Clarence Smith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

Seasons10 (1921–1933)

Columbus Buckeyes 1921; Detroit Stars 1922–1925; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1927; Birmingham Black Barons 1929–1930; Baltimore Black Sox 1930; Chicago Columbia Giants 1931; Cleveland Cubs 1931; Indianapolis ABCs/Detroit Stars 1933

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

24.4

299

23.2

277

32.3

17.7

37.8

16.5

57.9

52.4

RBI

73.2

34.8

.350

82.3

OBP

.371

SLG

.502

73.8

OPS

.872

65.9

wRC+

120.5

68.3

OPS+

125.4

71.3

wOBA

.390

60.4

sWAR

1.7

49.4

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 275 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.1

85.9

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1921	41	181	169	20	46	6	5	0	22	6	1	11	0	.272	.297	.367	.664	84.8	86.8	.310	0.3
1922	67	284	261	47	88	18	6	5	59	14	1	13	0	.337	.373	.510	.883	127.7	135.3	.399	1.7
1923	65	248	226	43	71	4	2	7	35	10	0	0	0	.314	.346	.442	.788	101.4	104.4	.360	0.6
1924	63	277	259	41	78	5	6	3	40	16	0	6	0	.301	.342	.402	.743	100.8	103.3	.349	0.6
1925	92	404	378	83	131	25	10	5	82	17	0	19	0	.347	.375	.505	.880	127.4	134.2	.394	2.4
1927	77	331	297	61	92	16	8	2	57	26	0	5	1	.310	.365	.438	.803	107.6	109.9	.373	1.0
1929	71	299	277	39	97	10	7	6	53	7	0	17	0	.350	.371	.502	.872	120.5	125.4	.390	1.7
1930	54	202	184	32	64	5	7	0	22	12	1	14	0	.348	.388	.451	.839	108.7	112.3	.382	0.9
1931	18	81	71	10	21	3	0	1	10	8	0	0	0	.296	.375	.380	.755	110.9	110.6	.367	0.3
1933	27	94	87	11	21	2	1	0	11	5	0	7	0	.241	.283	.287	.570	61.4	56.4	.266	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1924	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	4	0	0	3.0	9.00	2.333	0.00	7.58	177.1	47.6	0.6
1927	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	3	1	0	2.0	13.50	3.500	4.50	6.90	150.6	33.9	1.0

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

575

2,401

2,209

387

709

RBI

391

121

.3210

OBP

.3576

SLG

.4500

OPS

.8076

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

10.800

WHIP

2.8000

K/9

1.80

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
1923-06-19	MIL @ DTS Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1922-07-01	DTS @ KCM Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	4	0	6
1922-06-05	PTK @ DTS Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	3	1	5
1921-07-13	DTS @ COL Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	0	2	0	5
1922-07-23	KCM @ DTS Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	0	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1921-04-30	CHG @ COL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-05-01	CHG @ COL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-05-07	COL @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-05-08	COL @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-05-09	COL @ ABC 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.