Emanuel Sampson
Cleveland Bears 1940; Birmingham Black Barons 1941; Birmingham Black Barons 1946
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 26 | 102 | 81 | 14 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .210 | .347 | .272 | .619 | 96.9 | 86.7 | .325 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 8 | 31 | 27 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .185 | .267 | .296 | .563 | 71.1 | 66.9 | .278 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 7 | 20 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .167 | .250 | .167 | .417 | 37.6 | 23.3 | .222 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-06-02 | KCM @ JRC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1941-07-13 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1940-06-23 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1940-06-30 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1940-05-18 | JRC @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-03-24 | HSL @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-03-31 | HSL @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-05 | HOM @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-17 | NE @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-12 | CAG @ JRC 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.