Charlie Blackwell
St. Louis Giants 1916; Indianapolis ABCs 1917; St. Louis Giants 1920–1921; St. Louis Stars 1922–1924; Birmingham Black Barons 1925; St. Louis Stars 1925; Detroit Stars 1926; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1928
Percentile snapshot
1926 season — qualified batters
of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 303 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 26 | 110 | 97 | 15 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .278 | .358 | .361 | .719 | 115.0 | 116.7 | .358 | 0.5 |
| 1917 | 38 | 170 | 151 | 27 | 38 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .252 | .323 | .364 | .688 | 121.9 | 125.3 | .341 | 0.9 |
| 1920 | 57 | 248 | 212 | 40 | 66 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 22 | 0 | 15 | 0 | .311 | .397 | .429 | .826 | 142.6 | 147.6 | .403 | 2.3 |
| 1921 | 64 | 277 | 236 | 74 | 102 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 74 | 26 | 1 | 25 | 1 | .432 | .504 | .716 | 1.220 | 217.1 | 242.1 | .551 | 4.9 |
| 1922 | 63 | 278 | 235 | 51 | 84 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 54 | 39 | 1 | 14 | 0 | .357 | .451 | .545 | .996 | 156.9 | 166.5 | .455 | 2.9 |
| 1923 | 68 | 282 | 238 | 46 | 73 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 46 | 34 | 0 | 11 | 0 | .307 | .402 | .479 | .881 | 125.6 | 129.0 | .406 | 1.8 |
| 1924 | 48 | 188 | 159 | 33 | 40 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .252 | .357 | .384 | .740 | 104.6 | 102.9 | .356 | 0.6 |
| 1925 | 66 | 297 | 261 | 62 | 80 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 44 | 32 | 0 | 10 | 0 | .307 | .382 | .467 | .850 | 123.3 | 127.0 | .386 | 1.6 |
| 1926 | 85 | 355 | 290 | 48 | 88 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 49 | 47 | 1 | 14 | 3 | .303 | .414 | .424 | .839 | 119.0 | 116.5 | .395 | 1.7 |
| 1928 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .300 | .556 | .856 | 107.6 | 116.2 | .372 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-05-02 | SLS @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1923-05-09 | SLS @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 1922-08-29 | CUB @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1921-07-31 | CHG @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1923-05-23 | CAG @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-05-09 | KCM @ SLS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-10 | KCM @ SLS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-25 | ABC @ SLS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-26 | ABC @ SLS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-27 | ABC @ SLS 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.