Lou Dials
Chicago American Giants 1927; Birmingham Black Barons 1928; Memphis Red Sox 1929; Detroit Stars 1930–1931; Homestead Grays 1932; Hilldale Club 1932; Akron Grays / Cleveland Giants 1933; New York Black Yankees 1935; Chicago American Giants 1936
Percentile snapshot
1936 season — qualified batters
of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 71 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 7 | 23 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .263 | .364 | .316 | .679 | 91.4 | 84.5 | .330 | 0.0 |
| 1928 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .100 | .250 | .300 | .550 | 57.6 | 49.5 | .266 | 0.0 |
| 1929 | 35 | 117 | 105 | 12 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .229 | .308 | .362 | .670 | 77.1 | 74.0 | .310 | 0.1 |
| 1930 | 30 | 90 | 77 | 16 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .260 | .329 | .519 | .849 | 116.2 | 122.6 | .376 | 0.4 |
| 1931 | 39 | 162 | 151 | 18 | 44 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .291 | .331 | .437 | .768 | 107.3 | 113.2 | .360 | 0.6 |
| 1932 | 30 | 122 | 105 | 12 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .257 | .328 | .314 | .642 | 81.3 | 77.6 | .315 | 0.0 |
| 1933 | 11 | 43 | 36 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .389 | .463 | .472 | .936 | 152.4 | 155.9 | .431 | 0.4 |
| 1935 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -81.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1936 | 16 | 71 | 63 | 13 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .317 | .394 | .397 | .791 | 117.1 | 119.3 | .375 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-05-18 | CAG @ DTS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-06-05 | CUP @ HIL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1931-06-09 | LBC @ DTS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1930-05-24 | MEM @ DTS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1931-07-28 | IND @ DTS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-04-26 | DTS @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-27 | DTS @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-27 | DTS @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-29 | DTS @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-29 | DTS @ CAG 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.