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William Clarke played 13 major-league seasons (1893-1905) as a C (739), 1B (193). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 13 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1893 | 25 | BLN | 49 | 183 | 23 | 32 | 1 | 24 | 2 | 19 | 14 | .175 | .504 | 37 |
| 1894 | 26 | BLN | 28 | 100 | 18 | 24 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 16 | 14 | .240 | .711 | 76 |
| 1895 | 27 | BLN | 67 | 241 | 38 | 70 | 0 | 35 | 8 | 13 | 18 | .290 | .727 | 91 |
| 1896 | 28 | BLN | 80 | 300 | 48 | 89 | 2 | 71 | 7 | 14 | 12 | .297 | .755 | 103 |
| 1897 | 29 | BLN | 64 | 241 | 32 | 65 | 1 | 38 | 5 | 9 | 12 | .270 | .640 | 73 |
| 1898 | 30 | BLN | 82 | 285 | 26 | 69 | 0 | 27 | 2 | 4 | 14 | .242 | .563 | 66 |
| 1899 | 31 | BSN | 60 | 223 | 25 | 50 | 2 | 32 | 2 | 10 | 17 | .224 | .553 | 56 |
| 1900 | 32 | BSN | 81 | 270 | 35 | 85 | 1 | 30 | 0 | 9 | 16 | .315 | .703 | 100 |
| 1901 | 33 | WS1 | 110 | 422 | 58 | 118 | 3 | 54 | 7 | 23 | 32 | .280 | .695 | 98 |
| 1902 | 34 | WS1 | 87 | 291 | 31 | 78 | 6 | 40 | 1 | 23 | 15 | .268 | .712 | 103 |
| 1903 | 35 | WS1 | 126 | 465 | 35 | 111 | 2 | 38 | 12 | 15 | 28 | .239 | .581 | 79 |
| 1904 | 36 | WS1 | 85 | 275 | 23 | 58 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 17 | 21 | .211 | .517 | 68 |
| 1905 | 37 | NY1 | 31 | 50 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | .180 | .481 | 49 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1893 | C | 38 | 0 | 135 | 45 | 18 | 3 |
| 1893 | 1B | 11 | 0 | 97 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1894 | C | 23 | 0 | 80 | 22 | 11 | 1 |
| 1894 | 1B | 5 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1895 | C | 60 | 0 | 176 | 67 | 16 | 8 |
| 1895 | 1B | 6 | 0 | 43 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1896 | C | 67 | 0 | 203 | 53 | 14 | 5 |
| 1896 | 1B | 14 | 0 | 116 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 1897 | C | 59 | 0 | 191 | 38 | 15 | 2 |
| 1897 | 1B | 4 | 0 | 35 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1898 | C | 70 | 0 | 289 | 69 | 14 | 6 |
| 1898 | 1B | 10 | 0 | 87 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 1899 | C | 60 | 0 | 213 | 69 | 18 | 4 |
| 1900 | C | 67 | 0 | 246 | 104 | 27 | 8 |
| 1900 | 1B | 8 | 0 | 60 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 1901 | C | 107 | 0 | 358 | 122 | 24 | 11 |
| 1901 | 1B | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1902 | C | 87 | 0 | 288 | 97 | 11 | 8 |
| 1903 | 1B | 88 | 0 | 891 | 44 | 18 | 44 |
| 1903 | C | 37 | 0 | 148 | 46 | 14 | 1 |
| 1904 | C | 52 | 52 | 229 | 72 | 7 | 9 |
| 1904 | 1B | 29 | 28 | 288 | 14 | 6 | 15 |
| 1905 | 1B | 15 | 7 | 106 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| 1905 | C | 12 | 2 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 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.
William Clarke ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #155 | catchers | 1901 | 98 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.