Hank Gowdy

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 182 lb

BornAugust 24, 1889 · Columbus, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1910

Final gameAugust 29, 1930

Seasons17 (1910–1930)

New York Giants 1910; Boston Rustlers 1911; New York Giants 1911; Boston Braves 1912–1917; Boston Braves 1919–1923; New York Giants 1923–1925; Boston Braves 1929–1930

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.8

55.2

OPS+

103.5

49.5

sWAR

20.6

93.8

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
1910	7	16	14	1	3	1	0	0	2	2	3	1	0	.214	.313	.286	.598	78.9	75.8	.303	0.0
1911	33	110	101	10	29	5	2	0	16	6	19	2	0	.287	.333	.376	.710	86.3	90.5	.338	-0.1
1912	44	115	96	16	26	6	1	3	10	16	13	3	0	.271	.386	.448	.834	123.0	122.1	.396	0.9
1913	3	8	5	0	3	1	0	0	2	3	2	0	0	.600	.750	.800	1.550	330.0	336.9	.688	0.3
1914	128	426	366	42	89	17	6	3	46	48	40	14	0	.243	.337	.347	.684	107.3	104.8	.335	2.8
1915	118	365	316	27	78	15	3	2	30	41	34	10	4	.247	.339	.332	.671	110.1	106.3	.329	2.8
1916	118	393	349	32	88	14	1	1	34	24	33	8	0	.252	.311	.307	.618	93.8	93.4	.300	2.2
1917	49	176	154	12	33	7	0	0	14	15	13	2	0	.214	.288	.260	.548	74.9	73.3	.272	0.6
1919	78	245	219	18	61	8	1	1	22	19	16	5	0	.279	.339	.338	.677	108.0	105.9	.327	1.8
1920	80	241	214	14	52	11	2	0	18	20	15	6	1	.243	.314	.313	.627	84.3	83.2	.303	1.0
1921	64	188	164	17	49	7	2	2	17	16	11	2	0	.299	.368	.402	.771	110.2	108.1	.358	1.3
1922	92	254	221	23	70	11	1	1	27	24	13	2	1	.317	.391	.389	.780	108.7	105.2	.368	1.7
1923	76	213	170	18	46	7	4	1	23	36	14	3	1	.271	.404	.376	.780	117.4	107.8	.376	1.6
1924	87	219	191	25	62	9	1	4	37	26	11	1	0	.325	.411	.445	.856	134.4	130.0	.397	2.4
1925	47	129	114	14	37	4	3	3	19	12	7	0	0	.325	.389	.491	.880	128.0	128.4	.396	1.2
1929	10	16	16	1	7	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	.438	.438	.438	.875	121.9	120.2	.401	0.2
1930	16	29	25	0	5	1	0	0	2	3	1	0	0	.200	.310	.240	.550	45.7	37.6	.271	0.0

Career totals

1,050

3,143

2,735

270

738

124

RBI

322

311

247

.2698

OBP

.3508

SLG

.3580

OPS

.7088

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
1914-10-12	ATH @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	2	1	8
1925-07-28	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	7
1914-08-15	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	0	1	0	7
1921-06-21	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1916-09-11	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	3	4	2	0	0	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1910-07-23	SF @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-07-24	SF @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-07-27	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-07-28	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-07-29	ATL @ SF 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.