Bill Cooper
Atlanta Black Crackers 1938; Indianapolis ABCs/Atlanta Black Crackers 1939; Philadelphia Stars 1939–1940; New York Black Yankees 1941; Philadelphia Stars 1941–1943; New York Black Yankees 1946
Percentile snapshot
1941 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 133 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 | 29 | 101 | 83 | 23 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .325 | .429 | .373 | .802 | 132.4 | 132.1 | .391 | 0.9 |
| 1939 | 12 | 36 | 29 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .345 | .441 | .517 | .958 | 153.0 | 160.4 | .443 | 0.4 |
| 1940 | 53 | 185 | 166 | 32 | 44 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .265 | .333 | .380 | .713 | 86.8 | 85.2 | .335 | 0.6 |
| 1941 | 48 | 176 | 161 | 18 | 43 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 0 | .267 | .322 | .329 | .651 | 85.5 | 82.8 | .309 | 0.5 |
| 1942 | 35 | 126 | 118 | 13 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .263 | .310 | .347 | .657 | 86.8 | 87.2 | .314 | 0.5 |
| 1943 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 16.9 | -30.7 | .194 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 5 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .308 | .400 | .385 | .785 | 120.3 | 119.4 | .383 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-06-09 | PHS @ NYC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1938-08-26 | MEM @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1941-08-31 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1942-06-04 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1939-08-13 | PHS @ NE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
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.