MLB / Players

John Black

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb
BornFebruary 23, 1890 · Covington, KY, USA
MLB debutJune 20, 1911
Final gameSeptember 12, 1911
Seasons1 (1911–1911)

St. Louis Browns 1911

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
-2.2
1.3

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19115420118613284007104240.151.202.172.3746.35.1.190-2.2

Career totals

G
54
PA
201
AB
186
R
13
H
28
2B
4
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
7
BB
10
SO
42
SB
4
BA
.1505
OBP
.2020
SLG
.1720
OPS
.3740

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1911-08-22ATH @ BAL Gameday403000003
1911-07-04BAL @ CLE Gameday402100003
1911-07-03BAL @ CLE Gameday412000002
1911-07-10BOS @ BAL Gameday312000012
1911-07-14NYY @ BAL Gameday202000002

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1911-04-12CLE @ BAL Gameday0.0000000
1911-04-13CLE @ BAL Gameday0.0000000
1911-04-14CLE @ BAL Gameday0.0000000
1911-04-15CLE @ BAL Gameday0.0000000
1911-04-16CWS @ BAL Gameday0.0000000

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.