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Al Spalding played 8 major-league seasons (1871-1878) as a P (347), OF (64), 1B (52), 2B (14), 3B (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 8 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 21 | BS1 | 31 | 144 | 43 | 39 | 1 | 31 | 2 | 8 | 1 | .271 | .684 | 97 |
| 1872 | 22 | BS1 | 48 | 237 | 60 | 84 | 0 | 47 | 3 | 3 | 1 | .354 | .810 | 151 |
| 1873 | 23 | BS1 | 60 | 323 | 83 | 106 | 1 | 71 | 9 | 3 | 2 | .328 | .724 | 119 |
| 1874 | 24 | BS1 | 71 | 362 | 80 | 119 | 0 | 54 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .329 | .704 | 129 |
| 1875 | 25 | BS1 | 74 | 343 | 68 | 107 | 0 | 56 | 2 | 3 | 3 | .312 | .691 | 142 |
| 1876 | 26 | CHN | 66 | 292 | 54 | 91 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 6 | 3 | .312 | .699 | 134 |
| 1877 | 27 | CHN | 60 | 254 | 29 | 65 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 3 | 16 | .256 | .595 | 89 |
| 1878 | 28 | CHN | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | 1.000 | 236 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 21 | BS1 | 31 | 31 | 19 | 10 | 0 | 257.1 | 23 | 38 | 3.36 | 126 |
| 1872 | 22 | BS1 | 48 | 48 | 38 | 8 | 0 | 404.2 | 28 | 27 | 1.85 | 198 |
| 1873 | 23 | BS1 | 60 | 54 | 41 | 14 | 3 | 496.2 | 50 | 36 | 2.99 | 114 |
| 1874 | 24 | BS1 | 71 | 69 | 52 | 16 | 0 | 617.1 | 31 | 19 | 1.92 | 114 |
| 1875 | 25 | BS1 | 72 | 62 | 54 | 5 | 9 | 570.2 | 75 | 18 | 1.59 | 140 |
| 1876 | 26 | CHN | 61 | 60 | 47 | 12 | 0 | 528.2 | 39 | 26 | 1.75 | 132 |
| 1877 | 27 | CHN | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 3.27 | 86 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871 | P | 31 | 31 | 11 | 48 | 17 | 2 |
| 1871 | OF | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1872 | P | 48 | 48 | 28 | 101 | 14 | 2 |
| 1872 | OF | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1873 | P | 60 | 0 | 36 | 125 | 21 | 5 |
| 1873 | OF | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1874 | P | 71 | 69 | 38 | 143 | 31 | 3 |
| 1874 | OF | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1875 | P | 72 | 0 | 51 | 133 | 19 | 10 |
| 1875 | OF | 18 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1875 | 1B | 4 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1876 | P | 61 | 0 | 45 | 92 | 7 | 7 |
| 1876 | OF | 10 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1876 | 1B | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1876 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1877 | 1B | 45 | 0 | 472 | 21 | 21 | 23 |
| 1877 | 2B | 13 | 0 | 37 | 50 | 8 | 6 |
| 1877 | P | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 1877 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 1878 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Al Spalding ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #61 | starting pitchers | 1872 | 198 ERA+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.