Tom Brown

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 168 lb

BornSeptember 21, 1860 · Liverpool, Merseyside, England

MLB debutJuly 6, 1882

Final gameMay 17, 1898

Seasons17 (1882–1898)

Baltimore Orioles 1882; Columbus Buckeyes 1883–1884; Pittsburg Alleghenys 1885–1886; Indianapolis Hoosiers 1887; Pittsburg Alleghenys 1887; Boston Beaneaters 1888–1889; Boston Reds 1890–1891; Louisville Colonels 1892–1894; St. Louis Browns 1895; Washington Senators 1895–1898

Percentile snapshot

1897 season — qualified batters

116

51.1

530

55.4

469

56.5

66.3

137

48.9

27.2

79.3

RBI

34.8

80.4

1.1

59.8

.292

41.3

OBP

.364

46.7

SLG

.369

32.6

OPS

.733

39.1

wRC+

95.9

39.1

OPS+

93.5

39.1

wOBA

.354

39.1

sWAR

1.6

57.6

of 93 qualified 1897 batters (min 412 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.4

38.3

OPS+

99.3

40.3

sWAR

24.0

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1882	45	186	180	28	52	4	2	1	23	6	0	0	.289	.312	.350	.662	114.8	121.9	.305	1.0
1883	97	440	420	69	115	12	7	5	32	20	0	0	.274	.307	.371	.678	111.4	116.6	.310	1.6
1884	107	479	451	93	123	9	11	5	32	24	0	0	.273	.315	.375	.690	116.9	124.0	.316	1.7
1885	108	478	437	81	134	16	12	4	68	34	0	0	.307	.366	.426	.792	135.7	149.4	.368	3.5
1886	115	518	460	106	131	11	11	1	51	56	0	30	.285	.365	.363	.728	122.1	129.1	.354	2.7
1887	83	353	332	50	72	6	4	2	15	19	65	25	.217	.263	.277	.541	60.9	50.1	.253	-0.6
1888	107	451	420	62	104	10	7	9	49	30	68	46	.248	.299	.369	.668	109.3	111.6	.310	1.6
1889	90	422	362	93	84	10	5	2	24	59	56	63	.232	.341	.304	.645	88.3	80.0	.322	0.4
1890	131	648	558	149	156	25	14	4	67	87	87	80	.280	.380	.396	.776	106.7	106.8	.374	2.8
1891	137	663	589	177	189	30	21	5	72	70	96	106	.321	.397	.469	.865	134.2	146.9	.416	5.3
1892	153	712	660	105	150	16	8	2	45	47	94	78	.227	.284	.285	.569	75.8	71.7	.280	0.4
1893	122	590	529	104	127	15	7	5	54	56	63	66	.240	.319	.323	.642	76.6	70.6	.315	0.3
1894	130	618	541	123	137	22	14	9	57	60	74	66	.253	.331	.396	.727	78.1	74.3	.339	0.3
1895	118	560	489	98	110	19	7	3	47	66	60	42	.225	.320	.311	.630	72.2	62.8	.310	-0.1
1896	116	513	435	87	128	17	6	2	59	58	49	28	.294	.385	.375	.759	103.5	100.5	.370	2.0
1897	116	530	469	91	137	17	2	5	45	52	63	25	.292	.364	.369	.733	95.9	93.5	.354	1.6
1898	16	60	55	8	9	1	0	0	2	5	9	3	.164	.233	.182	.415	29.4	19.1	.216	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1882	2	0	0	0	0	13	1	6	2	8.3	1.08	2.280	2.16	4.31	160.8	248.4	1.0
1883	3	1	0	1	1	14	9	10	6	14.0	5.79	1.714	3.86	4.54	137.8	57.0	1.6
1884	4	0	2	1	0	27	15	7	5	19.0	7.11	1.789	2.37	3.89	120.0	45.6	1.7
1885	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	6.0	3.00	.500	3.00	5.42	167.0	108.1	3.5
1886	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	5	1	2.0	9.00	3.500	4.50	9.62	279.4	38.3	2.7

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,791

423rd-most career G

8,221

253rd-most career PA

7,387

234th-most career AB

1,524

65th-most career R

1,958

318th-most career H

240

138

66th-most career 3B

RBI

742

749

323rd-most career BB

784

658

13th-most career SB

.2651

OBP

.3365

SLG

.3609

OPS

.6974

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

5.291

WHIP

1.7635

K/9

2.92

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.