Rogers Hornsby

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornApril 27, 1896 · Winters, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1915

Final gameJuly 20, 1937

Seasons23 (1915–1937)

St. Louis Cardinals 1915–1926; New York Giants 1927; Boston Braves 1928; Chicago Cubs 1929–1932; St. Louis Browns 1933; St. Louis Cardinals 1933; St. Louis Browns 1934–1937

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

156

100

712

96.3

602

89.6

156

100

229

98.8

64.6

97.6

RBI

149

97.6

96.3

1.8

6.7

34.8

.380

95.1

OBP

.459

95.1

SLG

.679

97.6

OPS

1.139

97.6

wRC+

175.9

98.2

OPS+

179.3

wOBA

.495

sWAR

9.3

100

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

175.4

99.8

OPS+

174.0

99.7

sWAR

123.6

100

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
1915	18	61	57	5	14	2	0	0	4	2	6	0	2	.246	.271	.281	.552	60.9	66.5	.264	0.0
1916	139	550	495	63	155	17	15	6	65	40	63	17	0	.313	.369	.444	.814	150.5	147.0	.383	5.5
1917	145	589	523	86	171	24	17	8	66	45	34	17	0	.327	.385	.484	.868	168.9	166.5	.407	7.6
1918	115	466	416	51	117	19	11	5	60	40	43	8	0	.281	.349	.416	.764	135.4	134.7	.366	4.2
1919	138	577	512	68	163	15	9	8	71	48	41	17	0	.318	.384	.430	.814	151.3	147.7	.386	5.9
1920	149	660	589	96	218	44	20	9	94	60	50	12	15	.370	.431	.559	.990	189.8	186.9	.455	9.8
1921	154	674	592	131	235	44	18	21	126	60	48	13	13	.397	.458	.639	1.097	190.2	189.0	.487	10.2
1922	154	704	623	141	250	46	14	42	152	65	50	17	12	.401	.459	.722	1.181	199.4	206.2	.517	11.5
1923	107	487	424	89	163	32	10	17	83	55	29	3	7	.384	.459	.627	1.086	183.9	186.0	.486	6.8
1924	143	640	536	121	227	43	14	25	94	89	32	5	12	.424	.507	.696	1.203	222.9	222.5	.532	12.2
1925	138	605	504	133	203	41	10	39	143	83	39	5	3	.403	.489	.756	1.245	207.0	209.8	.536	10.3
1926	134	604	527	96	167	34	5	11	93	61	39	3	0	.317	.388	.463	.851	126.7	125.4	.393	4.2
1927	155	684	568	133	205	32	9	26	125	86	38	9	0	.361	.448	.586	1.035	176.1	176.3	.468	9.0
1928	140	619	486	99	188	42	7	21	94	107	41	5	0	.387	.498	.632	1.130	198.7	197.3	.506	9.7
1929	156	712	602	156	229	47	8	39	149	87	65	2	0	.380	.459	.679	1.139	175.9	179.3	.495	9.3
1930	42	120	104	15	32	5	1	2	18	12	12	0	0	.308	.385	.433	.817	99.1	96.9	.369	0.4
1931	100	418	357	64	118	37	1	16	90	56	23	1	0	.331	.421	.574	.996	166.0	163.9	.445	5.0
1932	19	70	58	10	13	2	0	1	7	10	4	0	0	.224	.357	.310	.667	91.6	83.3	.321	0.1
1933	57	108	92	11	30	7	0	3	23	14	7	1	0	.326	.426	.500	.926	163.4	156.3	.426	1.2
1934	24	31	23	2	7	2	0	1	11	7	4	0	0	.304	.484	.522	1.006	155.2	149.7	.467	0.3
1935	10	27	24	1	5	3	0	0	3	3	6	0	0	.208	.296	.333	.630	56.1	58.2	.298	-0.1
1936	2	6	5	1	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	.400	.500	.400	.900	129.8	119.2	.436	0.0
1937	20	63	56	7	18	3	0	1	11	7	5	0	0	.321	.397	.429	.825	106.9	104.6	.382	0.3

Career totals

2,259

129th-most career G

9,475

122nd-most career PA

8,173

134th-most career AB

1,579

54th-most career R

2,930

40th-most career H

541

39th-most career 2B

169

25th-most career 3B

301

164th-most career HR

RBI

1,584

42nd-most career RBI

1,038

112th-most career BB

679

135

.3585

3rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.4337

10th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5765

15th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

1.0102

11th-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
1931-04-24	CHC @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	3	8	0	13
1916-06-28	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	5	0	2	1	2	0	12
1925-06-04	SF @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	3	1	11
1921-06-07	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	4	0	11
1925-08-09	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	2	2	1	11

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-15	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-16	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-17	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-18	STL @ CIN 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, 1942 (BBWAA)

2× Triple Crown2× Most Valuable Player

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