Cliff Blackmon
Chicago American Giants 1937; Birmingham Black Barons 1938; Indianapolis ABCs/Atlanta Black Crackers 1939; Memphis Red Sox 1939; Homestead Grays 1941; New York Cubans 1941; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1941
Percentile snapshot
1938 season — qualified pitchers
of 95 qualified 1938 pitchers (min 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 11 | 21 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .250 | .235 | .485 | 52.3 | 34.8 | .244 | 0.0 |
| 1938 | 13 | 32 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .219 | .200 | .419 | 34.0 | 21.1 | .207 | -0.6 |
| 1939 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 19.0 | -24.1 | .190 | -0.9 |
| 1941 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -87.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 71 | 33 | 26 | 27 | 2 | 54.0 | 5.50 | 1.796 | 4.50 | 5.01 | 112.0 | 81.4 | 0.0 |
| 1938 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 81 | 51 | 43 | 42 | 2 | 77.0 | 5.96 | 1.610 | 4.91 | 4.95 | 116.0 | 71.5 | -0.6 |
| 1939 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 18.0 | 9.50 | 2.333 | 4.50 | 5.45 | 137.7 | 41.7 | -0.9 |
| 1941 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7.3 | 7.36 | 2.455 | 8.59 | 4.56 | 113.5 | 54.7 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-13 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1938-08-20 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1938-06-05 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1937-07-18 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1938-05-17 | BBB @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-07-11 | ATH @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1938-07-08 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 0 |
| 1941-08-07 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 4.0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1938-08-20 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| 1938-05-29 | BBB @ HSL Gameday | 7.2 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 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.