Bobo Newsom

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 11, 1907 · Hartsville, SC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1929

Final gameSeptember 17, 1953

Seasons20 (1929–1953)

Brooklyn Robins 1929–1930; Chicago Cubs 1932; St. Louis Browns 1934–1935; Washington Senators 1935–1936; Boston Red Sox 1937; Washington Senators 1937; St. Louis Browns 1938; Detroit Tigers 1939; St. Louis Browns 1939; Detroit Tigers 1940–1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1942; Washington Senators 1942; Brooklyn Dodgers 1943; St. Louis Browns 1943; Washington Senators 1943; Philadelphia Athletics 1944–1946; Washington Senators 1946; New York Yankees 1947; Washington Senators 1947; New York Giants 1948; Philadelphia Athletics 1952; Washington Senators 1952; Philadelphia Athletics 1953

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified pitchers

39.5

63.2

48.7

32.9

19.7

SHO

51.3

208

31.6

51.3

64.5

52.6

199.3

65.8

ERA

3.34

55.3

WHIP

1.380

42.1

K/9

3.70

36.8

FIP

3.31

77.6

FIP-

91.0

57.9

ERA+

108.8

40.8

sWAR

2.4

46.1

of 77 qualified 1947 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.8

60.4

sWAR

43.3

98.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1929	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-115.6	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1930	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1932	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1934	50	98	93	6	17	2	0	0	8	2	10	0	1	.183	.200	.204	.404	-11.0	0.6	.191	4.6
1935	35	93	84	6	23	2	1	0	10	3	9	1	0	.274	.299	.321	.620	57.6	62.6	.289	2.3
1936	44	115	108	11	23	2	0	0	11	3	23	0	0	.213	.234	.231	.466	15.6	17.9	.219	4.2
1937	44	107	100	11	22	4	1	1	5	3	18	0	0	.220	.243	.310	.553	30.0	37.7	.251	2.4
1938	46	139	124	9	31	4	0	0	16	1	21	0	0	.250	.256	.282	.538	25.1	32.8	.247	3.0
1939	41	120	115	6	22	1	1	0	8	1	18	0	0	.191	.198	.217	.416	-6.4	3.9	.191	6.3
1940	36	112	107	9	23	5	0	0	16	1	17	0	0	.215	.222	.262	.484	9.0	21.0	.218	7.8
1941	43	96	88	3	9	0	0	0	3	2	20	0	0	.102	.132	.102	.234	-58.6	-39.6	.117	1.5
1942	36	91	86	5	12	2	0	0	3	0	30	0	0	.140	.140	.163	.302	-34.0	-15.3	.141	-1.1
1943	38	78	74	4	18	0	0	0	9	0	12	0	0	.243	.243	.243	.486	26.9	40.7	.230	-0.2
1944	37	97	88	4	10	2	0	0	2	0	20	0	0	.114	.114	.136	.250	-51.0	-28.6	.116	3.9
1945	36	94	86	3	14	1	0	0	2	1	21	0	0	.163	.172	.174	.347	-19.0	0.7	.166	2.3
1946	34	92	81	5	12	1	0	0	4	0	20	0	0	.148	.148	.160	.309	-34.9	-12.1	.143	3.3
1947	31	74	71	1	11	2	0	0	4	0	17	0	0	.155	.155	.183	.338	-26.4	-5.5	.157	2.4
1948	11	8	7	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.429	.429	.429	.857	133.7	131.4	.395	0.3
1952	24	18	17	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	7	0	0	.118	.118	.118	.235	-65.2	-36.4	.110	0.4
1953	17	7	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-34.1	-12.1	.154	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1929	3	2	0	3	0	0	0	15	11	5	6	0	9.3	10.61	2.143	5.79	3.63	79.0	43.3	-0.5
1930	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	3.0	0.00	1.333	3.00	4.88	99.8	—	0.2
1932	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	0.00	2.91	76.5	—	0.1
1934	47	32	16	20	5	15	2	259	117	149	135	15	262.3	4.01	1.555	4.63	4.58	94.5	120.9	4.6
1935	35	29	11	18	3	18	2	276	121	97	87	11	241.0	4.52	1.548	3.25	4.22	96.2	97.4	2.3
1936	43	38	17	15	2	24	4	294	137	146	156	13	285.7	4.32	1.540	4.91	4.55	94.5	111.7	4.2
1937	41	37	16	14	0	17	1	269	147	167	166	18	275.3	4.81	1.584	5.43	4.66	100.6	96.5	2.4
1938	44	40	20	16	1	31	0	334	186	192	226	30	329.7	5.08	1.596	6.17	4.72	95.7	97.1	3.0
1939	41	37	20	11	2	24	3	272	116	126	192	19	291.7	3.58	1.365	5.92	3.99	82.8	134.8	6.3
1940	36	34	21	5	0	20	3	235	83	100	164	19	264.0	2.83	1.269	5.59	3.79	81.1	165.0	7.8
1941	43	36	12	20	2	12	2	265	128	118	175	15	250.3	4.60	1.530	6.29	3.59	80.4	97.1	1.5
1942	36	34	13	19	0	17	3	264	129	106	134	6	245.7	4.73	1.506	4.91	3.09	85.0	76.8	-1.1
1943	38	27	13	13	1	8	1	220	102	113	123	12	217.3	4.22	1.532	5.09	3.63	108.4	79.6	-0.2
1944	37	33	13	15	1	18	2	243	83	82	142	11	265.0	2.82	1.226	4.82	2.99	87.5	121.3	3.9
1945	36	34	8	20	0	16	3	255	94	103	127	12	257.3	3.29	1.391	4.44	3.30	97.9	102.4	2.3
1946	34	31	14	13	1	17	3	224	77	90	114	7	236.7	2.93	1.327	4.34	3.10	91.6	115.3	3.3
1947	31	28	11	11	0	7	2	208	74	67	82	10	199.3	3.34	1.380	3.70	3.31	91.0	108.8	2.4
1948	11	4	0	4	0	0	0	35	12	13	9	1	25.7	4.21	1.870	3.16	3.89	97.4	94.9	0.3
1952	24	5	4	4	3	1	0	54	26	32	27	4	60.3	3.88	1.425	4.03	4.02	106.0	98.8	0.4
1953	17	2	2	1	0	1	0	44	21	24	16	3	38.7	4.89	1.759	3.72	5.00	118.6	86.2	0.1

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

609

1,441

1,337

253

RBI

102

266

.1892

OBP

.2000

SLG

.2169

OPS

.4169

Pitching

G (P)

600

244th-most career G (P)

483

62nd-most career GS

211

98th-most career W

222

26th-most career L

246

84th-most career CG

SHO

104th-most career SHO

3,759

55th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,082

77th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,732

6th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.984

WHIP

1.4633

K/9

4.98

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	RBI	BB	TB
1935-09-22	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	3	0	6
1940-06-01	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	0	4
1934-08-23	BAL @ ATH Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	0	1	4
1938-09-01	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	0	4
1940-07-13	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	2	0	2	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1944-05-21	CLE @ ATH Gameday	11.0	12	5	5	4	12	2
1938-08-14	DET @ BAL Gameday	9.0	1	1	0	6	12	0
1939-07-22	ATH @ DET Gameday	9.0	16	4	4	3	12	1
1936-05-15	MIN @ BAL Gameday	9.0	9	5	5	3	11	0
1939-08-11	BAL @ DET Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	3	11	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

4× 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.