MLB All-Time Leaders: 1B Quiz

Can you name the All-Time Leaders at 1B?

created by cwright

Enter a player name (last names acceptable) in the box below
Correctly named player names will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: baseball-reference play index
(*=active player, ^=includes 1800s stats) NOTE: Players qualify if over 50% of their PA were at 1B. Stats that these players accumulated while at other positions are included in totals.
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Games
3026
2831
2777
2588
2517
2460
2409
2389^
2332
2317

Hits
3255
3020
3012^
2934^
2812
2732
2721
2715
2646
2599

Home Runs
583
569
534
521
504
493
493
473*
449
415*

Average
.342^
.342^
.341
.340
.340
.332^
.331*
.325
.324*
.317

Runs Scored
1888
1751
1722^
1663
1627
1620^
1602^
1523^
1517
1349

RBI
1995
1922
1917
1880^
1835
1578^
1652
1555
1550
1529

Stolen Bases
518^
416^
403^
375
363
352^
315^
285^
285^
282^

Walks
1508
1452
1401
1353
1345
1333
1317
1305
1297*
1275

Times Hit By Pitch
272^
230^
183^
178
172*
170*
137^
128
110
108

On-Base Percentage
.447
.428
.426*
.424*
.424
.423^
.412
.408
.405*
.404

Slugging Percentage
.632
.624*
.609
.605
.588
.572*
.562
.555*
.546*
.540

Strikeouts
2003
1882
1867
1745^
1596
1570
1558
1550
1516
1512*

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MLB All-Time Leaders: 1B Quiz

by cwright

Created Feb 13, 2011 in Sports
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	quackman:	Feb 13th, 2011 at 13:37 GMT	2 points
	I don't have a baseball reference subscription, so I can't see what all the play index lists, but it looks to me like it is not working correctly. Ernie Banks played 1259 games at first base, more than 50% of his total games played (2476) and with 512 career homers would have made the top ten. Likewise Cap Anson played 2152 of his 2593 games at first and with 3435 hits leads that category. There may be others missing, but as a Cubs fan those were the two that stood out to me.

	cwright:	Feb 13th, 2011 at 14:01 GMT	1 point
	Cap Anson isn't on this list because b-r only gives play-index data from 1901. Sorry, should have specified that in the directions. Ernie Banks just misses the cutoff because he only had 5091 of his 10,395 plate appearances as a 1B. (I had mistakenly written 50% of games, but b-r uses plate appearances.) That's aggravating because it means he won't qualify at any position...I'm thinking maybe I should just add him in for 1B.

	quackman:	Feb 13th, 2011 at 17:04 GMT	1 point
	Thanks for the clarification.

	Burtdoggy:	Feb 13th, 2011 at 17:30 GMT	1 point
	Where is Frank Thomas? Did he play more at DH than 1B?

	cwright:	Feb 13th, 2011 at 19:10 GMT	1 point
	quackman: Just so that you don't think I hate the Cubs, I added all 19th century totals as extra answers. Cap Anson should work now. :) Burtdoggy: Thomas played in the field during only 971 of his 2322 games. He would qualify as a DH. Same for Jim Thome.

	Neuge:	Feb 13th, 2011 at 22:23 GMT	1 point
	Is there a minimum playing time requirement? Cause Joey Votto has a career .314 average.

	Neuge:	Feb 13th, 2011 at 22:24 GMT	1 point
	and a .557 SLG

	cwright:	Feb 14th, 2011 at 02:30 GMT	1 point
	Yes, there's a minimum of 3000 PA (baseball-reference's minimum for rate stats).

	joneli24:	Feb 14th, 2011 at 02:58 GMT	1 point
	pujols doesnt come up on 408 HR it stays blank

	cwright:	Feb 14th, 2011 at 03:14 GMT	1 point
	That's because the 407 should have been a 415 - Pujols didn't quite make the list yet. Thanks for pointing that out.

	BigKuntry42:	Feb 14th, 2011 at 03:22 GMT	1 point
	Where's Rod Carew?

	indyjeff:	Feb 14th, 2011 at 08:24 GMT	1 point
	Carew seems to fall into the same category as Banks. Due to a few hundred at-bats as DH and PH, just 49.9% of Carew's career PA came at first base. So like Banks, he wouldn't qualify for any position using this criteria. Harmon Killebrew and Pete Rose would both fall well short of 50%, with Killebrew splitting the majority of his time between 3 positions, and Rose between 5. I'm sure there are other players who would fall just short of 50% like Banks and Killebrew, from spending time at more than 2 positions, especially in the last 30+ years when many spend time as DH later in their careers.

	sinatra22:	Feb 14th, 2011 at 13:33 GMT	1 point
	IMHO, Miguel Cabrera should at least be a bonus answer. True, he hasn't played 50% of his games at 1B, but he's played more games at 1B than any other position and that should count for something.

	sc00:	Feb 14th, 2011 at 13:45 GMT	2 points
	@cwright: Love the position quizzes, One way to solve the problem would be to only list the stats accumulated while a player was at that position. I don't know if you could do searches for that. The only issue would then be the rate stats and then you could just use the 3000 plate appearance threshold.

	cwright:	Feb 14th, 2011 at 23:19 GMT	3 points
	sc00: I agree with you, but unfortunately b-r's play index does not (yet?) split up totals by position. I'd have to look at each individual player's splits, which would make it tricky to rank them.

	cwright:	Feb 14th, 2011 at 23:58 GMT	1 point
	Ok, I added Banks and Carew as bonus answers. Cabrera will definitely qualify within a couple of years, so there's plenty of time to add him in.

	amwoods13:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 00:27 GMT	1 point
	Harmon Killebrew should be a bonus answer too. Less than half his career games were at 1B, but he played 1B more than any other position.

	Marco411:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 16:29 GMT	2 points
	Hall of fame voters, please continue to note the complete absence of Don Mattingly.

	Data37:	Apr 2nd, 2012 at 01:14 GMT	1 point
	You have a carat in the strikeouts category for someone who didn't play in the 1800s...