Big Train Jackson
Kansas City Monarchs 1938–1939; 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 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -76.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
| 1939 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .258 | -9.1 | -24.1 | .142 | -0.2 |
| 1940 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .091 | .000 | .091 | -43.5 | -72.5 | .071 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 9.3 | 9.64 | 2.571 | 7.71 | 3.88 | 91.0 | 44.2 | -0.5 |
| 1939 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 1 | 27.3 | 5.27 | 1.902 | 5.93 | 4.53 | 114.5 | 75.2 | -0.2 |
| 1940 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 23 | 14 | 17 | 1 | 33.3 | 6.21 | 1.740 | 4.59 | 4.45 | 107.8 | 66.5 | -0.5 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-07-18 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1938-05-15 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-06-02 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 14.0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| 1939-07-18 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 1938-07-04 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 2.1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1940-05-08 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 5.0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1938-07-10 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 4.2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 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.