1877 MLB Season Leaders

1 league · 60 team games · 22 ranking tables

Awards

None of these awards existed yet. The earliest award in this database is from 1911, so a 1877 season has no award to show. That is a fact about the calendar, not about the players on this page.

National League

Led the National League — the first row of every table below.

Batting12 categories

RunsR

1	Jim O'Rourke	68
2	Cal McVey	58
2	George Wright	58
4	Joe Start	55
5	George Hall	53
5	Charley Jones	53
7	Cap Anson	52
8	Deacon White	51
9	John Clapp	47
9	Jack Manning	47
9	John Morrill	47

HitsH

1	Deacon White	103
2	Cal McVey	98
3	Jim O'Rourke	96
4	John Cassidy	95
5	Joe Start	90
6	George Hall	87
7	Cap Anson	86
8	John Peters	84
9	Mike Dorgan	82
10	John Clapp	81
10	Jumbo Latham	81

Doubles2B

1	Cap Anson	19
2	Jack Manning	16
2	Tom York	16
4	George Hall	15
4	George Wright	15
6	Jim O'Rourke	14
6	Deacon White	14
8	Lew Brown	12
8	Charley Jones	12
8	Lip Pike	12

Triples3B

1	Deacon White	11
2	Charley Jones	10
3	Lew Brown	8
3	George Hall	8
5	Joe Battin	7
5	Mike Dorgan	7
5	Paul Hines	7
5	Jack Manning	7
5	Cal McVey	7
5	Tom York	7

Home RunsHR

1	Lip Pike	4
2	Orator Shafer	3
3	Charley Jones	2
3	Pop Snyder	2
3	Deacon White	2
6	Joe Battin	1
6	Lew Brown	1
6	Tom Carey	1
6	Bill Crowley	1
6	Jim Devlin	1
6	Joe Gerhardt	1
6	Bill Hague	1
6	Terry Larkin	1
6	Tim Murnane	1
6	Joe Start	1
6	Tom York	1

Runs Batted InRBI

1	Deacon White	49
2	John Peters	41
3	Ezra Sutton	39
4	Charley Jones	38
5	Tom York	37
6	Jack Manning	36
6	Cal McVey	36
8	Bob Ferguson	35
8	Joe Gerhardt	35
8	Al Spalding	35
8	George Wright	35

WalksBB

1	Jim O'Rourke	20
2	Charley Jones	15
3	Amos Booth	12
3	George Hall	12
5	Davy Force	11
6	Cap Anson	9
6	Mike Dorgan	9
6	Lip Pike	9
6	Orator Shafer	9
6	George Wright	9

Wins Above ReplacementWAR

1	Charley Jones	3.2
2	Deacon White	3.0
3	Jim O'Rourke	2.6
4	Cap Anson	2.6
5	Cal McVey	2.5
6	John Peters	2.5
7	Lip Pike	2.0
8	Joe Gerhardt	1.7
9	Jack Manning	1.7
10	Tom York	1.7

Batting Averagemin 186 PA

1	Deacon White	.387
2	John Cassidy	.378
3	Cal McVey	.368
4	Jim O'Rourke	.362
5	Cap Anson	.337
6	Joe Start	.332
7	George Hall	.323
8	John Clapp	.318
9	Jack Manning	.317
9	John Peters	.317

On-Base Percentagemin 186 PA

1	Jim O'Rourke	.407
2	Deacon White	.405
3	Cal McVey	.387
4	John Cassidy	.386
5	Cap Anson	.360
6	Charley Jones	.353
7	George Hall	.352
8	Joe Start	.347
9	John Clapp	.338
10	Mike Dorgan	.331
10	Jack Manning	.331

Slugging Percentagemin 186 PA

1	Deacon White	.545
2	Charley Jones	.471
3	John Cassidy	.458
4	Cal McVey	.455
5	Jim O'Rourke	.445
6	George Hall	.439
7	Jack Manning	.437
8	Tom York	.422
9	Cap Anson	.420
9	Lip Pike	.420

On-Base Plus Sluggingmin 186 PA

1	Deacon White	.950
2	Jim O'Rourke	.852
3	John Cassidy	.844
4	Cal McVey	.842
5	Charley Jones	.824
6	George Hall	.791
7	Cap Anson	.779
8	Jack Manning	.767
9	Joe Start	.745
10	Lip Pike	.741

Pitching10 categories

WinsW

1	Tommy Bond	40
2	Jim Devlin	35
3	Terry Larkin	29
4	George Bradley	19
5	Tricky Nichols	18
6	Joe Blong	10
7	Bobby Mitchell	6
8	Candy Cummings	5
9	Cal McVey	4
10	Bobby Mathews	3
10	Laurie Reis	3

