Ducky Holmes

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 28, 1869 · Des Moines, IA, USA

MLB debutAugust 8, 1895

Final gameSeptember 29, 1905

Seasons10 (1895–1905)

Louisville Colonels 1895–1897; New York Giants 1897; Baltimore Orioles 1898; St. Louis Browns 1898; Baltimore Orioles 1899; Detroit Tigers 1901–1902; Chicago White Sox 1903; Washington Senators 1903; Chicago White Sox 1904–1905

Percentile snapshot

1903 season — qualified batters

107

21.2

469

24.8

415

46.9

112

27.4

16.8

37.2

RBI

14.2

40.7

91.2

.270

38.9

OBP

.327

SLG

.330

29.2

OPS

.657

31.9

wRC+

102.5

45.1

OPS+

100.9

43.4

wOBA

.311

31.9

sWAR

1.3

38.1

of 114 qualified 1903 batters (min 434 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.7

OPS+

100.1

sWAR

9.1

85.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1895	40	179	161	33	60	10	2	3	20	12	9	9	.373	.426	.516	.942	132.8	141.9	.438	1.3
1896	47	165	141	22	38	3	2	0	18	13	5	8	.270	.360	.319	.679	87.1	79.8	.337	0.1
1897	82	343	314	52	82	8	6	1	45	19	33	30	.261	.312	.334	.646	73.5	70.2	.310	-0.4
1898	136	587	543	63	150	11	10	1	64	25	52	29	.276	.320	.339	.659	88.0	88.6	.321	0.5
1899	138	623	553	80	177	31	7	4	66	39	58	50	.320	.381	.423	.804	117.3	120.0	.385	2.8
1901	131	589	537	90	158	28	10	4	62	37	27	35	.294	.347	.406	.753	105.3	107.1	.353	1.8
1902	92	404	362	50	93	15	4	2	33	28	28	16	.257	.319	.337	.656	82.0	80.2	.313	0.0
1903	107	469	415	66	112	10	6	1	26	30	41	35	.270	.327	.330	.657	102.5	100.9	.311	1.3
1904	68	277	251	42	78	11	9	1	19	14	21	13	.311	.354	.438	.793	153.8	155.5	.372	2.3
1905	92	382	328	42	66	15	2	0	22	19	30	11	.201	.258	.259	.517	70.1	69.1	.255	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1895	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	16	9	4	0	1	14.0	5.79	1.429	0.00	5.58	116.9	82.5	1.3
1896	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	26	10	8	3	0	12.0	7.50	2.833	2.25	4.79	109.9	58.1	0.1

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

933

4,018

3,605

540

1,014

142

RBI

375

236

304

236

268th-most career SB

.2813

OBP

.3365

SLG

.3670

OPS

.7035

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

6.577

WHIP

2.0769

K/9

1.04

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	TB
1901-08-26	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	1	7
1901-06-17	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	6	7
1904-08-20	CWS @ NYY Gameday	3	1	3	0	2	0	0	7
1902-06-09	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	0	2	6
1903-06-28	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	0	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-25	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-28	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	DET @ CWS 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.