Joe Hewitt

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 140 lb

BornAugust 7, 1885 · New Market, AL, USA

Seasons19 (1911–1932)

St. Louis Giants 1911–1912; New York Lincoln Giants 1913–1914; New York Lincoln Stars 1914; St. Louis Giants 1915; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1916; St. Louis Giants 1916; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1917–1918; New York Lincoln Giants 1918; Detroit Stars 1919–1920; St. Louis Giants 1921; St. Louis Stars 1922; Milwaukee Bears 1923; St. Louis Stars 1923; Birmingham Black Barons 1924; Chicago American Giants 1924; Detroit Stars 1925; Dayton Marcos 1926; Detroit Stars 1926; Nashville Elite Giants 1930; Cleveland Cubs 1931; Nashville Elite Giants 1932

Percentile snapshot

1923 season — qualified batters

25.7

240

27.4

185

20.7

27.9

22.3

12.8

RBI

8.9

58.7

62.6

93.3

.281

29.6

OBP

.412

89.4

SLG

.308

8.9

OPS

.720

36.3

wRC+

101.4

42.5

OPS+

90.3

wOBA

.360

49.2

sWAR

0.9

40.2

of 180 qualified 1923 batters (min 223 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.4

83.4

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
1911	18	74	63	16	21	1	2	2	11	8	0	3	0	.333	.408	.508	.916	159.3	175.9	.432	0.9
1912	30	131	115	25	37	2	2	1	9	11	0	15	0	.322	.400	.400	.800	132.5	135.7	.386	1.1
1913	3	14	13	4	5	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	.385	.429	.385	.813	138.1	140.5	.403	0.1
1914	23	105	92	13	27	2	0	0	9	11	0	7	0	.293	.369	.315	.684	91.3	85.9	.346	0.3
1915	18	80	65	16	16	4	1	1	9	8	0	12	0	.246	.364	.385	.748	129.3	133.7	.371	0.5
1916	29	136	118	24	30	1	0	0	8	14	0	11	0	.254	.338	.263	.601	76.2	65.9	.309	0.1
1917	24	108	97	15	23	2	1	0	12	9	0	6	0	.237	.308	.278	.587	65.6	59.4	.301	0.0
1918	22	101	85	15	20	0	1	0	4	11	0	3	0	.235	.343	.259	.602	81.8	71.9	.318	0.2
1919	39	178	146	35	37	6	0	0	6	24	0	7	0	.253	.374	.295	.668	97.8	89.0	.338	0.8
1920	45	201	157	30	31	5	1	0	8	25	1	9	0	.197	.330	.242	.572	84.2	71.8	.303	0.4
1921	63	296	239	42	57	5	2	1	17	42	0	32	1	.238	.377	.289	.665	100.4	89.3	.339	1.3
1922	51	232	194	43	55	3	1	2	26	20	0	11	0	.284	.374	.340	.714	98.5	93.1	.344	0.9
1923	59	240	185	37	52	5	0	0	15	38	0	20	0	.281	.412	.308	.720	101.4	90.3	.360	0.9
1924	52	216	159	35	37	3	1	0	15	39	4	12	1	.233	.402	.264	.666	101.1	84.7	.349	0.8
1925	36	159	123	23	19	5	1	0	6	26	0	4	0	.154	.302	.211	.513	58.8	40.4	.265	-0.3
1926	35	132	104	17	13	3	0	0	4	20	0	3	0	.125	.295	.154	.448	40.3	18.2	.249	-0.5
1930	11	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-42.8	-51.5	.084	-0.2
1931	9	10	8	2	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	.125	.300	.125	.425	46.8	20.2	.250	0.0
1932	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-91.3	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

568

2,426

1,975

392

482

RBI

163

309

155

.2441

OBP

.3620

SLG

.2916

OPS

.6536

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
1921-06-23	KCM @ SLS Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	0	7
1922-06-15	CAG @ SLS Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	3	1	5
1921-06-29	COL @ SLS Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	4	0	4
1921-07-31	CHG @ SLS Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	0	4
1923-06-20	CUB @ SLS Gameday	4	1	4	0	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-05-15	CUB @ DTS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-16	CUB @ DTS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-17	CUB @ DTS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-18	CUB @ DTS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-29	CHG @ DTS 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.