Jim Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 198 lb

BornJanuary 16, 1906 · Benton, AL, USA

Seasons14 (1931–1944)

Indianapolis ABCs 1931–1932; Homestead Grays 1933; Indianapolis ABCs/Detroit Stars 1933; Homestead Grays 1934; Brooklyn Eagles 1935; Newark Dodgers 1935; New York Black Yankees 1936; Homestead Grays 1937–1939; Toledo Crawfords 1939; Cleveland Bears 1940; New York Black Yankees 1940–1941; New York Cubans 1942; New York Black Yankees 1943–1944

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified batters

6.2

127

8.2

117

9.6

14.4

16.4

26.7

19.9

RBI

15.8

4.1

87.7

11.6

39.7

.299

82.2

OBP

.349

52.7

SLG

.393

59.6

OPS

.742

56.8

wRC+

108.4

52.7

OPS+

111.5

54.8

wOBA

.353

56.8

sWAR

0.5

27.4

of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 68 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.5

80.6

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
1931	40	172	160	31	57	4	4	0	29	12	0	8	0	.356	.401	.431	.832	127.6	131.8	.397	1.0
1932	42	154	143	14	37	4	3	0	21	4	0	8	0	.259	.293	.329	.622	88.5	89.6	.298	0.2
1933	25	103	98	11	32	7	2	0	17	4	0	5	0	.327	.353	.439	.792	112.2	116.1	.357	0.4
1934	20	82	77	14	24	5	0	4	16	3	0	2	0	.312	.338	.532	.870	136.5	143.4	.383	0.6
1935	36	148	132	25	42	15	2	2	27	13	0	8	0	.318	.379	.508	.887	117.3	121.9	.397	0.7
1936	26	108	102	12	39	9	0	2	24	5	0	1	0	.382	.411	.529	.941	132.4	138.6	.426	0.7
1937	46	208	187	30	67	12	1	1	41	10	0	6	0	.358	.394	.449	.843	114.8	116.7	.382	0.9
1938	37	155	141	28	46	11	1	1	30	8	0	0	1	.326	.367	.440	.806	108.9	112.0	.369	0.6
1939	20	85	76	11	21	7	0	0	10	7	0	2	0	.276	.333	.368	.702	93.6	97.3	.331	0.1
1940	31	117	106	17	23	4	1	1	15	8	1	5	0	.217	.284	.302	.586	64.2	59.2	.284	-0.3
1941	24	87	81	9	22	3	2	1	6	4	0	2	0	.272	.322	.395	.717	98.7	100.1	.332	0.2
1942	31	127	117	17	35	8	0	1	14	7	0	1	0	.299	.349	.393	.742	108.4	111.5	.353	0.5
1943	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-80.0	-100.0	.000	0.0
1944	21	80	73	11	19	3	0	0	7	6	0	3	0	.260	.325	.301	.626	74.3	68.5	.305	-0.1

Career totals

400

1,627

1,494

230

464

RBI

257

.3106

OBP

.3548

SLG

.4197

OPS

.7745

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
1937-07-10	HOM @ PHS Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	1	4	0	8
1931-05-25	IND @ LBC Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	3	0	7
1935-05-12	HOM @ ND Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	0	7
1933-09-06	HOM @ CAG Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	0	3	1	7
1931-06-28	SLS @ IND Gameday	3	3	3	1	1	0	4	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-05-02	CAG @ IND Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-03	CAG @ IND Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-03	CAG @ IND Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-04	CAG @ IND Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-16	LBC @ 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

1× 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.