Ferris Fain
Philadelphia Athletics 1947–1952; Chicago White Sox 1953–1954; Cleveland Indians 1955; Detroit Tigers 1955
Percentile snapshot
1953 season — qualified batters
of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 483 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 136 | 567 | 461 | 70 | 134 | 28 | 6 | 7 | 71 | 95 | 34 | 4 | 5 | .291 | .414 | .423 | .837 | 138.4 | 130.9 | .401 | 3.3 |
| 1948 | 145 | 644 | 520 | 81 | 146 | 27 | 6 | 7 | 88 | 113 | 37 | 10 | 5 | .281 | .412 | .396 | .808 | 122.3 | 115.9 | .393 | 2.6 |
| 1949 | 150 | 672 | 525 | 81 | 138 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 78 | 136 | 51 | 8 | 1 | .263 | .415 | .339 | .754 | 113.4 | 102.8 | .380 | 2.0 |
| 1950 | 151 | 658 | 522 | 83 | 147 | 25 | 4 | 10 | 83 | 133 | 26 | 8 | 5 | .282 | .430 | .402 | .832 | 123.2 | 115.2 | .401 | 2.9 |
| 1951 | 117 | 511 | 425 | 63 | 146 | 30 | 3 | 6 | 57 | 80 | 20 | 0 | 3 | .344 | .451 | .471 | .921 | 152.9 | 146.6 | .433 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 145 | 648 | 538 | 82 | 176 | 43 | 3 | 2 | 59 | 105 | 26 | 3 | 5 | .327 | .438 | .429 | .867 | 144.4 | 134.5 | .413 | 4.3 |
| 1953 | 128 | 564 | 446 | 73 | 114 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 52 | 108 | 28 | 3 | 2 | .256 | .405 | .345 | .750 | 114.7 | 104.1 | .368 | 1.8 |
| 1954 | 65 | 282 | 235 | 30 | 71 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 51 | 40 | 14 | 5 | 1 | .302 | .399 | .417 | .816 | 129.3 | 124.4 | .383 | 1.4 |
| 1955 | 114 | 358 | 258 | 32 | 67 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 94 | 25 | 5 | 1 | .260 | .455 | .326 | .781 | 133.5 | 115.0 | .395 | 1.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-08-01 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1950-05-06 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1955-05-15 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1951-09-05 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1950-09-23 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-15 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-17 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-18 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-19 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-20 | NYY @ ATH 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.