Bobby Robinson
Indianapolis ABCs 1925–1926; Birmingham Black Barons 1927; Memphis Red Sox 1927–1928; Detroit Stars 1929–1931; Cleveland Stars 1932; Cleveland Red Sox 1934; Nashville Elite Giants 1934; Indianapolis ABCs 1938; St. Louis Stars 1939; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940
Percentile snapshot
1932 season — qualified batters
of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 52 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 57 | 234 | 196 | 25 | 42 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 26 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .214 | .306 | .311 | .618 | 73.9 | 66.3 | .293 | 0.1 |
| 1926 | 60 | 235 | 203 | 33 | 39 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 0 | .192 | .278 | .256 | .534 | 46.6 | 38.3 | .261 | -0.8 |
| 1927 | 84 | 335 | 296 | 28 | 73 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 21 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .247 | .316 | .277 | .593 | 65.7 | 61.0 | .287 | -0.2 |
| 1928 | 54 | 204 | 181 | 26 | 46 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .254 | .322 | .309 | .631 | 77.5 | 72.9 | .301 | 0.2 |
| 1929 | 69 | 311 | 285 | 63 | 86 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 26 | 19 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .302 | .350 | .428 | .778 | 100.7 | 101.8 | .354 | 1.5 |
| 1930 | 70 | 291 | 259 | 39 | 72 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .278 | .339 | .347 | .687 | 86.7 | 83.2 | .322 | 0.6 |
| 1931 | 45 | 182 | 171 | 29 | 45 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .263 | .308 | .316 | .623 | 75.4 | 73.8 | .302 | 0.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | 73 | 70 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .229 | .260 | .300 | .560 | 54.9 | 54.4 | .267 | -0.2 |
| 1934 | 7 | 25 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .143 | .280 | .143 | .423 | 41.9 | 21.8 | .235 | -0.1 |
| 1938 | 14 | 53 | 46 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .174 | .255 | .196 | .451 | 46.2 | 30.8 | .230 | -0.2 |
| 1939 | 27 | 108 | 80 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .175 | .330 | .200 | .530 | 74.1 | 55.9 | .285 | 0.1 |
| 1940 | 18 | 63 | 47 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .255 | .417 | .319 | .736 | 129.4 | 122.0 | .384 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-05-30 | BEG @ DTS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1930-05-13 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-05-31 | CLS @ HIL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1932-06-06 | CLS @ BBS Gameday | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1940-05-13 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-04-26 | DTS @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-27 | DTS @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-27 | DTS @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-29 | DTS @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-29 | DTS @ 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.