John Shackelford
Cleveland Browns 1924; Harrisburg Giants 1925; Chicago American Giants 1926; Birmingham Black Barons 1930
Percentile snapshot
1925 season — qualified batters
of 163 qualified 1925 batters (min 226 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 20 | 90 | 86 | 9 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .279 | .303 | .349 | .652 | 78.0 | 78.4 | .306 | 0.1 |
| 1925 | 63 | 256 | 238 | 38 | 71 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .298 | .329 | .416 | .745 | 90.4 | 91.7 | .339 | 0.6 |
| 1926 | 12 | 33 | 32 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .242 | .281 | .524 | 36.7 | 34.5 | .242 | -0.2 |
| 1930 | 48 | 173 | 160 | 17 | 45 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .281 | .307 | .325 | .632 | 70.8 | 68.4 | .293 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-06-23 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1930-08-12 | BBB @ SLS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1930-06-25 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1930-06-29 | BBB @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1930-07-13 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-04-28 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-29 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-30 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-01 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-01 | CUB @ BBB 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.