Update: 19th Century baseball stars

Old Time baseball — From left, King Kelly, Big Ed Delahanty, Cap Anson, Monte Ward and Al Spalding.

We’ve added a small update to the Baseball page with a selection of 19th century baseball stars. Cap Anson and Ed Delehanty have comparable numbers to the modern players. The rest are there as a sampling from baseball’s rough-and-tumble formative period. Individual pages will come for each player.

Here are the ratings:

19th Century	Position	Games	Total	Per 160	Sqr Root	Sum	Off	Def
Ed Delahanty	LF	1835	173.04	15.09	13.15	28.24	24.58	5.60
Cap Anson	1B	2523	207.14	13.14	14.39	27.53	22.91	3.36
King Kelly	RF	1455	130.29	14.33	11.41	25.74	24.17	4.18
Monte Ward	P-SS	1825	167.05	12.81	12.92	25.73	16.03	9.58
Buck Ewing	C	1315	115.38	14.04	10.74	24.78	22.24	8.80
Jim O’Rourke	LF	1999	143.95	11.52	12.00	23.52	19.21	3.83
Old Hoss Radbourn	P	653	100.06	13.90	10.00	23.90	7.81	19.98
Ross Barnes	SS	499	50.23	16.11	7.09	23.19	26.11	6.11
Tip O’Neill	LF	1054	91.12	13.41	9.55	22.96	21.39	5.43
Al Spalding	P	411	57.60	12.52	7.59	20.11	11.29	13.75