MLB / Players

Jimmy Brown

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 165 lb

BornApril 25, 1910 · Jamesville, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1937

Final gameSeptember 15, 1946

Seasons8 (1937–1946)

St. Louis Cardinals 1937–1943; Pittsburgh Pirates 1946

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified batters

145

75.3

668

92.5

606

93.8

155

78.1

80.1

48.6

19.9

RBI

80.1

67.8

56.2

47.9

39.7

.256

30.8

OBP

.315

31.5

SLG

.320

19.9

OPS

.635

24.7

wRC+

80.8

21.2

OPS+

82.7

23.3

wOBA

.306

21.9

sWAR

1.0

38.4

of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

83.4

14.1

OPS+

85.2

16.2

sWAR

7.0

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	138	579	525	86	145	20	9	2	53	27	29	10	.276	.313	.360	.673	78.0	80.7	.311	0.6
1938	108	413	382	50	115	12	6	0	38	27	9	7	.301	.350	.364	.714	92.7	92.4	.334	1.3
1939	147	695	645	88	192	31	8	3	51	32	18	4	.298	.335	.384	.719	85.8	88.2	.332	1.7
1940	107	484	454	56	127	17	4	0	30	24	15	9	.280	.317	.335	.652	74.1	76.8	.303	0.3
1941	132	610	549	81	168	28	9	3	56	45	22	2	.306	.363	.406	.769	112.9	112.2	.361	3.2
1942	145	668	606	75	155	28	4	1	71	52	11	4	.256	.315	.320	.635	80.8	82.7	.306	1.0
1943	34	120	110	6	20	4	2	0	8	6	1	0	.182	.224	.255	.479	26.8	37.9	.231	-0.5
1946	79	263	241	23	58	6	0	0	12	18	5	3	.241	.293	.266	.559	50.8	56.6	.274	-0.5

Career totals

890

3,832

3,512

465

980

146

RBI

319

231

110

.2790

OBP

.3257

SLG

.3522

OPS

.6779

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1939-07-23	STL @ LAD Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	2	0	7
1941-05-26	CHC @ STL Gameday	7	2	3	1	1	5	0	7
1937-07-16	STL @ PHI Gameday	6	4	3	1	1	3	1	7
1939-05-30	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	0	4	2	0	1	0	6
1939-07-06	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-04-20	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-22	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-23	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-24	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-25	CHC @ STL 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.