Billy Horne
Chicago American Giants 1938–1941; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Cleveland Buckeyes 1943; Harrisburg-St. Louis Stars 1943; Cleveland Buckeyes 1944–1946
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 | 16 | 61 | 54 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .339 | .426 | .765 | 114.4 | 119.4 | .358 | 0.4 |
| 1939 | 32 | 127 | 112 | 16 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 0 | .232 | .298 | .259 | .557 | 68.5 | 62.7 | .275 | 0.0 |
| 1940 | 18 | 68 | 59 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .186 | .284 | .186 | .470 | 56.7 | 41.9 | .252 | -0.1 |
| 1941 | 18 | 64 | 57 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .286 | .246 | .531 | 65.8 | 58.1 | .268 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 43 | 186 | 171 | 27 | 47 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .275 | .326 | .380 | .706 | 107.7 | 109.8 | .333 | 0.8 |
| 1943 | 35 | 142 | 122 | 11 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .189 | .250 | .197 | .447 | 45.5 | 36.3 | .227 | -0.3 |
| 1944 | 20 | 81 | 73 | 10 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .282 | .288 | .570 | 77.7 | 76.7 | .280 | 0.2 |
| 1945 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -16.8 | -26.7 | .118 | -0.1 |
| 1946 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .267 | .214 | .481 | 50.1 | 42.2 | .245 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-07-10 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1944-07-24 | CLB @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1944-08-20 | IC @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1942-06-21 | BBB @ CLB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1938-07-28 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-15 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-21 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | MEM @ CAG 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.