MLB / Players

Frankie Frisch

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 9, 1897 · Bronx, NY, USA

MLB debutJune 17, 1919

Final gameAugust 5, 1937

Seasons19 (1919–1937)

New York Giants 1919–1926; St. Louis Cardinals 1927–1937

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified batters

140

67.2

606

68.7

550

68.7

168

72.4

70.1

41.8

RBI

67.9

65.7

88.1

32.8

.305

OBP

.359

SLG

.398

37.3

OPS

.757

39.6

wRC+

99.8

35.8

OPS+

98.7

34.3

wOBA

.348

38.1

sWAR

2.2

57.5

of 135 qualified 1934 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.5

66.4

OPS+

111.6

65.5

sWAR

52.4

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
1919	54	197	190	21	43	3	2	2	24	4	14	15	0	.226	.242	.295	.537	54.6	62.7	.252	-0.3
1920	110	473	440	57	123	10	10	4	77	20	18	34	11	.280	.311	.375	.686	95.7	98.6	.321	1.6
1921	153	687	618	121	211	31	17	8	100	42	28	49	13	.341	.384	.485	.870	131.0	130.5	.394	5.2
1922	132	582	514	101	168	16	13	5	51	47	13	31	17	.327	.387	.438	.824	114.2	113.2	.381	3.2
1923	151	702	641	116	223	32	10	12	111	46	12	29	12	.348	.395	.485	.880	133.8	134.4	.402	5.6
1924	145	675	603	121	198	33	15	7	69	56	24	22	9	.328	.387	.468	.855	130.1	128.7	.391	5.1
1925	120	542	502	89	166	26	6	11	48	32	14	21	12	.331	.374	.472	.846	118.7	119.7	.381	3.4
1926	135	589	545	75	171	29	4	5	44	33	16	23	0	.314	.353	.409	.762	105.3	106.2	.353	2.6
1927	153	693	617	112	208	31	11	10	78	43	10	48	0	.337	.387	.472	.858	127.6	127.3	.395	4.9
1928	141	631	547	107	164	29	9	10	86	64	17	29	0	.300	.374	.441	.815	112.9	111.9	.376	3.3
1929	138	599	527	93	176	40	12	5	74	53	12	24	0	.334	.397	.484	.881	117.7	117.4	.398	3.4
1930	133	611	540	121	187	46	9	10	114	55	16	15	0	.346	.407	.520	.927	120.7	120.5	.409	3.8
1931	131	570	518	96	161	24	4	4	82	45	13	28	0	.311	.368	.396	.764	105.0	103.2	.355	2.5
1932	115	513	486	59	142	26	2	3	60	25	13	18	0	.292	.327	.372	.699	84.6	85.9	.317	0.9
1933	147	646	585	74	177	32	6	4	66	48	16	18	0	.303	.358	.398	.757	114.4	112.0	.353	3.6
1934	140	606	550	74	168	30	6	3	75	45	10	11	0	.305	.359	.398	.757	99.8	98.7	.348	2.2
1935	103	402	354	52	104	16	2	1	55	33	16	2	0	.294	.356	.359	.714	93.1	90.9	.333	1.1
1936	93	348	303	40	83	10	0	1	26	36	10	2	0	.274	.353	.317	.670	86.2	82.2	.322	0.7
1937	17	34	32	3	7	2	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	.219	.242	.281	.524	33.2	40.6	.242	-0.2

Career totals

2,311

112th-most career G

10,100

80th-most career PA

9,112

68th-most career AB

1,532

62nd-most career R

2,880

43rd-most career H

466

97th-most career 2B

138

66th-most career 3B

105

RBI

1,244

139th-most career RBI

728

345th-most career BB

272

419

63rd-most career SB

.3161

82nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3687

313th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4321

OPS

.8008

495th-highest career OPS

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
1924-09-10	ATL @ SF Gameday	7	3	6	0	0	1	4	9
1927-05-01	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	4	9
1929-06-11	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	4	9
1933-06-22	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	3	9
1927-04-30	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	2	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1919-04-23	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-24	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-25	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-28	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-30	SF @ ATL 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, 1947 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player3× All-Star

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