Ice Box Chamberlain
Louisville Colonels 1886–1888; St. Louis Browns 1888–1889; Columbus Solons 1890; St. Louis Browns 1890; Philadelphia Athletics 1891; Cincinnati Reds 1892–1894; Cleveland Spiders 1896
Percentile snapshot
1894 season — qualified pitchers
of 45 qualified 1894 pitchers (min 134 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1886 | 6 | 23 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .304 | .158 | .462 | 74.3 | 46.8 | .256 | -0.7 |
| 1887 | 37 | 143 | 131 | 14 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 0 | .198 | .266 | .244 | .510 | 58.9 | 41.9 | .252 | 4.3 |
| 1888 | 40 | 155 | 144 | 17 | 23 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 0 | .160 | .219 | .236 | .455 | 60.0 | 45.5 | .224 | 5.6 |
| 1889 | 53 | 185 | 171 | 18 | 34 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 12 | 32 | 3 | 0 | .199 | .259 | .316 | .575 | 69.7 | 63.2 | .276 | 7.6 |
| 1890 | 30 | 87 | 80 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .213 | .276 | .250 | .526 | 64.5 | 55.2 | .267 | 4.2 |
| 1891 | 54 | 198 | 176 | 21 | 33 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 21 | 33 | 3 | 0 | .188 | .278 | .295 | .573 | 70.7 | 63.7 | .287 | 2.4 |
| 1892 | 53 | 167 | 160 | 13 | 36 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 17 | 1 | 0 | .225 | .257 | .294 | .551 | 68.2 | 66.3 | .266 | 3.8 |
| 1893 | 34 | 104 | 97 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | .196 | .250 | .258 | .508 | 45.2 | 34.9 | .249 | 4.1 |
| 1894 | 23 | 80 | 70 | 10 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | .314 | .377 | .486 | .862 | 103.0 | 106.3 | .394 | 1.5 |
| 1896 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 15.7 | -31.0 | .193 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1886 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 39 | 23 | 17 | 18 | 0 | 31.3 | 6.61 | 1.787 | 5.17 | 3.60 | 104.5 | 52.1 | -0.7 |
| 1887 | 36 | 36 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 340 | 130 | 117 | 118 | 8 | 309.0 | 3.79 | 1.479 | 3.44 | 4.29 | 100.1 | 113.3 | 4.3 |
| 1888 | 38 | 38 | 25 | 11 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 239 | 75 | 86 | 176 | 3 | 308.0 | 2.19 | 1.055 | 5.14 | 2.69 | 88.0 | 139.5 | 5.6 |
| 1889 | 53 | 51 | 32 | 15 | 1 | 44 | 3 | 376 | 139 | 165 | 202 | 18 | 421.7 | 2.97 | 1.283 | 4.31 | 3.91 | 101.7 | 129.6 | 7.6 |
| 1890 | 30 | 26 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 175 | 66 | 96 | 128 | 3 | 210.0 | 2.83 | 1.290 | 5.49 | 3.60 | 93.1 | 136.6 | 4.2 |
| 1891 | 49 | 46 | 22 | 23 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 397 | 190 | 206 | 204 | 10 | 405.7 | 4.22 | 1.486 | 4.53 | 3.58 | 96.6 | 88.0 | 2.4 |
| 1892 | 52 | 49 | 19 | 23 | 0 | 43 | 2 | 391 | 153 | 170 | 169 | 8 | 406.3 | 3.39 | 1.381 | 3.74 | 3.24 | 98.6 | 96.9 | 3.8 |
| 1893 | 34 | 27 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 248 | 100 | 112 | 59 | 3 | 241.0 | 3.73 | 1.494 | 2.20 | 4.50 | 96.5 | 124.8 | 4.1 |
| 1894 | 23 | 22 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 220 | 114 | 91 | 57 | 10 | 177.7 | 5.77 | 1.750 | 2.89 | 5.64 | 105.9 | 92.2 | 1.5 |
| 1896 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11.0 | 7.36 | 2.364 | 1.64 | 4.57 | 104.7 | 59.2 | -0.2 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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.