MLB / Players

Branch Russell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornOctober 9, 1895 · South Boston, VA, USA

Seasons11 (1922–1932)

Kansas City Monarchs 1922; St. Louis Stars 1922–1931; Cleveland Stars 1932

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified batters

2.4

4.2

22.3

13.9

RBI

3.6

21.7

65.7

18.1

27.7

.333

85.5

OBP

.452

98.2

SLG

.490

83.1

OPS

.942

92.2

wRC+

155.4

92.2

OPS+

159.9

92.8

wOBA

.449

95.8

sWAR

0.6

28.9

of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 52 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.2

86.9

OPS+

129.1

89.8

sWAR

21.0

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1922	48	208	184	43	54	3	6	3	30	16	1	7	.293	.353	.424	.777	106.3	108.4	.359	0.9
1923	81	354	315	64	89	9	9	5	45	25	0	7	.283	.345	.416	.761	97.1	97.7	.352	1.1
1924	69	309	272	56	83	20	4	7	44	27	1	12	.305	.376	.485	.862	128.2	135.0	.400	2.1
1925	81	333	278	62	85	13	11	8	63	51	0	8	.306	.413	.518	.931	141.6	148.7	.420	2.7
1926	86	377	298	73	91	18	10	8	59	53	0	10	.305	.420	.513	.934	135.8	139.4	.426	2.7
1927	96	440	390	78	125	17	10	10	53	40	0	10	.321	.388	.492	.880	133.4	135.7	.401	3.1
1928	78	361	308	62	92	14	12	3	43	30	2	4	.299	.367	.451	.818	120.1	122.1	.375	1.8
1929	91	405	324	84	102	17	10	2	47	58	0	6	.315	.426	.448	.874	129.0	128.2	.406	2.6
1930	90	410	352	91	117	13	3	10	71	42	1	9	.332	.408	.472	.880	130.8	133.5	.403	2.7
1931	31	132	109	16	34	6	0	1	23	17	0	5	.312	.409	.394	.804	125.1	124.3	.393	0.7
1932	16	64	51	6	17	6	1	0	6	11	0	2	.333	.452	.490	.942	155.4	159.9	.449	0.6

Career totals

767

3,393

2,881

635

889

136

319th-most career 3B

RBI

484

370

.3086

129th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3931

98th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4679

305th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8610

146th-highest career OPS

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
1930-05-13	CAG @ SLS Gameday	6	2	5	1	1	0	4	0	8
1930-06-22	SLS @ DTS Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7
1922-08-28	CUB @ SLS Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	1	2	0	7
1930-07-27	MEM @ SLS Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	4	0	6
1930-06-08	BEG @ SLS Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-05-06	KCM @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-05-07	SLS @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-05-07	SLS @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-05-07	KCM @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-05-08	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.