Josh Gibson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 220 lb

BornDecember 21, 1911 · Buena Vista, GA, USA

Final gameSeptember 30, 1946

Seasons16 (1930–1946)

Homestead Grays 1930; Memphis Red Sox 1930; Homestead Grays 1931; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1932–1936; Homestead Grays 1937–1940; Homestead Grays 1942–1946

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

7.2

186

5.2

171

6.2

14.4

10.3

21.6

23.7

79.4

RBI

55.7

9.3

69.1

.316

82.5

OBP

.371

SLG

.649

OPS

1.020

96.9

wRC+

159.8

90.7

OPS+

182.4

96.9

wOBA

.456

93.8

sWAR

2.4

57.7

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 179 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

179.3

99.9

OPS+

200.6

100

sWAR

50.1

98.9

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
1930	33	123	111	20	42	3	2	9	37	8	5	0	0	.378	.425	.685	1.110	140.0	150.7	.474	1.5
1931	48	201	183	39	57	14	4	8	42	13	3	0	0	.311	.360	.563	.923	139.4	149.5	.410	2.2
1932	64	270	241	46	79	14	6	9	47	26	1	1	0	.328	.396	.548	.943	133.9	142.9	.426	2.6
1933	69	267	243	61	96	15	7	18	75	19	0	4	0	.395	.441	.737	1.178	197.5	216.2	.511	4.6
1934	65	272	240	56	76	19	4	15	59	30	1	4	0	.317	.395	.617	1.012	165.2	181.0	.458	3.8
1935	44	194	168	48	62	11	4	10	57	24	2	10	0	.369	.448	.661	1.109	162.4	176.0	.484	2.2
1936	50	208	175	51	68	7	4	18	66	30	0	6	0	.389	.478	.783	1.261	194.0	217.0	.544	3.6
1937	39	183	156	60	65	13	7	20	73	25	0	2	0	.417	.500	.974	1.474	232.1	269.8	.608	4.2
1938	47	203	168	54	61	11	4	13	54	30	0	3	0	.363	.462	.708	1.171	182.1	205.1	.511	3.3
1939	28	126	104	35	42	5	3	11	40	15	0	3	0	.404	.472	.827	1.298	203.3	238.7	.551	2.4
1940	2	9	6	2	1	0	0	1	2	3	0	0	0	.167	.444	.667	1.111	163.4	186.3	.485	0.1
1942	62	266	212	57	72	9	4	14	66	51	1	4	1	.340	.472	.618	1.090	188.6	209.5	.500	4.6
1943	70	305	249	93	116	23	9	20	112	55	1	4	0	.466	.564	.871	1.435	236.3	280.9	.634	7.0
1944	50	203	180	40	60	8	6	10	50	23	0	3	0	.333	.409	.611	1.020	154.4	170.8	.455	2.5
1945	47	195	161	37	56	6	5	8	40	33	4	0	0	.348	.459	.596	1.055	178.6	194.3	.481	3.0
1946	48	186	171	34	54	12	3	13	52	15	2	0	0	.316	.371	.649	1.020	159.8	182.4	.456	2.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1935	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	1	0	0	1.7	21.60	3.000	0.00	5.85	114.8	23.6	2.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

766

3,211

2,768

733

1,007

170

362nd-most career 3B

197

396th-most career HR

RBI

872

437th-most career RBI

400

.3638

2nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.4456

6th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.6908

Highest career slugging percentage of all time

OPS

1.1364

2nd-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

21.600

WHIP

3.0000

K/9

0.00

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.