MLB / Players

Frank Chance

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornSeptember 9, 1876 · Fresno, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 29, 1898

Final gameApril 21, 1914

Seasons17 (1898–1914)

Chicago Orphans 1898–1902; Chicago Cubs 1903–1912; New York Yankees 1913–1914

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

129

35.6

513

36.5

452

35.6

73.1

123

91.3

37.5

56.7

RBI

77.9

58.7

56.7

77.9

.272

65.4

OBP

.338

62.5

SLG

.363

72.1

OPS

.701

68.3

wRC+

125.0

73.1

OPS+

123.8

73.1

wOBA

.343

67.3

sWAR

2.0

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 489 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

139.8

96.1

OPS+

138.2

94.9

sWAR

34.7

97.3

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
1898	53	162	147	32	41	4	3	1	14	7	14	7	.279	.338	.367	.705	100.4	101.5	.343	0.7
1899	64	213	192	37	55	6	2	1	22	15	9	10	.286	.351	.354	.705	95.0	93.3	.343	1.0
1900	56	187	149	26	44	9	3	0	13	15	12	8	.295	.413	.396	.809	126.2	123.8	.396	1.6
1901	69	283	241	38	67	12	4	0	36	29	24	27	.278	.376	.361	.737	119.5	115.9	.361	1.4
1902	76	289	242	40	70	9	4	1	31	37	23	29	.289	.401	.372	.773	143.4	138.6	.388	2.4
1903	125	531	441	83	144	24	10	2	81	78	41	67	.327	.439	.440	.878	153.9	155.6	.427	4.5
1904	124	514	451	89	140	16	10	6	49	36	21	42	.310	.382	.430	.812	150.6	153.6	.390	3.9
1905	118	502	392	92	124	16	12	2	70	78	26	38	.316	.450	.434	.883	168.1	164.5	.432	4.9
1906	136	574	474	103	151	24	10	3	71	70	31	57	.319	.419	.430	.849	168.0	164.2	.419	5.3
1907	111	451	382	58	112	19	2	1	49	51	21	35	.293	.395	.361	.756	144.0	136.7	.380	2.9
1908	129	513	452	65	123	27	4	2	55	37	37	27	.272	.338	.363	.701	125.0	123.8	.343	2.0
1909	93	370	324	53	88	16	4	0	46	30	32	29	.272	.341	.346	.686	114.7	114.2	.340	1.0
1910	88	348	295	54	88	12	8	0	36	37	15	16	.298	.395	.393	.788	136.6	134.1	.388	2.0
1911	31	124	88	23	21	6	3	1	17	25	13	9	.239	.432	.409	.841	145.4	138.1	.416	0.8
1912	2	9	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	.200	.500	.200	.700	135.9	96.6	.407	0.0
1913	12	33	24	3	5	0	0	0	6	8	1	1	.208	.406	.208	.615	103.1	78.8	.344	0.1
1914	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Career totals

1,288

5,103

4,299

798

1,274

200

292nd-most career 3B

RBI

596

556

320

403

73rd-most career SB

.2963

282nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3940

93rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3936

OPS

.7876

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
1908-09-03	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	1	2	0	9
1904-06-13	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1903-05-23	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	3	1	7
1903-08-19	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	3	1	7
1905-08-21	CHC @ LAD Gameday	3	3	3	0	2	0	2	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	CIN @ CHC 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

Hall of Fame, 1946 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.