Babe Davis
Atlanta Black Crackers 1938; Homestead Grays 1939; Indianapolis ABCs/Atlanta Black Crackers 1939; Memphis Red Sox 1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 40 | 161 | 149 | 25 | 44 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 25 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .295 | .344 | .430 | .773 | 116.1 | 121.9 | .361 | 0.7 |
| 1939 | 24 | 102 | 92 | 19 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .261 | .327 | .380 | .707 | 98.0 | 99.6 | .334 | 0.4 |
| 1940 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .600 | .200 | .800 | 186.2 | 141.6 | .487 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-08-14 | ATL @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1939-05-15 | ATL @ HSL Gameday | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 1938-06-10 | HSL @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-06-12 | HSL @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-05-17 | BBB @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-15 | BBB @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | BBB @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-17 | BBB @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | ATL @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | ATL @ BBB 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.