MLB / Players

Horace Clarke

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornJune 2, 1939 · Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

MLB debutMay 13, 1965

Final gameSeptember 15, 1974

Seasons10 (1965–1974)

New York Yankees 1965–1974; San Diego Padres 1974

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified batters

148

45.6

650

71.1

590

80.7

18.4

155

57.9

7.9

RBI

5.3

83.3

.263

34.2

OBP

.317

23.7

SLG

.308

3.5

OPS

.625

6.1

wRC+

82.1

OPS+

80.7

10.5

wOBA

.297

11.4

sWAR

1.1

16.7

of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

82.1

12.8

OPS+

82.2

11.7

sWAR

9.1

85.8

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
1965	51	116	108	13	28	1	0	1	9	6	6	2	1	.259	.296	.296	.592	69.4	70.5	.276	0.0
1966	96	344	312	37	83	10	4	6	28	27	24	5	3	.266	.324	.381	.705	104.6	105.7	.317	1.8
1967	143	633	588	74	160	17	0	3	29	42	64	21	4	.272	.321	.316	.637	94.0	92.6	.300	2.0
1968	148	607	579	52	133	6	1	2	26	23	46	20	7	.230	.258	.254	.512	53.0	58.6	.243	-1.0
1969	156	699	641	82	183	26	7	4	48	53	41	33	13	.285	.339	.367	.706	104.5	102.4	.331	3.0
1970	158	732	686	81	172	24	2	4	46	35	35	23	7	.251	.286	.309	.595	64.3	68.8	.274	-0.5
1971	159	696	625	76	156	23	7	2	41	64	43	17	7	.250	.321	.318	.639	85.4	83.0	.306	1.4
1972	147	613	547	65	132	20	2	3	37	56	44	18	6	.241	.315	.302	.616	89.1	87.4	.297	1.6
1973	148	650	590	60	155	21	0	2	35	47	48	11	10	.263	.317	.308	.625	82.1	80.7	.297	1.1
1974	66	152	137	8	28	2	0	0	5	12	11	1	0	.204	.268	.219	.487	42.3	41.2	.243	-0.5

Career totals

1,272

5,242

4,813

548

1,230

150

RBI

304

365

362

151

.2556

OBP

.3081

SLG

.3131

OPS

.6212

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
1971-07-22	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	3	0	7
1967-07-30	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	3	0	7
1972-08-31	TEX @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	1	2	1	7
1966-09-04	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1973-08-04	NYY @ DET Gameday	7	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	7

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.