Lon Knight

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornJune 16, 1853 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1875

Final gameOctober 10, 1885

Seasons8 (1875–1885)

Philadelphia Athletics 1875–1876; Worcester Ruby Legs 1880; Detroit Wolverines 1881–1882; Philadelphia Athletics 1883–1885; Providence Grays 1885

Percentile snapshot

1884 season — qualified batters

108

70.3

495

88.4

484

96.5

83.1

131

83.7

66.9

90.1

24.4

RBI

30.8

32.6

.271

65.1

OBP

.287

45.9

SLG

.364

OPS

.651

54.1

wRC+

106.0

53.5

OPS+

110.6

55.2

wOBA

.295

52.9

sWAR

0.9

32.6

of 173 qualified 1884 batters (min 334 PA) · 2 stats not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1876 season — qualified pitchers

53.8

61.5

38.5

23.1

61.5

SHO

383

38.5

23.1

15.4

92.3

282.0

61.5

ERA

2.62

46.2

WHIP

1.479

23.1

K/9

0.38

FIP

2.51

15.4

FIP-

108.8

15.4

ERA+

88.2

46.2

sWAR

2.0

53.8

of 14 qualified 1876 pitchers (min 60 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.9

81.3

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
1875	13	47	47	5	6	2	0	0	2	0	2	2	.128	.128	.170	.298	41.4	1.9	.135	0.8
1876	55	242	240	32	60	9	3	0	24	2	2	0	.250	.256	.313	.569	91.7	88.1	.262	2.0
1880	49	206	201	31	48	11	3	0	21	5	8	0	.239	.257	.323	.581	95.3	94.2	.263	0.4
1881	83	363	340	67	92	16	3	1	52	23	21	0	.271	.317	.344	.661	106.2	106.3	.307	1.2
1882	86	363	347	39	72	12	6	0	24	16	21	0	.207	.242	.277	.519	75.9	66.2	.236	-0.3
1883	97	450	429	98	108	23	9	1	53	21	0	0	.252	.287	.354	.641	103.2	104.5	.294	1.3
1884	108	495	484	94	131	18	12	1	0	10	0	0	.271	.287	.364	.651	106.0	110.6	.295	0.9
1885	54	221	200	25	38	2	1	0	22	20	17	0	.190	.267	.210	.477	70.2	53.2	.237	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1875	13	13	6	5	12	114	27	12	15	0	107.0	2.27	1.178	1.26	2.30	103.1	98.0	0.8
1876	34	32	10	22	27	383	82	34	12	0	282.0	2.62	1.479	0.38	2.51	108.8	88.2	2.0
1884	2	1	0	1	1	24	14	4	2	0	14.0	9.00	2.000	1.29	4.10	126.4	36.0	0.9
1885	2	0	0	0	0	8	4	6	2	1	9.0	4.00	1.556	2.00	5.90	199.4	76.4	-0.3

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

545

2,387

2,288

391

555

RBI

198

.2426

OBP

.2740

SLG

.3195

OPS

.5935

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

412

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

2.774

WHIP

1.4199

K/9

0.68

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.