Rube Ward
Brooklyn Superbas 1902
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 13 | 33 | 31 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .290 | .333 | .323 | .656 | 102.0 | 102.2 | .325 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-04-28 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1902-05-10 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1902-08-11 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1902-04-29 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1902-08-12 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-04-17 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-18 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-19 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-19 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-21 | LAD @ 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.