Dan Bankhead

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 184 lb

BornMay 3, 1920 · Empire, AL, USA

MLB debutAugust 26, 1947

Final gameJuly 18, 1951

Seasons9 (1940–1951)

Birmingham Black Barons 1940–1944; Memphis Red Sox 1946; Brooklyn Dodgers 1947; Memphis Red Sox 1947; Brooklyn Dodgers 1950–1951

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified pitchers

8.2

7.2

28.9

95.9

16.5

SHO

54.6

97.9

91.8

18.6

91.8

69.3

17.5

ERA

1.95

WHIP

.837

100

K/9

4.93

79.4

FIP

3.62

62.9

FIP-

97.6

51.5

ERA+

190.6

97.9

sWAR

2.2

55.7

of 98 qualified 1941 pitchers (min 51 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.6

72.5

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
1940	11	23	21	2	9	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	.429	.455	.429	.883	156.1	166.4	.432	1.0
1941	11	27	20	2	4	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	.200	.304	.250	.554	75.1	65.0	.284	2.2
1942	9	24	21	2	7	1	0	0	2	3	0	1	.333	.417	.381	.798	138.2	138.4	.385	0.8
1943	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-92.1	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1944	2	5	5	4	4	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	.800	.800	1.200	2.000	492.6	517.8	.938	0.5
1946	4	12	11	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.182	.250	.182	.432	39.3	27.7	.225	0.1
1947	12	22	19	3	1	0	0	1	2	2	1	1	.053	.182	.211	.392	15.5	6.5	.198	0.3
1950	41	41	39	2	9	1	0	0	1	1	5	0	.231	.268	.256	.525	31.8	38.2	.245	-0.5
1951	15	2	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.2	-100.0	.000	-1.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1940	8	6	4	1	0	4	0	37	18	12	23	1	45.3	3.57	1.081	4.57	3.93	95.1	115.6	1.0
1941	11	7	7	1	0	5	2	41	15	17	38	1	69.3	1.95	.837	4.93	3.62	97.6	190.6	2.2
1942	5	4	2	1	0	1	1	26	8	14	12	0	25.7	2.81	1.558	4.21	4.36	107.6	144.5	0.8
1943	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	2	2	0	3.0	6.00	2.000	6.00	4.16	110.5	62.7	-0.1
1944	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	6	2	3	15	0	9.7	1.86	.931	13.97	1.03	30.6	180.8	0.5
1946	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	18	10	11	24	0	20.3	4.43	1.426	10.62	3.28	80.0	92.6	0.1
1947	9	3	1	1	1	3	0	50	26	27	40	1	47.7	4.91	1.615	7.55	4.16	88.7	97.1	0.3
1950	41	12	9	4	3	2	1	119	79	88	96	16	129.3	5.50	1.601	6.68	4.67	111.7	76.0	-0.5
1951	7	1	0	1	0	0	0	27	24	14	9	5	14.0	15.43	2.929	5.79	8.74	219.0	25.9	-1.7

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

106

158

140

RBI

.2571

OBP

.3203

SLG

.3143

OPS

.6346

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

364

SO (P)

259

BB allowed

188

ERA

4.545

WHIP

1.4163

K/9

6.40

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
1944-06-04	BBB @ NBY Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	0	3	0	5
1947-08-26	PIT @ LAD Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	4
1950-06-18	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	3
1941-06-08	MEM @ BBB Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	2	1	3
1942-09-07	CAG @ BBB Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1944-06-04	BBB @ NBY Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	3	14
1946-08-20	MEM @ KCM Gameday	8.0	8	5	4	6	11
1947-07-14	MEM @ HOM Gameday	9.0	5	4	3	4	10
1947-08-10	MEM @ NBY Gameday	12.0	4	2	2	3	9
1947-06-12	MEM @ CAG Gameday	9.0	15	9	7	6	8

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

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.