Ira Flagstead

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 22, 1893 · Montague, MI, USA

MLB debutJuly 20, 1917

Final gameJuly 29, 1930

Seasons13 (1917–1930)

Detroit Tigers 1917; Detroit Tigers 1919–1922; Boston Red Sox 1923; Detroit Tigers 1923; Boston Red Sox 1924–1929; Pittsburgh Pirates 1929; Washington Senators 1929; Pittsburgh Pirates 1930

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

140

77.4

587

77.9

510

75.9

84.4

148

74.9

95.5

47.7

23.6

RBI

47.7

86.9

29.6

81.4

.290

44.7

OBP

.366

53.8

SLG

.392

43.7

OPS

.758

45.2

wRC+

101.5

47.2

OPS+

99.7

45.2

wOBA

.355

47.7

sWAR

2.3

70.4

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.5

46.5

OPS+

102.0

45.6

sWAR

17.2

92.3

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
1917	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.0	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1919	97	342	287	43	95	22	3	5	41	35	39	6	0	.331	.416	.481	.897	154.6	151.5	.424	3.0
1920	110	359	311	40	73	13	5	3	35	37	27	3	4	.235	.318	.338	.656	75.6	74.7	.315	-0.3
1921	85	297	259	40	79	16	2	0	31	21	21	8	4	.305	.371	.382	.753	93.7	92.1	.355	1.0
1922	44	110	91	21	28	5	3	3	8	14	16	0	1	.308	.411	.527	.939	145.4	145.4	.428	1.0
1923	110	435	383	55	119	23	4	8	53	37	26	7	10	.311	.379	.454	.833	116.6	117.2	.389	1.8
1924	149	661	560	106	172	35	7	5	43	77	41	10	13	.307	.401	.421	.823	114.3	111.3	.393	3.6
1925	148	654	572	84	160	38	2	6	61	63	30	5	6	.280	.356	.385	.741	87.3	86.6	.351	1.3
1926	98	463	415	65	124	31	7	3	31	36	22	4	6	.299	.363	.429	.792	106.0	106.9	.370	2.0
1927	131	555	466	63	133	26	8	4	69	57	25	12	2	.285	.374	.401	.775	103.5	101.4	.366	2.2
1928	140	587	510	84	148	41	4	1	39	60	23	12	9	.290	.366	.392	.758	101.5	99.7	.355	2.3
1929	58	145	125	22	32	5	1	0	18	13	8	3	3	.256	.326	.312	.638	64.4	62.6	.303	-0.3
1930	44	179	156	21	39	7	4	2	21	17	9	1	0	.250	.324	.385	.708	70.9	70.3	.320	-0.2

Career totals

1,218

4,791

4,139

644

1,202

262

RBI

450

467

288

.2904

395th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3696

288th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4069

OPS

.7765

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
1924-07-05	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	1	5	1	1	0	0	0	8
1930-04-18	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	0	4	2	1	0	2	0	8
1919-06-24	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	0	8
1920-05-17	DET @ ATH Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	1	8
1920-07-13	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	3	0	0	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1917-04-11	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-12	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-14	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-15	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-16	CWS @ DET 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.