Cliff Heathcote

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornJanuary 24, 1898 · Glen Rock, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 4, 1918

Final gameSeptember 24, 1932

Seasons15 (1918–1932)

St. Louis Cardinals 1918–1921; Chicago Cubs 1922; St. Louis Cardinals 1922; Chicago Cubs 1923–1930; Cincinnati Reds 1931–1932; Philadelphia Phillies 1932

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified batters

139

67.1

589

71.5

510

72.2

91.1

141

63.3

85.4

84.8

RBI

51.3

82.9

25.9

85.4

47.5

.276

OBP

.353

38.6

SLG

.412

49.4

OPS

.764

wRC+

105.9

48.7

OPS+

105.2

46.8

wOBA

.356

40.5

sWAR

1.8

52.5

of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.9

26.5

OPS+

92.6

27.2

sWAR

8.4

84.9

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1918	88	375	348	37	90	12	3	4	32	20	40	12	0	.259	.301	.345	.646	95.7	98.4	.310	1.2
1919	114	433	401	53	112	13	4	1	29	20	41	27	0	.279	.315	.339	.654	97.6	99.2	.312	1.4
1920	133	531	489	55	139	18	8	3	56	25	31	21	14	.284	.320	.372	.693	99.4	101.4	.325	1.5
1921	62	177	156	18	38	6	2	0	9	10	9	7	5	.244	.293	.308	.601	58.7	60.2	.282	-0.3
1922	110	381	341	48	92	13	9	1	48	27	19	5	4	.270	.325	.370	.695	78.3	78.8	.323	0.1
1923	117	431	393	48	98	14	3	1	27	25	22	32	17	.249	.298	.308	.606	59.5	60.4	.286	-1.3
1924	113	433	392	66	121	19	7	0	30	28	28	26	24	.309	.356	.393	.749	101.7	101.1	.347	1.1
1925	109	438	380	57	100	14	5	5	39	39	26	15	11	.263	.343	.366	.709	82.6	80.8	.330	0.1
1926	139	589	510	98	141	33	3	10	53	58	30	18	0	.276	.353	.412	.764	105.9	105.2	.356	1.8
1927	83	258	228	28	67	12	4	2	25	20	16	6	0	.294	.359	.408	.766	107.1	106.5	.357	0.9
1928	67	159	137	26	39	8	0	3	18	17	12	6	0	.285	.364	.409	.772	105.3	104.0	.360	0.5
1929	82	257	224	45	70	17	0	2	31	25	17	9	0	.313	.384	.415	.799	100.9	98.8	.369	0.6
1930	70	171	150	30	39	10	1	9	18	18	15	4	0	.260	.343	.520	.863	101.7	104.6	.374	0.5
1931	90	286	252	24	65	15	6	0	28	32	16	3	0	.258	.342	.365	.707	96.8	94.8	.332	0.5
1932	38	47	42	10	11	2	0	1	5	3	3	0	0	.262	.311	.381	.692	71.9	74.6	.312	-0.1

Career totals

1,415

4,966

4,443

643

1,222

206

RBI

448

367

325

191

399th-most career SB

.2750

OBP

.3334

SLG

.3745

OPS

.7079

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
1918-06-13	STL @ PHI Gameday	9	2	4	1	1	1	3	0	10
1919-08-09	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	0	0	1	8
1926-06-01	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1930-05-12	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	2	8
1922-08-25	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	5	5	2	0	0	4	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1918-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-18	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-22	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-23	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-24	STL @ CHC 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.