Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Encyclopedia of Players > W Listing > Sam Wise Statistics and History

News: s-r blog:DraftStreet $300 FreeRoll for Sports Reference Users (sponsor post)

 

Photo of Sam Wise


Sam Wise

Samuel Washington Wise (Modoc)

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: August 18, 1857 in Akron, OH (All Transactions)
Debut: July 30, 1881 (Age 23)
Teams (by GP): Beaneaters/Senators/Nationals/Bisons/Orioles/... 1881-1893

Final Game: September 29, 1893 (Age 36)
Died: January 22, 1910 in Akron, OH
Buried: Glendale Cemetery, Akron, OH
View Player Bio from the SABR BioProject
    About biographical information

Player News

Add Your Blog Posts Here · Player News Archive · Player News RSS Feed · Hide Stories

Fan EloRater

Fine Details  · Last updated May 16, 2013 4:17AM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #948. Casey Blake… #949. Burt Shotton… #950. Bob Skinner… #951. SAM WISE… #952. Germany Smith… #953. Happy Felsch… #954. Chase Headley… 

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1881 23 DTN NL 1 4 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 .500 .500 .500 1.000 210 2 /5
1882 24 BSN NL 78 303 298 44 66 11 4 4 34 5 45 .221 .234 .326 .560 77 97 *6/5
1883 25 BSN NL 96 419 406 73 110 25 7 4 58 13 74 .271 .294 .397 .690 104 161 *6
1884 26 BSN NL 114 451 426 60 91 15 9 4 41 25 104 .214 .257 .319 .576 81 136 *6/4
1885 27 BSN NL 107 449 424 71 120 20 10 4 46 25 61 .283 .323 .406 .729 138 172 *64/O
1886 28 BSN NL 96 420 387 71 112 19 12 4 72 31 33 61 .289 .345 .432 .777 140 167 346/O
1887 29 BSN NL 113 510 467 103 156 27 17 9 92 43 36 44 .334 .390 .522 .913 153 244 7 6O4
1888 30 BSN NL 105 457 417 66 100 19 12 4 40 33 34 66 .240 .306 .372 .678 112 155 6 6/53O4
1889 31 WHS NL 121 537 472 79 118 15 8 4 62 24 61 62 .250 .341 .341 .682 96 161 4 465O
1890 32 BUF PL 119 557 505 95 148 29 11 5 102 19 46 45 .293 .359 .424 .783 116 214 6 *4
1891 33 BAL AA 103 459 388 70 96 14 5 1 48 33 62 52 .247 .364 .317 .681 95 123 9 *4/6
1893 35 WHS NL 122 574 521 102 162 27 17 5 77 20 49 27 .311 .375 .457 .831 123 238 4 *45
12 Yrs 1175 5140 4715 834 1281 221 112 48 672 203 389 643 .272 .332 .397 .729 114 1870 36
162 Game Avg. 162 709 650 115 177 30 15 7 93 54 89 .272 .332 .397 .729 114 258
BSN (7 yrs) 709 3009 2825 488 755 136 71 33 383 107 171 455 .267 .312 .401 .713 118 1132 13
WHS (1 yr) 122 574 521 102 162 27 17 5 77 20 49 27 .311 .375 .457 .831 123 238 4
BAL (1 yr) 103 459 388 70 96 14 5 1 48 33 62 52 .247 .364 .317 .681 95 123 9
WHS (1 yr) 121 537 472 79 118 15 8 4 62 24 61 62 .250 .341 .341 .682 96 161 4
DTN (1 yr) 1 4 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 .500 .500 .500 1.000 210 2
BUF (1 yr) 119 557 505 95 148 29 11 5 102 19 46 45 .293 .359 .424 .783 116 214 6
NL (10 yrs) 953 4124 3822 669 1037 178 96 42 522 151 281 546 .271 .325 .401 .726 116 1533 21
AA (1 yr) 103 459 388 70 96 14 5 1 48 33 62 52 .247 .364 .317 .681 95 123 9
PL (1 yr) 119 557 505 95 148 29 11 5 102 19 46 45 .293 .359 .424 .783 116 214 6

