Cap Anson Hits

Cap Anson Career Hits Overview

During Cap Anson's 27-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 3435 hits, an average of 127 hits per season. 1886 was his best season with 187 hits and his worst season was 1871 when he had 39 hits. Cap Anson outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (582.834), Pre-Generational (663.476), Y (2274.55), mlb (581.433), and 1B (742.748) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Base hits (H), commonly referred to as hits, is credited to a player when they reach or pass first without the benifit of a feilding error or fielders choice during an at bat. Generally, for Hits, higher is better. (Source)

Cap Anson Lifetime Hits and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Hits for Cap Anson

	Cap Anson Hits	Cap Anson Extra Base Hits
Career	3435	821
Season Avg.	127	30
162 Game Avg.	220	53
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Cap Anson Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cap Anson's yearly Hits for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Cap Anson Cumulative Hits by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Cap Anson's career Hits progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Cap Anson's career Hits at the end of that season.

Cap Anson Hits By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Cap Anson and related player groups by summarizing Hits for each season played by Cap Anson. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!

Cap Anson Hits Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Cap Anson Hits stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Cap Anson career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.