No HR, no RBI
Posted by Andy on February 8, 2008
Here are the longest careers (in terms of at-bats) since 1901 with no career homers or RBI (pitchers excluded.)
Cnt Player **AB** HR RBI From To Ages G PA R H 2B 3B BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions Teams +----+-----------------+---------+---+----+----+----+-----+----+-----+----+----+---+---+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+----+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+-----------+ 1 Gene Good 119 0 0 1906 1906 23-23 34 135 4 18 0 0 13 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 .151 .246 .151 .397 /*78 BSN 2 Bill Schwartz 86 0 0 1904 1904 20-20 24 88 5 13 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 .151 .151 .174 .325 /*35 CLE 3 Frank Manush 77 0 0 1908 1908 24-24 23 82 6 12 2 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 .156 .188 .208 .396 /*54 PHA 4 Doug Saunders 67 0 0 1993 1993 23-23 28 73 8 14 2 0 3 0 4 0 3 0 2 0 0 .209 .243 .239 .482 /*456 NYM 5 Duke Reilley 62 0 0 1909 1909 24-24 20 71 10 13 0 0 4 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 .210 .258 .210 .468 /*78 CLE 6 Eric Reed 61 0 0 2006 2007 25-26 60 68 9 6 0 0 3 1 16 2 2 0 1 4 1 .098 .167 .098 .265 /*87 FLA 7 Bill Gannon 61 0 0 1901 1901 28-28 15 63 2 9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 .148 .161 .148 .309 /*9 CHC 8 Milo Allison 60 0 0 1913 1917 22-26 49 78 15 13 0 0 15 0 9 0 3 0 0 4 0 .217 .373 .217 .590 /897 CHC-CLE 9 Alexis Infante 55 0 0 1987 1990 25-28 60 62 11 6 1 0 2 0 12 1 4 0 3 1 0 .109 .155 .127 .282 /564 TOR-ATL 10 Wayne Graham 55 0 0 1963 1964 27-28 30 58 2 7 1 0 3 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 .127 .172 .145 .317 /57 PHI-NYM 11 Billy Reed 52 0 0 1952 1952 29-29 15 55 4 13 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 0 2 0 0 .250 .264 .250 .514 /*4 BSN 12 Pete Elko 52 0 0 1943 1944 25-26 16 56 3 9 1 0 4 0 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 .173 .232 .192 .424 /*5 CHC 13 Charlie Beamon 51 0 0 1978 1981 24-27 45 54 8 10 2 0 3 0 8 0 0 0 1 1 0 .196 .241 .235 .476 /3D7 SEA-TOR 14 Kid Durbin 51 0 0 1907 1909 20-22 32 57 6 14 1 0 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .275 .339 .294 .633 /8197 CHC-TOT 15 Art Lopez 49 0 0 1965 1965 28-28 38 51 5 7 0 0 1 0 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 .143 .160 .143 .303 /97 NYY 16 Tom Runnells 46 0 0 1985 1986 30-31 40 53 4 8 2 0 3 0 6 0 4 0 2 0 0 .174 .224 .217 .441 /645 CIN 17 Chick Keating 45 0 0 1913 1926 21-34 30 51 4 4 1 1 6 0 13 0 0 0 0 1 0 .089 .196 .156 .352 /*645 CHC-PHI 18 Bull Smith 43 0 0 1904 1911 23-30 15 44 2 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .140 .159 .186 .345 /*79 PIT-CHC-WSH 19 Tim Pyznarski 42 0 0 1986 1986 26-26 15 47 3 10 1 0 4 0 11 1 0 0 2 2 0 .238 .319 .262 .581 /*3 SDP 20 Robbie Wine 41 0 0 1986 1987 23-24 23 44 3 6 2 0 2 0 14 0 1 0 0 0 0 .146 .186 .195 .381 /*2 HOU 21 Skeeter Shelton 40 0 0 1915 1915 27-27 10 43 1 1 0 0 2 0 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 .025 .071 .025 .096 /*8 NYY 22 Steve Rodriguez 39 0 0 1995 1995 24-24 18 46 5 7 1 0 6 0 10 0 1 0 1 2 2 .179 .289 .205 .494 /*46D TOT 23 Eddie Feinberg 38 0 0 1938 1939 20-21 16 42 2 7 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 .184 .225 .211 .436 /6497 PHI 24 Hank Perry 36 0 0 1912 1912 25-25 13 40 3 6 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .167 .231 .194 .425 /*8 DET
More on #20 Robbie Wine here.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Good is also the record holder among position players for career AB without an extra base hit.
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/WwpE
February 8th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Eric Reed (#6) is still active (i presume)!! he's got a shot at the record!!!
February 12th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
#19 Pyznarski: I remember him, he was a *Future Star* in the 1987 Topps cards.