Earl Blackburn
Cincinnati Reds 1912; Pittsburgh Pirates 1912; Cincinnati Reds 1913; Boston Braves 1915–1916; Chicago Cubs 1917
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | 359.8 | — | .769 | 0.1 |
| 1913 | 17 | 29 | 27 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | .259 | .310 | .259 | .570 | 64.2 | 63.5 | .280 | 0.1 |
| 1915 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .375 | .167 | .542 | 95.3 | 68.7 | .308 | 0.1 |
| 1916 | 47 | 123 | 110 | 12 | 30 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 21 | 2 | 0 | .273 | .328 | .382 | .710 | 121.5 | 121.4 | .337 | 1.2 |
| 1917 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916-09-13 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1916-08-02 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1916-08-04 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1916-09-18 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1916-08-11 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912-04-11 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-13 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-14 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-15 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-16 | PIT @ CIN 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.