John Anderson

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 14, 1873 · Sarpsborg, Østfold, Norway

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1894

Final gameOctober 2, 1908

Seasons14 (1894–1908)

Brooklyn Grooms 1894–1895; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1896–1898; Washington Senators 1898; Brooklyn Superbas 1899; Milwaukee Brewers 1901; St. Louis Browns 1902–1903; New York Highlanders 1904–1905; Washington Senators 1905–1907; Chicago White Sox 1908

Percentile snapshot

1906 season — qualified batters

151

78.9

607

65.3

583

89.5

48.4

158

83.2

78.9

RBI

87.4

17.9

92.6

.271

OBP

.296

18.9

SLG

.343

55.8

OPS

.639

38.9

wRC+

96.8

34.7

OPS+

100.4

37.9

wOBA

.306

25.3

sWAR

1.0

24.2

of 96 qualified 1906 batters (min 468 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

107.9

57.5

OPS+

112.2

66.7

sWAR

21.8

94.3

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1894	17	67	63	14	19	1	3	1	19	3	3	7	.302	.333	.460	.794	87.3	89.5	.359	0.1
1895	103	441	423	77	122	11	14	10	89	12	29	24	.288	.316	.452	.767	92.0	96.3	.352	0.6
1896	108	451	430	70	135	23	17	1	55	18	23	37	.314	.344	.453	.798	103.9	109.2	.370	1.2
1897	117	527	492	93	160	28	12	4	85	17	14	29	.325	.357	.455	.812	108.1	113.3	.378	1.7
1898	135	569	520	82	153	33	22	9	81	29	26	20	.294	.348	.494	.842	130.2	140.2	.397	3.9
1899	117	472	439	65	118	18	7	4	92	27	24	25	.269	.317	.369	.686	86.9	87.7	.328	0.5
1901	138	607	576	90	190	46	7	8	99	24	21	35	.330	.360	.476	.836	123.7	130.7	.384	2.9
1902	126	551	524	60	149	29	6	4	85	21	9	15	.284	.316	.385	.701	93.9	95.9	.326	0.4
1903	138	577	550	65	156	34	8	2	78	23	39	16	.284	.312	.385	.698	108.7	111.0	.322	1.4
1904	143	598	558	62	155	27	12	3	82	23	37	20	.278	.313	.385	.699	114.3	115.8	.329	2.5
1905	133	536	499	62	139	24	7	1	52	30	38	31	.279	.323	.361	.684	113.5	115.6	.329	2.2
1906	151	607	583	62	158	25	4	3	70	19	37	39	.271	.296	.343	.639	96.8	100.4	.306	1.0
1907	87	371	333	33	96	12	4	0	44	34	23	19	.288	.359	.348	.708	132.7	131.1	.351	2.0
1908	123	399	355	36	93	17	1	0	47	30	33	21	.262	.321	.315	.637	111.6	110.7	.314	1.3

Career totals

1,636

6,773

6,345

435th-most career AB

871

1,843

377th-most career H

328

383rd-most career 2B

124

91st-most career 3B

RBI

978

330th-most career RBI

310

356

338

125th-most career SB

.2905

391st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3289

SLG

.4049

OPS

.7338

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
1902-07-28	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	5	0	7
1901-09-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	0	1	0	7
1901-07-29	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	0	3	1	6
1902-07-19	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	0	4	0	1	0	2	0	6
1904-06-01	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	0	4	0	1	0	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-25	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-28	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BAL @ CLE 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.