Chester Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 180 lb

BornMay 25, 1906 · Beaumont, TX, USA

Seasons12 (1930–1942)

Chicago American Giants 1930; Memphis Red Sox 1930; Indianapolis ABCs 1931–1932; Homestead Grays 1932; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1932; Homestead Grays 1933; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1933–1938; Philadelphia Stars 1939; Homestead Grays 1941–1942

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified batters

35.6

214

30.8

197

31.5

18.5

24.7

26.7

10.3

RBI

21.9

18.5

87.7

58.2

39.7

.228

OBP

.283

8.2

SLG

.279

7.5

OPS

.562

7.5

wRC+

65.2

7.5

OPS+

60.5

6.2

wOBA

.275

7.5

sWAR

0.0

8.2

of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 105 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.0

82.9

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
1930	73	280	254	39	72	9	9	2	30	14	0	4	.283	.323	.413	.737	93.6	95.1	.335	1.0
1931	35	149	140	16	37	6	1	0	19	6	0	6	.264	.299	.321	.621	73.4	72.9	.298	0.1
1932	43	178	161	26	49	7	1	0	13	8	0	2	.304	.341	.360	.701	89.1	88.3	.332	0.6
1933	56	222	211	22	61	11	5	1	24	7	0	0	.289	.312	.403	.715	92.6	94.4	.322	0.8
1934	68	265	234	40	75	12	5	3	36	15	0	9	.321	.364	.453	.817	122.8	128.2	.381	1.9
1935	50	202	186	25	44	5	1	2	27	10	2	3	.237	.283	.306	.589	54.0	48.7	.274	-0.4
1936	46	176	156	21	45	10	1	1	27	13	0	1	.288	.347	.385	.732	88.3	86.6	.341	0.5
1937	35	150	141	11	39	6	2	0	16	6	0	5	.277	.306	.348	.654	71.0	68.0	.298	0.1
1938	39	163	147	23	45	7	5	0	17	11	0	2	.306	.354	.422	.776	102.4	104.2	.356	0.8
1939	44	194	179	32	59	10	3	1	21	14	0	1	.330	.378	.436	.814	113.0	115.4	.377	1.3
1941	56	244	210	36	51	4	1	0	27	26	1	6	.243	.329	.271	.601	78.4	69.7	.296	0.4
1942	56	214	197	21	45	8	1	0	20	14	0	5	.228	.283	.279	.562	65.2	60.5	.275	0.0

Career totals

601

2,437

2,216

312

622

RBI

277

144

.2807

OBP

.3271

SLG

.3687

OPS

.6958

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
1934-08-04	TIC @ PBG Gameday	6	2	4	1	1	1	3	0	10
1934-05-22	PHS @ TIC Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1936-07-11	BEG @ TIC Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	4	0	7
1930-09-01	MEM @ CAG Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	3	1	7
1934-06-10	TIC @ PHS Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	0	3	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-25	CUB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-26	CUB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-26	DTS @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-27	CUB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-27	CUB @ MEM 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

4× 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.