Johnnie Dawson
Kansas City Monarchs 1938; Chicago American Giants 1940; Kansas City Monarchs 1940; Memphis Red Sox 1940; Birmingham Black Barons 1941–1942; Kansas City Monarchs 1942
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 49.0 | 44.2 | .235 | 0.0 |
| 1940 | 10 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .182 | .238 | .420 | 31.2 | 23.4 | .206 | -0.1 |
| 1941 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .800 | .800 | .800 | 1.600 | 352.1 | 375.1 | .764 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 14 | 39 | 37 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .162 | .184 | .216 | .400 | 23.6 | 19.2 | .190 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-04-13 | BBB @ NBY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1940-05-05 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-05-10 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-06-22 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1940-05-23 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-15 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-28 | KCM @ CAG 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.