Dave Bancroft

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornApril 20, 1891 · Sioux City, IA, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1915

Final gameMay 31, 1930

Seasons16 (1915–1930)

Philadelphia Phillies 1915–1919; New York Giants 1920; Philadelphia Phillies 1920; New York Giants 1921–1923; Boston Braves 1924–1927; Brooklyn Robins 1928–1929; New York Giants 1930

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

149

87.4

591

79.9

515

78.4

49.2

127

62.3

57.8

56.3

RBI

60.8

85.9

32.7

59.8

32.2

.247

17.1

OBP

.326

26.6

SLG

.303

15.6

OPS

.629

17.1

wRC+

68.8

19.1

OPS+

66.9

17.6

wOBA

.303

21.1

sWAR

0.4

28.6

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.3

44.2

OPS+

98.4

38.2

sWAR

38.6

97.8

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
1915	153	665	563	85	143	18	2	7	30	77	62	15	27	.254	.346	.330	.676	109.1	104.7	.332	3.9
1916	142	571	477	53	101	10	0	3	33	74	57	15	0	.212	.323	.252	.574	82.5	75.5	.292	1.6
1917	127	540	478	56	116	22	5	4	43	44	42	14	0	.243	.307	.335	.641	94.2	94.2	.309	2.2
1918	125	561	499	69	132	19	4	0	26	54	36	11	0	.265	.338	.319	.656	95.9	93.2	.324	2.4
1919	92	375	335	45	91	13	7	0	25	31	30	8	0	.272	.333	.352	.686	98.6	97.3	.329	1.7
1920	150	673	613	102	183	36	9	0	36	42	44	8	12	.299	.346	.387	.732	110.0	109.8	.345	3.9
1921	153	698	606	121	193	26	15	6	67	66	23	17	10	.318	.389	.441	.830	123.5	120.9	.382	5.1
1922	156	745	651	117	209	41	5	4	60	79	27	16	11	.321	.397	.418	.815	114.3	111.4	.381	4.6
1923	107	513	444	80	135	33	3	1	31	62	23	8	7	.304	.391	.399	.789	115.2	111.6	.372	3.2
1924	79	362	319	49	89	11	1	2	21	37	24	4	4	.279	.356	.339	.694	93.4	89.9	.330	1.3
1925	128	560	479	75	153	29	8	2	49	64	22	7	4	.319	.400	.426	.826	120.8	118.1	.381	3.9
1926	127	541	453	70	141	18	6	1	44	64	29	3	0	.311	.399	.384	.783	123.3	118.9	.373	3.9
1927	111	427	375	44	91	13	4	1	31	43	36	5	0	.243	.322	.307	.629	76.4	73.4	.304	0.7
1928	149	591	515	47	127	19	5	0	51	59	20	7	0	.247	.326	.303	.629	68.8	66.9	.303	0.4
1929	104	403	358	35	99	11	3	1	44	29	11	7	0	.277	.331	.332	.663	68.0	67.1	.310	0.1
1930	10	19	17	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.059	.158	.118	.276	-26.9	-30.9	.145	-0.2

Career totals

1,913

319th-most career G

8,244

248th-most career PA

7,182

274th-most career AB

1,048

316th-most career R

2,004

296th-most career H

320

414th-most career 2B

309th-most career 3B

RBI

591

827

247th-most career BB

487

145

.2790

OBP

.3553

SLG

.3584

OPS

.7137

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
1921-06-01	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	1	4	0	10
1921-07-14	STL @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1922-07-10	SF @ PIT Gameday	5	3	5	0	1	0	2	1	7
1925-09-06	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	0	2	0	7
1922-08-22	SF @ CIN Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-04-14	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-15	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-17	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-19	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-20	PHI @ SF 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1971 (Veterans)

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