Kid Nichols played 15 seasons (1890–1906) for ATL, STL and PHI. Career regular-season line: a 361–208 record, 1,873 strikeouts and a 2.95 ERA. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1890. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1949.
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: 99.8th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape
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.
Fan Rating
Rate Kid Nichols — All-Time
14 seasons · peak 21.2 in 1890 · league-best seasons: 1897, 1898
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
75.8 career wins over 14 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1890 · +8.1 wins
Latest season · 1905 · +1.0 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Kid Nichols 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 1890, 14 rated seasons.
Where Kid Nichols ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 17 seasons (1890–1906) — a true nomad. The crest trail: