John Henry Russell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 148 lb

BornFebruary 24, 1898 · Dolcito, AL, USA

Seasons12 (1923–1934)

Memphis Red Sox 1923–1925; St. Louis Stars 1926–1930; Indianapolis ABCs 1931; Cleveland Cubs 1931; Detroit Wolves 1932; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1932–1933; Cleveland Red Sox 1934; Homestead Grays 1934

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

30.9

284

31.5

252

31.5

30.2

31.5

48.3

RBI

31.5

34.2

67.8

22.1

35.6

.274

37.6

OBP

.335

41.6

SLG

.361

30.9

OPS

.696

33.6

wRC+

92.7

37.6

OPS+

90.3

30.9

wOBA

.322

30.9

sWAR

0.8

41.6

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 170 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

92.4

27.1

OPS+

92.5

sWAR

8.9

85.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1923	22	92	82	8	26	2	4	0	14	6	0	3	0	.317	.364	.439	.803	153.9	165.5	.382	0.9
1924	60	256	226	20	53	9	5	0	22	19	0	8	1	.235	.297	.319	.615	72.2	68.6	.295	0.1
1925	75	315	289	37	81	10	4	0	38	17	0	2	0	.280	.320	.343	.663	80.9	78.1	.306	0.4
1926	87	400	338	76	104	14	8	5	52	34	2	25	0	.308	.378	.441	.818	109.6	110.2	.377	1.9
1927	86	319	289	48	87	10	5	11	47	15	0	7	0	.301	.340	.484	.824	115.7	119.8	.371	1.8
1928	79	318	292	38	80	10	5	2	36	12	0	1	0	.274	.305	.363	.668	81.1	81.6	.307	0.4
1929	84	309	289	45	81	6	2	1	41	15	0	2	0	.280	.316	.325	.641	70.4	67.5	.298	0.0
1930	89	363	332	57	93	14	6	10	48	27	0	11	0	.280	.336	.449	.785	104.7	107.2	.355	1.6
1931	42	176	154	28	45	9	1	1	20	18	0	4	0	.292	.366	.383	.749	108.5	108.8	.362	0.8
1932	78	318	279	35	74	6	5	0	35	23	0	0	0	.265	.326	.323	.648	76.2	70.9	.310	0.2
1933	68	284	252	41	69	12	5	0	29	21	0	2	0	.274	.335	.361	.696	92.7	90.3	.322	0.8
1934	3	11	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.100	.182	.100	.282	-3.5	-12.0	.149	-0.1

Career totals

773

3,161

2,832

434

794

102

RBI

382

208

.2804

OBP

.3325

SLG

.3835

OPS

.7160

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	TB
1930-08-02	CUB @ SLS Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	1	8
1930-07-19	SLS @ BEG Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	2	7
1930-07-21	SLS @ BBB Gameday	5	0	4	0	1	0	2	6
1930-05-04	DTS @ SLS Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	1	3	6
1930-07-04	SLS @ KCM Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	0	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-26	SLS @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-27	SLS @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-27	SLS @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-28	SLS @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-29	SLS @ BEG 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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.