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Curry Foley

HandednessThrows Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornJanuary 14, 1856 · Milltown, County Kerry, Ireland

MLB debutMay 13, 1879

Final gameSeptember 5, 1883

Seasons5 (1879–1883)

Boston Red Caps 1879–1880; Buffalo Bisons 1881–1883

Percentile snapshot

1882 season — qualified batters

75.8

353

65.9

341

65.9

58.2

104

82.4

64.8

74.7

RBI

86.8

48.4

18.7

.305

87.9

OBP

.329

84.6

SLG

.402

74.7

OPS

.730

79.1

wRC+

123.8

76.9

OPS+

133.0

75.8

wOBA

.326

sWAR

1.8

of 92 qualified 1882 batters (min 260 PA) · 2 stats not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1880 season — qualified pitchers

46.7

53.3

33.3

SHO

26.7

264

53.3

103

53.3

46.7

73.3

238.0

46.7

ERA

3.89

WHIP

1.277

K/9

2.57

46.7

FIP

2.52

26.7

FIP-

106.1

26.7

ERA+

61.0

sWAR

0.0

13.3

of 16 qualified 1880 pitchers (min 86 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1879	35	149	146	16	46	3	1	0	17	3	4	.315	.329	.349	.678	116.7	123.2	.307	2.3
1880	80	340	332	44	97	13	2	2	31	8	14	.292	.309	.361	.670	118.5	124.9	.303	0.0
1881	83	382	375	58	96	20	2	1	25	7	27	.256	.270	.328	.598	87.7	85.7	.273	-0.4
1882	84	353	341	51	104	16	4	3	49	12	26	.305	.329	.402	.730	123.8	133.0	.326	1.8
1883	23	115	111	23	30	5	3	0	6	4	12	.270	.296	.369	.665	99.3	99.2	.295	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1879	21	16	9	9	16	1	175	45	15	57	1	161.7	2.51	1.175	3.17	2.39	95.9	99.7	2.3
1880	36	28	14	14	21	1	264	103	40	68	1	238.0	3.89	1.277	2.57	2.52	106.1	61.0	0.0
1881	10	6	3	4	2	0	70	24	5	2	1	41.0	5.27	1.829	0.44	3.27	117.9	52.7	-0.4
1882	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2.000	0.00	2.85	98.9	16.0	1.8
1883	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	1.0	0.00	4.000	0.00	15.25	486.4	—	0.4

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

305

1,339

1,305

192

373

RBI

128

.2858

OBP

.3040

SLG

.3617

OPS

.6657

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

443

SO (P)

127

BB allowed

ERA

3.538

WHIP

1.2989

K/9

2.58

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.