Bus Clarkson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 210 lb

BornMarch 13, 1915 · Hopkins, SC, USA

MLB debutApril 30, 1952

Final gameJune 22, 1952

Seasons6 (1938–1952)

Pittsburgh Crawfords 1938; Toledo Crawfords 1939; Newark Eagles 1940; Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940; Homestead Grays 1942; Newark Eagles 1942; Philadelphia Stars 1942; Philadelphia Stars 1946; Boston Braves 1952

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

3.1

174

4.1

152

3.1

8.2

7.2

12.4

3.1

25.8

RBI

24.7

18.6

83.5

8.2

.309

76.3

OBP

.393

84.5

SLG

.408

55.7

OPS

.801

wRC+

122.3

64.9

OPS+

123.7

wOBA

.387

70.1

sWAR

1.1

29.9

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 173 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.4

83.6

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
1938	22	82	70	8	17	4	0	4	14	11	0	0	.243	.346	.471	.817	110.0	113.8	.371	0.5
1939	19	76	68	18	24	7	1	2	17	7	0	3	.353	.413	.574	.987	162.0	177.3	.451	0.9
1940	29	127	113	26	39	6	2	9	35	13	0	2	.345	.417	.673	1.090	168.0	190.4	.485	1.8
1942	62	261	224	52	70	21	5	8	44	36	5	7	.313	.408	.558	.966	158.2	174.7	.444	3.3
1946	42	174	152	27	47	7	1	2	34	21	0	1	.309	.393	.408	.801	122.3	123.7	.387	1.1
1952	14	28	25	3	5	0	0	0	1	3	3	0	.200	.286	.200	.486	41.6	40.1	.244	-0.1

Career totals

188

748

652

134

202

RBI

145

.3098

OBP

.3952

SLG

.5215

OPS

.9167

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
1940-06-30	NE @ BEG Gameday	5	4	5	1	1	1	3	1	11
1940-06-16	NE @ HOM Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	6	0	8
1942-07-01	BEG @ PHS Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	4	1	7
1942-05-10	PHS @ BEG Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7
1940-05-26	CAG @ TIC Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	3	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-05-15	NE @ TIC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-05-17	TIC @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-05-19	TIC @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-05-21	BEG @ TIC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-05-22	BEG @ TIC 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

1× 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.