MLB / Players

Hack Wilson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 190 lb

BornApril 26, 1900 · Ellwood City, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 29, 1923

Final gameAugust 25, 1934

Seasons12 (1923–1934)

New York Giants 1923–1925; Chicago Cubs 1926–1931; Brooklyn Dodgers 1932–1934; Philadelphia Phillies 1934

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified batters

135

539

59.6

481

58.4

68.1

143

60.2

86.1

51.2

RBI

123

94.6

76.5

1.2

18.1

27.7

.297

57.2

OBP

.366

SLG

.538

90.4

OPS

.904

86.1

wRC+

140.6

86.1

OPS+

140.9

84.9

wOBA

.397

80.1

sWAR

3.9

of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

144.4

97.5

OPS+

144.4

sWAR

48.4

98.7

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
1923	3	10	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-0.2	7.3	.185	-0.1
1924	107	434	383	62	113	19	12	10	57	44	46	4	3	.295	.369	.486	.855	128.1	127.9	.388	3.1
1925	62	206	180	28	43	7	4	6	30	21	33	5	2	.239	.322	.422	.744	91.7	92.7	.337	0.4
1926	142	613	529	97	170	36	8	21	109	69	61	10	0	.321	.406	.539	.944	152.2	152.5	.429	6.3
1927	146	646	551	119	175	30	12	30	129	71	70	13	0	.318	.401	.579	.980	159.2	162.0	.440	7.2
1928	145	623	520	89	163	32	9	31	120	77	94	4	0	.313	.404	.588	.992	157.6	159.7	.442	6.7
1929	150	670	574	135	198	30	5	39	159	78	83	3	0	.345	.425	.618	1.044	153.2	156.1	.457	6.9
1930	155	709	585	146	208	35	6	56	191	105	84	3	0	.356	.454	.723	1.177	172.2	178.3	.496	9.1
1931	112	458	395	66	103	22	4	13	61	63	69	1	0	.261	.362	.435	.798	114.8	112.6	.368	2.2
1932	135	539	481	77	143	37	5	23	123	51	85	2	0	.297	.366	.538	.904	140.6	140.9	.397	3.9
1933	117	413	360	41	96	13	2	9	54	52	50	7	0	.267	.359	.389	.748	120.5	116.3	.353	2.0
1934	74	235	192	24	47	5	0	6	30	43	37	0	0	.245	.383	.365	.748	110.7	104.3	.356	0.8

Career totals

1,348

5,556

4,760

884

1,461

266

437th-most career 3B

244

270th-most career HR

RBI

1,063

256th-most career RBI

674

412th-most career BB

713

.3069

146th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3951

87th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5447

34th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9398

39th-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
1925-07-01	SF @ PHI Gameday	6	4	4	2	0	2	5	0	12
1927-08-24	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	5	4	2	0	2	3	1	12
1930-07-26	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	4	3	0	0	3	5	1	12
1930-06-23	PHI @ CHC Gameday	6	3	5	1	1	1	5	0	11
1928-04-19	CIN @ CHC Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	2	6	0	11

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-17	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-18	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-20	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, 1979 (Veterans)

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