MLB / Players

Gabby Hartnett

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornDecember 20, 1900 · Woonsocket, RI, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1922

Final gameSeptember 24, 1941

Seasons20 (1922–1941)

Chicago Cubs 1922–1940; New York Giants 1941

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified batters

130

53.7

487

438

42.5

40.3

131

44.8

43.3

11.2

92.5

RBI

79.1

52.2

25.4

32.8

.299

OBP

.358

47.8

SLG

.502

81.3

OPS

.860

74.6

wRC+

130.7

76.1

OPS+

132.2

75.4

wOBA

.384

65.7

sWAR

4.5

90.3

of 135 qualified 1934 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.4

88.5

OPS+

127.4

88.1

sWAR

63.2

99.5

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
1922	31	82	72	4	14	1	1	0	4	6	8	1	0	.194	.256	.236	.493	26.1	26.9	.239	-0.3
1923	85	263	231	28	62	12	2	8	39	25	22	4	0	.268	.347	.442	.789	106.8	107.4	.362	1.1
1924	111	407	354	56	106	17	7	16	67	39	37	10	2	.299	.377	.523	.899	139.0	139.3	.404	4.2
1925	117	443	398	61	115	28	3	24	67	36	77	1	5	.289	.351	.555	.906	123.6	127.2	.397	3.7
1926	93	325	284	35	78	25	3	8	41	32	37	0	0	.275	.352	.468	.821	118.2	119.3	.375	2.6
1927	127	509	449	56	132	32	5	10	80	44	42	2	0	.294	.361	.454	.815	118.2	118.9	.375	3.9
1928	120	464	388	61	117	26	9	14	57	65	32	3	0	.302	.404	.523	.928	144.2	143.8	.421	5.1
1929	25	28	22	2	6	2	1	1	9	5	5	1	0	.273	.407	.591	.998	141.7	145.0	.437	0.2
1930	141	578	508	84	172	31	3	37	122	55	62	0	0	.339	.404	.630	1.034	141.1	144.7	.442	5.9
1931	116	438	380	53	107	32	1	8	70	52	48	3	0	.282	.370	.434	.804	116.7	114.3	.371	3.2
1932	121	462	406	52	110	25	3	12	52	51	59	0	0	.271	.354	.436	.790	114.7	113.1	.356	3.3
1933	140	535	490	55	135	21	4	16	88	37	51	1	0	.276	.326	.433	.759	116.6	117.4	.348	4.1
1934	130	487	438	58	131	21	1	22	90	37	46	0	0	.299	.358	.502	.860	130.7	132.2	.384	4.5
1935	116	461	413	67	142	32	6	13	91	41	46	1	0	.344	.404	.545	.949	154.6	155.1	.423	5.6
1936	121	468	424	49	130	25	6	7	64	30	36	0	0	.307	.361	.443	.804	115.4	115.6	.369	3.3
1937	110	405	356	47	126	21	6	12	82	43	19	0	0	.354	.424	.548	.971	161.5	159.7	.439	5.3
1938	88	353	299	40	82	19	1	10	59	48	17	1	0	.274	.380	.445	.825	128.1	124.7	.382	3.1
1939	97	351	306	36	85	18	2	12	59	37	32	0	0	.278	.358	.467	.825	119.5	119.5	.376	2.7
1940	37	73	64	3	17	3	0	1	12	8	7	0	0	.266	.347	.359	.707	99.5	97.1	.333	0.4
1941	64	165	150	20	45	5	0	5	26	12	14	0	0	.300	.356	.433	.789	119.0	119.5	.367	1.2

Career totals

1,990

264th-most career G

7,297

402nd-most career PA

6,432

415th-most career AB

867

1,912

346th-most career H

396

207th-most career 2B

478th-most career 3B

236

292nd-most career HR

RBI

1,179

172nd-most career RBI

703

380th-most career BB

697

.2973

263rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3696

288th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4888

170th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8584

158th-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
1925-07-02	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	3	11
1930-06-25	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	6	10
1930-09-27	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	3	10
1932-08-07	CHC @ SF Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	3	9
1930-09-04	CHC @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	6	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-04-12	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-13	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-15	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-17	CHC @ STL 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, 1955 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player6× 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.