Hank Thompson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 174 lb

BornDecember 8, 1925 · Oklahoma City, OK, USA

MLB debutJuly 17, 1947

Final gameSeptember 30, 1956

Seasons12 (1943–1956)

Kansas City Monarchs 1943; Kansas City Monarchs 1946–1947; St. Louis Browns 1947; Kansas City Monarchs 1948; New York Giants 1949–1956

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified batters

135

533

22.2

432

6.2

25.9

106

4.9

3.7

56.8

RBI

44.4

87.7

48.1

22.2

60.5

.245

11.1

OBP

.367

69.1

SLG

.398

32.1

OPS

.766

46.9

wRC+

109.5

54.3

OPS+

105.0

45.7

wOBA

.349

40.7

sWAR

2.6

49.4

of 82 qualified 1955 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

125.0

85.9

OPS+

123.6

84.1

sWAR

27.4

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
1943	41	148	134	18	42	6	2	1	14	9	0	2	0	.313	.366	.410	.776	133.6	138.0	.372	0.9
1946	24	99	91	14	24	2	3	1	7	6	0	3	0	.264	.309	.385	.694	100.0	104.4	.334	0.3
1947	71	286	251	61	78	9	6	8	41	31	7	9	1	.311	.391	.490	.881	131.9	137.2	.412	2.1
1948	47	206	176	50	59	13	5	5	29	27	0	12	0	.335	.429	.551	.980	151.1	161.2	.449	1.8
1949	75	320	275	51	77	10	4	9	34	42	30	5	0	.280	.377	.444	.821	122.1	119.9	.377	2.0
1950	148	604	512	82	148	17	6	20	91	83	60	8	0	.289	.391	.463	.854	127.3	124.4	.387	4.2
1951	87	308	264	37	62	8	4	8	33	43	23	1	2	.235	.342	.386	.728	98.0	96.0	.338	1.1
1952	128	484	423	67	110	13	9	17	67	50	38	4	4	.260	.344	.454	.798	119.4	119.3	.363	2.8
1953	114	454	388	80	117	15	8	24	74	60	39	6	5	.302	.400	.567	.967	148.9	148.2	.421	4.4
1954	136	557	448	76	118	18	1	26	86	90	58	3	0	.263	.389	.482	.871	131.1	127.2	.390	4.1
1955	135	533	432	65	106	13	1	17	63	84	56	2	2	.245	.367	.398	.766	109.5	105.0	.349	2.6
1956	83	219	183	24	43	9	0	8	29	31	26	2	1	.235	.346	.415	.761	108.0	104.7	.342	1.0

Career totals

1,089

4,218

3,577

625

984

133

144

RBI

568

556

337

.2751

OBP

.3755

231st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4604

387th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8359

254th-highest career OPS

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
1954-06-03	SF @ STL Gameday	4	4	4	0	0	3	8	1	13
1953-07-05	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	2	7	0	10
1947-05-22	KCM @ CAG Gameday	5	4	4	1	1	1	3	1	10
1950-08-16	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1953-06-10	ATL @ SF Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	3	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-25	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-05-02	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-05-02	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-05-16	CAG @ KCM 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.