Jimmy Ripple

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornOctober 14, 1909 · Export, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1936

Final gameSeptember 12, 1943

Seasons7 (1936–1943)

New York Giants 1936–1938; Brooklyn Dodgers 1939; New York Giants 1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940; Cincinnati Reds 1940–1941; Philadelphia Athletics 1943

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

134

44.6

569

56.2

501

52.9

131

28.9

15.7

66.1

RBI

45.5

52.9

72.7

20.7

.261

OBP

.333

22.3

SLG

.375

26.4

OPS

.709

23.1

wRC+

95.3

33.9

OPS+

94.9

35.5

wOBA

.331

26.4

sWAR

0.9

24.8

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.7

80.8

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
1936	96	345	311	42	95	17	2	7	47	28	15	1	.305	.365	.441	.805	118.9	118.9	.370	2.0
1937	121	466	426	70	135	23	3	5	66	29	20	3	.317	.362	.420	.782	112.5	112.5	.360	2.0
1938	134	569	501	68	131	21	3	10	60	49	21	2	.261	.333	.375	.709	95.3	94.9	.331	0.9
1939	94	256	229	28	63	12	4	1	34	19	15	0	.275	.339	.376	.714	90.3	90.7	.333	0.3
1940	39	134	114	15	34	10	0	4	20	15	7	1	.298	.389	.491	.881	144.6	142.9	.401	1.0
1941	38	114	102	10	22	6	1	1	9	9	4	0	.216	.279	.324	.603	67.8	71.0	.286	-0.2
1943	32	138	126	8	30	3	1	0	15	7	7	0	.238	.284	.278	.561	58.0	63.7	.273	-0.4

Career totals

554

2,022

1,809

241

510

RBI

251

156

.2819

OBP

.3433

SLG

.3947

OPS

.7380

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
1937-05-29	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	6
1938-05-04	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1938-09-07	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	0	6
1939-09-23	LAD @ PHI Gameday	6	4	3	3	0	0	2	1	6
1936-09-05	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-04-14	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-15	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-16	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-17	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-19	SF @ ATL 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.