Don Kolloway
Chicago White Sox 1940–1943; Chicago White Sox 1946–1949; Detroit Tigers 1949–1952; Philadelphia Athletics 1953
Percentile snapshot
1950 season — qualified batters
of 84 qualified 1950 batters (min 486 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 10 | 40 | 40 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .225 | .225 | .250 | .475 | 14.2 | 23.6 | .215 | -0.3 |
| 1941 | 71 | 291 | 280 | 33 | 76 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 4 | .271 | .292 | .354 | .645 | 66.2 | 72.1 | .296 | -0.2 |
| 1942 | 147 | 644 | 601 | 72 | 164 | 40 | 4 | 3 | 60 | 30 | 39 | 16 | 14 | .273 | .311 | .368 | .678 | 89.0 | 93.3 | .319 | 1.2 |
| 1943 | 85 | 360 | 348 | 29 | 75 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 33 | 9 | 30 | 11 | 7 | .216 | .235 | .287 | .523 | 40.6 | 52.8 | .247 | -1.2 |
| 1946 | 123 | 500 | 482 | 45 | 135 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 53 | 9 | 29 | 14 | 6 | .280 | .293 | .363 | .656 | 77.6 | 85.4 | .302 | 0.5 |
| 1947 | 124 | 509 | 485 | 49 | 135 | 25 | 4 | 2 | 35 | 17 | 34 | 11 | 4 | .278 | .303 | .359 | .662 | 79.5 | 86.1 | .309 | 0.5 |
| 1948 | 119 | 438 | 417 | 60 | 114 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 38 | 18 | 18 | 2 | 4 | .273 | .303 | .369 | .673 | 73.9 | 80.4 | .314 | 0.2 |
| 1949 | 130 | 542 | 487 | 71 | 142 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 47 | 49 | 26 | 7 | 7 | .292 | .359 | .355 | .714 | 90.0 | 90.4 | .345 | 0.7 |
| 1950 | 125 | 501 | 467 | 55 | 135 | 20 | 4 | 6 | 62 | 29 | 28 | 1 | 3 | .289 | .331 | .388 | .718 | 78.1 | 82.0 | .333 | -0.7 |
| 1951 | 78 | 232 | 212 | 28 | 54 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 3 | .255 | .307 | .302 | .609 | 62.1 | 64.8 | .291 | -0.8 |
| 1952 | 65 | 186 | 173 | 19 | 42 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 2 | .243 | .280 | .329 | .610 | 59.2 | 67.0 | .285 | -0.6 |
| 1953 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-06-28 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1948-07-18 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1949-05-13 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1947-09-15 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1949-05-12 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-04-16 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-20 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-21 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-22 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-24 | DET @ CWS 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.