Frank LaPorte

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 6, 1880 · Uhrichsville, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 29, 1905

Final gameOctober 3, 1915

Seasons11 (1905–1915)

New York Highlanders 1905–1907; Boston Red Sox 1908; New York Highlanders 1908–1910; St. Louis Browns 1911–1912; Washington Senators 1912–1913; Indianapolis Hoosiers 1914; Newark Pepper 1915

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

148

65.5

616

67.9

550

75.2

41.8

139

58.8

86.7

65.5

39.4

RBI

66.1

61.2

57.6

36.4

52.1

.253

28.5

OBP

.314

24.8

SLG

.351

39.4

OPS

.665

30.3

wRC+

93.7

30.9

OPS+

95.2

30.9

wOBA

.320

26.7

sWAR

1.9

49.7

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.6

58.6

OPS+

110.0

61.7

sWAR

21.6

94.2

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
1905	11	41	40	4	16	1	0	1	12	1	4	1	0	.400	.415	.500	.915	175.9	176.9	.432	0.6
1906	123	483	454	60	120	23	9	2	54	22	57	10	0	.264	.300	.368	.668	103.9	107.2	.319	2.1
1907	130	511	470	56	127	20	11	0	48	27	35	10	0	.270	.317	.360	.676	104.9	106.7	.329	1.9
1908	101	330	301	21	75	4	7	1	30	20	20	6	0	.249	.298	.319	.617	96.3	97.3	.302	1.0
1909	89	337	309	35	92	19	3	0	31	18	36	5	0	.298	.340	.379	.719	122.8	124.0	.349	2.3
1910	124	487	432	43	114	14	6	2	67	33	34	16	0	.264	.321	.338	.658	99.5	100.6	.323	1.7
1911	136	563	507	71	159	37	12	2	82	34	53	4	0	.314	.361	.446	.807	121.5	125.5	.382	3.6
1912	120	451	402	45	125	20	5	1	55	32	45	10	10	.311	.366	.393	.759	116.6	118.2	.367	2.4
1913	79	266	242	25	61	5	4	0	18	17	16	10	0	.252	.309	.306	.615	78.6	80.1	.304	0.3
1914	133	566	505	86	157	27	12	4	107	36	36	15	0	.311	.361	.436	.797	124.6	126.0	.375	3.8
1915	148	616	550	55	139	28	10	2	56	48	33	14	0	.253	.314	.351	.665	93.7	95.2	.320	1.9

Career totals

1,194

4,651

4,212

501

1,185

198

292nd-most career 3B

RBI

560

288

369

101

.2813

OBP

.3313

SLG

.3765

OPS

.7078

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
1911-08-07	BAL @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	1	7	12
1906-09-11	BOS @ NYY Gameday	4	4	4	0	2	1	4	11
1912-07-10	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	3	7
1907-07-27	CLE @ NYY Gameday	6	3	4	1	1	0	1	7
1906-05-03	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1905-04-14	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-15	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-17	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-19	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-20	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.