Lefty Bowe
Chicago American Giants 1939–1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .188 | .188 | .188 | .375 | 11.2 | 9.2 | .177 | 1.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -82.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 12 | 22 | 45 | 1 | 44.7 | 2.42 | 1.299 | 9.07 | 3.40 | 85.8 | 163.7 | 1.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 40 | 19 | 23 | 36 | 3 | 47.7 | 3.59 | 1.322 | 6.80 | 4.55 | 110.1 | 115.1 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-08-28 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1939-07-21 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1939-07-28 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1939-04-23 | BEG @ CAG Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-30 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-06-18 | HSL @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 0 |
| 1940-07-21 | BBB @ CAG Gameday | 10.0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1939-07-21 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1940-05-12 | CAG @ JRC Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1940-06-16 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 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.