Tommy Bond played 8 seasons (1876–1884) for Hartford Dark Blues, ATL, Worcester Brown Stockings and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: a 193–115 record, 860 strikeouts and a 2.25 ERA. Late Developer career, peaking in 1879.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
On the MLB Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 92.3th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Historical franchise
No continuous modern successor — attributed to the franchise itself, never folded into a modern club.
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 ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleMLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsMLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every Team
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 Tommy Bond — All-Time
6 seasons · peak 13.1 in 1879 · league-best season: 1877
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.
20.3 career wins over 6 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1879 · +5.0 wins
Latest season · 1884 · +1.1 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 Tommy Bond 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
Late Developer
Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 1879, 6 rated seasons.
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Gave the Atlanta Braves an entire corpus-attributed career — 5 seasons (1877–1881), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.