Kid Gleason

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 158 lb

BornOctober 26, 1865 · Camden, NJ, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1888

Final gameAugust 27, 1912

Seasons22 (1888–1912)

Philadelphia Quakers 1888–1889; Philadelphia Phillies 1890–1891; St. Louis Browns 1892–1893; Baltimore Orioles 1894; St. Louis Browns 1894; Baltimore Orioles 1895; New York Giants 1896–1900; Detroit Tigers 1901–1902; Philadelphia Phillies 1903–1908; Chicago White Sox 1912

Percentile snapshot

1906 season — qualified batters

135

562

44.2

494

44.2

25.3

112

26.3

45.3

11.6

RBI

27.4

41.1

71.6

35.8

.227

6.3

OBP

.281

5.3

SLG

.269

3.2

OPS

.550

3.2

wRC+

70.3

2.1

OPS+

72.0

4.2

wOBA

.276

2.1

sWAR

0.2

5.3

of 96 qualified 1906 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1894 season — qualified pitchers

31.8

40.9

56.8

68.2

45.5

SHO

299

59.1

124

77.3

90.9

27.3

88.6

230.0

43.2

ERA

4.85

65.9

WHIP

1.583

K/9

1.72

15.9

FIP

4.64

93.2

FIP-

87.1

95.5

ERA+

109.8

68.2

sWAR

3.5

59.1

of 45 qualified 1894 pitchers (min 133 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

79.6

9.8

OPS+

77.3

7.3

ERA+

100.9

41.6

sWAR

34.8

97.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1888	24	86	83	4	17	2	0	0	5	3	16	3	.205	.233	.229	.461	55.4	47.2	.217	2.0
1889	30	107	99	11	25	5	0	0	8	8	12	4	.253	.308	.303	.611	75.7	70.2	.297	-0.6
1890	63	236	224	22	47	3	0	0	17	12	21	10	.210	.250	.223	.473	48.2	38.0	.235	9.2
1891	65	236	214	31	53	5	2	0	17	20	17	6	.248	.318	.290	.608	82.9	77.2	.301	4.2
1892	66	267	233	35	50	4	2	3	25	34	23	7	.215	.315	.288	.602	88.6	82.0	.304	4.7
1893	59	220	199	25	51	6	4	0	20	19	8	2	.256	.327	.327	.654	79.1	73.8	.320	4.3
1894	35	127	114	25	37	5	2	0	18	9	3	1	.325	.374	.404	.777	89.7	87.2	.365	3.5
1895	112	465	421	90	130	14	12	0	74	33	18	19	.309	.366	.399	.765	97.5	97.0	.363	1.0
1896	133	595	541	79	162	17	5	4	89	42	13	46	.299	.352	.372	.724	92.0	90.7	.347	1.5
1897	132	578	543	86	172	16	4	1	106	27	24	44	.317	.353	.366	.719	90.5	89.8	.344	1.4
1898	150	619	570	78	126	8	5	0	62	39	28	21	.221	.278	.253	.531	57.4	52.0	.266	-1.0
1899	147	612	580	73	154	14	5	0	60	24	28	29	.266	.295	.307	.602	66.5	64.9	.290	-0.4
1900	111	449	420	60	104	11	3	1	29	17	19	23	.248	.280	.295	.575	60.9	58.8	.277	-0.6
1901	135	605	547	82	150	16	12	3	75	41	25	32	.274	.327	.364	.691	91.4	90.4	.327	1.5
1902	118	480	441	42	109	11	4	1	38	25	12	17	.247	.292	.297	.589	63.7	62.0	.281	-0.4
1903	106	458	412	65	117	19	6	1	49	23	19	12	.284	.326	.367	.693	96.6	98.4	.333	1.5
1904	153	661	587	61	161	23	6	0	42	37	36	17	.274	.319	.334	.653	102.4	103.3	.317	2.7
1905	155	699	608	95	150	17	7	1	50	45	45	16	.247	.302	.303	.604	82.6	82.1	.296	1.1
1906	135	562	494	47	112	17	2	0	34	36	29	17	.227	.281	.269	.550	70.3	72.0	.276	0.2
1907	36	145	126	11	18	3	0	0	6	7	12	3	.143	.200	.167	.367	11.4	16.2	.191	-0.9
1908	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.7	-100.0	.000	0.0
1912	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	187.4	192.2	.479	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1888	24	23	7	16	0	23	0	199	63	53	89	11	199.7	2.84	1.262	4.01	3.26	115.2	99.7	2.0
1889	29	21	9	15	1	15	0	242	127	97	64	8	205.0	5.58	1.654	2.81	4.42	110.0	72.2	-0.6
1890	60	55	38	17	2	54	6	479	148	167	222	8	506.0	2.63	1.277	3.95	3.07	86.2	135.3	9.2
1891	53	44	24	22	1	40	1	431	163	165	100	11	418.0	3.51	1.426	2.15	3.55	106.1	95.3	4.2
1892	47	45	20	24	0	43	2	389	148	151	133	11	400.0	3.33	1.350	2.99	3.34	101.5	98.6	4.7
1893	48	45	21	22	1	37	1	436	195	187	86	18	380.3	4.61	1.638	2.04	4.96	106.4	101.0	4.3
1894	29	28	17	11	0	25	0	299	124	65	44	5	230.0	4.85	1.583	1.72	4.64	87.1	109.8	3.5
1895	9	5	2	4	1	3	0	77	39	21	6	4	50.3	6.97	1.947	1.07	5.81	121.6	68.4	1.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,968

287th-most career G

8,210

256th-most career PA

7,459

223rd-most career AB

1,022

333rd-most career R

1,946

323rd-most career H

216

275th-most career 3B

RBI

824

491st-most career RBI

501

408

329

131st-most career SB

.2609

OBP

.3107

SLG

.3176

OPS

.6283

Pitching

G (P)

299

266

474th-most career GS

138

325th-most career W

131

269th-most career L

240

95th-most career CG

SHO

2,389

284th-most career IP

SO (P)

744

BB allowed

906

158th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.793

WHIP

1.4473

K/9

2.80

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
1905-09-30	PHI @ CIN Gameday	6	3	5	0	2	0	6	9
1902-07-16	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	3	8
1901-09-23	DET @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	8
1903-09-04	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	1	2	7
1905-07-01	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	2	7

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	DET @ CWS 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.