MLB / Players

Fred Bankhead

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 163 lb

BornNovember 22, 1912 · Sulligent, AL, USA

Seasons12 (1937–1948)

Birmingham Black Barons 1937–1938; Memphis Red Sox 1938–1947; New York Black Yankees 1948

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

20.1

191

22.3

166

20.1

28.1

15.8

5.8

14.4

8.6

RBI

2.9

24.5

89.9

71.2

42.4

.241

10.1

OBP

.333

26.6

SLG

.313

7.9

OPS

.647

11.5

wRC+

97.9

37.4

OPS+

95.1

30.9

wOBA

.327

sWAR

0.7

29.5

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 176 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.6

75.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	25	101	91	8	27	2	1	0	8	7	0	1	.297	.347	.341	.688	93.5	90.7	.324	0.3
1938	30	122	107	12	24	0	2	1	11	11	5	4	.224	.308	.290	.598	80.3	72.3	.294	0.1
1939	32	117	104	10	24	6	1	0	12	10	0	2	.231	.304	.308	.612	81.7	78.1	.298	0.1
1940	47	191	166	40	40	5	2	1	12	20	0	8	.241	.333	.313	.647	97.9	95.1	.327	0.7
1941	18	66	55	6	13	1	1	0	12	4	1	3	.236	.311	.291	.602	83.8	79.0	.300	0.1
1942	26	112	101	16	28	4	0	0	9	6	0	6	.277	.336	.317	.653	97.4	95.1	.316	0.4
1943	29	128	120	21	35	4	1	0	14	5	1	7	.292	.331	.342	.672	105.0	106.5	.325	0.6
1944	29	115	103	21	33	3	1	0	13	6	0	5	.320	.364	.369	.733	125.6	127.2	.356	0.8
1945	21	90	78	17	21	2	2	0	7	9	0	2	.269	.360	.346	.706	110.1	107.1	.343	0.4
1946	11	49	46	4	9	1	0	0	2	2	0	1	.196	.245	.217	.462	43.7	36.6	.233	-0.2
1947	14	67	51	9	13	1	0	0	7	12	0	1	.255	.424	.275	.699	105.8	89.7	.369	0.3
1948	8	22	20	1	4	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	.200	.273	.200	.473	45.0	37.7	.242	-0.1

Career totals

290

1,180

1,042

165

271

RBI

109

.2601

OBP

.3330

SLG

.3148

OPS

.6478

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
1938-08-20	CAG @ BBB Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	3	7
1940-04-28	NBY @ MEM Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	1	1	7
1940-09-07	MEM @ PHS Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	0	0	5
1944-09-03	MEM @ KCM Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	0	1	5
1937-07-18	CAG @ BBB Gameday	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-05-09	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-09	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-15	SLS @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-16	SLS @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-16	SLS @ BBB 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

1× 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.