Joe Lewis
Baltimore Black Sox 1922–1923; Hilldale Club 1924–1925; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1926; New York Lincoln Giants 1926; Hilldale Club 1927–1932; Baltimore Sox 1933; Philadelphia Bacharach Giants 1934
Percentile snapshot
1932 season — qualified batters
of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 83 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 31 | 111 | 97 | 7 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .247 | .311 | .330 | .641 | 85.2 | 82.5 | .306 | 0.3 |
| 1923 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -9.1 | -50.2 | .126 | -0.1 |
| 1924 | 27 | 95 | 87 | 15 | 29 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .333 | .370 | .494 | .864 | 126.1 | 132.9 | .395 | 0.8 |
| 1925 | 12 | 33 | 30 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .290 | .267 | .557 | 50.0 | 45.1 | .263 | 0.0 |
| 1926 | 26 | 80 | 73 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .164 | .228 | .219 | .447 | 29.4 | 22.6 | .222 | -0.3 |
| 1927 | 48 | 171 | 151 | 20 | 32 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .212 | .279 | .278 | .557 | 51.6 | 46.4 | .269 | -0.2 |
| 1928 | 23 | 63 | 59 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .279 | .322 | .601 | 59.5 | 58.0 | .278 | 0.0 |
| 1929 | 36 | 138 | 123 | 17 | 31 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .252 | .308 | .325 | .633 | 59.6 | 54.8 | .300 | -0.1 |
| 1930 | 22 | 76 | 63 | 8 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .302 | .389 | .429 | .817 | 91.1 | 87.4 | .374 | 0.3 |
| 1931 | 10 | 31 | 29 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .310 | .355 | .345 | .700 | 94.5 | 92.5 | .328 | 0.2 |
| 1932 | 23 | 88 | 81 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .210 | .247 | .259 | .506 | 42.7 | 39.8 | .245 | -0.2 |
| 1933 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .118 | .353 | .471 | 23.6 | 23.6 | .197 | -0.1 |
| 1934 | 13 | 45 | 38 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .395 | .477 | .447 | .925 | 157.5 | 160.0 | .444 | 0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-08-04 | TIC @ PBG Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1932-06-05 | CUP @ HIL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1934-07-08 | ND @ PBG Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1933-07-09 | BBS @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1932-05-21 | HIL @ HOM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-04-30 | CSE @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-05-06 | BG @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-05-06 | BG @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-05-07 | BG @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-05-13 | BRG @ BBS 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.