Jimmy Ford
Memphis Red Sox 1937; Birmingham Black Barons 1938; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938; Washington Black Senators 1938; St. Louis Stars 1939; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940–1941; Chicago American Giants 1942; New York Black Yankees 1942; Harrisburg-St. Louis Stars 1943; Memphis Red Sox 1943; New York Black Yankees 1943; Philadelphia Stars 1943; Memphis Red Sox 1944–1945
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 15 | 65 | 64 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .262 | .297 | .558 | 59.1 | 54.1 | .257 | -0.1 |
| 1938 | 7 | 30 | 28 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .321 | .345 | .321 | .666 | 85.2 | 86.6 | .316 | 0.1 |
| 1939 | 6 | 24 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .227 | .292 | .409 | .701 | 99.0 | 102.5 | .328 | 0.1 |
| 1940 | 31 | 118 | 112 | 16 | 33 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .295 | .325 | .375 | .700 | 104.8 | 111.1 | .339 | 0.5 |
| 1941 | 18 | 65 | 56 | 13 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .321 | .406 | .411 | .817 | 136.7 | 142.5 | .391 | 0.6 |
| 1942 | 25 | 97 | 86 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .174 | .260 | .209 | .470 | 47.2 | 35.2 | .241 | -0.3 |
| 1943 | 23 | 98 | 90 | 14 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .309 | .356 | .665 | 79.2 | 81.9 | .319 | 0.1 |
| 1944 | 28 | 114 | 103 | 8 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .282 | .336 | .340 | .676 | 109.1 | 109.7 | .330 | 0.6 |
| 1945 | 16 | 59 | 55 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .218 | .259 | .364 | .622 | 80.2 | 80.9 | .290 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-04-15 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1937-05-27 | SLS @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1944-06-25 | IC @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1943-05-30 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1940-05-12 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-09 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | MEM @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | MEM @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-23 | SLS @ 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.