Henry Milton
Indianapolis ABCs 1932; Kansas City Monarchs 1935–1936; Chicago American Giants 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1937–1940
Percentile snapshot
1939 season — qualified batters
of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 186 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 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 52.1 | 52.7 | .238 | 0.0 |
| 1935 | 12 | 48 | 47 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .277 | .292 | .362 | .653 | 77.6 | 76.7 | .292 | 0.0 |
| 1936 | 11 | 50 | 44 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .318 | .388 | .386 | .774 | 113.4 | 114.6 | .368 | 0.3 |
| 1937 | 56 | 247 | 213 | 63 | 57 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 30 | 0 | 33 | 0 | .268 | .363 | .366 | .729 | 104.9 | 101.7 | .347 | 0.8 |
| 1938 | 46 | 205 | 185 | 51 | 62 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 27 | 17 | 0 | 25 | 0 | .335 | .391 | .503 | .894 | 144.4 | 156.3 | .414 | 1.7 |
| 1939 | 48 | 216 | 192 | 34 | 49 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 0 | 11 | 0 | .255 | .322 | .359 | .682 | 98.1 | 98.0 | .326 | 0.4 |
| 1940 | 32 | 144 | 126 | 23 | 33 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 | .262 | .331 | .325 | .656 | 98.2 | 98.0 | .328 | 0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-06-25 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1939-07-28 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1939-06-15 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1938-06-06 | KCM @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 1940-05-24 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-23 | IND @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | IND @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-25 | IND @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-30 | BEG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-01 | BEG @ 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.