MLB / Players

Harry Anderson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornSeptember 10, 1931 · North East, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1957

Final gameMay 5, 1961

Seasons5 (1957–1961)

Philadelphia Phillies 1957–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960; Philadelphia Phillies 1960; Cincinnati Reds 1961

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified batters

142

36.2

561

33.3

508

36.2

4.3

122

14.5

69.6

59.4

49.3

RBI

43.5

11.6

8.7

76.8

.240

4.3

OBP

.304

5.8

SLG

.402

36.2

OPS

.706

18.8

wRC+

78.1

7.2

OPS+

84.7

wOBA

.307

11.6

sWAR

-0.4

1.4

of 70 qualified 1959 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.5

78.1

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
1957	118	451	400	53	107	15	4	17	61	36	61	2	3	.268	.333	.453	.785	108.3	111.0	.341	1.4
1958	140	585	515	80	155	34	6	23	97	59	95	0	2	.301	.373	.524	.897	135.8	135.7	.389	3.6
1959	142	561	508	50	122	28	6	14	63	43	95	1	1	.240	.304	.402	.706	78.1	84.7	.307	-0.4
1960	80	184	159	16	34	5	0	6	21	21	39	0	0	.214	.311	.358	.670	84.9	81.9	.309	-0.1
1961	4	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	27.4	33.4	.227	0.0

Career totals

484

1,785

1,586

199

419

RBI

242

159

291

.2642

OBP

.3345

SLG

.4496

OPS

.7841

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
1958-06-08	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	3	11
1958-09-13	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	3	5	0	0	1	1	8
1959-06-07	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	3	8
1960-04-17	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1959-04-26	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	0	1	6

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.