Wally Schang

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 22, 1889 · South Wales, NY, USA

MLB debutMay 9, 1913

Final gameJune 22, 1931

Seasons19 (1913–1931)

Philadelphia Athletics 1913–1917; Boston Red Sox 1918–1920; New York Yankees 1921–1925; St. Louis Browns 1926–1929; Philadelphia Athletics 1930; Detroit Tigers 1931

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified batters

124

49.7

490

45.9

408

45.3

37.1

130

49.7

59.1

15.1

RBI

50.3

76.1

18.2

71.1

32.7

.319

68.6

OBP

.405

84.3

SLG

.412

52.8

OPS

.816

65.4

wRC+

116.8

69.2

OPS+

112.6

64.2

wOBA

.386

69.2

sWAR

3.6

85.5

of 160 qualified 1922 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.0

80.3

OPS+

117.5

75.5

sWAR

50.5

98.9

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	79	252	207	32	55	16	3	3	30	34	44	4	0	.266	.392	.415	.807	142.2	139.1	.396	2.9
1914	107	355	307	44	88	11	8	3	45	32	33	7	7	.287	.371	.404	.775	136.3	135.0	.379	3.7
1915	116	451	359	64	89	9	11	1	44	66	47	18	3	.248	.385	.343	.728	124.7	117.7	.371	3.1
1916	110	399	338	41	90	15	8	7	38	38	44	14	0	.266	.358	.420	.778	133.5	133.1	.379	2.9
1917	118	366	316	41	90	14	9	3	36	29	24	6	0	.285	.362	.415	.776	134.3	134.1	.379	3.5
1918	88	282	225	36	55	7	1	0	20	46	35	4	0	.244	.377	.284	.662	115.0	103.4	.347	1.9
1919	113	413	330	43	101	16	3	0	55	71	42	15	0	.306	.436	.373	.809	145.1	134.8	.401	4.6
1920	122	466	387	58	118	30	7	4	51	64	37	7	7	.305	.413	.450	.862	135.6	133.2	.407	4.3
1921	134	513	424	77	134	30	5	6	55	78	35	7	4	.316	.428	.453	.881	129.1	124.8	.414	4.6
1922	124	490	408	46	130	21	7	1	53	53	36	12	6	.319	.405	.412	.816	116.8	112.6	.386	3.6
1923	84	315	272	39	75	8	2	2	29	27	17	5	2	.276	.360	.342	.702	89.2	86.1	.341	1.3
1924	114	421	356	46	104	19	7	5	52	48	43	2	6	.292	.382	.427	.809	110.4	109.4	.383	2.8
1925	73	191	167	17	40	8	1	2	24	17	9	2	1	.240	.310	.335	.645	65.4	65.7	.307	0.2
1926	103	332	285	36	94	19	5	8	50	32	20	5	5	.330	.405	.516	.921	132.4	132.0	.423	3.1
1927	97	311	264	40	84	15	2	5	42	41	33	3	2	.318	.414	.447	.861	121.6	118.4	.404	2.5
1928	91	325	245	41	70	10	5	3	39	68	26	8	2	.286	.448	.404	.852	132.3	121.7	.411	3.1
1929	94	334	249	43	59	10	5	5	36	74	22	1	4	.237	.424	.378	.802	115.9	104.8	.390	2.5
1930	45	116	92	16	16	4	1	1	9	17	15	0	0	.174	.309	.272	.581	56.2	48.2	.285	0.0
1931	30	91	76	9	14	2	0	0	2	14	11	1	0	.184	.311	.211	.522	46.7	37.4	.270	-0.1

Career totals

1,842

374th-most career G

6,423

5,307

769

1,506

264

215th-most career 3B

RBI

710

849

222nd-most career BB

573

121

.2838

OBP

.3931

98th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4008

OPS

.7939

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
1916-09-08	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	9
1914-08-28	CWS @ ATH Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1927-05-15	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	6	8
1917-08-11	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	0	2	8
1919-04-23	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-10	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-12	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-17	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-18	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-19	BOS @ ATH 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.