MLB / Players

Ripper Collins

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornMarch 30, 1904 · Altoona, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1931

Final gameSeptember 28, 1941

Seasons9 (1931–1941)

St. Louis Cardinals 1931–1936; Chicago Cubs 1937–1938; Pittsburgh Pirates 1941

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

143

66.9

555

50.4

490

47.9

58.7

131

33.1

73.6

74.4

RBI

47.9

58.7

9.1

.267

26.4

OBP

.344

35.5

SLG

.424

52.9

OPS

.768

44.6

wRC+

109.1

OPS+

108.9

58.7

wOBA

.354

45.5

sWAR

1.3

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.2

88.3

OPS+

127.1

87.8

sWAR

19.8

93.5

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
1931	89	301	279	34	84	20	10	4	59	18	24	1	.301	.350	.487	.837	119.5	120.5	.377	1.1
1932	149	598	549	82	153	28	8	21	91	38	67	4	.279	.329	.474	.802	109.6	110.8	.354	1.7
1933	132	542	493	66	153	26	7	10	68	38	49	7	.310	.363	.452	.816	129.9	127.5	.375	2.6
1934	154	662	600	116	200	40	12	35	128	57	50	2	.333	.393	.615	1.008	160.4	160.6	.442	5.9
1935	150	647	578	109	181	36	10	23	122	65	45	0	.313	.385	.529	.915	141.1	141.1	.408	4.3
1936	103	327	277	48	81	15	3	13	48	48	30	1	.292	.399	.509	.908	144.8	143.8	.413	2.3
1937	115	503	456	77	125	16	5	16	71	32	46	2	.274	.329	.436	.765	102.4	104.3	.348	0.8
1938	143	555	490	78	131	22	8	13	61	54	48	1	.267	.344	.424	.768	109.1	108.9	.354	1.3
1941	49	70	62	5	13	2	2	0	11	6	14	0	.210	.279	.306	.586	62.2	64.9	.281	-0.2

Career totals

1,084

4,205

3,784

615

1,121

205

466th-most career 3B

135

RBI

659

356

373

.2962

287th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3603

466th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4918

153rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8521

189th-highest career OPS

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
1934-06-02	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	2	7	1	11
1932-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	3	0	1	2	0	10
1934-09-21	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	6	0	9
1934-08-17	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	3	4	2	0	1	3	1	9
1936-06-22	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	5	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-04-14	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-15	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-18	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-19	STL @ CHC 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

3× All-Star

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