Gunboat Thompson
New York Lincoln Stars 1914; New York Lincoln Stars 1916; Chicago American Giants 1918; Detroit Stars 1920
Percentile snapshot
1916 season — qualified pitchers
of 91 qualified 1916 pitchers (min 29 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -4.6 | -9.5 | .162 | -0.1 |
| 1916 | 12 | 32 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .034 | .097 | .034 | .131 | -40.7 | -64.1 | .082 | 0.4 |
| 1918 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .500 | .250 | .750 | 142.4 | 120.9 | .421 | 0.9 |
| 1920 | 9 | 21 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .176 | .263 | .235 | .498 | 57.0 | 49.6 | .256 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3.0 | 6.00 | 2.000 | 3.00 | 5.62 | 156.9 | 59.7 | -0.1 |
| 1916 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 68 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 51.3 | 3.86 | 1.558 | 1.75 | 4.05 | 92.3 | 113.8 | 0.4 |
| 1918 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17.7 | 0.51 | 1.075 | 0.00 | 3.90 | 107.2 | 714.7 | 0.9 |
| 1920 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 37 | 20 | 27 | 15 | 1 | 46.7 | 3.86 | 1.371 | 2.89 | 4.68 | 130.3 | 93.0 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-05-15 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1920-06-22 | DTS @ ABC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1920-05-18 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1920-05-16 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-17 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-05-30 | CHG @ DTS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 1920-06-08 | DAY @ DTS Gameday | 5.1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 1920-05-15 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 1920-07-03 | DTS @ ABC Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 1920-05-18 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 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.