Dick Spalding
Philadelphia Phillies 1927; Washington Senators 1928
Percentile snapshot
1927 season — qualified batters
of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 480 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 115 | 494 | 442 | 68 | 131 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 38 | 40 | 5 | 0 | .296 | .352 | .346 | .698 | 83.8 | 82.8 | .331 | 0.1 |
| 1928 | 16 | 25 | 23 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | .348 | .348 | .348 | .696 | 81.5 | 84.2 | .322 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-08-10 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1927-09-05 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1927-04-24 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1927-06-17 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1927-07-31 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-04-12 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-14 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-15 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-16 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-18 | LAD @ PHI 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.