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Billy Hamilton played 14 major-league seasons (1888-1901) as a OF (1,587). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 14 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | 22 | KC2 | 35 | 129 | 21 | 34 | 0 | 11 | 19 | 4 | 13 | .264 | .663 | 117 |
| 1889 | 23 | KC2 | 137 | 534 | 144 | 161 | 3 | 77 | 111 | 87 | 41 | .301 | .808 | 135 |
| 1890 | 24 | PHI | 123 | 496 | 133 | 161 | 2 | 49 | 102 | 83 | 37 | .325 | .829 | 148 |
| 1891 | 25 | PHI | 133 | 527 | 141 | 179 | 2 | 60 | 111 | 102 | 28 | .340 | .874 | 162 |
| 1892 | 26 | PHI | 139 | 554 | 132 | 183 | 3 | 53 | 57 | 81 | 29 | .330 | .833 | 159 |
| 1893 | 27 | PHI | 82 | 355 | 110 | 135 | 5 | 44 | 43 | 63 | 7 | .380 | 1.014 | 175 |
| 1894 | 28 | PHI | 132 | 558 | 198 | 225 | 4 | 90 | 100 | 128 | 19 | .403 | 1.044 | 158 |
| 1895 | 29 | PHI | 123 | 517 | 166 | 201 | 7 | 74 | 97 | 96 | 30 | .389 | .985 | 160 |
| 1896 | 30 | BSN | 131 | 524 | 153 | 192 | 3 | 55 | 83 | 110 | 29 | .366 | .946 | 156 |
| 1897 | 31 | BSN | 127 | 507 | 152 | 174 | 3 | 61 | 66 | 105 | 30 | .343 | .875 | 138 |
| 1898 | 32 | BSN | 110 | 417 | 110 | 154 | 3 | 50 | 54 | 87 | 30 | .369 | .933 | 174 |
| 1899 | 33 | BSN | 84 | 297 | 63 | 92 | 1 | 33 | 19 | 72 | 16 | .310 | .796 | 125 |
| 1900 | 34 | BSN | 136 | 520 | 103 | 173 | 1 | 47 | 32 | 107 | 22 | .333 | .845 | 141 |
| 1901 | 35 | BSN | 102 | 348 | 71 | 100 | 3 | 38 | 20 | 64 | 31 | .287 | .760 | 128 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | OF | 35 | 0 | 45 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 1889 | OF | 137 | 0 | 202 | 20 | 37 | 6 |
| 1890 | OF | 123 | 0 | 232 | 23 | 34 | 4 |
| 1891 | OF | 133 | 0 | 287 | 17 | 31 | 7 |
| 1892 | OF | 139 | 0 | 291 | 26 | 28 | 7 |
| 1893 | OF | 82 | 0 | 228 | 8 | 16 | 6 |
| 1894 | OF | 132 | 0 | 370 | 15 | 15 | 4 |
| 1895 | OF | 123 | 0 | 313 | 11 | 31 | 5 |
| 1896 | OF | 131 | 0 | 276 | 8 | 20 | 2 |
| 1897 | OF | 126 | 0 | 296 | 10 | 12 | 0 |
| 1898 | OF | 110 | 0 | 189 | 8 | 21 | 2 |
| 1899 | OF | 81 | 0 | 166 | 11 | 9 | 2 |
| 1900 | OF | 136 | 0 | 326 | 14 | 19 | 6 |
| 1901 | OF | 99 | 0 | 232 | 7 | 14 | 4 |
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.
Billy Hamilton ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #69 | center fielders | 1893 | 175 OPS+ |
| #72 | center fielders | 1898 | 174 OPS+ |
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.