SavesSV

1	Cal McVey	2
2	Jack Manning	1
2	Al Spalding	1

StrikeoutsSO

1	Tommy Bond	170
2	Jim Devlin	141
3	Terry Larkin	96
4	Tricky Nichols	80
5	George Bradley	59
6	Joe Blong	51
7	Bobby Mitchell	41
8	Cal McVey	20
9	Amos Booth	18
10	Candy Cummings	11
10	Laurie Reis	11

Innings PitchedIP

1	Jim Devlin	559.0
2	Tommy Bond	521.0
3	Terry Larkin	501.0
4	George Bradley	394.0
5	Tricky Nichols	350.0
6	Joe Blong	187.3
7	Candy Cummings	155.7
8	Bobby Mathews	129.3
9	Bobby Mitchell	100.0
10	Cal McVey	92.0

Complete GamesCG

1	Jim Devlin	61
2	Tommy Bond	58
3	Terry Larkin	55
4	George Bradley	35
4	Tricky Nichols	35
6	Joe Blong	17
7	Candy Cummings	16
8	Bobby Mathews	13
9	Bobby Mitchell	11
10	Amos Booth	6
10	Cal McVey	6

ShutoutsSHO

1	Tommy Bond	6
2	Jim Devlin	4
2	Terry Larkin	4
4	George Bradley	2
5	Bobby Mitchell	1
5	Tricky Nichols	1
5	Laurie Reis	1
5	Will White	1

Wins Above ReplacementWAR

1	Jim Devlin	18.4
2	Tommy Bond	16.8
3	Terry Larkin	13.7
4	George Bradley	11.2
5	Tricky Nichols	9.5
6	Joe Blong	5.1
7	Candy Cummings	4.0
8	Bobby Mathews	3.3
9	Bobby Mitchell	3.3
10	Cal McVey	2.5

Earned Run Averagemin 60 IP

1	Tommy Bond	2.11
2	Terry Larkin	2.14
3	Jim Devlin	2.25
4	Tricky Nichols	2.60
5	Joe Blong	2.74
6	George Bradley	3.31
7	Bobby Mitchell	3.51
8	Amos Booth	3.56
9	Bobby Mathews	4.04
10	Candy Cummings	4.34

Walks and Hits per Inningmin 60 IP

1	Tommy Bond	1.09
2	Terry Larkin	1.12
3	Jim Devlin	1.18
4	Tricky Nichols	1.23
5	George Bradley	1.25
6	Joe Blong	1.29
7	Bobby Mitchell	1.34
8	Amos Booth	1.48
9	Candy Cummings	1.49
10	Cal McVey	1.52

Fielding Independent Pitchingmin 60 IP

1	Bobby Mitchell	2.35
2	Tommy Bond	2.52
3	Jim Devlin	2.65
4	Terry Larkin	2.83
5	Joe Blong	2.90
6	Tricky Nichols	2.91
7	George Bradley	2.97
8	Amos Booth	3.02
9	Cal McVey	3.04
10	Bobby Mathews	3.09

How this page is built

The qualifying line for 1877 is 186 plate appearances and 60 innings pitched. It comes from the length of the schedule — 60 games per team, measured from the season files themselves — at the official rate of 3.1 plate appearances and one inning per team game. Batting average, on-base, slugging, OPS, earned run average and WHIP all use it; a player who came to the plate twice and got two hits does not appear at the top of the batting average table, which is exactly what that line is for. Counting statistics such as home runs and strikeouts have no minimum, because none is needed.

How the rankings were made

Wins above replacement in these tables is ours rather than the source database's, so it will not match a published figure exactly. Also: why every ranking stops at one league, and why some categories are missing on purpose.

Every ranking on this page is worked out inside one league. 1877 is counted as a single league, National League, and a player is ranked only against the men in his own. Leading the American League and leading baseball are different claims, and the one we can make from these files is the first. There is no combined table anywhere on this page, because adding two leagues together would produce a number that no record book recognises.

There are 22 ranking tables here, 16 places deep. Players tied on a value share a place, so a table can run past ten rows when the tenth spot is shared, and a league with fewer than ten qualified players in a category is left out rather than shown as a top ten that is not one. A player who did none of the thing is not ranked in it either — a shutout table lists the pitchers who threw one, not the hundreds who threw none tied on zero. Some categories are missing on purpose: nobody leads a league in strikeouts at the plate, in losses, or in home runs allowed. A ranking is meant to mark an achievement, so only achievements are ranked.

Wins above replacement on this page is ours, not the source database's. The hitting and pitching files carry a WAR column that we compute here from the same season lines you see, using park factors and a run environment worked out per season. Published versions elsewhere use different methods and will not match ours exactly. Every other column is the record as the database supplies it.

Names on this page lead to that player's own record. Most of them open a full career page with every season he appeared in. Some open a summary screen instead — we pre-build pages for the players people look for, and everyone else is assembled on demand from the same files, so the numbers are identical either way even though the address looks different.

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). This page ranks the 1877 season lines published on this site, league by league, with WAR worked out here. — 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.