Henry Spearman
New York Black Yankees 1935; Homestead Grays 1936; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1937; Homestead Grays 1938; New York Black Yankees 1938; Washington Black Senators 1938; Homestead Grays 1939; New York Black Yankees 1940; Baltimore Elite Giants 1941–1942; Philadelphia Stars 1942–1945
Percentile snapshot
1944 season — qualified batters
of 111 qualified 1944 batters (min 136 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 8 | 25 | 22 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .292 | .636 | .928 | 131.9 | 144.4 | .391 | 0.2 |
| 1936 | 30 | 129 | 120 | 16 | 40 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .380 | .533 | .913 | 124.2 | 130.9 | .410 | 0.9 |
| 1937 | 28 | 123 | 113 | 17 | 38 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .336 | .385 | .504 | .890 | 122.5 | 127.2 | .397 | 0.8 |
| 1938 | 31 | 138 | 122 | 18 | 43 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .352 | .419 | .451 | .870 | 126.6 | 130.1 | .403 | 1.1 |
| 1939 | 33 | 133 | 122 | 23 | 38 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .311 | .368 | .500 | .868 | 122.1 | 128.5 | .394 | 1.0 |
| 1940 | 33 | 135 | 115 | 19 | 37 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 28 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .322 | .414 | .513 | .927 | 133.4 | 140.1 | .426 | 1.2 |
| 1941 | 56 | 235 | 216 | 33 | 59 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 38 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 0 | .273 | .320 | .380 | .700 | 94.9 | 95.6 | .326 | 0.7 |
| 1942 | 60 | 231 | 212 | 29 | 63 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 42 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | .297 | .349 | .439 | .788 | 117.8 | 124.1 | .371 | 1.5 |
| 1943 | 48 | 213 | 190 | 35 | 54 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 30 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .284 | .352 | .405 | .758 | 100.5 | 102.1 | .362 | 0.8 |
| 1944 | 44 | 155 | 145 | 21 | 47 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 36 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .324 | .349 | .490 | .838 | 115.8 | 123.0 | .383 | 1.0 |
| 1945 | 22 | 88 | 77 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .295 | .234 | .529 | 58.6 | 49.2 | .268 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-07-29 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1943-06-05 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1936-07-04 | HOM @ TIC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1940-09-15 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1944-08-27 | PHS @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-05-09 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-10 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-10 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-14 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-16 | HOM @ NYC 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.