Lester Lockett

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornMarch 25, 1912 · Princeton, IN, USA

Seasons11 (1937–1948)

St. Louis Stars 1937; Birmingham Black Barons 1938; Chicago American Giants 1939; Birmingham Black Barons 1941–1942; Chicago American Giants 1942; Birmingham Black Barons 1943; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Birmingham Black Barons 1944–1946; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1946; Baltimore Elite Giants 1947–1948

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

16.1

255

16.1

235

18.3

16.1

18.3

20.4

26.9

RBI

37.6

8.6

81.7

45.2

41.9

.362

97.8

OBP

.402

87.1

SLG

.536

92.5

OPS

.939

93.5

wRC+

161.5

96.8

OPS+

170.3

97.8

wOBA

.434

95.7

sWAR

2.6

52.7

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 226 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.2

79.8

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
1937	6	19	19	2	8	2	3	0	8	0	0	1	0	.421	.421	.842	1.263	210.7	242.0	.553	0.4
1938	9	36	31	3	1	1	0	0	2	5	3	0	0	.032	.167	.065	.231	-0.2	-31.9	.143	-0.3
1939	4	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.077	.077	.077	.154	-49.6	-55.2	.073	-0.2
1941	26	101	93	22	31	3	1	1	11	5	0	2	0	.333	.380	.419	.799	132.0	137.0	.383	0.8
1942	28	106	99	13	24	2	2	1	17	6	1	2	0	.242	.292	.333	.626	86.6	86.0	.297	0.2
1943	41	175	163	17	42	4	2	2	29	11	0	2	0	.258	.305	.344	.648	97.4	98.6	.312	0.4
1944	28	101	94	12	20	4	1	0	11	5	0	0	0	.213	.253	.277	.529	64.0	64.0	.258	-0.2
1945	26	106	98	13	26	5	2	0	11	4	2	0	1	.265	.301	.357	.658	91.4	92.1	.310	0.2
1946	19	74	64	15	14	0	0	0	4	7	1	0	0	.219	.296	.219	.515	62.4	52.3	.267	-0.1
1947	67	283	253	41	81	13	3	1	45	24	0	5	0	.320	.384	.407	.791	114.7	116.4	.375	1.4
1948	58	255	235	41	85	15	4	6	53	16	1	4	0	.362	.402	.536	.939	161.5	170.3	.434	2.6

Career totals

312

1,269

1,162

179

333

RBI

192

.2866

OBP

.3373

SLG

.3881

OPS

.7254

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
1948-06-15	BEG @ NE Gameday	6	3	4	0	1	1	6	9
1947-06-17	HOM @ BEG Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	1	7
1941-04-13	BBB @ NBY Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	3	7
1948-07-05	HOM @ BEG Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	0	1	6
1948-06-27	NBY @ BEG Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	0	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-05-08	SLS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-09	SLS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-10	SLS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-15	SLS @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-16	SLS @ BBB 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

3× 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.