Lennie Pearson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 214 lb

BornMay 23, 1918 · La Grange, GA, USA

Seasons12 (1937–1948)

Newark Eagles 1937–1941; Homestead Grays 1942; Newark Eagles 1942; Homestead Grays 1943; Newark Eagles 1943; Philadelphia Stars 1943; Newark Eagles 1944–1948

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

10.8

222

10.8

202

12.9

2.2

6.5

23.7

RBI

15.1

10.8

84.9

1.1

41.9

.297

64.5

OBP

.355

SLG

.391

37.6

OPS

.746

34.4

wRC+

114.0

48.4

OPS+

115.5

52.7

wOBA

.356

39.8

sWAR

0.7

21.5

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 176 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.1

85.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	24	93	77	15	18	4	1	1	14	12	0	0	.234	.337	.351	.688	83.9	77.5	.323	0.0
1938	28	106	95	16	28	5	2	1	17	8	1	2	.295	.350	.421	.771	101.1	102.6	.354	0.3
1939	41	167	161	21	37	4	3	5	29	4	4	2	.230	.248	.385	.634	65.1	65.9	.285	-0.2
1940	41	172	156	46	55	11	2	8	35	16	2	3	.353	.413	.603	1.015	148.7	161.8	.456	1.9
1941	40	148	139	16	38	7	1	4	20	7	2	5	.273	.313	.424	.737	101.6	105.2	.338	0.6
1942	56	232	209	45	70	21	0	11	56	22	1	3	.335	.398	.593	.992	163.8	181.0	.454	2.5
1943	37	159	139	28	38	8	5	4	23	19	0	5	.273	.361	.489	.850	116.8	126.6	.394	0.6
1944	33	143	127	21	35	9	1	2	21	15	0	1	.276	.352	.409	.762	103.4	103.6	.360	0.4
1945	20	80	75	15	23	2	3	2	13	5	0	0	.307	.350	.493	.843	127.0	134.9	.390	0.4
1946	60	257	234	53	75	14	2	8	61	19	1	18	.321	.374	.500	.874	132.9	143.0	.406	1.5
1947	59	236	216	37	60	11	2	5	33	18	0	5	.278	.333	.417	.750	101.4	104.5	.352	0.4
1948	53	222	202	34	60	6	2	3	29	18	0	1	.297	.355	.391	.746	114.0	115.5	.356	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1941	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	2	3	0	0	4.3	4.15	1.846	0.00	6.41	145.2	106.2	0.6

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

492

2,015

1,830

347

537

102

RBI

351

163

.2934

OBP

.3519

SLG

.4639

OPS

.8158

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.154

WHIP

1.8462

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.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1946-08-23	NYC @ NE Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	7	10
1942-07-28	CLB @ NE Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	4	10
1940-08-01	BEG @ NE Gameday	5	4	3	0	0	2	4	9
1947-06-22	HOM @ NE Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	1	1	9
1947-05-11	PHS @ NE Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	4	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB
1941-08-08	NYC @ NE Gameday	4.1	5	5	2	3
1937-05-15	HOM @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-16	HOM @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-16	HOM @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-17	HOM @ NE Gameday	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.

Honors

6× 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.