Homer Summa
Pittsburgh Pirates 1920; Cleveland Indians 1922–1928; Philadelphia Athletics 1929–1930
Percentile snapshot
1928 season — qualified batters
of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 480 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 10 | 29 | 22 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .318 | .400 | .455 | .855 | 149.2 | 144.2 | .402 | 0.2 |
| 1922 | 12 | 50 | 46 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .348 | .400 | .609 | 1.009 | 156.3 | 158.8 | .449 | 0.5 |
| 1923 | 137 | 589 | 525 | 92 | 172 | 27 | 6 | 3 | 69 | 33 | 20 | 9 | 13 | .328 | .374 | .419 | .793 | 107.1 | 107.7 | .373 | 1.8 |
| 1924 | 111 | 409 | 390 | 55 | 113 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 38 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 2 | .290 | .311 | .390 | .701 | 71.7 | 77.7 | .325 | -0.6 |
| 1925 | 75 | 246 | 224 | 28 | 74 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | .330 | .375 | .384 | .759 | 93.1 | 92.6 | .359 | 0.3 |
| 1926 | 154 | 652 | 581 | 74 | 179 | 31 | 6 | 4 | 76 | 47 | 9 | 15 | 8 | .308 | .368 | .403 | .771 | 100.8 | 100.7 | .363 | 1.4 |
| 1927 | 145 | 640 | 574 | 73 | 164 | 41 | 7 | 4 | 74 | 32 | 18 | 6 | 5 | .286 | .331 | .402 | .734 | 86.6 | 89.1 | .340 | 0.3 |
| 1928 | 134 | 553 | 504 | 60 | 143 | 26 | 3 | 3 | 57 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 2 | .284 | .319 | .365 | .684 | 75.5 | 78.1 | .316 | -0.5 |
| 1929 | 37 | 88 | 81 | 12 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .272 | .298 | .321 | .619 | 55.6 | 59.0 | .286 | -0.3 |
| 1930 | 25 | 62 | 54 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .339 | .407 | .746 | 87.6 | 87.6 | .339 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-07-08 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1927-08-24 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1927-07-18 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1923-08-07 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1926-06-26 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-04-14 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-04-15 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-04-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-04-18 | PIT @ CIN 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.