Alright so yesterday I was sitting around thinking about old baseball players and specifically von Hayes popped into my head. That name just sounds cool, right? Anyway, I wondered about his full stats. Like, how many home runs did he really hit? What about his batting average? I just wanted to see everything in one place. Simple curiosity, you know?
My First Try Was a Mess
I started like everyone does these days. I opened up my search engine and typed in “von hayes baseball stats.” Boom, tons of results popped up. The big sites I recognized were there. So I clicked on the first couple. Annoyingly, I kept hitting roadblocks.
- Frustration Point 1: Some pages only showed bits and pieces. Like, one would have his hits and maybe runs, but then nothing about his stolen bases or fielding stats for the years he played.
- Frustration Point 2: Other sites had his career totals only, like the very bottom line. But I wanted the year-by-year breakdown! How else do you see how he did year after year?
- Frustration Point 3: A few sites showed more detail, but then it was buried under a bunch of ads or pop-ups. Honestly, it was driving me nuts trying to find a clean, complete set of numbers.
After maybe fifteen minutes of clicking around and getting only partial answers or annoyed by ads, I remembered that site people always talk about for baseball stats. You know the one I mean, that reference site?
Figuring Out the Baseball Reference Approach
Okay, so I went back to my search bar. This time, I got smarter. I typed something like “baseball reference von hayes.” That specific name combo usually works for finding player pages there. Clicked on the top result that looked right.
Finally, I hit the jackpot! There it was. The full page for von Hayes.
- First thing I saw was his career summary at the top – nice and neat. Total games, hits, home runs, batting average, steals… all the key stuff.
- Scrolling down was the real gold though. Every single season he played was listed year by year. Cleveland, then Philadelphia, then California… every team.
- For each season, it had everything: games played, at-bats, runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, runs batted in (RBIs), stolen bases, caught stealing, walks, strikeouts… the whole enchilada.
- Even his fielding stats! Position breakdowns, games played per position, putouts, assists, errors. All there. I kept scrolling down thinking it might stop, but nope.
Getting the Data Safely
I wanted to keep this info handy. The site actually has a feature to print the stats or save as a PDF. I clicked the little printer icon near his name.
But… surprise surprise, the printer dialog box just kept crashing my browser. Technology, am I right? So I just did the old-fashioned way.
I used my mouse to click and drag, highlighting the entire stats table from the top summary all the way down through all the seasons and fielding stats. Right-clicked, selected “Print.” Instead of printing to paper, I chose “Save as PDF” on my print dialog. That way, I got a clean PDF file saved right to my computer’s “Downloads” folder. Simple.
Now I have the whole thing. Career totals, every year’s stats, every team he played for, fielding info. Exactly what I wanted when I started. No more piecing together fragments from different sites. It just took remembering the right place to look and knowing how to grab the data without letting the browser glitches stop me. Job done!
