Charlie Shields
Chicago American Giants 1941–1942; New York Cubans 1942; Chicago American Giants 1943; Homestead Grays 1943
Percentile snapshot
1942 season — qualified pitchers
of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 44 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -89.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1942 | 12 | 25 | 24 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .292 | .292 | .542 | .833 | 132.1 | 144.9 | .376 | 0.2 |
| 1943 | 14 | 40 | 39 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .275 | .410 | .685 | 91.5 | 96.7 | .318 | 1.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5.7 | 6.35 | 1.941 | 3.18 | 4.99 | 134.5 | 58.4 | -0.1 |
| 1942 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 58 | 27 | 31 | 37 | 0 | 50.0 | 4.86 | 1.780 | 6.66 | 4.07 | 100.7 | 83.1 | 0.2 |
| 1943 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 48 | 21 | 32 | 28 | 1 | 53.0 | 3.57 | 1.509 | 4.75 | 4.83 | 110.5 | 121.2 | 1.1 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-08-26 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1942-08-18 | HOM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1942-07-02 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1943-04-25 | NE @ HOM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1942-07-09 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-07-09 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1943-08-26 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 8.1 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1943-04-25 | NE @ HOM Gameday | 7.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 1943-05-10 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 5.1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| 1942-07-02 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 4.2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 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.