Louis Santop

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornJanuary 17, 1889 · Fort Worth, TX, USA

Seasons17 (1910–1926)

Oklahoma Monarchs 1910; New York Lincoln Giants 1911; Philadelphia Giants 1911; New York Lincoln Giants 1912–1914; New York Lincoln Stars 1915; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1916; New York Lincoln Stars 1916; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1917–1918; Hilldale Club 1918; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1919; Hilldale Club 1919–1926

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified batters

3.5

2.8

8.5

5.6

14.8

8.5

RBI

4.2

75.4

66.9

.313

75.4

OBP

.397

85.9

SLG

.422

66.2

OPS

.819

78.9

wRC+

172.1

95.1

OPS+

179.8

95.8

wOBA

.409

sWAR

1.1

37.3

of 143 qualified 1920 batters (min 62 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

14.8

90.9

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
1910	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-80.2	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1911	31	130	116	20	37	5	2	4	25	8	0	7	.319	.363	.500	.863	122.8	131.6	.400	0.9
1912	14	51	50	7	14	0	1	0	5	1	0	1	.280	.294	.320	.614	72.7	72.4	.286	0.1
1913	13	58	55	6	21	3	0	0	14	3	0	1	.382	.414	.436	.850	144.3	151.2	.414	0.7
1914	29	133	120	17	45	4	2	1	24	11	0	5	.375	.427	.467	.894	136.3	142.5	.433	1.2
1915	36	150	139	20	43	9	1	2	32	8	0	0	.309	.347	.432	.779	93.1	93.9	.357	0.5
1916	36	163	136	31	51	12	7	0	33	23	0	6	.375	.469	.566	1.035	164.4	179.4	.490	2.0
1917	24	101	89	24	35	8	1	1	24	11	0	9	.393	.460	.539	.999	157.3	171.8	.485	1.2
1918	17	79	68	11	28	6	2	1	18	7	0	3	.412	.474	.603	1.077	194.6	208.4	.514	1.3
1919	9	38	35	4	9	1	0	1	5	1	0	1	.257	.297	.371	.669	98.5	105.3	.324	0.2
1920	19	74	64	13	20	5	1	0	7	7	0	0	.313	.397	.422	.819	172.1	179.8	.409	1.1
1921	38	138	126	28	44	11	2	5	37	8	0	4	.349	.388	.587	.975	136.4	148.6	.434	1.5
1922	34	110	92	18	36	7	3	2	20	14	0	1	.391	.477	.598	1.074	189.8	204.5	.492	1.8
1923	34	129	115	17	33	4	3	2	20	10	0	3	.287	.349	.426	.775	113.4	116.6	.360	0.9
1924	48	196	180	28	62	10	3	5	34	10	0	4	.344	.379	.517	.896	131.3	141.3	.405	1.8
1925	21	36	32	2	6	1	0	0	8	3	0	1	.188	.257	.219	.476	34.5	24.3	.234	-0.1
1926	12	30	27	5	9	1	0	0	7	2	1	1	.333	.379	.370	.750	105.1	105.3	.360	0.2

Career totals

416

1,620

1,448

251

493

RBI

313

127

.3405

OBP

.3963

SLG

.4890

OPS

.8853

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
1923-05-12	BRG @ HIL Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	1	2	0	6
1923-07-19	CSE @ HIL Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	3
1923-08-05	HIL @ NYL Gameday	6	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	3
1923-06-23	BBS @ HIL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	2	3
1923-07-05	CSE @ HIL Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-28	BG @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-29	HIL @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-12	BRG @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-19	CSE @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-26	BBS @ HIL 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

Hall of Fame, 2006 (Negro League)

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