Don Black
Philadelphia Athletics 1943–1945; Cleveland Indians 1946–1948
Percentile snapshot
1947 season — qualified pitchers
of 77 qualified 1947 pitchers (min 157 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 33 | 73 | 69 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 0 | .188 | .211 | .188 | .400 | 2.3 | 16.7 | .195 | -0.4 |
| 1944 | 29 | 64 | 59 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .186 | .213 | .203 | .417 | 8.1 | 19.6 | .202 | 0.3 |
| 1945 | 26 | 39 | 37 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .162 | .184 | .162 | .346 | -16.3 | 0.8 | .170 | -1.8 |
| 1946 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .300 | .500 | 25.7 | 42.3 | .226 | -0.2 |
| 1947 | 30 | 70 | 66 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .194 | .212 | .406 | 1.6 | 16.4 | .191 | 0.8 |
| 1948 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -4.0 | 9.1 | .188 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 33 | 26 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 193 | 97 | 110 | 65 | 8 | 208.0 | 4.20 | 1.457 | 2.81 | 3.90 | 117.2 | 79.2 | -0.4 |
| 1944 | 29 | 27 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 177 | 80 | 75 | 78 | 6 | 177.3 | 4.06 | 1.421 | 3.96 | 3.45 | 100.8 | 84.2 | 0.3 |
| 1945 | 26 | 18 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 154 | 72 | 69 | 47 | 5 | 125.3 | 5.17 | 1.779 | 3.38 | 3.86 | 114.7 | 65.1 | -1.8 |
| 1946 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 22 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 43.7 | 4.53 | 1.511 | 3.09 | 4.76 | 143.8 | 73.0 | -0.2 |
| 1947 | 30 | 28 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 177 | 83 | 85 | 72 | 17 | 190.7 | 3.92 | 1.374 | 3.40 | 4.18 | 120.0 | 89.0 | 0.8 |
| 1948 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 57 | 31 | 40 | 16 | 5 | 52.0 | 5.37 | 1.865 | 2.77 | 5.75 | 140.4 | 76.3 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-09-11 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1944-04-30 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1944-07-23 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1947-05-20 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1947-06-18 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-06-28 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 0 |
| 1943-09-26 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1944-08-21 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 10.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1943-05-30 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 |
| 1947-07-04 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
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.