Clarence Palm

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 176 lb

BornOctober 27, 1907 · Georgetown, TX, USA

Seasons19 (1927–1946)

Birmingham Black Barons 1927; St. Louis Stars 1928–1929; Detroit Stars 1930–1931; Chicago American Giants 1932; Homestead Grays 1932; Akron Grays / Cleveland Giants 1933; Indianapolis ABCs/Detroit Stars 1933; Homestead Grays 1934; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1934; Brooklyn Eagles 1935; New York Black Yankees 1936; New York Black Yankees 1938–1939; Philadelphia Stars 1939–1940; Homestead Grays 1941; Philadelphia Stars 1941–1942; New York Black Yankees 1943; Philadelphia Stars 1944; New York Black Yankees 1945; Philadelphia Stars 1945; New York Black Yankees 1946

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified batters

11.2

172

10.3

161

12.1

18.1

23.3

5.2

43.1

RBI

9.5

87.1

25.9

38.8

.311

62.9

OBP

.351

37.1

SLG

.435

59.5

OPS

.786

52.6

wRC+

112.8

55.2

OPS+

118.3

62.1

wOBA

.370

sWAR

1.2

34.5

of 117 qualified 1931 batters (min 170 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.5

88.4

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
1927	54	168	155	22	44	6	3	8	27	9	0	2	.284	.323	.516	.839	117.1	122.9	.374	1.3
1928	41	119	109	19	35	4	1	7	21	7	0	0	.321	.362	.569	.931	142.3	150.5	.414	1.3
1929	65	223	201	36	67	13	3	17	60	17	1	3	.333	.388	.682	1.070	159.5	173.4	.463	3.1
1930	48	156	143	25	43	7	2	6	33	9	0	5	.301	.342	.503	.846	116.7	122.3	.377	1.2
1931	42	172	161	23	50	9	1	3	32	10	0	3	.311	.351	.435	.786	112.8	118.3	.370	1.2
1932	5	14	14	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-12.1	-16.9	.136	-0.1
1933	22	79	75	7	21	4	3	1	12	3	0	0	.280	.308	.453	.761	101.5	105.3	.338	0.4
1934	18	48	44	6	10	2	2	1	6	3	0	0	.227	.292	.432	.723	98.6	101.5	.331	0.2
1935	41	142	130	22	37	5	2	3	27	11	0	2	.285	.340	.423	.764	91.5	91.5	.347	0.5
1936	23	65	57	12	20	2	0	1	11	5	0	6	.351	.413	.439	.851	117.1	117.5	.396	0.5
1938	17	63	56	9	13	5	0	2	12	5	1	0	.232	.295	.429	.724	87.2	89.0	.327	0.2
1939	21	67	66	8	20	2	0	0	10	1	0	0	.303	.313	.333	.647	73.3	71.5	.300	0.1
1940	22	68	56	6	18	1	0	1	10	10	0	0	.321	.424	.393	.817	116.8	113.7	.394	0.5
1941	19	65	54	7	16	2	0	1	4	11	0	1	.296	.415	.389	.804	128.9	127.1	.387	0.6
1942	29	95	84	8	18	4	0	1	12	8	1	0	.214	.283	.298	.580	69.7	65.5	.283	0.2
1943	9	24	20	0	5	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.250	.348	.250	.598	73.9	60.8	.309	0.1
1944	15	37	33	1	5	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	.152	.194	.152	.346	3.6	-6.5	.174	-0.3
1945	7	24	18	3	5	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	.278	.435	.278	.713	117.2	99.2	.372	0.2
1946	12	24	20	1	6	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	.300	.417	.300	.717	111.2	101.4	.367	0.2

Career totals

510

1,653

1,496

216

435

RBI

286

123

.2908

OBP

.3457

SLG

.4619

OPS

.8076

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	TB
1931-05-18	CAG @ DTS Gameday	5	3	5	3	0	0	3	8
1930-07-18	DTS @ MEM Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	8
1933-07-27	IND @ AKR Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	1	3	7
1931-05-09	DTS @ LBC Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	3	6
1938-05-28	BEG @ NBY Gameday	4	2	3	3	0	0	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-26	DTS @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-27	DTS @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-27	DTS @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-29	DTS @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-29	DTS @ CAG 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.