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Vern Duncan

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 155 lb

BornJanuary 6, 1890 · Clayton, NC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1913

Final gameOctober 3, 1915

Seasons3 (1913–1915)

Philadelphia Phillies 1913; Baltimore Terrapins 1914–1915

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

146

62.4

620

69.1

531

67.9

62.4

142

62.4

44.8

28.5

39.4

RBI

39.4

70.3

44.2

52.7

52.1

.267

47.9

OBP

.337

45.5

SLG

.328

25.5

OPS

.665

30.3

wRC+

97.2

33.9

OPS+

95.7

31.5

wOBA

.325

33.9

sWAR

1.7

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.1

79.5

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
1913	8	12	12	3	5	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	.417	.417	.500	.917	156.4	156.3	.426	0.1
1914	157	663	557	99	160	20	8	2	53	67	55	13	.287	.375	.363	.737	114.0	110.0	.358	3.3
1915	146	620	531	68	142	18	4	2	43	54	40	19	.267	.337	.328	.665	97.2	95.7	.325	1.7

Career totals

311

1,295

1,100

170

307

RBI

121

.2791

OBP

.3574

SLG

.3473

OPS

.7047

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	RBI	TB
1913-09-27	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1913-09-21	PHI @ CHC Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	2
1913-10-03	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	1
1913-09-25	ATL @ PHI Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1
1913-04-09	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-09	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-10	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-18	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-21	PHI @ LAD 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.