Babe Ruth Times on Base

Babe Ruth Career Times on Base Overview

During Babe Ruth's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 4978 times on base, an average of 226 times on base per season. 1923 was his best season with 379 times on base and his worst season was 1914 when he had 2 times on base. Babe Ruth outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (815.653), The Lost Generation (751.067), Y (3200.93), mlb (809.517), and RF (976.823) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Times on base (TOB) is a count of instances where the player reached first base, second base, third base, or hit a home run. This is only counted for hits, walks, or hit by pitch and is not counted when the player reaches due to an error, a dropped third strike, a fielders choice, or fielder obstruction. Generally, for Times on Base, higher is better. (Source)

Babe Ruth Lifetime Times on Base

Stats similar to Times on Base for Babe Ruth

	Babe Ruth Times on Base
Career	4978
Season Avg.	226
162 Game Avg.	322
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Babe Ruth Times on Base By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly Times on Base for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Babe Ruth Cumulative Times on Base by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Babe Ruth's career Times on Base progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Babe Ruth's career Times on Base at the end of that season.

Babe Ruth Times on Base By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing Times on Base for each season played by Babe Ruth. 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!

Babe Ruth Times on Base Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Babe Ruth Times on Base 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, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Babe Ruth 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.