MLB / Players

Buck Leonard

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 8, 1907 · Rocky Mount, NC, USA

Final gameSeptember 29, 1948

Seasons15 (1934–1948)

Homestead Grays 1934–1948

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

10.3

209

12.4

169

5.2

17.5

14.4

8.2

39.2

60.8

RBI

40.2

45.4

83.5

36.1

.331

91.8

OBP

.459

SLG

.538

92.8

OPS

.998

94.8

wRC+

167.2

95.9

OPS+

178.1

94.8

wOBA

.470

96.9

sWAR

2.2

54.6

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 179 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

28.7

96.3

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
1934	20	86	78	12	26	3	0	3	17	6	0	0	.333	.381	.487	.868	140.5	145.2	.389	0.6
1935	40	179	157	30	61	18	3	4	36	17	3	5	.389	.451	.618	1.069	156.6	167.0	.473	1.6
1936	35	156	124	35	43	3	4	6	34	29	0	2	.347	.471	.581	1.051	158.2	167.1	.475	1.5
1937	42	199	170	54	64	15	3	13	55	25	1	2	.376	.462	.729	1.191	182.0	201.6	.512	2.6
1938	43	182	153	42	64	12	5	9	53	25	0	1	.418	.500	.739	1.239	198.2	223.2	.542	2.8
1939	32	141	118	35	44	11	1	11	48	19	1	2	.373	.457	.763	1.219	191.4	218.5	.528	2.1
1940	54	228	185	49	70	14	5	8	42	39	3	1	.378	.491	.638	1.129	175.1	192.2	.508	2.8
1941	57	241	196	60	68	12	7	13	50	40	2	5	.347	.462	.679	1.141	194.8	216.7	.505	3.4
1942	38	149	125	19	27	6	1	0	21	24	0	3	.216	.342	.280	.622	88.4	78.3	.317	0.0
1943	68	310	255	71	84	18	8	4	61	49	1	2	.329	.443	.510	.953	144.9	154.2	.451	2.4
1944	50	226	184	49	63	16	7	7	40	31	0	1	.342	.448	.620	1.068	169.5	184.0	.483	2.6
1945	40	179	155	31	53	6	3	5	34	22	3	0	.342	.430	.516	.946	157.1	164.5	.443	1.7
1946	50	209	169	37	56	6	4	7	45	39	0	3	.331	.459	.538	.998	167.2	178.1	.470	2.2
1947	35	138	109	20	33	5	1	6	24	28	0	4	.303	.449	.532	.981	161.3	167.9	.458	1.3
1948	37	150	122	23	34	8	0	4	18	26	0	1	.279	.413	.443	.856	147.6	147.6	.411	1.1

Career totals

641

2,773

2,300

567

790

153

100

RBI

578

419

.3435

OBP

.4486

SLG

.5857

OPS

1.0343

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
1935-07-13	HOM @ PHS Gameday	5	3	5	0	1	1	2	0	10
1938-05-21	HOM @ PHS Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	5	0	10
1935-06-17	HOM @ NE Gameday	4	3	4	3	0	1	2	0	10
1936-05-17	HOM @ NYC Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	4	1	10
1939-05-27	PHS @ HOM Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	6	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-05-04	PHS @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-05-05	PHS @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-05-11	HOM @ ND Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-05-12	HOM @ ND Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-05-12	HOM @ ND 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

Hall of Fame, 1972 (Negro League)

11× 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.