MLB / Players

Fred Clarke

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornOctober 3, 1872 · Winterset, IA, USA

MLB debutJune 30, 1894

Final gameSeptember 23, 1915

Seasons21 (1894–1915)

Louisville Colonels 1894–1899; Pittsburgh Pirates 1900–1911; Pittsburgh Pirates 1913–1915

Percentile snapshot

1910 season — qualified batters

123

28.8

515

33.3

429

26.1

113

31.5

74.8

69.4

43.2

RBI

73.9

69.4

71.2

35.1

.263

43.2

OBP

.350

61.3

SLG

.373

58.6

OPS

.723

62.2

wRC+

109.1

48.6

OPS+

108.6

46.8

wOBA

.354

58.6

sWAR

1.6

47.7

of 112 qualified 1910 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

130.1

90.6

OPS+

133.4

92.8

sWAR

60.7

99.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1894	76	345	314	55	86	11	7	7	48	26	27	26	.274	.337	.420	.758	83.0	81.5	.350	0.1
1895	132	597	550	96	191	21	5	4	82	34	24	40	.347	.396	.425	.821	109.6	111.5	.389	2.2
1896	131	581	517	96	168	15	18	9	79	43	34	34	.325	.392	.476	.868	122.2	128.0	.407	3.0
1897	130	599	526	122	205	30	13	6	67	45	26	59	.390	.461	.530	.992	152.3	161.2	.465	5.5
1898	149	667	599	116	184	23	12	3	47	48	21	40	.307	.373	.401	.774	118.8	121.3	.376	3.1
1899	149	681	606	122	206	23	9	5	70	49	18	49	.340	.404	.432	.836	126.2	129.1	.401	4.0
1900	106	466	399	84	110	15	12	3	32	51	20	21	.276	.368	.396	.764	111.0	110.6	.368	1.7
1901	129	601	527	118	171	24	15	6	60	51	44	23	.324	.395	.461	.856	145.1	148.6	.404	4.7
1902	113	530	459	103	145	27	14	2	53	51	38	29	.316	.401	.449	.850	160.0	161.6	.415	5.1
1903	104	486	427	88	150	32	15	5	70	41	27	21	.351	.414	.532	.946	159.2	168.0	.444	4.7
1904	72	313	278	51	85	7	11	0	25	22	25	11	.306	.367	.410	.777	136.6	138.4	.374	2.1
1905	141	604	525	95	157	18	15	2	51	55	41	24	.299	.368	.402	.770	128.7	129.3	.371	3.4
1906	118	478	417	69	129	14	13	1	39	40	25	18	.309	.371	.412	.784	141.5	141.7	.383	3.4
1907	148	593	501	97	145	18	13	2	59	68	32	37	.289	.383	.389	.772	146.4	142.0	.383	4.5
1908	151	644	551	83	146	18	15	2	53	65	23	24	.265	.349	.363	.712	131.1	127.8	.350	3.7
1909	152	660	550	97	158	16	11	3	68	80	36	31	.287	.384	.373	.756	138.7	134.7	.376	4.4
1910	123	515	429	57	113	23	9	2	63	53	23	12	.263	.350	.373	.723	109.1	108.6	.354	1.6
1911	110	460	392	73	127	25	13	5	49	53	27	10	.324	.407	.492	.900	148.2	150.7	.424	3.7
1913	9	14	13	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.077	.077	.154	.231	-46.6	-33.3	.103	-0.2
1914	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-116.8	-100.0	.000	0.0
1915	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	211.5	205.9	.473	0.0

Career totals

2,246

133rd-most career G

9,838

94th-most career PA

8,584

104th-most career AB

1,622

43rd-most career R

2,678

71st-most career H

361

287th-most career 2B

220

7th-most career 3B

RBI

1,015

293rd-most career RBI

875

196th-most career BB

511

509

35th-most career SB

.3120

100th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3856

148th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4287

OPS

.8143

397th-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	BB	TB
1901-07-23	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1903-05-07	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	1	2	1	10
1903-06-05	ATL @ PIT Gameday	5	1	5	1	1	0	2	0	8
1909-06-11	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	0	2	0	8
1902-06-22	PIT @ CHC Gameday	8	1	5	1	1	0	0	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	STL @ PIT 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, 1945 (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.