Biz Mackey

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 235 lb

BornJuly 27, 1897 · Caldwell County, TX, USA

Final gameSeptember 7, 1947

Seasons24 (1920–1947)

Indianapolis ABCs 1920–1922; Hilldale Club 1923–1927; Baltimore Black Sox 1928; Hilldale Club 1928–1929; Baltimore Black Sox 1930; Hilldale Club 1930–1931; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1933; Philadelphia Stars 1933–1935; Washington Elite Giants 1936–1937; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938–1939; Newark Eagles 1939–1940; New York Cubans 1940; Newark Eagles 1941; Newark Eagles 1945–1947

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

12.9

145

11.5

129

12.9

15.8

12.9

8.6

RBI

19.4

10.1

89.9

42.4

.310

76.3

OBP

.378

66.9

SLG

.380

27.3

OPS

.757

41.7

wRC+

99.7

38.1

OPS+

98.0

wOBA

.360

46.8

sWAR

0.8

31.7

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 130 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.6

87.4

OPS+

131.4

91.1

sWAR

33.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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	39	157	145	18	43	4	2	1	17	10	0	1	0	.297	.342	.372	.714	110.4	114.1	.348	0.5
1921	76	311	283	43	85	13	9	9	54	15	2	4	0	.300	.347	.505	.852	129.2	138.8	.391	2.4
1922	79	320	284	50	108	14	16	7	72	27	0	8	0	.380	.436	.616	1.052	165.7	180.1	.471	4.2
1923	51	197	180	32	77	11	2	5	47	11	1	6	2	.428	.464	.594	1.058	176.6	195.1	.482	3.0
1924	69	305	275	50	89	19	3	4	40	22	1	9	0	.324	.378	.458	.836	122.0	126.1	.387	1.9
1925	62	251	210	49	73	17	5	6	54	29	0	12	0	.348	.427	.562	.989	146.4	153.8	.444	2.8
1926	85	363	312	59	102	25	3	10	76	34	9	13	5	.327	.400	.522	.922	142.0	151.1	.427	3.8
1927	30	118	101	25	36	4	3	1	24	13	0	1	0	.356	.440	.485	.925	139.5	142.4	.432	1.2
1928	56	239	210	45	71	17	6	4	40	23	3	6	3	.338	.406	.533	.939	138.7	145.7	.425	2.7
1929	52	220	186	35	67	12	3	2	38	30	0	6	1	.360	.449	.489	.938	127.7	129.1	.436	1.9
1930	37	148	133	32	55	10	3	5	36	11	0	2	0	.414	.462	.647	1.109	143.3	151.5	.483	1.8
1931	44	173	154	28	55	6	2	3	33	17	0	1	0	.357	.421	.481	.902	141.6	146.5	.414	2.1
1933	27	109	95	10	27	5	0	0	14	12	0	1	0	.284	.376	.337	.713	97.2	91.8	.346	0.6
1934	25	72	67	2	18	7	0	1	12	4	0	0	0	.269	.310	.418	.728	99.0	102.9	.338	0.3
1935	46	164	148	20	43	10	1	1	20	14	0	1	0	.291	.356	.392	.748	90.8	88.5	.345	0.4
1936	43	185	170	20	49	8	3	0	30	11	0	0	0	.288	.335	.371	.706	81.8	80.0	.328	0.5
1937	21	73	62	8	16	3	0	1	8	8	0	0	0	.258	.343	.355	.698	85.4	80.1	.326	0.2
1938	32	125	104	17	32	5	0	1	16	18	1	1	0	.308	.410	.385	.794	113.8	110.8	.378	0.9
1939	27	89	77	7	22	2	0	1	12	10	0	1	0	.286	.364	.351	.714	94.0	90.1	.340	0.4
1940	39	145	129	17	40	6	0	1	26	13	0	0	0	.310	.378	.380	.757	99.7	98.0	.360	0.8
1941	32	90	78	10	21	3	2	0	11	11	0	0	0	.269	.360	.359	.719	104.9	101.9	.344	0.5
1945	19	68	58	5	16	1	1	1	8	9	1	0	0	.276	.373	.379	.752	112.9	111.0	.365	0.5
1946	10	11	10	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	.200	.273	.200	.473	44.3	32.8	.243	0.0
1947	30	80	69	2	18	0	0	0	9	8	0	0	0	.261	.338	.261	.599	72.7	65.0	.301	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1920	1	1	1	0	7	6	2	5	0	3.3	16.20	2.700	13.50	1.91	53.3	22.2	0.5
1921	4	1	3	1	16	9	4	8	3	13.3	6.08	1.500	5.40	6.44	162.7	65.2	2.4
1941	1	1	1	0	5	2	0	1	0	3.0	6.00	1.667	3.00	2.97	67.3	73.5	0.5
1946	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	2.0	4.50	1.000	4.50	2.69	61.0	98.1	0.0

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

1,031

4,013

3,540

584

1,165

202

478th-most career 3B

RBI

698

361

.3291

40th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3945

90th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4766

247th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8711

123rd-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

7.477

WHIP

1.6615

K/9

6.23

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1923-08-15	BG @ HIL Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	0	9
1921-07-13	CHG @ ABC Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	3	0	8
1922-07-10	ABC @ SLS Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	3	1	8
1922-05-30	ABC @ DTS Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	4	1	8
1923-07-25	BRG @ HIL Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	4	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1921-05-31	ABC @ KCM Gameday	8.1	9	7	5	3	6
1920-07-21	KCM @ ABC Gameday	3.1	7	6	6	2	5
1939-05-28	NBY @ BEG Gameday	5.0	6	3	3	1	3
1941-07-19	NE @ BEG Gameday	3.0	5	2	2	0	1
1946-09-03	NE @ PHS Gameday	2.0	2	1	1	0	1

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

Hall of Fame, 2006 (Negro League)

6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.