Bill Bradford
Indianapolis ABCs 1938; St. Louis Stars 1939; Memphis Red Sox 1940; Chicago American Giants 1941; Memphis Red Sox 1941; Birmingham Black Barons 1942; Memphis Red Sox 1942; New York Black Yankees 1943; Birmingham Black Barons 1945
Percentile snapshot
1943 season — qualified batters
of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 74 PA)
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 | 19 | 72 | 66 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .197 | .264 | .288 | .552 | 65.8 | 58.8 | .266 | -0.2 |
| 1939 | 28 | 120 | 103 | 13 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .165 | .275 | .233 | .508 | 58.9 | 48.4 | .259 | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 34 | 108 | 99 | 11 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .263 | .318 | .303 | .621 | 88.4 | 87.3 | .310 | 0.0 |
| 1941 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .300 | .222 | .522 | 65.6 | 56.5 | .268 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 29 | 89 | 81 | 8 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .222 | .276 | .272 | .547 | 67.8 | 64.2 | .265 | -0.2 |
| 1943 | 25 | 100 | 90 | 8 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .265 | .244 | .510 | 46.9 | 36.5 | .254 | -0.4 |
| 1945 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -83.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-05-10 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1943-06-20 | NBY @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1939-06-12 | CAG @ HSL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1939-05-14 | ATL @ HSL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1940-08-08 | BEG @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-15 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-16 | MEM @ HSL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | HSL @ KCM 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.