Luke Appling played 20 seasons (1930–1950) for CWS. Career regular-season line: 2,749 hits, 45 home runs and a .310 average. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1936. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1964. Honors: 7× 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: 98.7th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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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.
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Fan Rating
Rate Luke Appling — All-Time
18 seasons · peak 14.0 in 1936
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.
47.6 career wins over 18 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1936 · +5.3 wins
Latest season · 1950 · +0.0 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 Luke Appling 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 1936, 18 rated seasons.
Ranked against the single greatest era-translated seasons in every sport by z — robust standard deviations above Luke Appling's own era's positional peers, the one dominance measure comparable across the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.
The season chip above measures Luke Appling's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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Gave the Chicago White Sox an entire corpus-attributed career — 21 seasons (1930–1950), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.