MLB / Players

Wally Pipp

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 17, 1893 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutJune 29, 1913

Final gameSeptember 30, 1928

Seasons15 (1913–1928)

Detroit Tigers 1913; New York Yankees 1915–1925; Cincinnati Reds 1926–1928

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

122

52.7

489

51.5

443

35.5

115

46.7

50.3

43.2

25.4

RBI

33.1

46.2

6.5

32.5

.260

13.6

OBP

.309

11.8

SLG

.343

17.2

OPS

.653

wRC+

76.8

OPS+

77.8

16.6

wOBA

.306

sWAR

-0.8

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.1

47.6

OPS+

105.4

sWAR

13.4

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
1913	12	34	31	3	5	0	3	0	5	2	6	0	0	.161	.235	.355	.590	64.5	72.0	.283	-0.1
1915	136	560	479	59	118	20	13	4	60	66	81	18	7	.246	.339	.367	.706	111.3	111.8	.350	1.4
1916	151	617	545	70	143	20	14	12	93	54	82	16	0	.262	.331	.417	.748	120.3	123.1	.361	2.1
1917	155	668	587	82	143	29	12	9	70	60	66	11	0	.244	.320	.380	.700	110.0	111.9	.342	1.6
1918	91	385	349	48	106	15	9	2	44	22	34	11	0	.304	.345	.415	.760	124.8	127.6	.369	1.5
1919	138	596	523	74	144	23	10	7	50	39	42	9	0	.275	.330	.398	.728	102.1	104.3	.344	0.9
1920	153	687	610	109	171	30	14	11	76	48	54	4	10	.280	.339	.430	.768	99.3	101.7	.356	1.0
1921	153	667	588	96	174	35	9	8	98	45	28	17	10	.296	.347	.427	.774	94.5	96.4	.356	0.5
1922	152	664	577	96	190	32	10	9	90	56	32	7	12	.329	.392	.466	.859	123.2	122.4	.396	2.8
1923	144	634	569	79	173	19	8	6	108	36	28	6	13	.304	.352	.397	.749	96.1	97.6	.353	0.6
1924	153	663	589	88	174	30	19	9	114	51	36	12	5	.295	.352	.457	.808	104.9	108.2	.374	1.3
1925	62	200	178	19	41	6	3	3	24	13	12	3	3	.230	.286	.348	.635	59.4	62.5	.297	-0.7
1926	155	649	574	72	167	22	15	6	99	49	26	8	0	.291	.352	.413	.765	108.9	109.2	.355	1.6
1927	122	489	443	49	115	19	6	2	41	32	11	2	0	.260	.309	.343	.653	76.8	77.8	.306	-0.8
1928	95	307	272	30	77	11	3	2	26	23	13	1	0	.283	.341	.368	.709	87.2	87.3	.331	-0.1

Career totals

1,872

352nd-most career G

7,820

320th-most career PA

6,914

325th-most career AB

974

387th-most career R

1,941

324th-most career H

311

445th-most career 2B

148

54th-most career 3B

RBI

998

310th-most career RBI

596

551

125

.2807

OBP

.3411

SLG

.4076

OPS

.7487

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
1917-06-23	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	4	4	0	1	1	3	0	9
1920-07-30	NYY @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	1	2	0	3	0	9
1928-09-27	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1917-07-22	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	4	4	2	1	0	0	1	8
1915-07-03	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	3	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-10	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-11	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-14	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-15	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-16	DET @ CLE 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.