MLB / Players

Bob Harvey

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 238 lb

BornMay 28, 1918 · Saint Michaels, MD, USA

Seasons6 (1943–1948)

Newark Eagles 1943–1944; Birmingham Black Barons 1945; Newark Eagles 1945–1948

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

7.5

201

7.5

174

6.5

3.2

12.9

1.1

17.2

16.1

RBI

8.6

19.4

84.9

1.1

41.9

.345

94.6

OBP

.430

95.7

SLG

.437

61.3

OPS

.867

76.3

wRC+

150.3

90.3

OPS+

151.0

89.2

wOBA

.416

87.1

sWAR

1.8

41.9

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 176 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.3

77.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1943	17	69	65	11	21	0	2	1	10	4	0	0	.323	.362	.431	.793	107.0	111.4	.375	0.2
1944	27	109	101	21	42	11	2	3	21	6	0	2	.416	.444	.653	1.098	176.0	191.6	.495	1.4
1945	23	93	85	14	21	3	0	1	13	7	1	0	.247	.304	.318	.622	77.1	74.6	.300	-0.1
1946	51	193	167	26	44	3	3	1	21	21	0	1	.263	.349	.335	.685	95.1	91.4	.337	0.3
1947	56	208	187	22	56	16	1	1	30	17	1	1	.299	.358	.412	.770	108.2	110.2	.364	0.7
1948	51	201	174	20	60	4	3	2	24	25	0	1	.345	.430	.437	.867	150.3	151.0	.416	1.8

Career totals

225

873

779

114

244

RBI

119

.3132

OBP

.3782

SLG

.4236

OPS

.8018

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	TB
1943-05-25	NBY @ NE Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	3	8
1948-09-12	NE @ BEG Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	1	6
1944-07-22	NE @ PHS Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	1	3	6
1944-07-23	NE @ HOM Gameday	4	0	4	1	0	0	3	5
1945-06-24	NBY @ NE Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	0	3	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-05-15	NE @ PHS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-05-16	PHS @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-05-20	NE @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-05-23	HSL @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-05-23	HSL @ NE 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

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.