Granville Lyons
Louisville Black Caps 1932; Nashville Elite Giants 1932; Indianapolis ABCs/Detroit Stars 1933; Nashville Elite Giants 1934; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1934; Philadelphia Stars 1935; Memphis Red Sox 1937; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938; Baltimore Elite Giants 1942
Percentile snapshot
1933 season — qualified batters
of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 127 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 26 | 101 | 95 | 7 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .232 | .263 | .305 | .568 | 72.6 | 73.2 | .272 | -0.2 |
| 1933 | 31 | 132 | 118 | 17 | 32 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .271 | .317 | .432 | .750 | 101.0 | 103.1 | .337 | -0.1 |
| 1934 | 13 | 53 | 49 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .327 | .365 | .367 | .733 | 105.3 | 105.9 | .350 | 0.1 |
| 1935 | 30 | 105 | 95 | 16 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .263 | .314 | .326 | .640 | 66.7 | 61.8 | .298 | -0.5 |
| 1937 | 19 | 80 | 75 | 6 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .288 | .387 | .674 | 85.4 | 85.0 | .308 | 0.2 |
| 1938 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | 1.250 | 1.750 | 303.0 | 348.5 | .745 | 0.1 |
| 1942 | 7 | 27 | 26 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .185 | .192 | .377 | 15.4 | 7.7 | .184 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 5.3 | 11.81 | 2.625 | 5.06 | 4.97 | 115.4 | 36.5 | -0.1 |
| 1935 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9.0 | 9.00 | 1.556 | 0.00 | 9.72 | 190.6 | 56.7 | -0.5 |
| 1937 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 3.00 | 1.667 | 0.00 | 5.42 | 121.1 | 149.2 | 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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-04-30 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1932-07-16 | MEM @ LBC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1933-06-25 | IND @ BBS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1937-06-25 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1938-08-07 | BEG @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-04-29 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 4.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 1933-06-26 | IND @ BBS Gameday | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1935-06-03 | BEG @ PHS Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 1937-08-30 | CIN @ MEM Gameday | 8.2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933-05-22 | BEG @ IND Gameday | 1.0 | 1 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.