Lyman Bostock
Birmingham Black Barons 1940–1942; Birmingham Black Barons 1946; Chicago American Giants 1947; New York Cubans 1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 27 | 106 | 100 | 14 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .292 | .290 | .582 | 76.9 | 75.7 | .289 | -0.1 |
| 1941 | 23 | 84 | 75 | 10 | 34 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .453 | .481 | .587 | 1.068 | 201.0 | 216.1 | .503 | 1.2 |
| 1942 | 8 | 30 | 26 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .308 | .400 | .462 | .862 | 150.1 | 156.0 | .405 | 0.2 |
| 1946 | 8 | 33 | 31 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .387 | .387 | .484 | .871 | 144.6 | 156.6 | .413 | 0.2 |
| 1947 | 22 | 90 | 81 | 10 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .393 | .407 | .801 | 113.7 | 115.5 | .385 | 0.3 |
| 1948 | 19 | 84 | 76 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .313 | .303 | .616 | 80.8 | 78.5 | .301 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-07-09 | CLB @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1941-08-13 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1942-05-17 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1948-07-25 | NBY @ NYC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1941-04-20 | NBY @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-13 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-16 | HSL @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-17 | HSL @ 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.