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
1881 23 DTN NL 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .532 .500 0.0 0.0 0 /5
1882 24 BSN NL 78 303 -10 0 0 -9 5 -14 -1.4 10 -4 -0.3 .484 .492 0.6 -0.4 5 *6/5
1883 25 BSN NL 96 419 -3 0 0 -1 6 3 0.1 14 17 1.5 .502 .501 1.8 0.4 18 *6
1884 26 BSN NL 114 451 -14 0 0 4 7 -3 -0.4 15 12 1.1 .498 .498 0.9 0.9 8 *6/4
1885 27 BSN NL 107 449 16 0 0 -10 5 11 1.0 15 26 2.6 .510 .507 3.7 -0.5 36 *64/O
1886 28 BSN NL 96 420 16 3 0 -10 1 10 0.9 14 24 2.4 .510 .506 3.5 -0.8 34 $2,500 346/O
1887 29 BSN NL 113 510 34 2 0 1 3 40 3.0 17 57 4.7 .529 .520 4.8 0.2 56 6O4
1888 30 BSN NL 105 457 3 2 0 -2 6 9 0.8 15 24 2.4 .508 .505 2.8 0.3 26 $2,500 6/53O4
1889 31 WHS NL 121 537 -2 -1 0 -9 3 -9 -0.8 18 9 1.0 .493 .495 1.9 -0.6 18 465O
1890 32 BUF PL 119 557 12 -2 0 -13 2 0 0.1 13 13 1.3 .500 .500 2.2 -0.6 26 *4
1891 33 BAL AA 103 459 -1 1 0 -5 2 -3 -0.2 11 8 1.0 .497 .498 1.3 -0.2 13 *4/6
1893 35 WHS NL 122 574 17 -2 0 -10 3 8 0.6 19 27 2.5 .505 .504 3.3 -0.6 37 *45
12 Seasons 1175 5140 69 3 0 -64 44 52 3.6 162 214 20.3 .504 .502 26.8 -1.9 278 $5,000
BSN (7 yrs) 709 3009 42 6 0 -27 34 56 3.9 101 157 14.5 .507 .504 18.1 0.1 183 $5,000
WHS (1 yr) 122 574 17 -2 0 -10 3 8 0.6 19 27 2.5 .505 .504 3.3 -0.6 37
BAL (1 yr) 103 459 -1 1 0 -5 2 -3 -0.2 11 8 1.0 .497 .498 1.3 -0.2 13
WHS (1 yr) 121 537 -2 -1 0 -9 3 -9 -0.8 18 9 1.0 .493 .495 1.9 -0.6 18
DTN (1 yr) 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .532 .500 0.0 0.0 0
BUF (1 yr) 119 557 12 -2 0 -13 2 0 0.1 13 13 1.3 .500 .500 2.2 -0.6 26

Standard Fielding

More Stats

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
1881 DTN NL 23 3B 1 7 1 3 3 0 .571 4.00 .860 3.60
1882 BSN NL 24 SS 72 330 84 197 49 13 .852 3.90 .852 4.48
1882 BSN NL 24 3B 6 13 6 2 5 0 .615 1.33 .843 3.53
1883 BSN NL 25 SS 96 496 134 274 88 21 .823 4.25 .853 4.58
1884 BSN NL 26 SS 107 524 156 307 61 16 .884 4.33 .864 4.30
1884 BSN NL 26 2B 7 51 19 23 9 5 .824 6.00 .890 5.79
1885 BSN NL 27 SS 79 472 135 270 67 29 .858 5.13 .872 4.59
1885 BSN NL 27 2B 22 141 56 67 18 6 .872 5.59 .899 5.76
1885 BSN NL 27 OF 6 7 5 1 1 0 .857 1.00 .881 1.85 4-0-2
1886 BSN NL 28 1B 57 569 527 17 25 21 .956 9.54 .968 10.35
1886 BSN NL 28 2B 20 100 41 44 15 4 .850 4.25 .908 5.54
1886 BSN NL 28 SS 18 78 24 39 15 2 .808 3.50 .880 4.37
1886 BSN NL 28 OF 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .890 1.80 0-0-1
1887 BSN NL 29 SS 72 443 152 233 58 22 .869 5.35 .890 5.01
1887 BSN NL 29 OF 27 56 39 7 10 2 .821 1.70 .883 1.97 4-0-23
1887 BSN NL 29 2B 16 102 40 49 13 5 .873 5.56 .911 5.87
1888 BSN NL 30 SS 89 507 179 271 57 34 .888 5.06 .881 4.47
1888 BSN NL 30 3B 6 12 6 5 1 0 .917 1.83 .877 3.13
1888 BSN NL 30 1B 5 47 43 2 2 3 .957 9.00 .977 10.50
1888 BSN NL 30 OF 4 11 10 0 1 0 .909 2.50 .906 1.90 4-0-0
1888 BSN NL 30 2B 2 8 4 3 1 0 .875 3.50 .920 5.65
1889 WHS NL 31 2B 72 431 170 225 36 26 .916 5.49 .925 6.15
1889 WHS NL 31 SS 26 137 40 72 25 9 .818 4.31 .888 4.90
1889 WHS NL 31 3B 13 63 26 25 12 1 .810 3.92 .885 3.55
1889 WHS NL 31 OF 10 13 9 1 3 0 .769 1.00 .910 2.00 0-0-10
1890 BUF PL 32 2B 119 776 328 375 73 58 .906 5.91 .913 5.87
1891 BAL AA 33 2B 99 590 225 299 66 30 .888 5.29 .914 5.36
1891 BAL AA 33 SS 4 15 4 9 2 2 .867 3.25 .879 5.15
1893 WHS NL 35 2B 91 668 315 302 51 45 .924 6.78 .933 5.94
1893 WHS NL 35 3B 31 136 30 78 28 8 .794 3.48 .893 3.79
9 Seasons SS 563 3002 908 1672 422 148 .859 4.58 .870 4.57
9 Seasons 2B 448 2867 1198 1387 282 179 .902 5.77 .918 5.79
2 Seasons 1B 62 616 570 19 27 24 .956 9.50 .969 10.36
5 Seasons 3B 57 231 69 113 49 9 .788 3.19 .886 3.64
5 Seasons OF 48 88 64 9 15 2 .830 1.52 .890 1.95 12-0-36
12 Seasons TOT 1178 6804 2809 3200 795 362 .883 5.10 .900 5.19 12-0-36
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1887 NL  4.7 (7th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1885 NL  3.7 (10th)
1887 NL  4.8 (4th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1887 NL  .334 (5th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1887 NL  .390 (7th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1886 NL  .432 (10th)
1887 NL  .522 (4th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1887 NL  .913 (5th)

