Spiders 1893–1894; Cincinnati Reds 1895–1897

Percentile snapshot

1895 season — qualified batters

105

8.1

467

10.8

434

20.3

37.8

138

37.8

68.9

74.3

55.4

RBI

75.7

17.6

58.1

62.2

.318

59.5

OBP

.363

41.9

SLG

.468

68.9

OPS

.831

60.8

wRC+

107.9

55.4

OPS+

113.2

59.5

wOBA

.385

55.4

sWAR

1.3

39.2

of 75 qualified 1895 batters (min 409 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.3

82.2

OPS+

132.0

91.5

sWAR

39.7

97.9

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
1880	13	46	45	1	8	1	0	0	5	1	3	0	.178	.196	.200	.396	49.1	33.6	.182	-0.1
1881	67	279	272	40	68	14	7	0	25	7	8	0	.250	.269	.353	.622	93.2	92.6	.283	1.2
1882	74	338	328	67	89	16	11	2	29	10	15	0	.271	.293	.405	.698	115.1	121.4	.310	2.0
1883	88	396	376	90	114	11	13	10	41	20	14	0	.303	.338	.481	.820	131.8	143.8	.360	3.5
1884	94	410	382	90	106	15	20	3	41	28	22	0	.277	.327	.445	.772	128.9	140.6	.347	3.7
1885	81	355	342	81	104	15	12	6	63	13	17	0	.304	.330	.471	.800	140.1	156.1	.365	3.6
1886	73	291	275	59	85	11	7	4	31	16	17	18	.309	.347	.444	.791	128.1	138.6	.362	2.4
1887	77	351	318	83	97	17	13	6	44	30	33	26	.305	.370	.497	.867	128.5	138.4	.391	2.6
1888	103	442	415	83	127	18	15	6	58	24	28	53	.306	.348	.465	.813	145.3	156.9	.371	4.9
1889	99	444	407	91	133	23	13	4	87	37	32	34	.327	.383	.477	.860	128.6	138.2	.402	4.0
1890	83	392	352	98	119	19	15	8	72	39	12	36	.338	.406	.545	.951	136.3	152.3	.439	3.7
1891	14	54	49	8	17	2	1	0	18	5	5	5	.347	.407	.429	.836	134.9	143.3	.401	0.5
1892	105	431	393	58	122	10	15	8	76	38	26	42	.310	.371	.473	.845	140.9	154.5	.401	3.3
1893	116	541	500	117	172	28	15	6	122	41	18	47	.344	.394	.496	.890	125.3	135.6	.417	3.1
1894	53	237	211	32	53	12	4	2	39	24	9	18	.251	.328	.374	.702	74.0	68.7	.330	-0.2
1895	105	467	434	90	138	24	13	5	94	30	22	34	.318	.363	.468	.831	107.9	113.2	.385	1.3
1896	69	296	263	41	73	14	4	1	38	29	13	41	.278	.349	.373	.722	92.3	90.2	.347	0.2
1897	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	112.6	38.0	.387	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1882	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1.0	9.00	3.000	0.00	5.85	202.9	32.1	2.0
1884	1	1	0	1	0	1	7	1	4	3	0	8.0	1.13	1.375	3.38	3.61	121.2	264.7	3.7
1885	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	1	3	0	0	2.0	4.50	3.500	0.00	7.17	254.7	62.6	3.6
1888	2	0	0	0	1	0	8	2	4	6	1	7.0	2.57	1.714	7.71	4.75	167.6	110.1	4.9
1889	3	2	2	0	0	2	23	9	8	12	0	20.0	4.05	1.550	5.40	2.99	74.3	99.4	4.0
1890	1	1	0	1	0	1	11	4	3	2	1	9.0	4.00	1.556	2.00	4.94	116.9	105.7	3.7

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

1,315

5,772

5,363

1,129

242nd-most career R

1,625

250

178

18th-most career 3B

RBI

883

423rd-most career RBI

392

294

354

107th-most career SB

.3030

184th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3515

SLG

.4557

427th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8072

433rd-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

3.447

WHIP

1.6596

K/9

4.40

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1939 (Old Timers)

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