Charlie Hemphill

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornApril 20, 1876 · Greenville, MI, USA

MLB debutJune 27, 1899

Final gameOctober 3, 1911

Seasons11 (1899–1911)

Cleveland Spiders 1899; St. Louis Perfectos 1899; Boston Americans 1901; Cleveland Bronchos 1902; St. Louis Browns 1902–1904; St. Louis Browns 1906–1907; New York Highlanders 1908–1911

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

142

54.8

581

59.6

505

54.8

65.4

150

82.7

39.4

77.9

RBI

54.8

89.4

43.3

96.2

.297

84.6

OBP

.374

86.5

SLG

.356

65.4

OPS

.730

77.9

wRC+

137.2

85.6

OPS+

133.0

82.7

wOBA

.361

81.7

sWAR

4.7

88.5

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 480 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.0

53.7

OPS+

105.2

52.7

sWAR

20.0

93.6

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
1899	66	254	239	27	65	3	5	3	26	12	14	3	.272	.312	.364	.676	84.0	84.8	.323	0.1
1901	136	595	545	71	142	10	10	3	62	39	26	11	.261	.312	.332	.644	83.8	80.7	.307	0.1
1902	128	565	510	81	157	16	11	6	69	49	33	27	.308	.369	.418	.786	119.1	120.5	.369	2.9
1903	105	415	383	36	94	6	3	3	29	23	51	16	.245	.292	.300	.592	81.3	80.1	.280	0.0
1904	114	483	438	47	112	13	2	2	45	35	60	23	.256	.311	.308	.619	101.7	100.6	.299	1.3
1906	154	646	585	90	169	19	12	4	62	43	71	33	.289	.338	.383	.720	126.7	128.2	.347	4.3
1907	153	675	603	66	156	20	9	0	38	51	63	14	.259	.319	.322	.640	106.3	105.7	.317	2.9
1908	142	581	505	62	150	12	9	0	44	59	43	42	.297	.374	.356	.730	137.2	133.0	.361	4.7
1909	73	216	181	23	44	5	1	0	10	32	23	10	.243	.357	.282	.639	108.7	99.3	.329	1.0
1910	102	419	351	45	84	9	4	0	21	55	27	19	.239	.350	.288	.638	102.2	94.7	.327	1.5
1911	69	244	201	32	57	4	2	1	15	37	18	9	.284	.397	.338	.736	106.6	99.4	.369	1.1

Career totals

1,242

5,093

4,541

580

1,230

117

419th-most career 3B

RBI

421

435

429

207

344th-most career SB

.2709

OBP

.3369

SLG

.3411

OPS

.6780

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
1901-07-02	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	4	0	8
1902-07-23	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	2	0	7
1903-08-01	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	1	0	7
1901-05-08	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	0	0	1	7
1904-04-22	BAL @ DET Gameday	6	0	5	1	0	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-26	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-05-01	BOS @ ATH 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.