Frank Duncan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 14, 1901 · Kansas City, MO, USA

Seasons25 (1920–1945)

Chicago Giants 1920–1921; Kansas City Monarchs 1921–1930; Harlem Stars 1931; Kansas City Monarchs 1931; Homestead Grays 1932; Kansas City Monarchs 1932; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1932; Kansas City Monarchs 1933–1934; New York Cubans 1935–1936; Chicago American Giants 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1937; Chicago American Giants 1938; Kansas City Monarchs 1938; Chicago American Giants 1940; Kansas City Monarchs 1941–1945

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

16.7

150

12.5

130

13.3

7.5

8.3

2.5

1.7

14.2

RBI

6.7

10.8

80.8

39.2

.231

4.2

OBP

.296

3.3

SLG

.285

2.5

OPS

.580

3.3

wRC+

55.8

2.5

OPS+

48.8

2.5

wOBA

.278

2.5

sWAR

-0.1

6.7

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 145 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

87.3

19.5

OPS+

82.3

sWAR

11.4

88.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1920	16	58	47	3	7	1	0	0	3	6	0	0	0	.149	.259	.170	.429	43.7	29.1	.234	-0.1
1921	81	276	249	26	62	7	0	0	22	10	1	5	0	.249	.292	.277	.569	65.5	60.8	.275	0.2
1922	75	320	267	45	62	14	2	1	23	28	3	4	0	.232	.310	.311	.621	73.6	67.2	.297	0.4
1923	91	409	346	60	89	18	4	0	39	38	0	13	0	.257	.332	.332	.665	79.2	73.9	.317	0.8
1924	68	281	235	51	62	11	2	0	34	27	4	7	0	.264	.350	.328	.677	91.2	86.2	.331	1.1
1925	51	173	146	22	34	3	0	1	13	22	0	2	0	.233	.333	.274	.607	75.7	65.0	.297	0.3
1926	57	202	166	32	47	9	1	4	22	25	2	3	1	.283	.383	.422	.805	108.8	107.3	.376	1.3
1927	20	63	56	10	22	2	3	0	9	5	0	1	0	.393	.443	.536	.978	159.8	162.4	.446	0.9
1928	49	181	150	18	41	8	1	3	23	19	0	3	0	.273	.363	.400	.763	109.4	107.9	.357	1.2
1929	45	168	140	27	48	6	4	1	37	19	0	7	0	.343	.432	.464	.896	133.0	133.8	.414	1.6
1930	53	191	162	33	58	9	4	1	27	21	3	2	0	.358	.435	.481	.916	140.6	143.7	.421	1.6
1931	22	79	69	11	17	2	0	0	3	8	3	5	0	.246	.325	.275	.600	74.0	67.3	.291	0.1
1932	37	122	103	10	23	1	3	0	11	11	1	1	0	.223	.298	.291	.590	62.9	55.8	.286	0.0
1933	4	14	13	4	4	1	2	0	5	1	0	1	0	.308	.357	.692	1.049	156.0	175.0	.458	0.2
1934	4	9	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.125	.222	.125	.347	16.4	1.6	.183	-0.1
1935	35	127	109	10	22	5	0	0	16	12	2	0	0	.202	.287	.248	.535	47.4	36.2	.261	-0.2
1936	40	150	130	16	30	2	1	1	12	12	1	0	0	.231	.296	.285	.580	55.8	48.8	.278	-0.1
1937	51	184	154	22	35	8	1	0	22	18	5	2	0	.227	.324	.292	.616	80.9	71.5	.300	0.4
1938	34	129	106	19	27	4	1	2	14	16	0	3	0	.255	.363	.368	.731	112.3	112.4	.354	0.9
1940	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	60.9	0.8	.260	0.0
1941	15	46	41	3	10	0	1	0	4	4	0	1	0	.244	.311	.293	.604	83.5	79.4	.299	0.2
1942	12	27	25	0	3	2	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	.120	.154	.200	.354	11.4	4.8	.169	-0.1
1943	19	54	43	5	6	0	0	0	2	9	1	2	0	.140	.288	.140	.428	54.9	32.8	.242	0.0
1944	20	52	37	2	8	4	0	0	5	9	0	1	0	.216	.396	.324	.720	135.2	123.9	.371	0.5
1945	15	42	34	2	6	2	0	0	3	8	0	1	0	.176	.333	.235	.569	84.8	68.1	.298	0.2

Career totals

915

3,360

2,838

432

724

119

RBI

352

331

.2551

OBP

.3392

SLG

.3330

OPS

.6722

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	TB
1921-07-04	KCM @ CAG Gameday	5	2	5	2	0	0	3	7
1930-05-31	BBB @ KCM Gameday	6	1	4	1	1	0	3	7
1938-07-24	KCM @ CAG Gameday	2	2	2	1	0	1	3	6
1930-06-28	KCM @ DTS Gameday	3	1	2	0	2	0	1	6
1923-06-05	MIL @ KCM Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	0	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-09	CHG @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-29	CHG @ DTS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-30	CHG @ DTS 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.

Honors

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.