Tillie Walker
Washington Senators 1911–1912; St. Louis Browns 1913–1915; Boston Red Sox 1916–1917; Philadelphia Athletics 1918–1923
Percentile snapshot
1922 season — qualified batters
of 160 qualified 1922 batters (min 480 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 95 | 386 | 356 | 44 | 99 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 39 | 15 | 62 | 12 | 0 | .278 | .311 | .334 | .645 | 79.2 | 81.2 | .310 | -0.2 |
| 1912 | 39 | 120 | 110 | 22 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 11 | 1 | .273 | .333 | .309 | .642 | 86.4 | 84.5 | .318 | 0.0 |
| 1913 | 23 | 92 | 85 | 7 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 0 | .294 | .310 | .365 | .675 | 92.6 | 98.7 | .323 | 0.1 |
| 1914 | 151 | 587 | 517 | 67 | 154 | 24 | 16 | 6 | 78 | 51 | 72 | 29 | 17 | .298 | .365 | .441 | .806 | 143.8 | 145.3 | .389 | 4.2 |
| 1915 | 144 | 567 | 510 | 53 | 137 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 49 | 36 | 77 | 20 | 17 | .269 | .323 | .365 | .688 | 105.1 | 108.9 | .337 | 2.3 |
| 1916 | 128 | 506 | 467 | 68 | 124 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 46 | 23 | 45 | 14 | 0 | .266 | .303 | .394 | .697 | 105.8 | 112.4 | .335 | 2.3 |
| 1917 | 106 | 385 | 337 | 41 | 83 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 37 | 25 | 38 | 6 | 0 | .246 | .300 | .359 | .659 | 99.7 | 104.0 | .321 | 1.4 |
| 1918 | 114 | 466 | 414 | 56 | 122 | 20 | 0 | 11 | 48 | 41 | 44 | 8 | 0 | .295 | .360 | .423 | .782 | 131.9 | 131.9 | .382 | 3.6 |
| 1919 | 125 | 497 | 456 | 47 | 133 | 30 | 6 | 10 | 64 | 26 | 41 | 8 | 0 | .292 | .330 | .450 | .779 | 110.9 | 114.7 | .362 | 2.3 |
| 1920 | 149 | 648 | 585 | 79 | 157 | 23 | 7 | 17 | 82 | 41 | 59 | 8 | 3 | .268 | .321 | .419 | .739 | 88.4 | 92.0 | .342 | 0.6 |
| 1921 | 142 | 640 | 556 | 89 | 169 | 32 | 5 | 23 | 101 | 73 | 41 | 3 | 5 | .304 | .389 | .504 | .892 | 122.7 | 123.5 | .407 | 3.3 |
| 1922 | 153 | 645 | 565 | 111 | 160 | 31 | 4 | 37 | 99 | 61 | 67 | 4 | 3 | .283 | .357 | .549 | .906 | 125.4 | 129.0 | .405 | 3.5 |
| 1923 | 52 | 129 | 109 | 12 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | .275 | .368 | .413 | .781 | 104.3 | 103.2 | .370 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-07-01 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 1921-09-09 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1914-07-11 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1916-05-31 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1917-04-11 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911-04-12 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1911-04-13 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1911-04-15 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1911-04-17 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1911-04-18 | NYY @ MIN 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.