Curtis Henderson
Homestead Grays 1936; New York Black Yankees 1937; Washington Black Senators 1938; Toledo Crawfords 1939; Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940; Chicago American Giants 1941; Philadelphia Stars 1941; New York Black Yankees 1942; New York Black Yankees 1946
Percentile snapshot
1939 season — qualified batters
of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 58 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .294 | .250 | .544 | 47.7 | 40.2 | .263 | 0.0 |
| 1937 | 17 | 53 | 48 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .188 | .204 | .229 | .433 | 19.0 | 11.4 | .198 | -0.3 |
| 1938 | 10 | 36 | 28 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .273 | .143 | .416 | 35.4 | 12.6 | .226 | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 16 | 60 | 52 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .339 | .385 | .724 | 104.9 | 106.1 | .341 | 0.3 |
| 1940 | 14 | 58 | 53 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | .208 | .276 | .302 | .578 | 76.2 | 74.3 | .288 | 0.1 |
| 1941 | 19 | 73 | 66 | 7 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | .242 | .306 | .348 | .654 | 91.4 | 91.0 | .314 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .429 | .429 | .429 | .857 | 137.5 | 144.7 | .406 | 0.1 |
| 1946 | 8 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .417 | .381 | .798 | 124.3 | 123.2 | .391 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-04-13 | CAG @ HSL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1937-05-16 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1946-06-18 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1940-07-21 | TIC @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1940-05-26 | CAG @ TIC Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-05-09 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-10 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-10 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-14 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-16 | HOM @ NYC 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.