Granny Hamner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 163 lb

BornApril 26, 1927 · Richmond, VA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1944

Final gameAugust 1, 1962

Seasons17 (1944–1962)

Philadelphia Blue Jays 1944; Philadelphia Phillies 1945–1958; Cleveland Indians 1959; Philadelphia Phillies 1959; Kansas City Athletics 1962

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified batters

133

18.9

548

37.8

502

43.2

21.6

114

12.2

21.6

47.3

35.1

RBI

44.6

21.6

36.5

68.9

.227

2.7

OBP

.274

SLG

.345

13.5

OPS

.618

2.7

wRC+

63.1

1.4

OPS+

66.8

2.7

wOBA

.276

sWAR

-0.4

5.4

of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

80.6

10.6

OPS+

83.9

14.6

sWAR

11.1

88.1

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
1944	21	81	77	6	19	1	0	0	5	3	7	0	0	.247	.275	.260	.535	46.4	51.9	.255	-0.1
1945	14	42	41	3	7	2	0	0	6	1	3	0	0	.171	.190	.220	.410	3.5	14.1	.194	-0.3
1946	2	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-44.5	-18.6	.135	-0.1
1947	2	8	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.286	.375	.286	.661	86.2	79.9	.325	0.0
1948	129	475	446	42	116	21	5	3	48	22	39	2	0	.260	.298	.350	.648	71.7	76.1	.298	0.2
1949	154	700	662	83	174	32	5	6	53	25	47	6	0	.263	.290	.353	.643	66.4	72.0	.293	0.2
1950	157	685	637	78	172	27	5	11	82	39	35	2	0	.270	.314	.380	.694	81.0	84.1	.314	1.4
1951	150	625	589	61	150	23	7	9	72	29	32	10	5	.255	.290	.363	.653	72.0	77.2	.296	0.7
1952	151	640	596	74	164	30	5	17	87	27	51	7	3	.275	.307	.428	.734	99.5	104.0	.331	2.9
1953	154	646	609	90	168	30	8	21	92	32	28	2	1	.276	.313	.455	.768	95.8	99.3	.336	2.3
1954	152	660	596	83	178	39	11	13	89	53	44	1	2	.299	.351	.466	.818	112.2	113.3	.361	3.4
1955	104	454	405	57	104	12	4	5	43	41	30	0	1	.257	.323	.343	.666	81.1	79.2	.306	0.7
1956	122	438	401	42	90	24	3	4	42	30	42	2	0	.224	.276	.329	.605	58.9	63.6	.269	-0.1
1957	133	548	502	59	114	19	5	10	62	34	42	3	1	.227	.274	.345	.618	63.1	66.8	.276	-0.4
1958	35	144	133	18	40	7	3	2	18	8	16	0	0	.301	.340	.444	.784	109.3	106.9	.350	0.7
1959	48	138	131	14	30	5	1	3	9	6	13	0	1	.229	.261	.351	.612	58.9	63.6	.271	-0.1
1962	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	L	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1956	3	1	1	10	4	2	4	8.3	4.32	1.440	4.32	1.99	53.7	85.9	-0.1
1957	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1.0	0.00	1.000	9.00	0.51	13.5	—	-0.4
1962	3	0	1	10	4	6	0	4.0	9.00	4.000	0.00	7.01	167.8	46.5	-0.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,531

6,291

5,839

711

1,529

272

104

RBI

708

351

432

.2619

OBP

.3032

SLG

.3831

OPS

.6863

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

5.400

WHIP

2.1750

K/9

3.38

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
1954-07-20	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1951-07-12	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	5	0	8
1952-05-14	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1954-07-18	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	2	0	1	2	1	8
1953-07-24	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1956-07-22	PHI @ ATL Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	0	2
1956-08-31	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4.1	9	4	4	0	1
1956-08-26	PHI @ CIN Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	2	1
1957-04-27	SF @ PHI Gameday	1.0	1	0	0	0	1
1962-07-28	ATH @ BAL Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	2	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.