Joe Brown
Newark Eagles 1937; Jacksonville Red Caps 1938; Newark Eagles 1938; Homestead Grays 1939; Newark Eagles 1939; Chicago American Giants 1940; Philadelphia Stars 1940; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942
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 | 11 | 38 | 35 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .229 | .289 | .286 | .575 | 56.8 | 48.8 | .271 | 0.0 |
| 1938 | 14 | 45 | 41 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .268 | .318 | .293 | .611 | 72.7 | 67.7 | .293 | 0.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .105 | .150 | .105 | .255 | -14.7 | -31.1 | .131 | -0.3 |
| 1940 | 8 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .350 | .381 | .400 | .781 | 125.4 | 135.9 | .381 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 25 | 84 | 79 | 9 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .215 | .253 | .241 | .494 | 52.3 | 47.3 | .238 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-06-14 | PHS @ NE Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1942-06-21 | BBB @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1937-05-18 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1942-05-24 | JRC @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1940-08-18 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-15 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-17 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-18 | HOM @ NE 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.