John Henry Oliver
Memphis Red Sox 1930; Birmingham Black Barons 1932; Louisville Black Caps 1932; Birmingham Black Barons 1945; Memphis Red Sox 1945
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -88.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1932 | 23 | 95 | 84 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .179 | .250 | .226 | .476 | 53.2 | 45.0 | .240 | -0.2 |
| 1945 | 10 | 38 | 35 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .211 | .143 | .353 | 20.4 | 5.0 | .184 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-07-16 | MEM @ LBC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1932-04-24 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1932-07-11 | MNT @ LBC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1932-04-22 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1932-07-10 | MNT @ LBC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-06-26 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-22 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-23 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | BBB @ MEM 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.