Bill Nicholson played 16 seasons (1936–1953) for ATH, CHC and PHI. Career regular-season line: 1,484 hits, 235 home runs and a .268 average. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1943. Honors: 5× All-Star Selections.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 97.0th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsMLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamMLB Only Club — Statistical ExclusivityMLB VAL Leaders — Value Above LeagueCareer TwinsCross-Sport Era-Adjusted Careers — The Greatest Careers, One AxisCross-Sport Era-Adjusted Seasons — The Greatest Years, One Axis
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
How often Bill Nicholson led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1943, 15 rated seasons.
Where Bill Nicholson ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
Ranked against the single greatest era-translated seasons in every sport by z — robust standard deviations above Bill Nicholson's own era's positional peers, the one dominance measure comparable across the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 18 seasons (1936–1953) — a true nomad. The crest trail: