Luther Gilyard
Chicago American Giants 1937; St. Louis Stars 1937; Chicago American Giants 1938–1939; Birmingham Black Barons 1942
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 44 | 174 | 162 | 24 | 46 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .284 | .333 | .389 | .722 | 98.6 | 98.8 | .334 | 0.2 |
| 1938 | 18 | 59 | 52 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .293 | .288 | .582 | 75.4 | 67.8 | .284 | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .267 | .400 | .667 | 86.2 | 92.4 | .306 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 12 | 38 | 34 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .229 | .235 | .464 | 42.0 | 38.2 | .221 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-06-06 | MEM @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1937-05-27 | SLS @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1937-05-16 | MEM @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1938-05-29 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1938-06-04 | JRC @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-06-13 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | MEM @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | MEM @ ATH 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.