Jimmy Sheckard

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 23, 1878 · Upper Chanceford, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1897

Final gameSeptember 28, 1913

Seasons17 (1897–1913)

Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1897–1898; Baltimore Orioles 1899; Brooklyn Superbas 1900–1901; Baltimore Orioles 1902; Brooklyn Superbas 1902–1905; Chicago Cubs 1906–1912; Cincinnati Reds 1913; St. Louis Cardinals 1913

Percentile snapshot

1912 season — qualified batters

146

73.6

660

89.6

523

62.3

76.4

128

44.3

56.6

65.1

62.3

RBI

47.2

122

100

2.8

35.8

.245

14.2

OBP

.392

79.2

SLG

.342

28.3

OPS

.735

47.2

wRC+

112.0

54.7

OPS+

103.2

42.5

wOBA

.368

58.5

sWAR

2.5

of 107 qualified 1912 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.8

85.7

OPS+

121.9

sWAR

47.0

98.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1897	13	55	49	12	14	3	2	3	14	6	7	5	.286	.364	.612	.976	138.7	154.9	.439	0.5
1898	105	459	408	51	113	17	9	4	64	37	28	8	.277	.349	.392	.741	109.7	111.8	.360	1.6
1899	147	616	536	104	158	18	10	3	75	56	51	77	.295	.380	.382	.763	110.5	109.2	.372	2.3
1900	85	331	273	74	82	19	10	1	39	42	28	30	.300	.416	.454	.870	137.5	140.0	.416	2.4
1901	133	609	554	116	196	29	19	11	104	47	52	35	.354	.409	.534	.944	165.4	172.8	.439	6.5
1902	127	571	501	89	133	21	10	4	37	58	49	25	.265	.348	.371	.719	121.2	120.8	.355	2.8
1903	139	616	515	99	171	29	9	9	75	75	48	67	.332	.423	.476	.899	153.6	158.7	.430	5.5
1904	143	583	507	70	121	23	6	1	46	56	56	21	.239	.317	.314	.630	97.6	95.0	.311	1.1
1905	130	563	480	58	140	20	11	3	41	61	55	23	.292	.380	.398	.777	137.1	136.8	.378	3.8
1906	149	662	549	90	144	27	10	1	45	67	69	30	.262	.349	.353	.702	120.6	118.4	.350	2.9
1907	143	601	484	76	129	23	1	1	36	76	53	31	.267	.373	.324	.697	126.0	118.4	.355	3.0
1908	115	488	403	54	93	18	3	2	22	62	49	18	.231	.336	.305	.641	111.4	105.1	.324	1.6
1909	148	644	525	81	134	29	5	1	43	72	71	15	.255	.346	.335	.681	115.6	112.7	.341	2.4
1910	144	626	507	82	130	27	6	5	51	83	53	22	.256	.366	.363	.729	119.9	116.6	.362	2.8
1911	156	704	539	121	149	26	11	4	50	147	58	32	.276	.434	.388	.822	140.6	132.7	.408	5.1
1912	146	660	523	85	128	22	10	3	47	122	81	15	.245	.392	.342	.735	112.0	103.2	.368	2.5
1913	99	330	252	34	49	3	4	0	24	68	41	11	.194	.368	.238	.606	91.4	74.9	.321	0.3

Career totals

2,122

187th-most career G

9,118

148th-most career PA

7,605

203rd-most career AB

1,296

130th-most career R

2,084

252nd-most career H

354

306th-most career 2B

136

71st-most career 3B

RBI

813

1,135

77th-most career BB

849

465

48th-most career SB

.2740

OBP

.3749

237th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3784

OPS

.7533

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
1901-07-17	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	1	3	0	10
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	4	3	0	3	0	1	1	9
1901-08-20	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1910-08-28	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1903-09-09	ATL @ LAD Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	ATL @ LAD 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.