MLB / Players

Art Pennington

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornMay 18, 1923 · Memphis, TN, USA

Seasons5 (1941–1945)

Chicago American Giants 1941–1944; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1944; Chicago American Giants 1945

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified batters

14.4

154

16.4

127

13.7

6.8

13.7

2.7

26.7

19.9

RBI

13.7

29.5

70.5

39.7

.260

37.7

OBP

.377

SLG

.331

24.7

OPS

.708

45.9

wRC+

117.3

62.3

OPS+

111.8

55.5

wOBA

.349

52.1

sWAR

0.6

30.1

of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 136 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.9

73.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	12	53	48	4	9	0	0	0	3	4	2	1	.188	.250	.188	.438	40.5	30.4	.225	-0.3
1942	38	154	127	13	33	2	2	1	12	22	2	0	.260	.377	.331	.708	117.3	111.8	.349	0.6
1943	32	134	122	19	29	3	4	2	16	12	1	1	.238	.306	.377	.683	107.0	109.2	.328	0.6
1944	18	72	65	13	20	2	0	2	11	7	0	2	.308	.375	.431	.806	146.0	149.4	.388	0.6
1945	33	142	121	22	40	6	2	2	22	21	0	6	.331	.430	.463	.892	155.0	161.1	.423	1.3

Career totals

133

555

483

131

RBI

.2712

OBP

.3612

SLG

.3747

OPS

.7359

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
1943-08-10	BEG @ CAG Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	6
1944-06-25	CAG @ CLB Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	1	2	1	6
1943-05-26	CAG @ IC Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	5
1944-05-07	BBB @ CAG Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	5
1945-06-03	MEM @ CAG Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	4

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

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.