Harry Wolverton

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 205 lb

BornDecember 6, 1873 · Mount Vernon, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 25, 1898

Final gameOctober 4, 1912

Seasons9 (1898–1912)

Chicago Orphans 1898–1900; Philadelphia Phillies 1900–1902; Washington Senators 1902; Philadelphia Phillies 1903–1904; Boston Beaneaters 1905; New York Highlanders 1912

Percentile snapshot

1905 season — qualified batters

122

24.1

505

28.7

463

30.6

21.3

104

23.1

38.9

52.8

51.9

RBI

63.9

75.9

26.9

.225

13.9

OBP

.276

14.8

SLG

.300

17.6

OPS

.576

15.7

wRC+

70.4

10.2

OPS+

71.4

11.1

wOBA

.280

13.9

sWAR

0.1

14.8

of 109 qualified 1905 batters (min 483 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

94.2

30.3

OPS+

94.9

31.3

sWAR

9.9

86.9

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
1898	13	54	49	4	16	1	0	0	2	1	3	1	.327	.353	.347	.700	98.9	100.3	.341	0.2
1899	99	442	389	50	111	14	11	1	49	30	14	14	.285	.350	.386	.736	101.1	101.6	.355	1.7
1900	104	427	394	44	110	10	8	3	58	22	15	5	.279	.322	.368	.690	89.3	90.0	.329	1.0
1901	93	413	379	42	117	15	4	0	43	22	20	13	.309	.356	.369	.726	107.9	108.1	.348	1.9
1902	93	418	385	47	102	11	5	1	39	22	8	11	.265	.311	.327	.639	82.4	83.9	.308	0.7
1903	123	543	494	72	152	13	12	0	53	18	15	10	.308	.342	.383	.725	104.8	107.6	.347	2.3
1904	102	440	398	43	106	15	5	0	49	26	7	18	.266	.321	.329	.650	102.4	102.3	.317	1.9
1905	122	505	463	38	104	15	7	2	55	23	21	10	.225	.276	.300	.576	70.4	71.4	.280	0.1
1912	34	54	50	6	15	1	1	0	4	2	7	1	.300	.340	.360	.700	92.7	94.8	.338	0.1

Career totals

783

3,296

3,001

346

833

RBI

352

166

110

.2776

OBP

.3257

SLG

.3515

OPS

.6772

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
1902-05-16	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1901-05-08	PHI @ SF Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	3	0	6
1903-09-01	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	0	0	1	6
1904-08-24	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	0	2	0	2	0	3	0	6
1903-09-14	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	ATL @ PHI 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.