MLB / Players

Bonnie Serrell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornMarch 9, 1920 · Natchez, LA, USA

Seasons5 (1941–1945)

Chicago American Giants 1941; Kansas City Monarchs 1942–1945

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

31.9

215

31.2

200

31.9

29.7

31.9

46.4

60.1

26.1

RBI

30.4

15.9

70.3

31.9

.295

77.5

OBP

.338

43.5

SLG

.440

84.8

OPS

.778

wRC+

131.2

81.9

OPS+

138.2

88.4

wOBA

.368

66.7

sWAR

1.7

56.5

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 155 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.6

80.7

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	3	13	13	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	-4.2	-8.6	.147	-0.2
1942	45	175	155	23	52	10	4	4	25	14	2	3	1	.335	.398	.529	.927	163.2	174.4	.428	1.9
1943	54	215	200	31	59	16	5	1	25	12	0	3	0	.295	.338	.440	.778	131.2	138.2	.368	1.7
1944	50	205	187	39	60	10	5	4	24	15	0	6	0	.321	.373	.492	.865	159.1	167.4	.409	2.2
1945	3	13	11	3	2	0	1	0	4	1	0	1	0	.182	.250	.364	.614	78.9	78.3	.288	0.0

Career totals

155

621

566

175

RBI

.3092

OBP

.3605

SLG

.4735

OPS

.8340

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
1944-08-28	KCM @ BBB Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	1	5	10
1942-07-05	KCM @ BBB Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	3	9
1942-07-21	KCM @ HOM Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	1	2	7
1943-07-11	BBB @ KCM Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	2	6
1944-06-30	KCM @ BEG Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	0	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-05-11	CAG @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-05-11	CAG @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-05-12	CAG @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-05-14	MEM @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-05-18	KCM @ 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

2× 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.