Hoss Walker
Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1929; Cleveland Cubs 1931; Nashville Elite Giants 1932–1934; Columbus Elite Giants 1935; Newark Dodgers 1935; Washington Elite Giants 1936–1937; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938; Memphis Red Sox 1938; Baltimore Elite Giants 1939–1940; New York Black Yankees 1940; Birmingham Black Barons 1941; New York Black Yankees 1941; Birmingham Black Barons 1942–1943; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1944–1947; Baltimore Elite Giants 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 53 | 188 | 159 | 34 | 39 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .245 | .330 | .358 | .688 | 72.5 | 68.0 | .325 | 0.1 |
| 1931 | 33 | 130 | 117 | 22 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .280 | .393 | .673 | 83.0 | 86.6 | .316 | 0.3 |
| 1932 | 33 | 124 | 111 | 12 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .270 | .341 | .387 | .729 | 120.1 | 122.1 | .351 | 1.0 |
| 1933 | 20 | 79 | 71 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .169 | .224 | .183 | .407 | 24.0 | 12.6 | .198 | -0.4 |
| 1934 | 15 | 48 | 40 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .300 | .391 | .375 | .766 | 117.5 | 115.4 | .372 | 0.4 |
| 1935 | 7 | 25 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .200 | .208 | .408 | 11.8 | 3.9 | .192 | -0.2 |
| 1936 | 27 | 105 | 91 | 22 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .308 | .376 | .374 | .750 | 95.3 | 92.1 | .354 | 0.4 |
| 1937 | 38 | 148 | 126 | 17 | 29 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .230 | .302 | .310 | .612 | 65.3 | 58.0 | .287 | 0.0 |
| 1938 | 28 | 110 | 97 | 12 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .237 | .295 | .289 | .584 | 63.6 | 55.6 | .278 | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 18 | 66 | 59 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .237 | .297 | .305 | .602 | 66.1 | 59.9 | .286 | 0.0 |
| 1940 | 28 | 104 | 97 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .155 | .188 | .216 | .405 | 13.4 | 4.9 | .192 | -0.8 |
| 1941 | 20 | 72 | 59 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .169 | .290 | .220 | .510 | 63.7 | 49.4 | .264 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 27 | 107 | 93 | 10 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .194 | .265 | .237 | .501 | 58.0 | 49.9 | .248 | -0.1 |
| 1943 | 38 | 146 | 132 | 14 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .174 | .232 | .205 | .437 | 41.5 | 34.5 | .220 | -0.5 |
| 1944 | 14 | 46 | 39 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .128 | .244 | .154 | .398 | 38.7 | 24.2 | .219 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 14 | 50 | 46 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .239 | .300 | .283 | .583 | 76.8 | 71.0 | .284 | 0.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .455 | .400 | .855 | 148.9 | 152.4 | .421 | 0.2 |
| 1947 | 12 | 26 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .043 | .154 | .043 | .197 | -19.6 | -45.8 | .126 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .357 | .250 | .607 | 87.6 | 77.0 | .312 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2.0 | 0.00 | .500 | 13.50 | 0.58 | 15.6 | — | 0.0 |
| 1947 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.00 | .000 | 0.00 | 4.05 | 82.3 | — | -0.2 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-06-26 | MEM @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1941-09-11 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1936-08-16 | TIC @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-07-31 | IND @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1937-07-18 | NBY @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-06-08 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1947-08-21 | KCM @ IC Gameday | 0.2 | 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 |
| 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.