Jack Doyle

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 155 lb

BornOctober 25, 1869 · Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland

MLB debutAugust 27, 1889

Final gameJuly 13, 1905

Seasons17 (1889–1905)

Columbus Solons 1889–1890; Cleveland Spiders 1891–1892; New York Giants 1892–1895; Baltimore Orioles 1896–1897; New York Giants 1898; Washington Senators 1898; New York Giants 1899–1900; Chicago Orphans 1901; New York Giants 1902; Washington Senators 1902; Brooklyn Superbas 1903–1904; Philadelphia Phillies 1904; New York Highlanders 1905

Percentile snapshot

1903 season — qualified batters

139

88.5

592

83.2

524

82.3

78.8

164

89.4

80.5

37.2

RBI

95.6

86.7

88.5

.313

80.5

OBP

.383

SLG

.387

67.3

OPS

.770

73.5

wRC+

121.6

67.3

OPS+

122.0

67.3

wOBA

.374

79.6

sWAR

2.5

60.2

of 114 qualified 1903 batters (min 430 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.8

47.3

OPS+

103.8

sWAR

17.2

92.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1889	11	42	36	6	10	1	1	0	3	6	6	9	.278	.381	.361	.742	111.9	111.4	.365	0.2
1890	77	311	298	47	80	17	7	2	44	13	0	27	.268	.299	.393	.692	96.5	103.2	.331	1.3
1891	69	279	250	43	69	14	4	0	43	26	44	24	.276	.351	.364	.715	107.1	108.2	.348	1.4
1892	114	481	454	78	135	26	2	6	69	24	40	47	.297	.337	.403	.740	115.4	123.1	.354	2.8
1893	82	350	318	56	102	17	5	1	51	27	12	40	.321	.383	.415	.798	108.9	111.8	.383	1.8
1894	107	471	427	94	157	30	8	3	103	37	3	44	.368	.422	.496	.918	116.3	120.4	.423	1.9
1895	82	345	319	52	100	21	3	1	66	24	12	35	.313	.365	.408	.773	98.5	98.9	.365	0.7
1896	118	546	487	116	165	29	4	1	101	42	15	73	.339	.400	.421	.821	114.8	116.5	.392	2.0
1897	114	492	460	91	163	29	4	2	87	29	23	62	.354	.394	.448	.842	117.6	121.7	.397	1.9
1898	125	501	474	68	138	17	5	3	69	19	13	23	.291	.324	.367	.691	94.7	97.5	.333	0.8
1899	119	492	452	56	135	16	7	3	77	33	18	35	.299	.352	.385	.737	100.8	101.7	.354	0.9
1900	133	544	505	69	135	24	1	1	66	34	16	34	.267	.317	.325	.642	79.5	77.3	.310	-0.6
1901	75	299	285	21	66	9	2	0	39	7	13	8	.232	.263	.277	.540	58.4	57.7	.259	-1.2
1902	129	553	505	74	135	28	2	1	38	40	24	18	.267	.322	.337	.659	89.2	90.1	.319	0.8
1903	139	592	524	84	164	27	6	0	91	54	23	34	.313	.383	.387	.770	121.6	122.0	.374	2.5
1904	74	288	258	22	57	11	3	1	24	25	19	5	.221	.295	.298	.593	86.9	84.3	.293	-0.1
1905	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.3	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

1,569

6,589

6,055

500th-most career AB

977

385th-most career R

1,811

399th-most career H

316

428th-most career 2B

478th-most career 3B

RBI

971

339th-most career RBI

440

281

518

31st-most career SB

.2991

234th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3515

SLG

.3848

OPS

.7363

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
1903-05-28	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	1	2	0	1	9
1901-09-03	CHC @ SF Gameday	5	2	5	2	0	0	5	7
1904-05-21	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	0	7
1903-08-31	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	0	4	1	0	0	5	5
1902-09-20	BAL @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	0	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	CIN @ CHC 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.