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1897 Major League Baseball New Debuts

1896 MLB / 1898 MLB New Debuts

Batting

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Rk		Yrs	From	To	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	Debut	Age
1	Ed Abbaticchio	9	1897	1910	855	3459	3044	355	772	99	43	11	324	142		289	16	.254	.325	.325	.650	Sep 4	20.142
2	Doc Amole	2	1897	1898	18	52	48	5	5	0	0	0	5	0		2		.104	.173	.104	.277	Aug 19	19.045
3	Bob Becker	2	1897	1898	6	13	10	1	1	0	0	0	1	0		3		.100	.308	.100	.408	Sep 6	22.022
4	Ira Belden	1	1897	1897	8	35	30	5	8	0	2	0	4	0		2		.267	.333	.400	.733	Sep 17	23.154
5	Ed Biecher	2	1897	1898	11	38	37	2	9	2	0	0	1	1		0		.243	.243	.297	.541	Sep 26	22.030
6	George Blackburn	1	1897	1897	5	13	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.077	.077	.077	.154	Jul 6	25.288
7	Roger Bresnahan HOF	17	1897	1915	1446	5374	4481	682	1252	218	71	26	530	212	3	714	99	.279	.386	.377	.764	Aug 27	18.077
8	Charlie Brown	1	1897	1897	4	11	11	1	3	1	0	0	1	0		0		.273	.273	.364	.636	Aug 4	0.00
9	John Brown	1	1897	1897	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.500	.500	.500	1.000	Aug 11	20.352
10	Dick Butler	2	1897	1899	22	77	74	7	17	0	1	0	3	2		2		.230	.250	.257	.507	Jun 16	27.000
11	Win Clark	1	1897	1897	4	17	16	2	3	0	0	0	2	1		1		.188	.235	.188	.423	Jul 12	22.092
12	Henry Clarke	2	1897	1898	9	32	29	3	8	0	0	0	3	0		3		.276	.344	.276	.620	Jun 26	21.302
13	Dick Cogan	3	1897	1900	12	39	34	4	6	1	2	0	4	0		3		.176	.263	.324	.587	May 10	25.156
14	Percy Coleman	2	1897	1898	13	34	31	2	6	0	0	0	4	0		1		.194	.265	.194	.458	Jul 2	20.260
15	Fred Cooke	1	1897	1897	5	21	17	2	5	2	0	0	3	0		3		.294	.400	.412	.812	Jul 30	0.00
16	Bill Dammann	3	1897	1899	60	149	131	18	22	0	6	0	15	0		16		.168	.264	.260	.523	Apr 24	24.258
17	Roger Denzer	2	1897	1901	23	65	61	4	8	2	0	0	2	0		3		.131	.185	.164	.349	Apr 24	25.201
18	Pete Dowling	4	1897	1901	117	375	351	28	70	10	5	1	29	2		13		.199	.241	.265	.505	Jul 17	0.00
19	Davey Dunkle	5	1897	1904	62	169	164	8	31	2	0	0	10	0		4		.189	.208	.201	.410	Aug 28	24.363
20	Jack Dunn	8	1897	1904	490	1772	1622	197	397	54	10	1	164	55		83		.245	.287	.292	.580	May 6	24.212
21	Roy Evans	5	1897	1903	84	235	201	11	32	4	0	0	13	2		21		.159	.246	.179	.425	May 15	23.057
22	Jack Fifield	3	1897	1899	69	220	196	18	38	5	1	2	14	1		19		.194	.265	.260	.525	Apr 28	25.205
23	Bill Fox	2	1897	1901	47	186	173	13	32	2	1	0	7	9		5		.185	.212	.208	.420	Aug 20	25.217
24	Jake Gettman	3	1897	1899	197	833	772	108	215	24	8	8	78	44		40		.278	.322	.361	.683	Aug 20	21.299
25	John Grimes	1	1897	1897	3	10	7	0	2	0	0	0	1	0		3		.286	.500	.286	.786	Jul 28	28.102
