Tully Sparks

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 12, 1874 · Etna, GA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1897

Final gameJune 8, 1910

Seasons12 (1897–1910)

Philadelphia Phillies 1897; Pittsburgh Pirates 1899; Milwaukee Brewers 1901; Boston Americans 1902; New York Giants 1902; Philadelphia Phillies 1903–1910

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified pitchers

43.2

66.7

67.9

24.7

74.1

76.5

SHO

29.6

251

17.3

13.6

61.7

49.4

263.3

67.9

ERA

2.60

32.1

WHIP

1.147

48.1

K/9

2.91

24.7

FIP

2.13

82.7

FIP-

89.5

80.2

ERA+

91.5

27.2

sWAR

1.1

28.4

of 82 qualified 1908 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.7

52.2

sWAR

22.6

94.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1897	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-83.8	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1899	28	71	62	8	8	2	1	5	9	20	.129	.239	.194	.433	33.3	19.2	.228	1.5
1901	29	81	71	3	12	2	1	4	5	14	.169	.244	.225	.469	42.2	30.8	.233	2.3
1902	33	104	92	5	14	3	0	6	9	17	.152	.228	.185	.413	27.0	20.7	.212	0.5
1903	28	100	92	7	10	2	0	5	5	26	.109	.155	.130	.285	-10.7	-18.0	.147	3.3
1904	26	78	76	6	8	1	0	2	2	14	.105	.128	.118	.247	-22.8	-23.1	.123	1.5
1905	34	101	94	8	12	2	1	5	4	21	.128	.163	.170	.333	-0.8	0.4	.165	4.6
1906	42	114	104	6	16	4	1	9	7	20	.154	.207	.212	.419	26.4	31.0	.212	5.0
1907	33	97	89	1	3	0	0	2	3	33	.034	.075	.034	.109	-78.3	-65.4	.065	3.1
1908	33	94	77	1	4	0	0	2	6	27	.052	.120	.052	.172	-52.4	-44.9	.102	1.1
1909	24	39	36	0	5	0	0	1	2	9	.139	.184	.139	.323	-4.3	0.4	.168	0.5
1910	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.4	-100.0	.000	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1897	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	12	9	4	0	0	8.0	10.13	2.000	0.00	4.82	112.0	42.5	-0.4
1899	28	17	8	6	0	8	0	180	73	82	53	1	170.0	3.86	1.541	2.81	4.01	104.3	99.6	1.5
1901	29	26	7	17	0	18	0	228	82	93	62	5	210.0	3.51	1.529	2.66	4.16	114.1	103.8	2.3
1902	33	29	11	19	1	27	1	293	112	81	79	6	265.7	3.79	1.408	2.68	3.42	107.8	84.1	0.5
1903	28	28	11	15	0	27	0	248	75	56	88	3	248.0	2.72	1.226	3.19	2.95	91.5	118.5	3.3
1904	26	25	7	16	0	19	3	208	59	43	67	1	200.7	2.65	1.251	3.00	2.45	91.3	101.2	1.5
1905	34	26	14	11	1	20	3	217	63	73	98	2	259.7	2.18	1.117	3.40	2.88	98.2	134.2	4.6
1906	42	37	19	16	3	29	6	244	76	62	114	4	316.7	2.16	.966	3.24	2.39	91.5	120.7	5.0
1907	33	31	22	8	1	24	3	221	59	51	90	2	265.0	2.00	1.026	3.06	2.09	86.8	120.2	3.1
1908	33	31	16	15	2	24	2	251	76	51	85	3	263.3	2.60	1.147	2.91	2.13	89.5	91.5	1.1
1909	24	16	6	11	0	6	1	126	40	32	40	4	121.7	2.96	1.299	2.96	2.78	107.5	87.4	0.5
1910	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	22	10	2	4	2	15.0	6.00	1.600	2.40	4.38	142.2	51.3	-0.5

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

314

887

801

RBI

203

.1149

OBP

.1717

SLG

.1448

OPS

.3165

Pitching

G (P)

314

270

455th-most career GS

121

440th-most career W

137

231st-most career L

203

132nd-most career CG

SHO

274th-most career SHO

2,344

297th-most career IP

SO (P)

780

BB allowed

630

491st-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.819

114th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2288

250th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.00

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	H	2B	3B	RBI	TB
1906-05-30	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	0	1	2	4
1901-09-03	BAL @ BAL Gameday	3	2	0	1	0	4
1901-08-31	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	2	1	0	2	3
1905-06-13	PHI @ CIN Gameday	3	2	1	0	1	3
1902-08-23	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1907-09-16	PHI @ LAD Gameday	14.0	10	3	0	3	9
1907-05-25	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	9	4	0	1	8
1903-07-22	SF @ PHI Gameday	10.0	6	2	0	1	7
1901-05-11	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	10	5	3	5	7
1903-04-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	9.0	9	2	0	0	7

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.