MLB / Players

Lefty Calhoun

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 180 lb
BornAugust 21, 1911 · Union City, TN, USA
Seasons9 (1932–1946)

Montgomery Grey Sox 1932; Memphis Red Sox 1932; Memphis Red Sox 1937; Indianapolis ABCs 1938; St. Louis Stars 1939; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940–1941; New York Black Yankees 1942; Philadelphia Stars 1942; Harrisburg-St. Louis Stars 1943; Cleveland Buckeyes 1946; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1946

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified pitchers

G
3
0
GS
1
0
W
0
0
L
2
90.2
SV
0
0
CG
0
0
SHO
0
0
H
16
100
ER
9
99
BB
11
97.1
SO
3
0
HR
1
84.3
IP
11.0
0
ERA
7.36
0
WHIP
2.455
0
K/9
2.45
17.6
FIP
8.04
0
FIP-
167.1
0
ERA+
65.3
0
sWAR
-0.1
8.8

of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 9 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
1.1
64.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
193217403661011093000.278.350.361.711117.0118.7.3450.0
19371440000000000.000.000.000.000-72.7-100.0.0000.3
1938715151200000000.133.133.133.267-9.4-23.1.1250.1
19391126233620051000.261.292.348.63983.885.5.3011.4
19401624242000000100.000.000.000.000-82.7-100.0.0000.9
19416990000000000.000.000.000.000-89.1-100.0.000-0.9
19421215140000000000.000.000.000.000-85.4-100.0.000-0.5
19434770300010000.429.429.429.857123.8129.2.409-0.1
19462321100031000.500.667.5001.167237.9245.1.5800.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1932882404054262216046.35.051.6403.114.17111.973.80.0
19371000000412907.71.17.78310.572.5256.3381.40.3
193874121203518929034.04.761.2947.683.0772.189.50.1
19391162425055222427167.02.961.1793.634.11103.7134.01.4
19401546322145171131153.02.891.0575.263.6087.1143.10.9
1941530302033211414126.77.091.7634.734.59123.752.4-0.9
19421232201045231614137.05.591.6493.414.19106.970.1-0.5
19433102000169113111.07.362.4552.458.04167.165.3-0.1
194621100001056808.05.632.0009.003.9796.972.90.0

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

G
76
PA
143
AB
134
R
13
H
22
2B
3
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
18
BB
5
SO
1
SB
0
BA
.1642
OBP
.2000
SLG
.2015
OPS
.4015

Pitching

G (P)
64
GS
30
W
14
L
20
SV
5
CG
16
SHO
1
IP
291
SO (P)
151
BB allowed
115
ERA
4.397
WHIP
1.4174
K/9
4.68

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1939-05-29ATL @ HSL Gameday634100405
1932-07-09MNT @ LBC Gameday411010103
1932-05-08MEM @ MNT Gameday402000202
1932-06-12MNT @ MON Gameday201100102
1939-07-16HSL @ MEM Gameday201100002

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1938-06-12HSL @ ATL Gameday9.05222100
1938-08-22HSL @ MEM Gameday8.010521100
1940-09-15BBB @ HSL Gameday8.01183280
1940-07-09JRC @ HSL Gameday9.0100270
1939-05-29ATL @ HSL Gameday9.01565261

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

All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.