Spottswood Poles

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 165 lb

BornDecember 27, 1887 · Winchester, VA, USA

MLB debutAugust 24, 1912

Seasons14 (1909–1923)

Philadelphia Giants 1909–1910; New York Lincoln Giants 1911; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1912; New York Lincoln Giants 1912–1914; New York Lincoln Stars 1914–1915; New York Lincoln Giants 1916–1917; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1919; Hilldale Club 1919; New York Lincoln Giants 1920–1923

Percentile snapshot

1923 season — qualified batters

5.6

129

3.4

106

2.8

5.6

9.5

RBI

2.8

25.7

62.6

14.5

.292

45.8

OBP

.400

SLG

.340

20.1

OPS

.740

41.3

wRC+

114.2

63.1

OPS+

109.0

55.3

wOBA

.362

sWAR

0.5

25.7

of 180 qualified 1923 batters (min 114 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.6

82.3

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	17	73	63	11	15	2	1	0	6	7	3	.238	.314	.302	.616	91.4	87.1	.302	0.2
1910	19	87	77	13	15	4	0	1	5	7	1	.195	.271	.286	.556	71.7	61.9	.269	-0.1
1911	15	72	62	12	19	1	1	0	6	7	10	.306	.394	.355	.749	106.7	102.9	.369	0.3
1912	17	76	72	10	27	0	0	0	10	0	5	.375	.392	.375	.767	115.6	116.2	.360	0.5
1913	17	80	65	17	19	4	0	0	6	11	6	.292	.403	.354	.756	127.1	123.7	.384	0.7
1914	29	141	124	31	52	8	1	0	15	14	12	.419	.486	.500	.986	160.2	168.0	.479	1.7
1915	38	180	157	29	41	8	2	0	14	16	9	.261	.337	.338	.675	76.3	69.4	.323	0.1
1916	18	85	73	16	22	1	0	1	5	10	2	.301	.386	.356	.742	103.9	101.2	.370	0.3
1917	15	68	53	15	21	5	0	0	8	10	3	.396	.522	.491	1.013	167.7	175.3	.506	0.9
1919	17	80	72	13	22	4	2	0	5	4	3	.306	.351	.417	.767	127.5	134.8	.372	0.5
1920	7	31	26	2	6	3	0	0	2	3	4	.231	.310	.346	.656	120.9	124.4	.331	0.1
1921	7	35	32	8	12	5	0	1	3	1	1	.375	.412	.625	1.037	149.4	164.2	.461	0.4
1922	13	55	50	10	19	4	0	0	3	4	4	.380	.436	.460	.896	150.0	155.2	.421	0.5
1923	33	129	106	18	31	3	1	0	10	17	3	.292	.400	.340	.740	114.2	109.0	.362	0.5

Career totals

262

1,192

1,032

205

321

RBI

111

.3110

OBP

.3881

SLG

.3857

OPS

.7738

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	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1923-08-19	BRG @ NYL Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	0	4
1923-07-08	BBS @ NYL Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	2
1923-09-09	BBS @ NYL Gameday	2	2	2	0	1	2	2
1923-06-13	NYL @ HIL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	2
1923-06-16	NYL @ HIL Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-29	HIL @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-13	CSE @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-13	CSE @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-27	BRG @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-27	BRG @ NYL 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.