Walter Holke

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 25, 1892 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutOctober 6, 1914

Final gameSeptember 23, 1925

Seasons11 (1914–1925)

New York Giants 1914; New York Giants 1916–1918; Boston Braves 1919–1922; Philadelphia Phillies 1923–1924; Cincinnati Reds 1925; Philadelphia Phillies 1925

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

148

85.1

605

77.6

563

85.6

59.2

169

63.2

59.2

72.4

RBI

70.1

43.7

17.8

12.6

22.4

.300

51.7

OBP

.330

SLG

.394

44.8

OPS

.724

36.2

wRC+

77.4

17.8

OPS+

81.2

21.8

wOBA

.332

29.9

sWAR

-1.0

2.3

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.2

16.3

OPS+

89.5

22.2

sWAR

-2.5

0.8

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
1914	2	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	97.3	102.0	.317	0.0
1916	34	121	111	16	39	4	2	0	13	6	16	10	0	.351	.390	.423	.813	157.6	154.8	.385	0.9
1917	153	583	527	55	146	12	7	2	55	34	54	13	0	.277	.327	.338	.665	108.5	108.4	.320	1.0
1918	88	350	326	38	82	17	4	1	27	10	26	10	0	.252	.276	.337	.613	84.0	89.7	.292	-0.3
1919	137	570	518	48	151	14	6	0	48	21	25	19	0	.292	.325	.342	.667	101.7	102.8	.318	0.7
1920	144	603	551	53	162	15	11	3	64	28	31	4	11	.294	.329	.377	.707	104.4	105.9	.332	1.0
1921	150	621	579	60	151	15	10	3	63	17	41	8	11	.261	.284	.337	.621	63.3	67.2	.285	-2.1
1922	105	424	395	35	115	9	4	0	46	14	23	6	8	.291	.317	.334	.651	69.5	70.9	.303	-1.1
1923	147	597	562	64	175	31	4	7	70	16	37	7	9	.311	.330	.418	.749	79.4	84.1	.341	-0.8
1924	148	605	563	60	169	23	6	6	64	25	33	3	8	.300	.330	.394	.724	77.4	81.2	.332	-1.0
1925	104	353	318	35	86	13	4	2	37	20	18	1	3	.270	.314	.355	.669	69.0	71.2	.307	-0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1923	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.3	0.00	3.000	0.00	2.96	65.2	—	-0.8

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

1,212

4,833

4,456

464

1,278

153

RBI

487

191

304

.2868

488th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3185

SLG

.3633

OPS

.6818

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

3.0000

K/9

0.00

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	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1923-07-14	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	5	10
1921-06-22	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	1	3	8
1923-10-06	PHI @ ATL Gameday	6	2	3	0	1	1	2	8
1921-09-08	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	0	4	7
1921-09-15	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	0	3	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H
1923-07-13	CIN @ PHI Gameday	0.1	1
1914-04-14	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0
1914-04-17	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0
1914-04-18	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0
1914-04-21	SF @ LAD Gameday	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.