MLB / Players

Ivy Olson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 14, 1885 · Kansas City, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1911

Final gameJuly 21, 1924

Seasons14 (1911–1924)

Cleveland Naps 1911–1914; Brooklyn Robins 1915; Cincinnati Reds 1915; Brooklyn Robins 1916–1924

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified batters

136

57.9

595

65.4

551

71.7

54.1

150

60.4

68.6

50.9

15.1

RBI

39.6

54.1

46.5

.272

OBP

.306

12.6

SLG

.347

24.5

OPS

.653

19.5

wRC+

67.2

10.1

OPS+

69.3

13.8

wOBA

.302

13.8

sWAR

-0.2

8.2

of 160 qualified 1922 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

71.3

3.8

OPS+

74.8

5.3

sWAR

5.6

80.6

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
1911	140	610	545	89	142	20	8	1	50	34	56	20	0	.261	.311	.332	.643	77.2	78.3	.312	1.0
1912	125	522	467	68	118	13	1	0	33	21	23	16	10	.253	.291	.285	.575	62.3	63.3	.282	-0.3
1913	104	411	370	47	92	13	3	0	32	22	28	7	0	.249	.296	.300	.596	68.9	72.2	.293	-0.2
1914	89	331	310	22	75	6	2	1	20	13	24	15	9	.242	.275	.284	.559	56.9	64.4	.274	-0.4
1915	81	257	233	20	50	5	5	0	17	13	13	10	6	.215	.256	.279	.535	54.5	60.0	.258	-0.5
1916	108	393	351	29	89	13	4	1	38	21	27	14	0	.254	.298	.322	.620	86.9	89.2	.296	1.3
1917	139	613	580	64	156	18	5	2	38	14	34	6	0	.269	.291	.328	.619	83.3	87.9	.293	1.7
1918	126	553	506	63	121	16	4	1	17	27	18	21	0	.239	.286	.292	.578	74.1	76.7	.282	0.9
1919	140	635	590	73	164	14	9	1	38	30	12	26	0	.278	.316	.337	.654	94.0	95.4	.312	2.6
1920	143	665	637	71	162	13	11	1	46	20	19	4	7	.254	.278	.314	.592	62.3	68.2	.278	-0.1
1921	151	695	652	88	174	22	10	3	35	28	26	4	9	.267	.301	.345	.646	66.5	69.6	.298	0.1
1922	136	595	551	63	150	26	6	1	47	25	10	8	5	.272	.306	.347	.653	67.2	69.3	.302	-0.2
1923	82	318	292	33	76	11	1	1	35	14	10	5	0	.260	.296	.315	.611	62.2	63.8	.286	-0.3
1924	10	32	27	0	6	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	.222	.300	.259	.559	56.0	53.5	.272	0.0

Career totals

1,574

6,630

6,111

484th-most career AB

730

1,575

191

405th-most career 3B

RBI

446

285

301

156

.2577

OBP

.2948

SLG

.3180

OPS

.6128

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
1923-06-29	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	3	0	8
1911-09-04	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	4	4	1	1	0	1	1	7
1915-04-26	CHC @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	0	2	0	7
1918-06-18	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	2	0	7
1923-05-03	LAD @ SF Gameday	6	1	4	2	0	0	3	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1911-04-12	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-13	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-14	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-15	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-16	CLE @ 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.