William Nance
Louisville Colonels 1897–1898; Detroit Tigers 1901
Percentile snapshot
1901 season — qualified batters
of 93 qualified 1901 batters (min 418 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | 35 | 144 | 120 | 25 | 29 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 0 | .242 | .355 | .408 | .763 | 101.5 | 100.9 | .365 | 0.4 |
| 1898 | 22 | 91 | 76 | 13 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 0 | .316 | .416 | .421 | .837 | 137.7 | 139.5 | .410 | 0.6 |
| 1901 | 132 | 539 | 461 | 72 | 129 | 24 | 5 | 3 | 66 | 51 | 31 | 9 | 0 | .280 | .355 | .373 | .728 | 102.6 | 101.1 | .347 | 1.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-06-02 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1901-07-13 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1901-08-07 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1901-06-20 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 1901-07-18 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-04-25 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-26 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-27 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-28 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-29 | DET @ CWS 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.