Hobe Ferris
Boston Americans 1901–1907; St. Louis Browns 1908–1909
Percentile snapshot
1909 season — qualified batters
of 101 qualified 1909 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 138 | 564 | 523 | 68 | 131 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 63 | 23 | 50 | 13 | 0 | .250 | .290 | .350 | .640 | 80.0 | 78.7 | .300 | 0.6 |
| 1902 | 133 | 532 | 496 | 56 | 121 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 63 | 20 | 52 | 11 | 0 | .244 | .275 | .381 | .656 | 77.7 | 80.6 | .302 | 0.5 |
| 1903 | 141 | 566 | 525 | 69 | 132 | 19 | 7 | 9 | 66 | 25 | 59 | 11 | 0 | .251 | .287 | .366 | .652 | 90.6 | 92.6 | .301 | 1.6 |
| 1904 | 156 | 602 | 563 | 50 | 120 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 63 | 23 | 65 | 7 | 0 | .213 | .245 | .306 | .551 | 66.3 | 70.8 | .261 | 0.0 |
| 1905 | 142 | 558 | 523 | 51 | 115 | 24 | 16 | 6 | 59 | 23 | 69 | 11 | 0 | .220 | .253 | .361 | .614 | 87.5 | 93.0 | .290 | 1.4 |
| 1906 | 130 | 518 | 495 | 47 | 121 | 25 | 13 | 2 | 44 | 10 | 67 | 8 | 0 | .244 | .262 | .360 | .622 | 85.7 | 92.0 | .294 | 1.2 |
| 1907 | 143 | 583 | 561 | 41 | 135 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 60 | 10 | 58 | 11 | 0 | .241 | .254 | .314 | .568 | 74.5 | 80.7 | .273 | 0.5 |
| 1908 | 148 | 601 | 555 | 54 | 150 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 74 | 14 | 72 | 6 | 0 | .270 | .291 | .353 | .644 | 106.5 | 111.5 | .309 | 2.8 |
| 1909 | 148 | 583 | 556 | 36 | 120 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 58 | 12 | 58 | 11 | 0 | .216 | .232 | .288 | .520 | 57.7 | 65.6 | .250 | -0.6 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-08-31 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 1903-09-16 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1903-05-04 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1904-08-11 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 1905-07-08 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-04-26 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-27 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-29 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-30 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-05-01 | BOS @ ATH 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.