Earl Gurley

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 183 lb

BornAugust 6, 1898 · Chattanooga, TN, USA

Seasons8 (1922–1932)

St. Louis Stars 1922–1923; Memphis Red Sox 1924; Indianapolis ABCs 1925; Chicago American Giants 1925; Memphis Red Sox 1925; Birmingham Black Barons 1927; Chicago American Giants 1927; Harrisburg Giants 1927; Memphis Red Sox 1928; Birmingham Black Barons 1929; Montgomery Grey Sox 1932

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

217

14.4

192

15.5

5.2

17.2

35.1

27.6

17.2

RBI

10.9

15.5

56.3

12.6

59.8

.271

26.4

OBP

.324

SLG

.375

35.1

OPS

.699

27.6

wRC+

90.7

OPS+

91.1

32.2

wOBA

.330

26.4

sWAR

0.6

27.6

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 136 PA)

1923 season — qualified pitchers

29.5

6.1

52.3

24.2

SHO

111

71.2

65.2

25.8

88.0

ERA

4.91

11.4

WHIP

1.716

3.8

K/9

3.78

FIP

4.32

21.2

FIP-

98.3

49.2

ERA+

89.6

18.9

sWAR

1.1

28.8

of 133 qualified 1923 pitchers (min 72 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.9

76.7

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
1922	10	22	20	3	7	1	0	1	3	2	0	0	.350	.409	.550	.959	145.7	155.8	.434	0.2
1923	24	44	41	8	15	4	2	3	12	1	0	0	.366	.381	.780	1.161	175.9	196.4	.503	1.1
1924	58	217	192	20	52	11	3	1	20	15	2	3	.271	.324	.375	.699	90.7	91.1	.330	0.6
1925	61	204	174	28	58	9	5	4	26	22	0	2	.333	.408	.511	.920	138.7	146.1	.415	2.3
1927	25	58	49	5	14	1	2	0	7	5	0	0	.286	.352	.388	.740	97.9	96.7	.346	-0.4
1928	30	87	76	11	19	4	1	0	10	9	0	2	.250	.337	.329	.666	87.5	82.4	.318	0.0
1929	12	42	39	4	8	1	2	1	9	3	0	0	.205	.262	.410	.672	71.5	72.6	.300	0.0
1932	22	80	69	8	16	2	1	0	8	10	5	0	.232	.338	.290	.627	99.3	92.0	.316	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1922	9	4	2	1	0	3	62	34	19	33	3	53.0	5.77	1.528	5.60	4.62	98.7	81.1	0.2
1923	20	12	3	8	0	7	111	48	40	37	3	88.0	4.91	1.716	3.78	4.32	98.3	89.6	1.1
1924	6	2	1	1	0	2	23	12	12	19	0	27.7	3.90	1.265	6.18	3.62	84.6	109.7	0.6
1925	11	5	1	4	1	3	72	37	25	19	0	65.3	5.10	1.485	2.62	5.63	107.3	102.9	2.3
1927	4	3	0	2	0	0	22	17	7	8	3	18.0	8.50	1.611	4.00	6.35	138.5	53.9	-0.4
1932	2	2	1	1	0	2	21	8	4	3	0	17.0	4.24	1.471	1.59	3.79	101.7	88.0	0.2

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

242

754

660

189

RBI

.2864

OBP

.3539

SLG

.4303

OPS

.7842

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

269

SO (P)

119

BB allowed

107

ERA

5.219

WHIP

1.5539

K/9

3.98

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
1923-07-15	DTS @ SLS Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	2	1	7
1923-05-21	CAG @ SLS Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	3	0	5
1923-07-10	TOL @ SLS Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	0	2	0	5
1923-05-24	CAG @ SLS Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	4
1932-07-10	MNT @ LBC Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	2	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-05-21	CAG @ SLS Gameday	10.0	8	4	2	7	7	0
1922-08-09	ABC @ SLS Gameday	4.2	5	2	2	2	6	0
1922-07-10	ABC @ SLS Gameday	4.2	6	7	6	2	5	1
1923-07-10	TOL @ SLS Gameday	9.0	12	3	0	4	4	0
1923-06-09	SLS @ CAG Gameday	8.1	8	5	4	8	4	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.