1877 Season Leaders

Top performers from the 1877 baseball season. Click column headers to sort.

These are the 1877 Major League Baseball season leaders in batting and pitching. Lip Pike led with 4 home runs, Deacon White led with 49 RBI, and Deacon White led with 103 hits. Batting average, OBP, SLG and OPS list qualified hitters only — 3.1 plate appearances per team game, which is 186 plate appearances at 60 team games; ERA and WHIP require one inning per team game (60 innings). Lines below those thresholds are shown and marked unqualified.

AVG (Batting Average):
Hits divided by at bats. .300 is the traditional mark of an excellent hitter.
HR (Home Runs):
Hits on which the batter circled the bases and scored, almost always by clearing the outfield fence.
RBI (Runs Batted In):
Runs that scored as a direct result of a batter's plate appearance.
ERA (Earned Run Average):
Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched: (ER × 9) ÷ IP. The primary measure of pitching effectiveness.

Data updated

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Batting Leaders

Qualified: 3.1 plate appearances per team game — 186 plate appearances at 60 team games. 44 of the 44 hitters listed qualify; the rest cleared 200+ plate appearances and are marked UNQ. Rate columns (AVG/OBP/SLG/OPS) rank qualified hitters first.

1877 OPS Distribution

Every qualified batter that season, plotted as a histogram. The highlighted bin contains the league leader.

Complete Statistics

1877 Season Leaders — Complete Statistics
Player Team G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS
Deacon White BSN 59 274 266 51 103 14 11 2 49 0 8 3 .387 .405 .545 .950
John Cassidy HAR 60 254 251 43 95 10 5 0 27 0 3 3 .378 .386 .458 .844
Cal McVey CHN 60 274 266 58 98 9 7 0 36 0 8 11 .368 .387 .455 .842
Jim O'Rourke BSN 61 285 265 68 96 14 4 0 23 0 20 9 .362 .407 .445 .852
Cap Anson CHN 59 264 255 52 86 19 1 0 32 0 9 3 .337 .360 .420 .779
Joe Start HAR 60 277 271 55 90 3 6 1 21 0 6 2 .332 .347 .399 .745
George Hall LS1 61 281 269 53 87 15 8 0 26 0 12 19 .323 .352 .439 .791
John Clapp SL3 60 263 255 47 81 6 6 0 34 0 8 6 .318 .338 .388 .727
Jack Manning CN1 57 257 252 47 80 16 7 0 36 0 5 6 .317 .331 .437 .767
John Peters CHN 60 266 265 45 84 10 3 0 41 0 1 7 .317 .320 .377 .697
Charley Jones 2 teams 57 255 240 53 75 12 10 2 38 0 15 25 .312 .353 .471 .824
Mike Dorgan SL3 60 275 266 45 82 9 7 0 23 0 9 13 .308 .331 .395 .726
Joe Gerhardt LS1 59 255 250 41 76 6 5 1 35 0 5 8 .304 .318 .380 .698
John Morrill BSN 61 248 242 47 73 5 1 0 28 0 6 15 .302 .319 .331 .649
Lip Pike CN1 58 271 262 45 78 12 4 4 23 0 9 7 .298 .321 .420 .741
Ezra Sutton BSN 58 257 253 43 74 10 6 0 39 0 4 10 .292 .304 .379 .683
Jumbo Latham LS1 59 283 278 42 81 10 6 0 22 0 5 6 .291 .304 .371 .674
Andy Leonard BSN 58 277 272 46 78 5 0 0 27 0 5 5 .287 .300 .305 .605
Orator Shafer LS1 61 269 260 38 74 9 5 3 34 0 9 17 .285 .309 .392 .701
Tom York HAR 56 240 237 43 67 16 7 1 37 0 3 11 .283 .292 .422 .714
Bill Crowley LS1 61 242 238 30 67 9 3 1 23 0 4 13 .282 .293 .357 .651
Paul Hines CHN 60 262 261 44 73 11 7 0 23 0 1 8 .280 .282 .375 .658
Bob Addy CN1 57 251 245 27 68 2 3 0 31 0 6 5 .278 .295 .310 .605
George Wright BSN 61 299 290 58 80 15 1 0 35 0 9 15 .276 .298 .334 .632
Jim Devlin LS1 61 275 268 38 72 6 3 1 27 0 7 27 .269 .287 .325 .612
Bill Hague LS1 59 270 263 38 70 7 1 1 24 0 7 18 .266 .285 .312 .597
Bill Craver LS1 57 243 238 33 63 5 2 0 29 0 5 11 .265 .280 .303 .582
Davy Force SL3 58 236 225 24 59 5 3 0 22 0 11 15 .262 .297 .311 .608
Jack Burdock HAR 58 279 277 35 72 6 0 0 9 0 2 16 .260 .265 .282 .547
Pop Snyder LS1 61 251 248 23 64 7 2 2 28 0 3 14 .258 .267 .327 .594
Bob Ferguson HAR 58 257 254 40 65 7 2 0 35 0 3 10 .256 .265 .299 .564
Al Spalding CHN 60 257 254 29 65 7 6 0 35 0 3 16 .256 .265 .331 .595
Tom Carey HAR 60 274 274 38 70 3 2 1 20 0 0 9 .255 .255 .292 .547
Jim Holdsworth HAR 55 262 260 26 66 5 2 0 20 0 2 8 .254 .260 .288 .548
Lew Brown BSN 58 227 221 27 56 12 8 1 31 0 6 33 .253 .273 .394 .667
Mike McGeary SL3 57 260 258 35 65 3 2 0 20 0 2 6 .252 .258 .279 .537
George Bradley CHN 55 220 214 31 52 7 3 0 12 0 6 19 .243 .264 .304 .567
Art Croft SL3 54 221 220 23 51 5 2 0 27 0 1 15 .232 .235 .273 .508
Terry Larkin HAR 58 233 228 28 52 6 5 1 18 0 5 23 .228 .245 .311 .556
Tommy Bond BSN 61 260 259 32 59 4 3 0 30 0 1 15 .228 .231 .266 .497
John Glenn CHN 50 210 202 31 46 6 1 0 20 0 8 16 .228 .257 .267 .524
Joe Blong SL3 58 222 218 17 47 8 3 0 13 0 4 22 .216 .230 .280 .510
Joe Battin SL3 57 232 226 28 45 3 7 1 22 0 6 17 .199 .220 .288 .507
Will Foley CN1 56 220 216 23 41 5 1 0 18 0 4 13 .190 .205 .222 .427
Showing 1-50 of 44 batters listed (44 qualified)

