Sparky Anderson
Philadelphia Phillies 1959
Percentile snapshot
1959 season — qualified batters
of 70 qualified 1959 batters (min 480 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 152 | 527 | 477 | 42 | 104 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 42 | 53 | 6 | 9 | .218 | .282 | .249 | .531 | 41.4 | 42.0 | .252 | -1.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959-08-14 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1959-07-19 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1959-07-26 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1959-06-03 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1959-08-29 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.