26	Irv Hach	1	1897	1897	16	62	51	5	11	2	0	0	3	1		5		.216	.322	.255	.577	Jul 1	24.026
27	Pat Hannifan	1	1897	1897	10	26	20	4	5	0	0	0	2	4		1		.250	.375	.250	.625	Apr 29	31.009
28	Dick Harley	7	1897	1903	740	3244	2879	389	755	59	27	10	236	139		223		.262	.332	.312	.644	Jun 2	24.250
29	Tom Hernon	1	1897	1897	4	17	16	2	1	0	0	0	2	1		0		.063	.063	.063	.125	Sep 13	30.313
30	Charlie Hickman	12	1897	1908	1081	4252	3982	478	1176	217	91	59	614	72		153		.295	.331	.440	.771	Sep 8	21.188
31	Jesse Hoffmeister	1	1897	1897	48	197	188	33	58	6	9	3	36	6		8		.309	.337	.484	.821	Jul 24	25.000
32	Frank Huelsman	3	1897	1905	235	910	824	76	213	52	13	5	97	18	0	62		.258	.322	.371	.693	Oct 3	23.120
33	Youngy Johnson	2	1897	1899	6	14	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.071	.071	.071	.143	Apr 29	23.281
34	Jim Jones	3	1897	1902	90	366	344	28	79	16	4	0	24	9		18		.230	.270	.299	.569	Jun 29	20.186
35	Charlie Kuhns	2	1897	1899	8	24	21	2	5	0	0	0	3	0		3		.238	.333	.238	.571	Jun 4	20.220
36	Tom Leahy	4	1897	1905	131	473	410	54	105	15	9	0	42	18		44		.256	.348	.337	.685	May 18	27.350
37	Tom Lipp	1	1897	1897	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	Sep 18	27.106
38	Bill Magee	5	1897	1902	106	300	284	19	48	4	2	0	27	2		9		.169	.197	.197	.394	May 18	0.00
39	Mike Mahoney	2	1897	1898	4	9	9	1	1	0	0	0	1	0		0		.111	.111	.111	.222	May 18	23.164
40	Frank Martin	3	1897	1899	20	69	66	6	16	2	0	0	1	0		2		.242	.275	.273	.548	Jun 30	18.122
41	Bert Miller	1	1897	1897	4	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.167	.167	.167	.333	Jul 15	21.262
42	Doc Nance	3	1897	1901	189	774	657	110	182	34	8	7	99	14		83		.277	.362	.385	.747	Aug 19	21.017
43	Tom O'Brien	4	1897	1900	427	1753	1569	248	436	59	24	10	229	55		120		.278	.341	.365	.706	May 10	24.079
44	John Pappalau	1	1897	1897	2	7	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		2		.000	.286	.000	.286	Jun 9	22.067
45	Jack Powell	16	1897	1912	585	1754	1610	133	309	38	14	8	124	3		87		.192	.237	.248	.484	Jun 23	22.349
46	Claude Ritchey	13	1897	1909	1671	6822	5919	708	1618	215	68	18	673	155		607		.273	.348	.342	.690	Apr 22	23.199
47	Jack Rothfuss	1	1897	1897	35	123	115	20	36	3	1	2	18	3		5		.313	.352	.409	.761	Aug 2	25.106
48	Ossee Schreckengost	11	1897	1908	895	3216	3057	304	829	136	31	9	338	52	0	102		.271	.297	.345	.642	Sep 8	22.150
49	Jimmy Sheckard	17	1897	1913	2122	9118	7605	1296	2084	354	136	56	813	465		1135	233	.274	.375	.378	.753	Sep 14	18.295
50	Aleck Smith	9	1897	1906	287	1012	955	107	252	30	11	1	130	37		26		.264	.288	.321	.609	Apr 23	0.00
