Boom-Boom Beck
St. Louis Browns 1924; St. Louis Browns 1927–1928; Brooklyn Dodgers 1933–1934; Philadelphia Phillies 1939–1942; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1943; Detroit Tigers 1944; Cincinnati Reds 1945; Pittsburgh Pirates 1945
Percentile snapshot
1939 season — qualified pitchers
of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 152 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1927 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 18.3 | 27.2 | .233 | 0.0 |
| 1928 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .429 | .429 | .429 | .857 | 123.8 | 122.2 | .397 | 0.5 |
| 1933 | 43 | 98 | 95 | 5 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .189 | .198 | .242 | .440 | 14.6 | 26.7 | .202 | 1.7 |
| 1934 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .278 | .294 | .572 | 53.7 | 55.8 | .266 | -1.6 |
| 1939 | 34 | 73 | 68 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .132 | .145 | .176 | .321 | -31.7 | -14.2 | .148 | -0.2 |
| 1940 | 29 | 39 | 36 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .056 | .056 | .083 | .139 | -84.3 | -62.0 | .062 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 34 | 26 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .120 | .120 | .120 | .240 | -50.7 | -32.0 | .112 | -0.4 |
| 1942 | 27 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .417 | .750 | 116.4 | 121.1 | .348 | -0.3 |
| 1943 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 201.5 | 191.9 | .474 | -0.9 |
| 1944 | 28 | 23 | 22 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .318 | .318 | .455 | .773 | 110.5 | 115.7 | .355 | 0.6 |
| 1945 | 25 | 38 | 30 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .194 | .167 | .360 | -8.9 | 0.4 | .177 | 2.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | 3.000 | 0.00 | 6.13 | 143.6 | — | 0.1 |
| 1927 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 11.3 | 5.56 | 1.765 | 4.76 | 3.59 | 83.1 | 77.7 | 0.0 |
| 1928 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 24 | 20 | 17 | 4 | 49.0 | 4.41 | 1.469 | 3.12 | 4.87 | 116.8 | 94.5 | 0.5 |
| 1933 | 43 | 35 | 12 | 20 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 270 | 101 | 69 | 89 | 9 | 257.0 | 3.54 | 1.319 | 3.12 | 3.26 | 100.3 | 92.0 | 1.7 |
| 1934 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 72 | 47 | 32 | 24 | 6 | 57.0 | 7.42 | 1.825 | 3.79 | 5.56 | 141.2 | 53.1 | -1.6 |
| 1939 | 34 | 16 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 203 | 96 | 64 | 77 | 11 | 182.7 | 4.73 | 1.462 | 3.79 | 3.85 | 98.0 | 83.1 | -0.2 |
| 1940 | 29 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 147 | 62 | 41 | 38 | 13 | 129.3 | 4.31 | 1.454 | 2.64 | 4.63 | 121.2 | 88.5 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 34 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 104 | 49 | 35 | 34 | 8 | 95.3 | 4.63 | 1.458 | 3.21 | 4.11 | 114.0 | 77.9 | -0.4 |
| 1942 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 28 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 53.0 | 4.75 | 1.623 | 1.70 | 3.91 | 120.3 | 68.3 | -0.3 |
| 1943 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13.7 | 9.88 | 2.122 | 1.98 | 4.52 | 136.8 | 33.5 | -0.9 |
| 1944 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 32 | 27 | 25 | 5 | 74.0 | 3.89 | 1.270 | 3.04 | 3.97 | 111.8 | 91.2 | 0.6 |
| 1945 | 25 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 96 | 33 | 26 | 29 | 2 | 110.7 | 2.68 | 1.102 | 2.36 | 3.08 | 80.6 | 142.5 | 2.5 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-09-16 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1928-05-01 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1944-08-22 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1933-06-29 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1933-08-05 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928-05-28 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1939-09-04 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 8.0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1939-06-04 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 6.1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1939-06-11 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 10.2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1933-04-19 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 10.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 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.