MLB / Players

Ray Schalk

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornAugust 12, 1892 · Harvel, IL, USA

MLB debutAugust 11, 1912

Final gameSeptember 15, 1929

Seasons18 (1912–1929)

Chicago White Sox 1912–1928; New York Giants 1929

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified batters

142

64.2

534

54.1

442

48.4

43.4

124

45.3

57.9

52.2

RBI

56.6

91.2

18.2

71.1

42.8

.281

37.7

OBP

.379

68.6

SLG

.371

37.7

OPS

.750

47.8

wRC+

100.7

50.9

OPS+

96.3

wOBA

.359

52.2

sWAR

2.9

70.4

of 160 qualified 1922 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.8

18.5

OPS+

84.6

15.4

sWAR

26.0

95.6

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
1912	23	73	63	7	18	2	0	0	8	3	3	2	0	.286	.357	.317	.675	100.7	97.4	.335	0.4
1913	129	445	401	38	98	15	5	1	38	27	36	14	0	.244	.297	.314	.611	78.2	81.0	.300	1.5
1914	136	459	392	30	106	13	2	0	36	38	24	24	11	.270	.347	.314	.661	104.3	101.8	.332	2.9
1915	135	495	413	46	110	14	4	1	54	62	21	15	18	.266	.366	.327	.693	111.1	106.8	.351	3.6
1916	129	472	410	36	95	12	9	0	41	41	31	30	13	.232	.311	.305	.616	86.3	86.6	.309	2.0
1917	140	507	424	48	96	12	5	2	51	59	27	19	0	.226	.331	.292	.623	94.3	89.6	.319	2.7
1918	108	387	333	35	73	6	3	0	22	36	22	12	0	.219	.301	.255	.556	68.8	68.2	.287	0.9
1919	131	461	394	57	111	9	3	0	34	51	25	11	0	.282	.367	.320	.687	99.0	94.1	.340	2.7
1920	151	576	485	64	131	25	5	1	61	68	19	10	4	.270	.362	.348	.711	93.5	89.6	.344	2.7
1921	128	472	416	32	105	24	4	0	47	40	36	3	4	.252	.328	.329	.658	70.7	69.4	.314	0.8
1922	142	534	442	57	124	22	3	4	60	67	36	12	4	.281	.379	.371	.750	100.7	96.3	.359	2.9
1923	123	442	382	42	87	12	2	1	44	39	28	7	4	.228	.306	.277	.583	55.9	54.7	.288	0.0
1924	57	182	153	15	30	4	2	1	11	21	10	1	5	.196	.301	.268	.569	51.5	48.4	.285	-0.1
1925	125	417	343	44	94	18	1	0	52	57	27	11	5	.274	.382	.332	.714	93.3	86.5	.351	1.9
1926	82	263	226	26	60	9	1	0	32	27	11	5	1	.265	.349	.314	.663	80.8	77.5	.324	0.9
1927	16	29	26	2	6	2	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	.231	.286	.308	.593	54.9	56.3	.282	0.0
1928	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	457.9	430.3	.926	0.1
1929	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-116.4	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,762

450th-most career G

6,217

5,306

579

1,345

199

RBI

594

638

473rd-most career BB

358

177

448th-most career SB

.2535

OBP

.3402

SLG

.3157

OPS

.6559

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
1922-06-27	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1922-07-15	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	1	0	7
1922-08-15	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	0	6	1	6
1922-08-31	CWS @ DET Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	1	3	1	6
1923-06-08	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-04-11	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-12	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-13	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-14	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-15	DET @ CWS 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1955 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.