Lefty Boone
Memphis Red Sox 1940; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940–1941; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Jacksonville Red Caps 1942; New York Black Yankees 1942; Harrisburg-St. Louis Stars 1943; Homestead Grays 1944; Philadelphia Stars 1944
Percentile snapshot
1943 season — qualified pitchers
of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 9 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | 6.6 | 0.6 | .162 | -1.4 |
| 1941 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -89.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1942 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .154 | .083 | .237 | -12.4 | -26.4 | .130 | -0.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .167 | .176 | .343 | 5.2 | -8.3 | .171 | 0.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .300 | .222 | .522 | 52.7 | 35.7 | .265 | 0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 2 | 22.3 | 10.88 | 2.418 | 7.25 | 6.51 | 157.6 | 38.0 | -1.4 |
| 1941 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 26 | 0 | 22.3 | 5.64 | 1.612 | 10.48 | 3.40 | 91.6 | 65.8 | -0.4 |
| 1942 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 22 | 19 | 30 | 0 | 27.0 | 7.33 | 1.963 | 10.00 | 3.35 | 83.6 | 54.8 | -0.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 18 | 23 | 51 | 1 | 45.3 | 3.57 | 1.213 | 10.13 | 3.82 | 79.4 | 134.6 | 0.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 21.0 | 3.86 | 1.333 | 5.14 | 3.60 | 83.3 | 111.9 | 0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-06-19 | HSL @ NE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1940-07-04 | JRC @ MEM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1942-08-30 | JRC @ CLB Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1944-05-07 | PHS @ BEG Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1940-04-28 | NBY @ MEM Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-09-03 | JRC @ CLB Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 0 |
| 1943-06-24 | HSL @ HOM Gameday | 8.1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 0 |
| 1941-07-13 | HSL @ CAG Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| 1941-08-11 | KCM @ HSL Gameday | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 1943-08-31 | IC @ HSL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
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.