Horace Ford

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornJuly 23, 1897 · New Haven, CT, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1919

Final gameMay 8, 1933

Seasons15 (1919–1933)

Boston Braves 1919–1923; Philadelphia Phillies 1924; Brooklyn Robins 1925; Cincinnati Reds 1926–1931; Boston Braves 1932; St. Louis Cardinals 1932; Boston Braves 1933

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

148

81.1

590

62.8

529

67.1

48.2

146

59.8

28.7

RBI

34.8

51.8

37.8

48.2

34.8

.276

20.7

OBP

.329

14.6

SLG

.342

14.6

OPS

.671

12.2

wRC+

71.6

10.4

OPS+

70.9

13.4

wOBA

.312

sWAR

0.3

23.2

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

71.5

4.1

OPS+

72.4

3.8

sWAR

3.6

75.9

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1919	10	32	28	4	6	0	1	0	3	2	6	0	0	.214	.290	.286	.576	76.3	75.3	.283	0.1
1920	88	287	257	16	62	12	5	1	30	18	25	3	3	.241	.296	.339	.635	83.0	84.8	.301	0.5
1921	152	614	555	50	155	29	5	2	61	36	49	2	11	.279	.328	.360	.688	85.5	85.8	.319	1.3
1922	143	574	515	58	140	23	9	2	60	30	36	2	1	.272	.317	.363	.680	76.8	77.9	.315	0.8
1923	111	425	380	27	103	16	7	2	50	31	30	1	1	.271	.326	.366	.692	84.0	84.3	.323	0.8
1924	145	576	530	58	144	27	5	3	53	27	40	1	9	.272	.308	.358	.667	61.7	67.0	.307	-0.6
1925	66	247	216	32	59	11	0	1	15	26	15	0	3	.273	.357	.338	.695	84.4	80.4	.329	0.6
1926	57	223	197	14	55	6	1	0	18	14	12	1	0	.279	.336	.320	.656	82.4	80.8	.313	0.5
1927	115	456	409	45	112	16	2	1	46	33	34	0	0	.274	.331	.330	.661	81.9	80.8	.314	1.0
1928	149	571	506	49	122	17	4	0	54	47	31	1	0	.241	.308	.291	.599	59.0	59.0	.287	-0.3
1929	148	590	529	68	146	14	6	3	50	41	25	8	0	.276	.329	.342	.671	71.6	70.9	.312	0.3
1930	132	471	424	36	98	16	7	1	34	24	28	2	0	.231	.272	.309	.581	43.0	43.3	.264	-1.5
1931	84	193	175	18	40	8	1	0	13	13	13	0	0	.229	.286	.286	.571	56.6	58.0	.271	0.0
1932	41	108	97	9	26	5	2	0	6	6	9	0	0	.268	.317	.361	.678	85.5	86.2	.309	0.3
1933	5	18	15	0	1	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0	.067	.222	.067	.289	2.1	-10.5	.176	-0.1

Career totals

1,446

5,385

4,833

484

1,269

200

RBI

494

351

354

.2626

OBP

.3157

SLG

.3366

OPS

.6523

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
1930-05-05	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	3	1	0	4	9
1922-07-27	CHC @ ATL Gameday	5	1	5	2	0	0	1	7
1923-07-22	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	0	4	7
1927-05-01	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	1	7
1923-09-28	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1919-04-19	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-19	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-23	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-28	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-30	SF @ ATL 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.