Jim Brown

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornMay 16, 1892 · San Marcos, TX, USA

Seasons16 (1919–1937)

Chicago American Giants 1919–1930; Chicago Columbia Giants 1931; Chicago American Giants 1932; Louisville Black Caps 1932; Chicago American Giants 1935; Chicago American Giants 1937

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

21.9

316

24.9

276

25.4

30.8

28.4

35.5

34.9

RBI

23.7

50.3

52.1

32.5

.290

40.8

OBP

.359

46.7

SLG

.380

33.1

OPS

.740

37.3

wRC+

101.3

42.6

OPS+

99.4

41.4

wOBA

.347

36.7

sWAR

0.8

27.8

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 291 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.3

83.3

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
1919	20	70	58	11	18	1	2	0	7	7	0	2	0	.310	.403	.397	.800	123.8	125.2	.386	0.6
1920	47	179	154	20	33	1	0	0	19	21	1	6	0	.214	.313	.221	.533	71.1	60.2	.280	0.1
1921	46	156	141	27	41	6	2	2	26	9	3	5	3	.291	.338	.404	.742	105.9	108.9	.349	0.8
1922	62	229	206	28	55	11	5	0	43	15	5	12	2	.267	.320	.369	.689	86.0	84.7	.321	0.8
1923	69	273	239	38	57	8	4	2	45	23	0	5	0	.238	.308	.331	.639	71.4	66.6	.302	0.3
1924	67	241	218	31	58	12	3	0	32	17	2	6	3	.266	.325	.349	.674	86.3	84.6	.321	0.7
1925	74	277	240	39	56	12	3	2	39	24	0	6	0	.233	.303	.333	.636	75.7	70.8	.297	0.3
1926	75	306	262	44	81	16	4	5	46	32	3	7	0	.309	.395	.458	.853	117.5	119.1	.392	1.5
1927	75	316	276	46	80	15	5	0	32	30	0	9	0	.290	.359	.380	.740	101.3	99.4	.347	0.8
1928	37	135	125	16	33	3	0	0	12	3	1	3	0	.264	.287	.288	.575	59.0	57.3	.269	-0.4
1929	48	171	153	20	40	6	3	2	24	11	0	4	0	.261	.311	.379	.690	80.0	79.0	.316	-0.1
1930	56	187	175	30	54	8	6	3	27	10	1	4	0	.309	.346	.474	.820	112.1	116.3	.369	0.7
1931	9	28	25	6	7	3	0	0	5	3	0	0	0	.280	.357	.400	.757	109.1	110.7	.363	0.1
1932	8	24	17	9	11	1	1	0	8	7	0	1	0	.647	.750	.824	1.574	337.3	384.2	.711	0.8
1935	11	23	21	3	10	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	.476	.522	.524	1.046	160.6	164.7	.481	0.2
1937	1	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	164.4	177.2	.463	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
1930	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.7	0.00	1.500	0.00	8.33	182.9	—	0.7

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

705

2,617

2,312

369

635

104

RBI

368

214

.2747

OBP

.3398

SLG

.3733

OPS

.7131

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

0.00

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
1921-07-11	CAG @ SLS Gameday	4	1	4	0	0	1	2	0	7
1930-08-30	MEM @ CAG Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	2	0	7
1930-06-21	KCM @ CAG Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	6
1930-08-03	CAG @ MEM Gameday	6	2	3	1	1	0	2	0	6
1931-07-04	CAG @ SLS Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	BB
1930-06-28	CAG @ SLS Gameday	0.2	1
1920-05-09	CHG @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0
1920-05-16	DAY @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0
1920-05-22	DAY @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0
1920-05-23	KCM @ CAG Gameday	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.