Ernie Smith
Chicago American Giants 1938; Kansas City Monarchs 1938; Chicago American Giants 1939–1940; Homestead Grays 1940; Chicago American Giants 1942
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 14 | 51 | 46 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .283 | .327 | .326 | .653 | 90.2 | 84.9 | .312 | 0.1 |
| 1939 | 39 | 152 | 140 | 15 | 38 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .271 | .313 | .321 | .635 | 85.1 | 84.7 | .304 | 0.1 |
| 1940 | 16 | 54 | 48 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .271 | .327 | .313 | .639 | 92.0 | 90.8 | .318 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 14 | 43 | 42 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .233 | .262 | .494 | 49.1 | 47.0 | .233 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-08-20 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1939-05-13 | CAG @ JRC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1939-07-02 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1939-06-19 | HSL @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-07-31 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-15 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-21 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | MEM @ CAG 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.