Herman Bell
Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940; Birmingham Black Barons 1943; Birmingham Black Barons 1945–1948
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 13 | 45 | 32 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .125 | .333 | .125 | .458 | 70.9 | 38.4 | .278 | 0.1 |
| 1943 | 11 | 34 | 30 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .212 | .133 | .345 | 20.2 | 6.8 | .185 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 13 | 34 | 28 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .258 | .286 | .544 | 65.8 | 59.0 | .265 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -86.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .200 | -35.4 | -46.1 | .095 | -0.1 |
| 1948 | 20 | 66 | 57 | 13 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .281 | .349 | .316 | .665 | 84.1 | 78.9 | .323 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-08-25 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-05-21 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1948-07-01 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1948-06-21 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948-07-04 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-04-21 | KCM @ TIC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-05 | TIC @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-26 | CAG @ TIC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-06-02 | HSL @ TIC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-06-02 | HSL @ TIC 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.