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Charles Bender played 16 major-league seasons (1903-1925) as a P (459), 1B (6), OF (5), 2B (1), 3B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 15 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | 19 | PHA | 43 | 120 | 10 | 22 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 14 | .183 | .449 | 39 |
| 1904 | 20 | PHA | 31 | 79 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | .228 | .599 | 94 |
| 1905 | 21 | PHA | 38 | 92 | 11 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 19 | .217 | .536 | 75 |
| 1906 | 22 | PHA | 44 | 99 | 9 | 25 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 13 | .253 | .717 | 131 |
| 1907 | 23 | PHA | 45 | 100 | 10 | 23 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 6 | .230 | .577 | 89 |
| 1908 | 24 | PHA | 20 | 50 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 13 | .220 | .590 | 98 |
| 1909 | 25 | PHA | 40 | 93 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 10 | .215 | .524 | 71 |
| 1910 | 26 | PHA | 36 | 93 | 6 | 25 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 8 | .269 | .677 | 118 |
| 1911 | 27 | PHA | 32 | 79 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 14 | .165 | .360 | 4 |
| 1912 | 28 | PHA | 27 | 60 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | .150 | .427 | 26 |
| 1913 | 29 | PHA | 48 | 78 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 17 | .154 | .432 | 31 |
| 1914 | 30 | PHA | 28 | 62 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 13 | .145 | .407 | 27 |
| 1915 | 31 | BLF | 26 | 60 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | .267 | .683 | 107 |
| 1916 | 32 | PHI | 28 | 43 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 9 | .279 | .698 | 121 |
| 1917 | 33 | PHI | 20 | 39 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .205 | .526 | 66 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | 19 | PHA | 36 | 33 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 270 | 127 | 65 | 3.07 | 97 |
| 1904 | 20 | PHA | 29 | 20 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 203.2 | 149 | 59 | 2.87 | 90 |
| 1905 | 21 | PHA | 35 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 229 | 142 | 90 | 2.83 | 94 |
| 1906 | 22 | PHA | 36 | 27 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 238.1 | 159 | 48 | 2.53 | 106 |
| 1907 | 23 | PHA | 33 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 219.1 | 112 | 34 | 2.05 | 124 |
| 1908 | 24 | PHA | 18 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 138.2 | 85 | 21 | 1.75 | 136 |
| 1909 | 25 | PHA | 34 | 29 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 250 | 161 | 45 | 1.66 | 149 |
| 1910 | 26 | PHA | 30 | 28 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 250 | 155 | 47 | 1.58 | 159 |
| 1911 | 27 | PHA | 31 | 24 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 216.1 | 114 | 58 | 2.16 | 154 |
| 1912 | 28 | PHA | 27 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 171 | 90 | 33 | 2.74 | 122 |
| 1913 | 29 | PHA | 48 | 21 | 21 | 10 | 13 | 236.2 | 135 | 59 | 2.21 | 133 |
| 1914 | 30 | PHA | 28 | 23 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 179 | 107 | 55 | 2.26 | 121 |
| 1915 | 31 | BLF | 26 | 23 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 178.1 | 89 | 37 | 3.99 | 76 |
| 1916 | 32 | PHI | 27 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 122.2 | 43 | 34 | 3.74 | 70 |
| 1917 | 33 | PHI | 20 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 113 | 43 | 26 | 1.67 | 162 |
| 1925 | 41 | CHA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18.00 | 24 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | P | 36 | 0 | 12 | 79 | 9 | 0 |
| 1903 | 1B | 3 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1903 | OF | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904 | P | 29 | 20 | 13 | 48 | 7 | 0 |
| 1905 | P | 35 | 23 | 14 | 77 | 3 | 2 |
| 1906 | P | 36 | 27 | 25 | 54 | 8 | 1 |
| 1906 | OF | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907 | P | 33 | 24 | 14 | 57 | 5 | 2 |
| 1907 | 1B | 2 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1907 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908 | P | 18 | 17 | 12 | 28 | 3 | 0 |
| 1908 | 1B | 1 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 1909 | P | 34 | 29 | 13 | 78 | 4 | 1 |
| 1910 | P | 30 | 28 | 13 | 85 | 3 | 3 |
| 1911 | P | 31 | 0 | 11 | 58 | 0 | 4 |
| 1912 | P | 27 | 0 | 6 | 36 | 2 | 2 |
| 1913 | P | 48 | 0 | 8 | 56 | 2 | 1 |
| 1914 | P | 28 | 0 | 7 | 47 | 2 | 0 |
| 1915 | P | 26 | 0 | 12 | 45 | 4 | 3 |
| 1916 | P | 27 | 0 | 8 | 39 | 2 | 1 |
| 1916 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917 | P | 20 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 1 | 4 |
| 1925 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.
Charles Bender won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1910 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1910 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1911 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1913.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 22 | 2 / 64 | 0 |
Charles Bender ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #126 | closers | 1913 | 133 ERA+ |
| #168 | relief pitchers | 1913 | 133 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.