MLB / Players

Topsy Hartsel

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 5 in · 155 lb

BornJune 26, 1874 · Polk, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1898

Final gameSeptember 30, 1911

Seasons14 (1898–1911)

Louisville Colonels 1898–1899; Cincinnati Reds 1900; Chicago Orphans 1901; Philadelphia Athletics 1902–1911

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

129

35.6

561

48.1

460

39.4

85.6

112

36.5

53.8

51.9

81.7

RBI

34.6

100

22.1

.243

30.8

OBP

.371

84.6

SLG

.330

51.9

OPS

.701

68.3

wRC+

133.8

80.8

OPS+

124.9

wOBA

.355

sWAR

3.5

76.9

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 486 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

133.9

93.3

OPS+

129.0

89.7

sWAR

37.1

97.6

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
1898	22	85	71	11	23	0	0	0	9	11	9	2	.324	.422	.324	.746	120.5	114.0	.379	0.4
1899	30	89	75	8	18	1	1	1	7	11	17	1	.240	.345	.320	.665	88.9	82.6	.332	0.1
1900	18	78	64	10	21	2	1	2	5	8	9	7	.328	.403	.484	.887	138.2	144.2	.418	0.5
1901	140	636	558	111	187	25	16	7	54	74	48	41	.335	.414	.475	.889	155.4	159.2	.420	5.9
1902	137	637	545	109	154	20	12	5	58	87	26	47	.283	.383	.391	.774	114.7	111.8	.371	2.7
1903	98	428	373	65	116	19	14	5	26	49	39	13	.311	.391	.477	.868	154.5	155.0	.401	3.9
1904	147	624	534	79	135	17	12	2	25	75	83	19	.253	.347	.341	.688	120.1	114.7	.335	3.0
1905	150	674	538	88	148	22	8	0	28	121	65	37	.275	.409	.346	.755	148.8	139.9	.379	5.5
1906	144	632	533	96	136	21	9	1	30	88	55	31	.255	.363	.334	.697	123.5	117.0	.348	3.2
1907	143	624	507	93	142	23	6	3	29	106	66	20	.280	.405	.367	.771	152.2	144.6	.388	5.2
1908	129	561	460	73	112	16	6	4	29	93	55	15	.243	.371	.330	.701	133.8	124.9	.355	3.5
1909	83	323	267	30	72	4	4	1	18	48	26	3	.270	.381	.326	.707	130.6	122.0	.358	1.9
1910	90	351	285	45	63	10	3	0	22	58	45	11	.221	.353	.277	.630	112.1	101.8	.327	1.2
1911	25	51	38	8	9	2	0	0	1	8	8	0	.237	.396	.289	.685	109.5	95.8	.357	0.2

Career totals

1,356

5,793

4,848

826

1,336

182

205th-most career 3B

RBI

341

837

237th-most career BB

551

247

246th-most career SB

.2756

OBP

.3835

162nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3703

OPS

.7538

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	TB
1901-08-05	CHC @ CIN Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	2	9
1907-09-17	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	5	1	1	0	0	8
1901-08-21	CHC @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	0	2	0	4	8
1904-09-15	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	2	8
1903-05-04	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	CIN @ CHC 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.