John Beckwith

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 200 lb

BornJanuary 10, 1900 · Louisville, KY, USA

Final gameJuly 5, 1937

Seasons16 (1920–1935)

Chicago Giants 1920–1921; Chicago American Giants 1922–1923; Baltimore Black Sox 1924–1926; Harrisburg Giants 1926–1927; Homestead Grays 1928–1929; New York Lincoln Giants 1929–1930; Baltimore Black Sox 1931; Newark Browns 1932; New York Black Yankees 1933–1934; Newark Dodgers 1934; Homestead Grays 1935

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

6.7

8.1

7.4

10.1

14.1

35.6

RBI

16.1

10.1

67.8

35.6

.344

92.6

OBP

.403

89.3

SLG

.525

93.3

OPS

.928

91.9

wRC+

137.8

87.2

OPS+

146.0

91.3

wOBA

.424

91.9

sWAR

0.7

36.2

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 58 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

25.2

95.4

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
1920	30	123	115	12	28	6	0	1	14	6	0	1	0	.243	.281	.322	.603	78.5	80.6	.293	0.3
1921	46	201	184	32	72	14	5	4	39	15	1	8	0	.391	.437	.587	1.024	172.9	187.6	.470	3.0
1922	66	252	223	44	80	21	5	7	52	19	5	11	1	.359	.414	.592	1.006	154.9	167.7	.451	2.7
1923	72	296	270	36	82	21	9	8	77	19	0	5	0	.304	.349	.537	.887	120.2	128.4	.396	1.5
1924	33	141	119	33	46	6	1	7	31	11	4	10	0	.387	.447	.630	1.077	174.9	190.0	.486	1.9
1925	50	210	183	47	74	14	1	15	64	24	0	3	0	.404	.473	.738	1.211	191.0	208.9	.528	3.4
1926	54	221	199	42	66	17	4	9	54	19	7	4	1	.332	.393	.593	.986	153.5	167.5	.448	2.5
1927	67	289	265	62	92	20	3	8	57	18	0	1	0	.347	.393	.536	.929	134.4	141.9	.422	2.5
1928	19	76	72	8	22	2	2	1	10	2	9	0	0	.306	.333	.431	.764	97.2	100.1	.348	0.3
1929	56	232	207	57	80	17	2	14	60	22	2	2	0	.386	.448	.691	1.139	159.9	174.5	.500	2.6
1930	23	85	74	25	36	7	3	6	33	8	0	4	0	.486	.537	.905	1.442	202.1	223.3	.605	1.6
1931	33	123	112	26	38	4	1	12	35	10	4	0	0	.339	.393	.714	1.108	178.7	197.8	.481	1.8
1932	2	8	8	2	3	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	.375	.375	.875	1.250	214.3	240.4	.555	0.2
1933	16	68	61	9	21	5	0	2	15	6	0	0	0	.344	.403	.525	.928	137.8	146.0	.424	0.7
1934	14	31	30	6	7	3	1	2	4	1	1	0	0	.233	.258	.600	.858	126.1	136.9	.366	0.2
1935	6	17	15	0	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	.133	.235	.200	.435	25.4	11.0	.218	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1920	1	1	1	1	7	4	4	5	8.0	4.50	1.375	5.63	3.74	104.2	79.8	0.3
1921	2	0	0	0	10	4	2	7	9.7	3.72	1.241	6.52	2.54	64.1	106.3	3.0
1926	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	1.0	0.00	3.000	0.00	9.34	208.7	—	2.5

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

587

2,373

2,137

441

749

159

RBI

550

182

.3505

OBP

.4038

SLG

.5957

OPS

.9995

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

3.857

WHIP

1.3929

K/9

5.79

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
1922-06-13	CAG @ SLS Gameday	6	2	4	3	0	1	4	0	10
1921-05-12	CHG @ SLS Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	4	1	9
1923-05-20	CAG @ SLS Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	3	0	9
1923-05-23	CAG @ SLS Gameday	6	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
1922-07-16	ABC @ CAG Gameday	2	4	2	0	0	2	3	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1920-07-19	CHG @ SLS Gameday	8.0	7	4	4	4	5
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-09	CHG @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-29	CHG @ DTS Gameday	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.