51	Heinie Smith	6	1897	1903	311	1216	1126	117	268	42	7	3	91	54		51		.238	.276	.296	.572	Sep 8	25.319
52	Chief Sockalexis	3	1897	1899	94	395	367	54	115	12	8	3	55	16		20		.313	.355	.414	.770	Apr 22	25.180
53	Tully Sparks	12	1897	1910	313	884	798	45	91	16	4	0	41	0		52	1	.114	.171	.144	.315	Sep 15	22.277
54	Chick Stahl	10	1897	1906	1304	5709	5069	858	1546	219	118	36	622	189		470		.305	.369	.416	.785	Apr 19	24.099
55	Joe Stanley	7	1897	1909	216	778	694	77	148	15	10	2	76	20		51		.213	.275	.272	.547	Sep 11	16.162
56	Willie Sudhoff	10	1897	1906	303	924	836	77	149	16	9	1	57	13		59		.178	.238	.222	.460	Aug 20	22.337
57	Cy Swaim	2	1897	1898	42	108	106	9	21	1	0	0	13	3		1		.198	.206	.208	.413	May 3	23.053
58	Rube Waddell HOF	13	1897	1910	410	1137	1066	61	172	29	10	4	83	6		42		.161	.197	.219	.416	Sep 8	20.330
59	Honus Wagner HOF	21	1897	1917	2792	11739	10430	1736	3415	640	252	101	1732	722	15	963	327	.327	.391	.466	.857	Jul 19	23.145
	Totals	291	1897	1917	18073	70670	62654	8534	17091	2658	1016	387	7501	2548	18	5634	676	.273	.340	.366	.706

Pitching

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Rk		Yrs	From	To	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	Debut	Age
1	Doc Amole	2	1897	1898	4	10	.286	4.75	18	12	5	10	0	0	119.1	150	91	63	0	39	30	12	0	4	0	Aug 19	19.045
2	Bob Becker	2	1897	1898	0	2	.000	6.52	6	2	4	2	0	0	29.0	38	24	21	0	12	10	1	0	1	0	Sep 6	22.022
3	George Blackburn	1	1897	1897	2	2	.500	6.82	5	4	1	3	0	0	33.0	34	30	25	2	12	1	1	0	0	0	Jul 6	25.288
4	Roger Bresnahan HOF	17	1897	1915	4	1	.800	3.93	9	6	3	3	1	0	50.1	68	30	22	1	15	15	3	0	0	16	Aug 27	18.077
5	Charlie Brown	1	1897	1897	1	2	.333	7.77	4	4	0	2	0	0	24.1	30	25	21	2	17	8	5	0	1	0	Aug 4	0.00
6	John Brown	1	1897	1897	0	1	.000	7.20	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	7	8	4	0	4	0	3	0	1	0	Aug 11	20.352
7	Henry Clarke	2	1897	1898	1	4	.200	5.22	6	5	1	4	0	0	39.2	40	33	23	4	17	4	4	0	0	0	Jun 26	21.302
8	Dick Cogan	3	1897	1900	2	3	.400	5.00	8	5	3	5	0	0	54.0	68	41	30	1	32	10	5	0	2	0	May 10	25.156
9	Percy Coleman	2	1897	1898	1	3	.250	7.46	13	5	7	3	0	0	66.1	112	78	55	0	35	12	7	0	4	0	Jul 2	20.260
10	Bill Dammann	3	1897	1899	24	15	.615	4.06	60	38	22	26	4	3	367.2	473	227	166	5	115	74	13	1	11	0	Apr 24	24.258
11	Roger Denzer	2	1897	1901	4	14	.222	4.43	23	19	4	11	1	0	156.1	194	121	77	6	39	39	4	0	6	0	Apr 24	25.201
12	Pete Dowling	4	1897	1901	39	65	.375	3.87	117	102	12	92	2	1	907.1	984	574	390	13	339	299	66	4	18	0	Jul 17	0.00
13	Davey Dunkle	5	1897	1904	17	30	.362	5.02	61	47	13	36	0	1	421.0	503	319	235	10	162	139	21	0	18	1172	Aug 28	24.363