Pitching Leaders

Qualified: 1 inning pitched per team game — 60 innings at 60 team games. 11 of the 11 pitchers listed qualify; the rest cleared 50+ innings and are marked UNQ. ERA and WHIP rank qualified pitchers first.

Complete Statistics

1877 Season Leaders — Complete Statistics
Player Team W L G GS CG SHO SV IP H ER BB SO ERA WHIP
Tommy Bond BSN 40 17 58 58 58 6 0 521.0 530 122 36 170 2.11 1.09
Terry Larkin HAR 29 25 56 56 55 4 0 501.0 510 119 53 96 2.14 1.12
Jim Devlin LS1 35 25 61 61 61 4 0 559.0 617 140 41 141 2.25 1.18
Tricky Nichols SL3 18 23 42 39 35 1 0 350.0 376 101 53 80 2.60 1.23
Joe Blong SL3 10 9 25 21 17 0 0 187.1 203 57 38 51 2.74 1.29
George Bradley CHN 19 23 50 44 35 2 0 394.0 452 145 39 59 3.31 1.25
Bobby Mitchell CN1 6 5 12 12 11 1 0 100.0 123 39 11 41 3.51 1.34
Amos Booth CN1 1 7 12 8 6 0 0 86.0 114 34 13 18 3.56 1.48
Bobby Mathews CN1 3 12 15 15 13 0 0 129.1 208 58 17 9 4.04 1.74
Candy Cummings CN1 5 14 19 19 16 0 0 155.2 219 75 13 11 4.34 1.49
Cal McVey CHN 4 8 17 10 6 0 2 92.0 129 46 11 20 4.50 1.52
Showing 1-50 of 11 pitchers listed (11 qualified)

Reading the 1877 leader tables

44 of the 44 hitters in the 1877 table reach the qualification line. The first qualified row belongs to Deacon White, a .387 hitter, ahead of John Cassidy (.378). Lip Pike has the most home runs in the table, 4, and Deacon White's 49 runs batted in top that column. Players who changed clubs during 1877, such as Charley Jones, appear once with their stints added together. Of 11 pitchers shown for 1877, the ERA and WHIP races include 11. First among qualified pitchers by ERA is Tommy Bond, 2.11. Sorted by the counting stats, the leaders are Tommy Bond in wins (40).

1877 Season Leaders: Frequently Asked Questions

Who led MLB in home runs in 1877?
Lip Pike led with 4 home runs in 1877.
Who led MLB in RBI in 1877?
Deacon White led with 49 RBI in 1877.
Who led MLB in hits in 1877?
Deacon White led with 103 hits in 1877.
Who led MLB in batting average in 1877?
Deacon White led at .387 in 1877, among qualified hitters (3.1 plate appearances per team game).
Who led MLB in wins in 1877?
Tommy Bond led with 40 wins in 1877.
Who led MLB in strikeouts in 1877?
Tommy Bond led with 170 strikeouts in 1877.