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Frank Chance played 17 major-league seasons (1898-1914) as a 1B (997), C (187), OF (73). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 17 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1898 | 22 | CHN | 53 | 147 | 32 | 41 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 14 | .279 | .705 | 107 |
| 1899 | 23 | CHN | 64 | 192 | 37 | 55 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 15 | 9 | .286 | .705 | 99 |
| 1900 | 24 | CHN | 56 | 149 | 26 | 44 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 12 | .295 | .809 | 130 |
| 1901 | 25 | CHN | 69 | 241 | 38 | 67 | 0 | 36 | 27 | 29 | 24 | .278 | .737 | 121 |
| 1902 | 26 | CHN | 76 | 242 | 40 | 70 | 1 | 31 | 29 | 37 | 23 | .289 | .773 | 145 |
| 1903 | 27 | CHN | 125 | 441 | 83 | 144 | 2 | 81 | 67 | 78 | 41 | .327 | .878 | 159 |
| 1904 | 28 | CHN | 124 | 451 | 89 | 140 | 6 | 49 | 42 | 36 | 21 | .310 | .812 | 158 |
| 1905 | 29 | CHN | 118 | 392 | 92 | 124 | 2 | 70 | 38 | 78 | 26 | .316 | .883 | 173 |
| 1906 | 30 | CHN | 136 | 474 | 103 | 151 | 3 | 71 | 57 | 70 | 31 | .319 | .849 | 174 |
| 1907 | 31 | CHN | 111 | 382 | 58 | 112 | 1 | 49 | 35 | 51 | 21 | .293 | .756 | 145 |
| 1908 | 32 | CHN | 129 | 452 | 65 | 123 | 2 | 55 | 27 | 37 | 37 | .272 | .701 | 131 |
| 1909 | 33 | CHN | 93 | 324 | 53 | 88 | 0 | 46 | 29 | 30 | 32 | .272 | .686 | 120 |
| 1910 | 34 | CHN | 88 | 295 | 54 | 88 | 0 | 36 | 16 | 37 | 15 | .298 | .788 | 137 |
| 1911 | 35 | CHN | 31 | 88 | 23 | 21 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 25 | 13 | .239 | .841 | 144 |
| 1912 | 36 | CHN | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .200 | .700 | 101 |
| 1913 | 37 | NYA | 12 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 1 | .208 | .615 | 87 |
| 1914 | 38 | NYA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1898 | C | 33 | 0 | 62 | 14 | 4 | 3 |
| 1898 | OF | 17 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
| 1898 | 1B | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1899 | C | 57 | 0 | 166 | 64 | 12 | 6 |
| 1899 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1899 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1900 | C | 51 | 0 | 155 | 65 | 16 | 2 |
| 1900 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1901 | OF | 51 | 0 | 61 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| 1901 | C | 13 | 0 | 55 | 20 | 1 | 2 |
| 1901 | 1B | 6 | 0 | 27 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 1902 | 1B | 38 | 0 | 391 | 20 | 13 | 21 |
| 1902 | C | 30 | 0 | 118 | 28 | 4 | 2 |
| 1902 | OF | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1903 | 1B | 121 | 0 | 1204 | 68 | 36 | 49 |
| 1903 | C | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1904 | 1B | 123 | 122 | 1205 | 106 | 13 | 48 |
| 1904 | C | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905 | 1B | 115 | 115 | 1165 | 75 | 13 | 54 |
| 1906 | 1B | 136 | 136 | 1376 | 82 | 16 | 71 |
| 1907 | 1B | 109 | 109 | 1129 | 80 | 10 | 64 |
| 1908 | 1B | 126 | 125 | 1291 | 86 | 15 | 56 |
| 1909 | 1B | 92 | 92 | 901 | 40 | 6 | 43 |
| 1910 | 1B | 87 | 87 | 773 | 38 | 3 | 48 |
| 1911 | 1B | 29 | 0 | 289 | 11 | 3 | 12 |
| 1912 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1913 | 1B | 7 | 0 | 86 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 1914 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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.
Frank Chance won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1909 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1910 (NL).
Frank Chance ranks on 4 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #101 | first basemen | 1906 | 174 OPS+ |
| #108 | first basemen | 1905 | 173 OPS+ |
| #149 | first basemen | 1903 | 159 OPS+ |
| #151 | first basemen | 1904 | 158 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.