Buster Haywood
Birmingham Black Barons 1940; New York Cubans 1942; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1944–1947; Indianapolis Clowns 1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 24.5 | 20.7 | .194 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 15 | 50 | 43 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .209 | .306 | .256 | .562 | 70.6 | 60.9 | .284 | 0.1 |
| 1943 | 31 | 98 | 85 | 7 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .282 | .358 | .318 | .676 | 111.0 | 107.9 | .335 | 0.7 |
| 1944 | 18 | 55 | 52 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .241 | .269 | .510 | 57.1 | 58.0 | .248 | 0.0 |
| 1945 | 14 | 44 | 41 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .195 | .250 | .195 | .445 | 42.4 | 31.3 | .223 | -0.1 |
| 1946 | 17 | 59 | 48 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .146 | .268 | .208 | .476 | 55.2 | 40.8 | .254 | 0.0 |
| 1947 | 23 | 75 | 60 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .375 | .317 | .692 | 95.3 | 86.9 | .349 | 0.3 |
| 1948 | 14 | 30 | 29 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .241 | .267 | .241 | .508 | 42.3 | 36.7 | .244 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-07-19 | MEM @ IC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1942-05-17 | NYC @ NBY Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-09-21 | IC @ KCM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 1943-08-24 | KCM @ IC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943-08-06 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-04-14 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-21 | BEG @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-28 | BBB @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.