Clarence Lamar
Birmingham Black Barons 1937; St. Louis Stars 1937; Jacksonville Red Caps 1938; Cleveland Bears 1939–1940; Jacksonville Red Caps 1941; Birmingham Black Barons 1942; Jacksonville Red Caps 1942; Cincinnati Clowns 1943
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 24 | 101 | 92 | 12 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .261 | .313 | .359 | .672 | 87.5 | 85.3 | .313 | 0.3 |
| 1938 | 8 | 28 | 27 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .185 | .214 | .222 | .437 | 35.3 | 25.8 | .209 | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 12 | 36 | 32 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .188 | .257 | .188 | .445 | 40.4 | 30.3 | .227 | -0.1 |
| 1940 | 28 | 102 | 90 | 12 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .200 | .273 | .289 | .562 | 72.7 | 69.4 | .281 | 0.1 |
| 1941 | 10 | 36 | 36 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .306 | .306 | .389 | .694 | 99.3 | 105.5 | .327 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 20 | 70 | 61 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .197 | .290 | .295 | .585 | 80.3 | 74.3 | .286 | 0.1 |
| 1943 | 19 | 74 | 62 | 8 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .258 | .343 | .306 | .649 | 104.1 | 99.8 | .323 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-09-02 | IC @ NYC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1940-07-07 | JRC @ HSL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1942-07-02 | CLB @ JRC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1942-07-24 | PHS @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1937-06-21 | SLS @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-08 | SLS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | SLS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-10 | SLS @ ATH 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.