14	Jack Dunn	8	1897	1904	64	59	.520	4.11	142	118	21	103	3	3	1076.2	1217	664	492	30	334	171	54	0	15	21	May 6	24.212
15	Roy Evans	5	1897	1903	29	43	.403	3.66	84	68	15	57	2	0	614.1	673	368	250	10	233	211	37	0	19	696	May 15	23.057
16	Jack Fifield	3	1897	1899	21	39	.350	4.59	68	64	4	54	3	1	521.2	616	362	266	11	193	89	33	1	16	0	Apr 28	25.205
17	John Grimes	1	1897	1897	0	2	.000	5.95	3	1	2	1	0	0	19.2	24	23	13	0	8	4	7	0	0	0	Jul 28	28.102
18	Charlie Hickman	12	1897	1908	10	8	.556	4.28	30	22	8	15	3	4	185.0	175	105	88	4	94	37	12	0	4	62	Sep 8	21.188
19	Youngy Johnson	2	1897	1899	1	2	.333	4.35	6	2	4	1	0	0	31.0	39	24	15	0	14	8	2	0	2	0	Apr 29	23.281
20	Jim Jones	3	1897	1902	0	1	.000	15.43	2	1	1	1	0	0	11.2	25	28	20	1	7	3	2	0	1	24	Jun 29	20.186
21	Tom Lipp	1	1897	1897	0	1	.000	15.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	8	5	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	Sep 18	27.106
22	Bill Magee	5	1897	1902	29	51	.363	4.93	106	88	17	69	5	0	742.2	837	522	407	23	350	161	60	2	18	3396	May 18	0.00
23	Mike Mahoney	2	1897	1898	0	0		18.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	3	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	May 18	23.164
24	Bert Miller	1	1897	1897	0	1	.000	7.94	4	1	3	1	0	0	17.0	32	23	15	0	3	3	0	0	1	0	Jul 15	21.262
25	John Pappalau	1	1897	1897	0	1	.000	10.50	2	1	1	1	0	0	12.0	22	16	14	0	6	3	2	0	0	0	Jun 9	22.067
26	Jack Powell	16	1897	1912	245	254	.491	2.97	578	516	57	422	46	15	4389.0	4319	1991	1450	110	1021	1621	121	2	72	11013	Jun 23	22.349
27	Heinie Smith	6	1897	1903	0	1	.000	8.10	2	1	1	1	0	0	13.1	24	13	12	0	5	5	2	0	0	0	Sep 8	25.319
28	Tully Sparks	12	1897	1910	121	136	.471	2.79	313	269	41	202	19	8	2335.2	2231	1059	725	33	629	778	88	1	24	6797	Sep 15	22.277
29	Chick Stahl	10	1897	1906	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	2	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	Apr 19	24.099
30	Joe Stanley	7	1897	1909	0	0		9.39	3	0	3	0	0	0	7.2	7	9	8	1	5	4	2	0	2	19	Sep 11	16.162
31	Willie Sudhoff	10	1897	1906	103	135	.433	3.56	279	240	38	201	10	3	2086.1	2183	1142	826	62	608	520	126	0	30	2154	Aug 20	22.337
32	Cy Swaim	2	1897	1898	13	22	.371	4.37	43	33	9	24	0	1	294.1	344	207	143	9	88	85	14	0	8	0	May 3	23.053
33	Rube Waddell HOF	13	1897	1910	193	143	.574	2.16	407	340	53	261	50	5	2961.1	2460	1063	711	37	803	2316	117	4	77	12101	Sep 8	20.330
34	Honus Wagner HOF	21	1897	1917	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	8.1	7	5	0	0	6	6	0	0	3	0	Jul 19	23.145
	Totals	186	1897	1917	928	1051	.469	3.37	2408	2016	357	1611	149	45	17607.0	17949	9234	6596	375	5251	6668	824	15	358	37471

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