Ben Taylor

⭐ Hall of Fame 2006

Born: 7/1/1888 in Anderson, SC, USA

Died: 1/24/1953 in Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB Debut: 1912-08-24 | Final Game: 1936-08-23

Bats: L | Throws: L | Height: 5'11" | Weight: 175 lbs

Full name: Benjamin Harrison Taylor

📋 View Manager Career

📊 Compare This Player 📈 View Career Timeline

Biography

Ben Taylor, born in 1888, was a notable position player whose career spanned from 1912 to 1936. While Taylor did not accumulate traditional statistics during his time on the field, with career totals of 0 games, 0 hits, 0 home runs, 0 RBIs, a batting average of 0.0, and 0 stolen bases, his impact on the game extended beyond mere numbers. He was recognized for his contributions to baseball history and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006, underscoring his significance in the sport. Taylor played during an era marked by the transition from the deadball era to the more offensive-driven styles of the late 1930s. His career reflects the experiences of many players of the time, where opportunities could be limited, yet the passion for the game and the pursuit of excellence remained paramount. His legacy is preserved not only through his Hall of Fame induction but also by the respect he garnered from peers and historians alike, making him a respected figure in baseball's rich tapestry.

Negro Leagues Career Statistics

Batting

PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
106.0	92.0	11.0	26.0	2.0	1.0	1.0	7.0	9.0	3.0	6.0	0.283	0.353	0.359	0.712

Negro Leagues Season-by-Season Batting

Season	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1912	1.0	1.0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
1913	40.0	35.0	5.0	13.0	0	1.0	1.0	6.0	2.0	0	3.0	0.371	0.405	0.514	0.919
1915	4.0	3.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	1.0	.000	0.250	.000	0.250
1916	8.0	6.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0	0	0	1.0	2.0	0	0.167	0.375	0.333	0.708
1921	17.0	16.0	0	3.0	0	0	0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.188	0.235	0.188	0.423
1922	1.0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
1927	24.0	20.0	5.0	6.0	0	0	0	0	3.0	0	1.0	0.300	0.391	0.300	0.691
1928	10.0	9.0	0	2.0	1.0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0.222	0.300	0.333	0.633
1936	1.0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

Career Pitching Statistics

W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	Pitcher PIV
16	7	48	18	15	2	2	249.0	254	91	7	69	110	3.29	0

Career ERA 3.29 vs. league average 3.28 across their career seasons — near league average.

Season-by-Season Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	Lg ERA	Pitcher PIV
1910	WBS	WES	0	2	3	2	2	0	0	22.0	24	8	8	9	3.27	2.79 (-17%)	90.6
1911	SLG	WES	7	0	8	5	5	0	0	51.3	61	23	20	21	4.03	3.37 (-20%)	-445.8
1912	WBS	WES	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	8.0	13	6	2	5	6.75	—	0.0
1912	NLG	EAS	1	0	2	2	1	0	0	15.3	15	5	3	5	2.93	3.36 (+13%)	140.0
1914	ABC	WES	4	0	7	4	4	1	0	59.0	45	10	11	38	1.53	2.93 (+48%)	1787.4
1915	ABC	WES	1	2	7	1	0	0	0	28.0	33	13	8	11	4.18	2.90 (-44%)	-1021.3
1916	ABC	WES	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	7.0	8	4	2	3	5.14	—	0.0
1917	ABC	WES	0	1	2	1	1	0	0	15.7	13	5	6	6	2.87	2.69 (-7%)	10.2
1918	ABC	WES	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	11.7	16	9	2	2	6.94	2.83 (-146%)	106.7
1919	AC	EAS	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2.7	1	0	1	2	0.00	—	0.0
1920	ABC	NNL	1	1	8	1	1	1	1	22.3	18	7	3	7	2.82	3.45 (+18%)	164.7
1921	ABC	NNL	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	3.7	5	1	2	1	2.45	—	0.0
1922	ABC	NNL	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0.00	—	0.0
1926	BBS	ECL	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.3	1	0	1	0	0.00	—	0.0

Career Batting Statistics

G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	PIV
923	3391	544	1112	194	65	33	657	102	343	7	0.328	0.392	0.453	0.845	11667.1

Career AVG .328 vs. league average .271 across their career seasons — +21.0% above league average.

Career OBP .392 vs. league average .335 across their career seasons — +17.3% above league average.

Career SLG .453 vs. league average .369 across their career seasons — +22.8% above league average.

Career OPS 0.845 vs. league average 0.703 across their career seasons — +20.1% above league average.

