Marvin Barker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 13, 1912 · Joplin, MO, USA

Seasons14 (1935–1948)

Newark Dodgers 1935; New York Black Yankees 1936–1941; Newark Eagles 1941; Philadelphia Stars 1942; New York Black Yankees 1943–1948

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

6.3

134

6.3

128

7.2

28.8

6.3

17.1

RBI

11.7

84.7

41.4

35.1

.289

67.6

OBP

.316

SLG

.414

67.6

OPS

.730

wRC+

99.0

37.8

OPS+

103.6

41.4

wOBA

.340

38.7

sWAR

0.4

16.2

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 102 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.6

60.3

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
1935	30	121	114	14	31	4	1	1	14	4	1	1	0	.272	.297	.351	.647	64.8	62.7	.295	-0.2
1936	32	127	121	18	25	4	1	3	19	5	0	2	0	.207	.244	.331	.575	47.4	45.5	.262	-0.4
1937	35	143	130	20	40	6	3	1	11	11	1	1	0	.308	.362	.423	.785	101.5	101.4	.357	0.5
1938	31	136	124	19	38	6	2	0	6	9	0	2	1	.306	.353	.387	.740	95.8	95.4	.343	0.5
1939	15	55	46	6	11	3	0	1	7	7	1	1	0	.239	.340	.370	.709	91.9	88.0	.336	0.1
1940	23	92	81	13	18	2	1	0	6	8	0	1	1	.222	.300	.272	.572	58.7	49.6	.280	-0.2
1941	42	155	146	10	24	3	1	3	10	6	3	2	0	.164	.197	.260	.458	32.1	27.4	.213	-1.0
1942	49	160	148	17	34	5	1	0	11	11	2	1	0	.230	.283	.277	.560	64.6	59.9	.274	-0.3
1943	32	134	125	17	39	13	1	2	21	7	0	2	0	.312	.353	.480	.833	113.5	121.7	.388	0.9
1944	22	86	76	7	15	2	0	0	6	7	0	1	0	.197	.265	.224	.489	41.6	31.8	.244	-0.3
1945	31	134	128	18	37	11	1	1	17	3	0	4	0	.289	.316	.414	.730	99.0	103.6	.340	0.4
1946	42	137	128	10	27	6	0	0	6	8	1	1	0	.211	.257	.258	.515	49.0	44.0	.252	-0.2
1947	25	89	76	13	23	4	0	0	6	12	0	0	0	.303	.398	.355	.753	111.4	106.9	.369	0.7
1948	23	86	81	9	24	4	1	1	9	3	0	1	0	.296	.321	.407	.729	105.3	110.1	.341	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1943	4	1	0	0	1	20	9	3	3	0	16.3	4.96	1.408	1.65	4.31	89.6	97.0	0.9
1946	4	1	0	1	1	14	6	3	5	1	15.0	3.60	1.133	3.00	4.49	101.7	122.6	-0.2
1947	3	1	1	0	1	15	6	8	5	0	15.7	3.45	1.468	2.87	4.65	112.5	120.1	0.7
1948	4	1	0	1	1	17	8	6	1	0	12.7	5.68	1.816	0.71	4.42	124.5	62.4	0.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

432

1,655

1,524

191

386

RBI

149

101

.2533

OBP

.3018

SLG

.3438

OPS

.6456

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.374

WHIP

1.4413

K/9

2.11

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
1935-07-28	NE @ ND Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	2	0	6
1948-07-04	NBY @ NYC Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	3	1	6
1937-08-18	TIC @ NBY Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	2	0	6
1943-09-21	NBY @ MEM Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	6
1945-08-07	NBY @ BEG Gameday	5	2	2	2	1	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-06-27	NBY @ BEG Gameday	9.0	13	7	6	5	3	0
1946-07-14	NBY @ BEG Gameday	5.0	4	1	1	0	3	0
1943-07-30	NBY @ BEG Gameday	10.0	13	6	4	0	2	0
1947-06-21	NBY @ PHS Gameday	4.2	2	0	0	2	2	0
1946-06-28	NBY @ BEG Gameday	6.0	5	4	3	2	1	1

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

4× 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.