Doc Gessler

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 23, 1880 · Greensburg, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1903

Final gameOctober 7, 1911

Seasons8 (1903–1911)

Brooklyn Superbas 1903; Detroit Tigers 1903; Brooklyn Superbas 1904–1906; Chicago Cubs 1906; Boston Red Sox 1908–1909; Washington Senators 1909–1911

Percentile snapshot

1911 season — qualified batters

128

29.6

553

38.9

450

26.9

38.9

127

34.3

47.2

30.6

65.7

RBI

77.8

89.8

54.6

68.5

.282

44.4

OBP

.406

85.2

SLG

.373

43.5

OPS

.780

60.2

wRC+

125.2

76.9

OPS+

119.5

wOBA

.387

73.1

sWAR

3.0

70.4

of 109 qualified 1911 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

129.0

89.6

OPS+

127.0

87.7

sWAR

20.2

93.7

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
1903	78	306	259	29	63	13	7	0	30	20	57	10	.243	.331	.347	.679	101.9	98.6	.330	0.7
1904	104	381	341	41	99	18	4	2	28	30	44	13	.290	.355	.384	.739	127.3	128.3	.357	2.7
1905	126	486	431	44	125	17	4	3	46	38	56	26	.290	.366	.369	.735	125.1	124.1	.359	2.2
1906	43	136	116	11	29	4	2	0	14	15	14	7	.250	.346	.319	.665	112.6	108.3	.336	0.6
1908	128	507	435	55	134	13	14	3	63	51	47	19	.308	.394	.423	.817	165.1	162.5	.398	5.0
1909	128	510	450	67	128	26	2	0	54	43	55	20	.284	.361	.351	.712	127.0	123.4	.353	2.7
1910	145	577	487	58	126	17	12	2	50	62	54	18	.259	.361	.355	.716	130.6	127.0	.357	3.3
1911	128	553	450	65	127	19	5	4	78	74	40	29	.282	.406	.373	.780	125.2	119.5	.387	3.0

Career totals

880

3,456

2,969

370

831

127

RBI

363

333

367

142

.2799

OBP

.3701

282nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3705

OPS

.7406

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
1911-06-02	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	7	0	9
1911-06-14	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	0	0	1	7
1904-07-20	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	3	1	7
1903-06-01	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	0	1	0	6
1911-07-31	CLE @ MIN Gameday	3	2	3	3	0	0	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1903-04-22	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1903-04-23	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1903-04-25	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1903-04-27	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1903-04-28	CWS @ DET 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.