Lave Cross

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 155 lb

BornMay 12, 1866 · Milwaukee, WI, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1887

Final gameJune 8, 1907

Seasons21 (1887–1907)

Louisville Colonels 1887–1888; Philadelphia Athletics 1889–1891; Philadelphia Phillies 1892–1897; St. Louis Browns 1898; Cleveland Spiders 1899; St. Louis Perfectos 1899; Brooklyn Superbas 1900; St. Louis Cardinals 1900; Philadelphia Athletics 1901–1905; Washington Senators 1906–1907

Percentile snapshot

1906 season — qualified batters

130

30.5

538

33.7

494

44.2

37.9

130

52.6

32.6

42.1

33.7

RBI

50.5

30.5

86.3

44.2

.263

52.6

OBP

.303

26.3

SLG

.322

35.8

OPS

.625

30.5

wRC+

94.4

31.6

OPS+

96.0

32.6

wOBA

.303

23.2

sWAR

1.7

48.4

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+

97.5

37.1

OPS+

99.8

sWAR

34.4

97.2

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
1887	54	219	203	32	54	8	3	0	26	15	14	15	.266	.320	.335	.655	86.5	81.5	.314	0.6
1888	46	183	180	20	41	3	0	0	15	2	10	10	.228	.240	.244	.485	63.7	55.3	.232	0.0
1889	55	213	199	22	44	8	2	0	23	14	9	11	.221	.272	.281	.554	66.4	57.5	.270	0.1
1890	63	257	245	42	73	7	8	3	47	12	6	5	.298	.331	.429	.759	97.2	101.6	.354	1.0
1891	110	443	402	66	121	20	14	5	52	38	23	14	.301	.366	.458	.823	123.4	134.9	.394	2.9
1892	140	583	541	84	149	15	10	4	69	39	16	18	.275	.328	.362	.690	104.7	108.2	.334	2.7
1893	96	442	415	81	124	17	6	4	78	26	7	18	.299	.342	.398	.739	94.0	96.0	.351	1.4
1894	122	593	542	128	210	34	10	7	132	31	7	23	.387	.424	.526	.949	121.1	127.5	.434	3.7
1895	125	589	535	95	145	26	9	2	101	35	8	21	.271	.319	.364	.684	78.8	75.9	.324	0.4
1896	106	453	406	63	104	23	5	1	73	32	14	8	.256	.312	.345	.657	76.1	72.9	.315	0.3
1897	88	366	344	37	89	17	5	3	51	10	15	10	.259	.282	.363	.645	69.0	69.4	.301	-0.2
1898	151	646	602	71	191	28	8	3	79	28	8	14	.317	.348	.405	.753	110.3	115.1	.361	3.2
1899	141	592	557	76	166	19	5	5	84	25	3	13	.298	.330	.377	.707	91.8	93.6	.337	1.6
1900	133	557	522	79	153	15	6	4	73	26	7	21	.293	.329	.368	.697	91.0	92.2	.332	1.4
1901	100	450	424	82	139	28	12	2	73	19	6	23	.328	.358	.465	.823	117.0	122.9	.379	2.6
1902	137	595	559	90	191	39	8	0	108	27	4	25	.342	.374	.440	.814	119.2	121.8	.378	3.7
1903	137	577	559	60	163	22	4	2	90	10	17	14	.292	.304	.356	.660	91.3	94.1	.304	1.6
1904	155	639	607	73	176	31	10	1	71	13	9	10	.290	.310	.379	.689	111.5	114.2	.323	3.4
1905	147	630	587	69	156	29	5	0	77	26	12	8	.266	.299	.332	.631	97.2	100.0	.303	2.3
1906	130	538	494	55	130	14	6	1	46	28	16	19	.263	.303	.322	.625	94.4	96.0	.303	1.7
1907	41	176	161	13	32	8	0	0	10	10	6	3	.199	.246	.248	.494	60.7	61.2	.246	-0.1

Career totals

2,277

122nd-most career G

9,741

103rd-most career PA

9,084

70th-most career AB

1,338

114th-most career R

2,651

78th-most career H

411

174th-most career 2B

136

71st-most career 3B

RBI

1,378

84th-most career RBI

466

217

303

169th-most career SB

.2918

364th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3286

SLG

.3825

OPS

.7111

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	RBI	TB
1902-05-17	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	2	5	2	1	2	9
1904-05-06	MIN @ ATH Gameday	6	3	5	1	1	1	8
1901-08-03	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	4	3	0	2	7
1902-04-23	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	1	7
1905-07-27	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	0	4	1	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-26	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-05-01	BOS @ ATH 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.