Harry Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornJune 5, 1905 · Sparks, GA, USA

Seasons14 (1932–1946)

Homestead Grays 1932; New York Black Yankees 1932; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1932; Baltimore Sox 1933; Homestead Grays 1934; Brooklyn Eagles 1935; Newark Eagles 1936; New York Cubans 1936; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1936–1938; Homestead Grays 1939; New York Black Yankees 1941–1942; Harrisburg-St. Louis Stars 1943; New York Black Yankees 1943–1944; Baltimore Elite Giants 1945; New York Black Yankees 1946; New York Cubans 1946

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

29.7

243

29.7

218

29.7

15.3

17.1

8.1

35.1

RBI

18.9

84.7

20.7

35.1

.239

OBP

.311

15.3

SLG

.307

12.6

OPS

.619

11.7

wRC+

77.7

14.4

OPS+

73.6

8.1

wOBA

.302

11.7

sWAR

0.2

13.5

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 133 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.0

81.3

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	41	157	144	28	45	6	3	1	19	10	0	3	0	.313	.357	.417	.774	100.0	101.2	.358	0.7
1933	36	154	140	32	41	6	4	4	26	11	0	4	1	.293	.344	.479	.823	118.3	122.7	.368	0.8
1934	15	63	57	5	13	3	0	1	9	5	1	0	0	.228	.290	.333	.624	79.3	77.0	.287	0.1
1935	50	222	201	49	68	11	5	3	45	17	2	11	0	.338	.393	.488	.880	117.6	120.8	.397	1.3
1936	33	139	128	24	32	10	0	2	19	9	1	2	0	.250	.304	.375	.679	73.9	71.8	.313	0.0
1937	5	19	16	5	6	0	1	0	4	2	0	0	0	.375	.444	.500	.944	138.8	142.9	.429	0.2
1938	37	157	141	35	54	12	4	4	32	13	0	3	0	.383	.435	.610	1.045	159.1	173.2	.466	1.9
1939	4	12	11	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.083	.000	.083	-49.8	-76.3	.063	-0.2
1941	12	52	47	8	13	3	1	0	4	5	0	1	0	.277	.346	.383	.729	104.5	104.2	.343	0.2
1942	32	129	123	13	29	2	0	0	13	6	0	5	0	.236	.271	.252	.523	54.5	49.6	.255	-0.3
1943	23	93	85	14	25	3	1	0	12	7	0	5	0	.294	.355	.353	.708	91.6	87.5	.344	0.3
1944	13	43	40	6	11	3	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	.275	.326	.350	.676	83.0	81.0	.322	0.1
1945	57	243	218	30	52	5	2	2	25	22	0	2	0	.239	.311	.307	.619	77.7	73.6	.302	0.2
1946	38	146	130	20	33	6	3	2	23	15	0	0	0	.254	.331	.392	.723	100.1	101.5	.346	0.6

Career totals

396

1,629

1,481

271

422

RBI

234

126

.2849

OBP

.3426

SLG

.4031

OPS

.7457

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
1938-06-06	NBY @ TIC Gameday	5	3	5	4	0	0	5	9
1933-06-25	IND @ BBS Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	2	9
1935-07-14	TIC @ NE Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	0	3	7
1945-06-14	BEG @ NE Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	2	7
1935-09-01	ND @ NE Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	0	3	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-05-02	CAG @ IND Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-03	CAG @ IND Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-03	CAG @ IND Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-04	CAG @ IND Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-16	LBC @ IND 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

2× 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.