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Erve Beck

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 168 lb

BornJuly 19, 1878 · Toledo, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 19, 1899

Final gameSeptember 27, 1902

Seasons3 (1899–1902)

Brooklyn Superbas 1899; Cleveland Blues 1901; Cincinnati Reds 1902; Detroit Tigers 1902

Percentile snapshot

1901 season — qualified batters

135

64.1

567

539

65.2

46.7

156

58.7

42.4

RBI

78.3

15.2

66.3

2.2

.289

45.7

OBP

.320

27.2

SLG

.401

60.9

OPS

.720

45.7

wRC+

97.7

41.3

OPS+

100.1

42.4

wOBA

.334

40.2

sWAR

1.9

45.7

of 93 qualified 1901 batters (min 427 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.6

72.4

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
1899	8	24	24	2	4	2	0	0	2	0	4	0	.167	.167	.250	.417	14.0	13.5	.192	-0.2
1901	135	567	539	78	156	26	8	6	79	23	29	7	.289	.320	.401	.720	97.7	100.1	.334	1.9
1902	89	362	349	42	105	14	3	3	42	7	33	5	.301	.317	.384	.700	97.2	102.6	.332	0.8

Career totals

232

953

912

122

265

RBI

123

.2906

OBP

.3146

SLG

.3904

OPS

.7050

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
1902-06-10	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	1	5	0	2	0	4	0	9
1901-06-21	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	1	0	7
1901-08-31	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	0	2	1	6
1901-06-08	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	1	1	6
1901-04-25	CLE @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-24	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-25	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-28	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BAL @ CLE 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.