MLB / Players

Pete Dowling

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornJuly 15, 1876 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutJuly 17, 1897

Final gameSeptember 28, 1901

Seasons4 (1897–1901)

Louisville Colonels 1897–1899; Cleveland Blues 1901; Milwaukee Brewers 1901

Percentile snapshot

1901 season — qualified pitchers

92.4

71.2

28.8

1.5

66.7

74.2

SHO

60.6

340

15.2

141

118

124

74.2

86.4

306.0

75.8

ERA

4.15

13.6

WHIP

1.497

9.1

K/9

3.65

66.7

FIP

3.53

36.4

FIP-

97.6

ERA+

87.3

16.7

sWAR

1.2

24.2

of 67 qualified 1901 pitchers (min 139 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.6

83.7

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
1897	4	10	10	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.200	.300	.500	32.1	30.9	.228	-0.1
1898	36	117	107	9	21	4	4	0	9	6	19	1	.196	.252	.308	.561	61.0	60.1	.273	1.3
1899	35	124	119	10	27	4	0	0	9	2	31	1	.227	.246	.261	.506	41.5	38.8	.243	5.3
1901	43	127	118	8	20	1	1	1	11	5	24	0	.169	.222	.220	.443	34.0	24.0	.216	1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1897	4	4	1	2	0	2	0	39	17	8	3	0	26.0	5.88	1.808	1.04	4.70	109.4	73.1	-0.1
1898	36	32	13	20	0	30	0	284	132	120	84	7	285.7	4.16	1.414	2.65	3.99	110.7	86.6	1.3
1899	35	33	13	17	0	30	0	329	101	95	89	6	298.3	3.05	1.421	2.68	3.73	96.9	126.3	5.3
1901	43	34	12	25	1	31	2	340	141	118	124	2	306.0	4.15	1.497	3.65	3.53	97.6	87.3	1.2

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

118

378

354

RBI

.1977

OBP

.2386

SLG

.2627

OPS

.5013

Pitching

G (P)

118

103

456th-most career CG

SHO

916

SO (P)

300

BB allowed

341

ERA

3.842

WHIP

1.4552

K/9

2.95

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
1901-06-21	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	4
1901-05-04	CWS @ BAL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	3
1901-09-09	ATH @ CLE Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	2
1901-07-20	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
1901-06-06	BAL @ CLE Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1901-08-08	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	3	0	1	11
1901-07-06	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	8	6	4	6	9
1901-04-28	BAL @ DET Gameday	8.1	15	12	8	4	8
1901-08-04	CLE @ CWS Gameday	8.0	9	9	2	5	8
1901-07-25	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	9	5	1	1	7

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.