Games Played s c a p y
1884 NL  114 (4th)

Hits s c a p y
1887 NL  156 (8th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1887 NL  244 (6th)

Doubles s c a p y
1887 NL  27 (9th)
1890 PL  29 (10th)

Triples s c a p y
1885 NL  10 (9th)
1886 NL  12 (5th)
1887 NL  17 (7th)
1888 NL  12 (7th)
1893 NL  17 (7th)
Career  112 (119th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1882 NL  4 (8th)
1883 NL  4 (10th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1886 NL  72 (9th)
1887 NL  92 (9th)
1890 PL  102 (7th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1882 NL  45 (5th)
1883 NL  74 (2nd)
1884 NL  104 (1st)
1885 NL  61 (3rd)
1888 NL  66 (9th)
1889 NL  62 (3rd)
1890 PL  45 (8th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1886 NL  31 (8th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1887 NL  153 (4th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1887 NL  93 (6th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1887 NL  33 (5th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1887 NL  3.2 (5th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1887 NL  53 (6th)
1893 NL  49 (9th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1887 NL  .739 (4th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1887 NL  7 (10th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1887 NL  14.9 (9th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1882 NL  74.5 (8th)

Assists† s c a p y
1884 NL  330 (3rd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1883 NL  88 (1st)
1885 NL  86 (2nd)
1887 NL  81 (1st)
1889 NL  76 (3rd)
1893 NL  79 (3rd)
Career  795 (19th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1890 PL  119 (4th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1890 PL  328 (4th)
1891 AA  225 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1890 PL  375 (4th)
1891 AA  299 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1890 PL  73 (2nd)
1891 AA  66 (3rd)
1893 NL  51 (3rd)
Career  282 (38th)

Double Plays Turned as 2B s c a p y
1890 PL  58 (4th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1882 NL  72 (3rd)
1883 NL  96 (2nd)
1884 NL  107 (2nd)
1885 NL  79 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1882 NL  84 (3rd)
1883 NL  134 (4th)
1884 NL  156 (2nd)
1885 NL  135 (5th)
1887 NL  152 (4th)
1888 NL  179 (4th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1882 NL  197 (4th)
1883 NL  274 (4th)
1884 NL  307 (3rd)
1885 NL  270 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1882 NL  49 (2nd)
1883 NL  88 (1st)
1884 NL  61 (3rd)
1885 NL  67 (2nd)
1887 NL  58 (5th)
Career  422 (33rd)

Double Plays Turned as SS s c a p y
1882 NL  13 (5th)
1885 NL  29 (5th)
1888 NL  34 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1890 PL  5.91 (5th)
1891 AA  5.29 (4th)
1893 NL  6.78 (1st)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1890 PL  .906 (5th)
1891 AA  .888 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1882 NL  3.90 (5th)
1884 NL  4.33 (3rd)
1885 NL  5.13 (1st)
1887 NL  5.35 (3rd)
1888 NL  5.06 (1st)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1882 NL  .852 (4th)
1884 NL  .884 (2nd)
1885 NL  .858 (4th)

Oldest s c a p y
1891 AA  born 1857-08-18 (8th)
1893 NL  born 1857-08-18 (10th)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 45 (563), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 19 (839), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 21 (671), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Shortstop (115th), 20.3 career WAR/17.4 7yr-peak WAR/18.8 JAWS
Average HOF SS (out of 21) = 66.6 career WAR/42.7 7yr-peak WAR/54.7 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
Similar Batters 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Compare Stats to Similars
  1. Ned Williamson (916)
  2. Tom Burns (912)
  3. Jimmy Williams (906)
  4. Bucky Harris (898) *
  5. Eric McNair (898)
  6. Lyn Lary (894)
  7. Woody English (893)
  8. Lou Bierbauer (889)
  9. Orlando Hudson (887)
  10. Jerry Priddy (886)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Most Similar by Ages 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Hold mouse over #'s to see names
  1. Russ Adams (971)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Alex Cora (975)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Heinie Sand (965)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Luis Rivas (953)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Frank Shugart (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Tom Burns (940)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Tom Daly (940)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Tom Burns (924)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Tom Daly (938)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Tom Daly (931)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
188628Boston Beaneaters$2,500Preston Orem 252
188830Boston Beaneaters$2,5003/31/88 TSN
Career to date (may be incomplete)$5,000
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

Other Resources & Links

Error?     Compare     Search SABR's Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     WahooSam.com     WhatIfSports: Sam Wise    

Viewed 7,648 times through May 15, 2013.
Name and misspellings: Samuel Modoc Sam sammy samuel Washington Wise

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.