MLB / Players

Larry Gardner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 165 lb

BornMay 13, 1886 · Enosburg Falls, VT, USA

MLB debutJune 25, 1908

Final gameSeptember 6, 1924

Seasons17 (1908–1924)

Boston Red Sox 1908–1917; Philadelphia Athletics 1918; Cleveland Indians 1919–1924

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified batters

137

58.5

538

55.3

470

53.5

63.5

134

51.6

82.4

35.8

RBI

70.4

42.1

.285

41.5

OBP

.355

47.2

SLG

.377

42.1

OPS

.732

42.8

wRC+

91.1

38.4

OPS+

90.1

wOBA

.345

sWAR

1.4

53.5

of 160 qualified 1922 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.2

OPS+

110.9

63.9

sWAR

38.6

97.8

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
1908	3	10	10	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.300	.300	.400	.700	118.0	124.4	.332	0.1
1909	19	45	37	7	11	1	2	0	5	4	6	1	0	.297	.381	.432	.813	156.2	154.4	.396	0.5
1910	113	475	413	56	117	12	10	2	36	41	52	8	0	.283	.354	.375	.729	127.3	126.8	.358	3.3
1911	138	593	492	80	140	17	8	4	44	64	57	27	0	.285	.373	.376	.749	111.2	109.2	.366	3.0
1912	143	590	517	88	163	24	18	3	86	56	36	25	23	.315	.383	.449	.832	133.2	136.3	.398	4.7
1913	131	535	473	64	133	17	10	0	63	47	34	18	0	.281	.347	.359	.707	106.2	106.2	.346	2.5
1914	155	599	553	50	143	23	19	3	68	35	39	16	23	.259	.303	.385	.688	102.4	108.1	.331	2.5
1915	127	500	430	51	111	14	6	1	55	39	24	11	12	.258	.327	.326	.653	99.6	100.3	.325	1.8
1916	148	566	493	47	152	19	7	2	62	48	27	12	0	.308	.372	.387	.759	132.4	131.7	.373	4.3
1917	146	598	501	53	133	23	7	1	61	54	37	16	0	.265	.341	.345	.686	113.0	112.3	.340	3.1
1918	127	522	463	50	132	22	6	1	52	43	22	9	0	.285	.346	.365	.711	110.5	110.7	.351	2.6
1919	139	597	524	67	157	29	7	2	79	39	29	7	0	.300	.352	.393	.745	104.6	105.1	.354	2.5
1920	154	683	597	72	185	31	11	3	118	53	25	3	20	.310	.367	.414	.781	105.7	105.8	.367	2.9
1921	153	686	586	101	187	32	14	3	120	65	16	3	3	.319	.391	.437	.828	111.6	110.2	.386	3.4
1922	137	538	470	74	134	31	3	2	68	49	21	9	8	.285	.355	.377	.732	91.1	90.1	.345	1.4
1923	52	93	79	4	20	5	1	0	12	12	7	0	1	.253	.352	.342	.693	85.4	82.3	.338	0.2
1924	38	55	50	3	10	0	0	0	4	5	1	0	1	.200	.273	.200	.473	21.4	21.6	.242	-0.3

Career totals

1,923

312th-most career G

7,685

340th-most career PA

6,688

360th-most career AB

867

1,931

332nd-most career H

301

487th-most career 2B

129

83rd-most career 3B

RBI

934

377th-most career RBI

654

442nd-most career BB

434

165

498th-most career SB

.2887

444th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3549

SLG

.3844

OPS

.7393

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
1922-08-01	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	2	5	3	0	1	5	0	11
1912-07-02	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1920-05-31	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	5	1	8
1911-05-05	BOS @ NYY Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	1	5	0	7
1919-05-02	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	0	4	1	1	0	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1908-04-14	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-16	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-17	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-18	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-20	ATH @ BOS 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.