MLB / Players

Ernie Bowman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb
BornJuly 28, 1935 · Johnson City, TN, USA
MLB debutApril 12, 1961
Final gameSeptember 29, 1963
Seasons3 (1961–1963)

San Francisco Giants 1961–1963

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
-1.0
5.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
196138403810802021820.211.231.316.54742.946.5.244-0.1
196246464298101411001.190.227.286.51334.638.5.235-0.1
1963811311251023300401512.184.181.208.389-0.813.0.176-0.8

Career totals

G
165
PA
217
AB
205
R
29
H
39
2B
4
3B
2
HR
1
RBI
10
BB
2
SO
33
SB
3
BA
.1902
OBP
.2000
SLG
.2439
OPS
.4439

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1962-08-23SF @ NYM Gameday512001205
1962-07-19SF @ ATL Gameday212100003
1963-08-06SF @ HOU Gameday312100003
1961-09-01SF @ CHC Gameday311010103
1961-09-09LAD @ SF Gameday111010103

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.