Jerry Benjamin

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornNovember 9, 1909 · Montgomery, AL, USA

Seasons16 (1932–1948)

Memphis Red Sox 1932; Indianapolis ABCs/Detroit Stars 1933; Homestead Grays 1935–1939; New York Black Yankees 1939; Toledo Crawfords 1939; Homestead Grays 1940–1944; Cleveland Buckeyes 1945; Homestead Grays 1945–1947; New York Cubans 1948

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

5.8

225

5.8

204

5.8

7.8

1.9

RBI

3.9

86.4

29.1

37.9

.230

4.9

OBP

.290

SLG

.265

OPS

.554

wRC+

56.9

OPS+

52.2

wOBA

.272

sWAR

-0.4

1.9

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 217 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

105.8

53.3

OPS+

104.8

51.8

sWAR

15.0

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
1932	41	157	143	25	41	2	5	0	19	10	0	11	0	.287	.333	.371	.704	112.3	114.6	.338	0.9
1933	35	147	124	27	38	4	3	0	13	17	0	13	0	.306	.394	.387	.781	116.9	114.7	.366	0.9
1935	44	197	180	38	57	12	3	3	31	10	1	6	0	.317	.359	.467	.826	104.2	106.8	.371	0.7
1936	39	181	150	43	54	10	5	5	23	21	0	10	0	.360	.442	.593	1.035	152.4	162.2	.464	1.9
1937	52	259	219	59	65	15	1	4	35	30	0	13	0	.297	.386	.429	.816	110.7	109.9	.375	1.3
1938	42	193	165	42	51	3	5	6	26	24	1	4	1	.309	.397	.497	.894	128.6	134.7	.407	1.5
1939	30	137	114	23	25	1	1	0	10	20	1	6	0	.219	.341	.246	.586	76.0	61.1	.299	0.1
1940	44	194	170	38	54	3	2	1	27	17	1	16	0	.318	.389	.376	.766	101.6	100.0	.364	0.8
1941	57	252	224	33	61	5	3	2	27	23	2	8	0	.272	.340	.348	.688	95.6	93.2	.327	0.8
1942	67	306	267	53	73	7	1	2	28	33	2	15	0	.273	.358	.330	.687	100.0	96.5	.338	1.2
1943	71	331	294	83	110	17	4	2	38	25	0	12	0	.374	.425	.480	.905	133.8	141.4	.429	2.6
1944	53	251	228	43	74	10	2	2	31	19	0	4	0	.325	.379	.412	.791	111.2	111.9	.374	1.4
1945	51	233	210	42	69	9	2	0	17	17	2	4	0	.329	.377	.390	.768	113.9	115.7	.366	1.3
1946	59	268	245	38	61	2	3	1	21	22	0	7	0	.249	.311	.294	.605	73.7	69.2	.297	0.1
1947	52	225	204	38	47	5	1	0	9	15	0	3	0	.230	.290	.265	.554	56.9	52.2	.272	-0.4
1948	15	67	56	9	11	3	0	0	3	9	0	2	0	.196	.308	.250	.558	71.1	62.2	.285	0.0

Career totals

752

3,398

2,993

634

891

108

RBI

358

312

134

.2977

257th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3669

342nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3892

OPS

.7561

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
1936-05-09	HOM @ PHS Gameday	6	4	4	1	0	2	2	0	11
1936-07-25	NE @ HOM Gameday	6	4	5	2	0	1	5	0	10
1933-07-09	TIC @ IND Gameday	5	2	5	1	1	0	3	0	8
1935-09-02	HOM @ TIC Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	3	1	8
1936-07-26	NE @ HOM Gameday	6	2	4	2	1	0	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-04-22	BBB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-23	BBB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-24	BBB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-24	BBB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-30	MON @ MEM 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

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.