Leon Ruffin
Brooklyn Eagles 1935; Newark Eagles 1936; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1937–1938; Newark Eagles 1939; Philadelphia Stars 1939–1940; Newark Eagles 1942–1944; Newark Eagles 1946
Percentile snapshot
1943 season — qualified batters
of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 99 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 14 | 41 | 38 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .237 | .293 | .237 | .530 | 45.2 | 35.3 | .257 | -0.1 |
| 1936 | 18 | 63 | 56 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .107 | .194 | .107 | .301 | -4.2 | -21.3 | .163 | -0.5 |
| 1937 | 22 | 68 | 65 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .246 | .258 | .308 | .565 | 48.7 | 45.0 | .255 | -0.1 |
| 1938 | 22 | 84 | 72 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .181 | .253 | .194 | .448 | 34.0 | 19.7 | .224 | -0.3 |
| 1939 | 23 | 74 | 65 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .138 | .211 | .200 | .411 | 23.0 | 9.5 | .203 | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 16 | 42 | 36 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .139 | .262 | .139 | .401 | 28.2 | 6.6 | .221 | -0.2 |
| 1942 | 37 | 122 | 109 | 16 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .239 | .308 | .266 | .574 | 71.3 | 64.4 | .286 | 0.2 |
| 1943 | 31 | 118 | 108 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .213 | .280 | .296 | .576 | 60.4 | 53.9 | .281 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .154 | .308 | -11.6 | -17.4 | .145 | -0.1 |
| 1946 | 45 | 152 | 136 | 23 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .279 | .329 | .331 | .660 | 85.8 | 84.3 | .320 | 0.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-06-13 | NE @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1946-06-30 | PHS @ NE Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1946-08-27 | NBY @ NE Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1937-07-24 | TIC @ NBY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1943-07-18 | NBY @ NE Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-05-05 | NE @ ND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-05-05 | NE @ ND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-05-11 | NE @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-05-12 | NE @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-05-12 | NE @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.