Monte Cross

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 148 lb

BornAugust 31, 1869 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 27, 1892

Final gameOctober 4, 1907

Seasons15 (1892–1907)

Baltimore Orioles 1892; Pittsburgh Pirates 1894–1895; St. Louis Browns 1896–1897; Philadelphia Phillies 1898–1901; Philadelphia Athletics 1902–1907

Percentile snapshot

1906 season — qualified batters

134

37.9

525

29.5

445

21.1

11.6

12.6

75.8

15.8

33.7

RBI

70.5

1.1

49.5

.200

OBP

.291

12.6

SLG

.272

5.3

OPS

.563

6.3

wRC+

79.2

8.4

OPS+

75.2

5.3

wOBA

.283

8.4

sWAR

1.3

34.7

of 96 qualified 1906 batters (min 461 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

82.9

13.5

OPS+

78.6

8.1

sWAR

15.8

91.5

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
1892	15	54	50	5	8	0	0	0	2	4	10	2	.160	.222	.160	.382	31.9	15.8	.199	-0.2
1894	13	53	43	14	19	1	5	2	13	5	4	6	.442	.520	.837	1.357	190.3	222.3	.587	0.8
1895	109	444	397	67	101	14	13	3	54	38	38	39	.254	.324	.378	.702	83.1	80.5	.333	0.9
1896	125	502	427	66	104	10	6	6	52	58	48	40	.244	.342	.337	.679	85.4	79.3	.333	1.2
1897	132	547	465	60	133	17	11	4	55	62	44	38	.286	.378	.396	.774	105.6	104.3	.373	2.7
1898	149	599	525	68	135	25	5	1	50	55	46	20	.257	.337	.330	.666	93.5	90.7	.331	2.2
1899	154	649	557	85	143	25	6	3	65	56	49	26	.257	.335	.339	.675	88.3	85.0	.331	1.9
1900	131	530	466	59	94	11	3	3	62	51	51	19	.202	.289	.258	.546	59.7	51.2	.274	-0.4
1901	139	547	483	49	95	14	1	1	44	52	91	24	.197	.281	.236	.518	56.0	49.1	.261	-0.5
1902	137	559	497	72	115	22	2	3	59	32	39	17	.231	.289	.302	.590	63.4	61.4	.283	0.0
1903	137	537	470	44	116	21	2	3	45	49	56	31	.247	.326	.319	.645	94.4	90.8	.309	2.2
1904	153	573	503	33	95	23	4	1	38	46	69	19	.189	.266	.256	.523	65.0	63.2	.258	0.5
1905	79	301	252	28	67	17	2	0	24	19	40	8	.266	.332	.349	.681	116.4	116.0	.331	2.0
1906	134	525	445	32	89	23	3	1	40	50	89	22	.200	.291	.272	.563	79.2	75.2	.283	1.3
1907	77	301	248	37	51	9	5	0	18	39	45	17	.206	.316	.282	.598	96.4	89.7	.306	1.3

Career totals

1,684

6,721

5,828

719

1,365

232

419th-most career 3B

RBI

621

616

719

328

135th-most career SB

.2342

OBP

.3161

SLG

.3133

OPS

.6294

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
1902-04-28	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	7	8
1902-06-09	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	0	2	6
1906-08-13	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	3	3	3	0	0	0	6
1901-08-28	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	0	3	5
1903-05-07	MIN @ ATH Gameday	6	0	4	1	0	0	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	ATL @ PHI 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.