Season-by-Season Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	Lg AVG	Lg OBP	Lg SLG	Lg OPS	PIV
1910	WBS	WES	6	23	0	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.261	—	—	—	—	0.0
1911	SLG	WES	14	34	5	12	3	0	0	5	0	2	0	0.353	—	—	—	—	0.0
1912	WBS	WES	3	11	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.273	—	—	—	—	0.0
1912	NLG	EAS	5	8	0	6	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.750	—	—	—	—	0.0
1913	WBS	WES	8	33	5	10	0	1	0	5	0	4	0	0.303	—	—	—	—	0.0
1913	CAG	WES	17	70	13	24	4	1	1	11	1	4	0	0.343	.259 (+32%)	.325 (+16%)	.345 (+36%)	.670 (+27%)	0.0
1914	ABC	WES	60	216	50	79	23	8	4	53	27	33	0	0.366	.255 (+43%)	.322 (+40%)	.339 (+77%)	.661 (+59%)	2140.9
1915	ABC	WES	60	215	35	63	18	5	1	47	14	28	0	0.293	.250 (+17%)	.318 (+21%)	.332 (+32%)	.651 (+26%)	961.4
1916	ABC	WES	41	150	23	47	3	1	0	28	6	10	0	0.313	.248 (+26%)	.314 (+15%)	.326 (+6%)	.640 (+10%)	258.0
1917	ABC	WES	57	218	27	64	9	4	0	39	5	18	0	0.294	.248 (+18%)	.312 (+12%)	.323 (+15%)	.635 (+14%)	460.9
1918	ABC	WES	41	157	30	48	5	6	2	37	5	12	0	0.306	.255 (+20%)	.318 (+14%)	.326 (+39%)	.645 (+26%)	599.0
1919	AC	EAS	21	77	11	23	2	4	0	13	5	9	0	0.299	.262 (+14%)	.322 (+15%)	.347 (+23%)	.670 (+19%)	226.6
1920	ABC	NNL	75	275	41	83	13	4	3	46	13	28	1	0.302	.271 (+11%)	.331 (+12%)	.363 (+13%)	.694 (+12%)	641.4
1921	ABC	NNL	88	334	72	131	20	7	2	73	9	32	1	0.392	.286 (+37%)	.344 (+30%)	.395 (+30%)	.739 (+30%)	1977.5
1922	ABC	NNL	81	321	65	123	29	6	2	59	3	28	0	0.383	.285 (+34%)	.345 (+26%)	.397 (+33%)	.743 (+30%)	1795.7
1923	BBS	ECL	2	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.167	—	—	—	—	0.0
1924	WP	ECL	60	237	38	72	11	2	4	50	6	29	0	0.304	.283 (+7%)	.345 (+10%)	.389 (+7%)	.734 (+9%)	419.3
1925	HBG	ECL	70	268	40	87	14	4	5	65	0	26	0	0.325	.288 (+13%)	.349 (+10%)	.407 (+14%)	.756 (+12%)	612.3
1926	BBS	ECL	53	167	16	50	7	3	1	23	4	28	4	0.299	.279 (+7%)	.345 (+17%)	.390 (+1%)	.735 (+8%)	348.7
1927	BBS	ECL	65	236	35	79	9	5	2	43	1	26	0	0.335	.282 (+19%)	.344 (+16%)	.392 (+12%)	.736 (+14%)	655.8
1928	BBS	ECL	57	220	26	70	14	3	2	38	2	12	1	0.318	.280 (+13%)	.342 (+4%)	.395 (+10%)	.737 (+7%)	256.3
1929	ACB	ANL	39	115	12	31	6	0	4	17	1	14	0	0.270	.289 (-7%)	.353 (avg)	.415 (+3%)	.769 (+1%)	46.0

Fielding Statistics

Career Fielding Totals by Position

Position	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
1B	884	519	8144	452	155	400
OF	6	3	2	1	1	0
P	48	1	17	97	11	6

Season-by-Season Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
1910	WBS	1B	3	0	15	0	1	1
1910	WBS	OF	1	0	0	0	0	0
1910	WBS	P	3	0	2	11	1	1
1911	SLG	1B	4	0	24	1	0	1
1911	SLG	OF	2	0	1	1	0	0
1911	SLG	P	8	0	4	13	4	0
1912	WBS	1B	2	0	18	0	2	1
1912	WBS	P	1	0	0	3	0	0
1912	NLG	P	2	0	0	9	1	0
1913	WBS	1B	8	0	88	4	1	4
1913	CAG	1B	17	0	167	10	3	12
1914	ABC	1B	56	0	598	54	14	22
1914	ABC	P	7	0	3	19	4	2
1915	ABC	1B	60	0	639	40	17	30
1915	ABC	P	7	0	0	15	1	0
1916	ABC	1B	41	0	448	28	14	27
1916	ABC	P	2	0	1	1	0	0
1917	ABC	1B	56	0	563	43	10	31
1917	ABC	P	2	0	4	9	0	0
1918	ABC	1B	41	0	406	18	7	22
1918	ABC	P	2	0	0	4	0	0
1919	AC	1B	21	21	207	8	2	9
1919	AC	P	1	0	0	1	0	0
1920	ABC	1B	72	70	700	41	18	21
1920	ABC	OF	2	2	0	0	1	0
1920	ABC	P	8	1	3	8	0	3
1921	ABC	1B	88	88	964	53	12	40
1921	ABC	P	3	0	0	2	0	0
1922	ABC	1B	79	79	827	41	9	45
1922	ABC	OF	1	1	1	0	0	0
1922	ABC	P	1	0	0	2	0	0
1923	BBS	1B	2	2	19	1	1	1
1924	WP	1B	60	59	592	23	13	16
1925	HBG	1B	70	0	0	0	0	0
1926	BBS	1B	50	49	470	24	7	23
1926	BBS	P	1	0	0	0	0	0
1927	BBS	1B	65	65	618	25	10	39
1928	BBS	1B	57	57	524	23	7	38
1929	ACB	1B	32	29	257	15	7	17