Bill Riggins

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 169 lb

BornFebruary 7, 1900 · Colp, IL, USA

Seasons14 (1920–1935)

Chicago American Giants 1920; Detroit Stars 1920–1926; Cleveland Hornets 1927; New York Lincoln Giants 1928–1930; Harlem Stars 1931; New York Black Yankees 1932; New York Black Yankees 1935

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified batters

0.9

3.4

2.6

1.7

2.6

17.2

RBI

3.4

4.3

87.1

38.8

.239

3.4

OBP

.311

9.5

SLG

.313

7.8

OPS

.624

7.8

wRC+

76.7

13.8

OPS+

71.5

7.8

wOBA

.296

8.6

sWAR

0.1

9.5

of 117 qualified 1931 batters (min 55 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

15.3

91.2

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
1920	52	202	181	16	49	10	2	2	22	12	0	1	0	.271	.320	.381	.701	105.4	110.2	.339	1.0
1921	63	281	257	33	76	18	2	1	33	14	2	6	0	.296	.337	.393	.730	103.1	105.7	.343	1.3
1922	67	278	245	40	62	7	2	2	26	16	1	8	0	.253	.315	.322	.637	76.2	71.5	.302	0.4
1923	71	318	265	59	80	9	3	6	43	32	0	2	0	.302	.379	.426	.806	109.5	109.8	.375	1.7
1924	63	291	264	49	81	8	7	1	25	18	0	5	0	.307	.353	.402	.755	104.5	106.6	.355	1.4
1925	93	405	360	63	97	16	9	8	68	31	0	25	0	.269	.327	.431	.758	100.3	101.9	.343	1.8
1926	91	391	330	80	99	18	6	7	52	36	0	25	1	.300	.376	.455	.830	111.6	113.0	.381	2.2
1927	36	155	134	30	47	7	7	3	28	14	0	6	0	.351	.412	.575	.987	158.0	163.3	.443	1.8
1928	33	142	126	26	34	7	0	6	24	9	1	7	0	.270	.324	.468	.792	98.5	102.0	.355	0.4
1929	66	300	243	60	84	15	3	5	61	40	0	12	0	.346	.446	.494	.940	127.7	129.3	.436	2.1
1930	44	190	166	32	57	6	0	3	36	15	1	4	0	.343	.408	.434	.841	96.4	93.2	.385	0.7
1931	18	75	67	9	16	2	0	1	7	7	0	2	0	.239	.311	.313	.624	76.7	71.5	.296	0.1
1932	7	26	18	3	5	0	0	0	1	6	0	1	0	.278	.480	.278	.758	120.4	101.0	.399	0.2
1935	5	19	13	3	3	0	0	0	2	5	0	1	0	.231	.444	.231	.675	112.0	90.4	.355	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1926	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0.7	13.50	3.000	13.50	5.07	108.2	34.7	2.2

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

709

3,073

2,669

503

790

123

RBI

428

255

105

.2960

293rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3626

421st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4234

OPS

.7860

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

13.500

WHIP

3.0000

K/9

13.50

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
1920-07-09	DTS @ DAY Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	2	1	6
1923-06-27	DTS @ CAG Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	0	2	0	6
1921-06-08	CUB @ DTS Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	6
1921-07-13	DTS @ COL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	0	3	0	5
1921-06-04	CUB @ DTS Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	0	4	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-05-09	CHG @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-15	CUB @ DTS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-16	DAY @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-16	CUB @ DTS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-17	CUB @ DTS 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.