Bob Clarke

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 8, 1903 · Richmond, VA, USA

Seasons24 (1923–1948)

Baltimore Black Sox 1923; Baltimore Black Sox 1925–1932; New York Black Yankees 1933–1940; Baltimore Elite Giants 1941–1943; Philadelphia Stars 1943; Baltimore Elite Giants 1944–1946; New York Black Yankees 1948

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

26.8

147

17.4

136

20.3

12.3

9.4

7.2

RBI

8.7

14.5

70.3

31.9

.235

15.9

OBP

.293

13.8

SLG

.279

10.1

OPS

.572

11.6

wRC+

58.8

8.7

OPS+

52.7

6.5

wOBA

.278

10.1

sWAR

0.0

15.2

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 139 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-2.5

0.8

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
1923	21	67	63	5	14	3	1	0	4	4	3	1	0	.222	.269	.302	.570	65.9	59.7	.270	-0.2
1925	35	100	89	8	14	2	0	0	2	7	0	0	0	.157	.219	.180	.399	15.3	4.3	.198	-0.6
1926	44	129	108	7	22	4	1	1	13	12	1	3	0	.204	.295	.287	.582	65.4	59.5	.287	0.1
1927	48	154	140	15	33	6	1	1	15	8	0	3	0	.236	.287	.314	.601	59.9	57.5	.285	0.0
1928	41	138	124	20	36	7	0	2	15	11	0	1	0	.290	.358	.395	.753	95.7	94.1	.350	0.6
1929	72	254	230	34	61	11	1	0	23	12	0	2	0	.265	.307	.322	.629	58.1	53.8	.296	-0.1
1930	22	76	66	8	23	5	0	0	8	8	0	1	0	.348	.419	.424	.843	98.3	94.1	.389	0.4
1931	41	139	128	9	23	1	1	0	6	6	1	1	1	.180	.216	.203	.420	23.9	15.6	.200	-0.7
1932	45	163	144	14	29	6	0	2	21	14	0	2	0	.201	.272	.285	.557	58.1	53.8	.273	0.0
1933	12	47	44	5	12	3	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	.273	.319	.341	.660	78.5	76.1	.312	0.1
1934	22	76	71	6	13	4	0	1	5	5	0	0	0	.183	.237	.282	.519	50.6	46.9	.240	0.0
1935	9	34	31	4	7	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	.226	.273	.226	.499	47.4	37.6	.237	-0.1
1936	22	70	64	4	5	0	0	0	1	5	1	0	0	.078	.145	.078	.223	-25.5	-41.6	.122	-0.8
1937	28	101	92	10	19	5	0	0	8	5	0	0	0	.207	.255	.261	.516	41.7	33.3	.242	-0.2
1938	11	35	34	1	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.147	.147	.176	.324	-5.5	-14.9	.147	-0.2
1939	23	85	78	5	17	1	0	0	10	7	2	0	0	.218	.282	.231	.513	48.7	37.4	.253	-0.1
1940	17	56	54	2	11	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	.204	.218	.204	.422	18.1	10.3	.201	-0.3
1941	30	103	88	11	22	5	0	0	10	11	0	0	0	.250	.333	.307	.640	86.4	80.3	.310	0.7
1942	35	121	111	8	20	1	0	0	7	6	4	1	0	.180	.235	.189	.424	32.1	21.7	.214	-0.4
1943	45	147	136	14	32	4	1	0	11	11	0	0	0	.235	.293	.279	.572	58.8	52.7	.278	0.0
1944	16	59	55	8	16	4	1	0	8	3	0	0	0	.291	.328	.400	.728	92.7	94.2	.340	0.3
1945	19	65	56	1	9	0	0	0	3	6	0	1	0	.161	.242	.161	.403	26.7	14.0	.212	-0.2
1946	46	135	124	11	19	5	0	0	8	9	0	0	0	.153	.216	.194	.410	24.9	14.8	.207	-0.5
1948	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-101.0	-100.0	.000	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1923	1	0	0	5	5	2	2	3.7	12.27	1.909	4.91	4.04	102.4	32.2	-0.2
1938	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	1.7	0.00	.600	10.80	1.56	30.9	—	-0.2
1941	1	1	1	4	1	1	4	7.0	1.29	.714	5.14	2.92	66.3	343.2	0.7

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

705

2,355

2,131

210

462

RBI

185

156

.2168

OBP

.2740

SLG

.2698

OPS

.5438

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.378

WHIP

1.0541

K/9

5.84

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
1923-08-11	BBS @ HIL Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	0	0	0	6
1932-05-17	WPI @ BBS Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	1	4	0	6
1941-04-14	BEG @ NBY Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	0	3	0	5
1944-05-30	BEG @ HOM Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	5
1932-05-24	CUP @ BBS Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1941-09-04	NE @ BEG Gameday	7.0	4	1	1	1	4
1923-10-07	HIL @ BBS Gameday	3.2	5	5	5	2	2
1938-09-01	NBY @ PHS Gameday	1.2	1	0	0	0	2
1923-04-30	CSE @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-06	BG @ BBS Gameday	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

1× 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.