Archie Ware
Chicago American Giants 1941; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Cleveland Buckeyes 1943–1948
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 68.5 | 69.7 | .273 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 44 | 172 | 159 | 16 | 43 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .270 | .326 | .377 | .703 | 107.1 | 108.9 | .332 | 0.4 |
| 1943 | 38 | 139 | 134 | 12 | 37 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .276 | .297 | .366 | .663 | 96.7 | 103.0 | .311 | 0.1 |
| 1944 | 24 | 101 | 86 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .174 | .290 | .186 | .476 | 62.3 | 48.4 | .256 | -0.3 |
| 1945 | 19 | 81 | 75 | 11 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .280 | .316 | .347 | .663 | 93.8 | 94.0 | .314 | 0.1 |
| 1946 | 18 | 80 | 67 | 15 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .358 | .434 | .403 | .837 | 144.2 | 147.2 | .413 | 0.5 |
| 1947 | 21 | 95 | 81 | 17 | 30 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .370 | .452 | .543 | .995 | 155.5 | 167.1 | .466 | 0.8 |
| 1948 | 22 | 95 | 87 | 12 | 28 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .322 | .372 | .425 | .798 | 110.6 | 113.2 | .373 | 0.3 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-05-27 | CLB @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1942-06-24 | BBB @ CLB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1946-08-05 | CLB @ PHS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1942-06-03 | JRC @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 1947-08-31 | CLB @ NYC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-04-13 | CAG @ HSL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-11 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-11 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-12 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-14 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.