Rogers Hornsby played 23 seasons (1915–1937) for STL, SF, ATL and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 2,930 hits, 301 home runs and a .358 average. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1922. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1942. Honors: 2× MVP Awards.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
+ 1 more career board inside the all-time top 100.
On the MLB Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 99.9th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Franchise face
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 K
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 Rogers Hornsby — All-Time
17 seasons · peak 28.9 in 1922 · league-best seasons: 1922, 1925, 1929
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.
105.4 career wins over 17 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1922 · +11.1 wins
Latest season · 1933 · +0.8 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 Rogers Hornsby 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
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1922, 17 rated seasons.
Where Rogers Hornsby 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 Rogers Hornsby's own era's positional peers, the one dominance measure comparable across the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.
The season chip above measures Rogers Hornsby'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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Wore 5 distinct franchise crests across 23 seasons (1915–1937) — a true nomad. The crest trail: