Nish Williams
Nashville Elite Giants 1930; Cleveland Cubs 1931; Nashville Elite Giants 1932–1934; Columbus Elite Giants 1935; Washington Elite Giants 1936–1937; Atlanta Black Crackers 1938; Indianapolis ABCs/Atlanta Black Crackers 1939
Percentile snapshot
1939 season — qualified batters
of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 42 | 159 | 150 | 15 | 39 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .260 | .284 | .333 | .617 | 65.4 | 63.7 | .283 | -0.1 |
| 1931 | 24 | 69 | 61 | 7 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .295 | .368 | .361 | .728 | 104.5 | 103.2 | .355 | 0.4 |
| 1932 | 32 | 118 | 103 | 15 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .291 | .365 | .359 | .724 | 121.7 | 121.3 | .353 | 0.9 |
| 1933 | 24 | 77 | 68 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .279 | .338 | .368 | .705 | 94.9 | 93.0 | .326 | 0.2 |
| 1934 | 36 | 146 | 133 | 23 | 39 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .293 | .352 | .361 | .713 | 100.8 | 100.0 | .342 | 0.6 |
| 1935 | 25 | 91 | 83 | 8 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .253 | .311 | .313 | .624 | 64.0 | 58.0 | .293 | 0.0 |
| 1936 | 26 | 72 | 58 | 12 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .259 | .368 | .293 | .661 | 81.2 | 70.6 | .327 | -0.7 |
| 1937 | 14 | 44 | 40 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .225 | .279 | .375 | .654 | 69.3 | 66.8 | .295 | 0.1 |
| 1938 | 14 | 50 | 46 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .326 | .380 | .391 | .771 | 119.3 | 122.3 | .367 | 0.3 |
| 1939 | 13 | 41 | 36 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .341 | .278 | .619 | 88.7 | 81.1 | .310 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5.0 | 21.60 | 4.200 | 3.60 | 10.62 | 207.8 | 23.7 | -0.7 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-06-07 | BEG @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1932-08-22 | BEG @ IND Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1934-07-01 | BEG @ TIC Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1933-10-01 | TIC @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1937-06-27 | PHS @ BEG Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-09-04 | NYC @ BEG Gameday | 2.0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 1936-09-05 | BEG @ PHS Gameday | 2.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1936-08-21 | TIC @ BEG Gameday | 1.0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-26 | SLS @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-27 | SLS @ BEG 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.