Boots McClain
Indianapolis ABCs 1920; Dayton Marcos 1920; Columbus Buckeyes 1921; Cleveland Tate Stars 1922; Detroit Stars 1923; Toledo Tigers 1923; Cleveland Browns 1924; Dayton Marcos 1926
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 18 | 67 | 54 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .222 | .354 | .259 | .613 | 95.7 | 80.8 | .323 | 0.3 |
| 1921 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -85.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1922 | 32 | 112 | 102 | 18 | 23 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .225 | .295 | .333 | .628 | 72.8 | 68.5 | .296 | 0.1 |
| 1923 | 36 | 158 | 147 | 19 | 38 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .259 | .297 | .367 | .664 | 73.5 | 72.5 | .306 | 0.1 |
| 1924 | 27 | 117 | 103 | 13 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .194 | .265 | .282 | .547 | 56.2 | 50.0 | .266 | -0.2 |
| 1926 | 11 | 39 | 37 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .162 | .184 | .162 | .346 | -4.2 | -10.1 | .166 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-07-07 | TOL @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1923-07-11 | TOL @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1923-06-23 | TOL @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1923-07-01 | TOL @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1922-07-04 | PTK @ CTS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-05-02 | CHG @ ABC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-02 | CHG @ ABC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-09 | CUB @ ABC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-09 | CUB @ ABC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-10 | CUB @ ABC 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.