Don Pelham
HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 167 lb
BornApril 14, 1908 · Hawthorne, FL, USA
Seasons1 (1938–1938)
Atlanta Black Crackers 1938
Percentile snapshot
1938 season — qualified batters
of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 167 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 42 | 168 | 158 | 19 | 38 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .241 | .277 | .354 | .632 | 81.2 | 81.1 | .295 | 0.1 |
Career totals
G
42
PA
168
AB
158
R
19
H
38
2B
7
3B
4
HR
1
RBI
25
BB
7
SO
3
SB
1
BA
.2405
OBP
.2771
SLG
.3544
OPS
.6315
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-08-21 | ATL @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1938-08-28 | MEM @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-05-23 | ATL @ JRC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-08-11 | CAG @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-05-28 | JRC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-15 | BBB @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | BBB @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-17 | BBB @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | ATL @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | ATL @ BBB 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.