Fern Bell
Pittsburgh Pirates 1939–1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 83 | 309 | 262 | 44 | 75 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 34 | 42 | 18 | 2 | 0 | .286 | .385 | .389 | .774 | 114.3 | 109.5 | .366 | 1.5 |
| 1940 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | -0.7 | -25.6 | .187 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-07-26 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1939-05-27 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 1939-07-27 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1939-07-09 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1939-05-18 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-04-17 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-18 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-22 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-23 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-24 | PIT @ CHC 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.