Jimmy Sheckard

1897–1913 · 17 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1878

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1897	Brooklyn Bridegrooms	NL	13	55	49	12	14	3	2	3	14	6	7	5	.286	.364	.612	.976	0.4
1898	Brooklyn Bridegrooms	NL	105	459	408	51	113	17	9	4	64	37	28	8	.277	.349	.392	.741	1.8
1899	Baltimore Orioles	NL	147	616	536	104	158	18	10	3	75	56	51	77	.295	.380	.382	.763	3.9
1900	Brooklyn Superbas	NL	85	331	273	74	82	19	10	1	39	42	28	30	.300	.416	.454	.870	3.3
1901	Brooklyn Superbas	NL	133	609	554	116	196	29	19	11	104	47	52	35	.354	.409	.534	.944	7.7
1902	Brooklyn Superbas	NL	127	571	501	89	133	21	10	4	37	58	49	25	.265	.348	.371	.719	3.9
1903	Brooklyn Superbas	NL	139	616	515	99	171	29	9	9	75	75	48	67	.332	.423	.476	.899	10.1
1904	Brooklyn Superbas	NL	143	583	507	70	121	23	6	1	46	56	56	21	.239	.317	.314	.630	3.5
1905	Brooklyn Superbas	NL	130	563	480	58	140	20	11	3	41	61	55	23	.292	.380	.398	.777	6.8
1906	Chicago Cubs	NL	149	662	549	90	144	27	10	1	45	67	69	30	.262	.349	.353	.702	4.3
1907	Chicago Cubs	NL	143	601	484	76	129	23	1	1	36	76	53	31	.267	.373	.324	.697	4.3
1908	Chicago Cubs	NL	115	488	403	54	93	18	3	2	22	62	49	18	.231	.336	.305	.641	2.6
1909	Chicago Cubs	NL	148	644	525	81	134	29	5	1	43	72	71	15	.255	.346	.335	.681	4.1
1910	Chicago Cubs	NL	144	626	507	82	130	27	6	5	51	83	53	22	.256	.366	.363	.729	5.8
1911	Chicago Cubs	NL	156	704	539	121	149	26	11	4	50	147	58	32	.276	.434	.388	.822	7.4
1912	Chicago Cubs	NL	146	660	523	85	128	22	10	3	47	122	81	15	.245	.392	.342	.735	4.6
1913	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	99	330	252	34	49	3	4	0	24	68	41	11	.194	.368	.238	.606	0.4
Career	17 seasons		2122	9118	7605	1296	2084	354	136	56	813	1135	849	465	.274	.375	.378	.753	75.0

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Most Valuable Player from 1911, Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.