Norman Cross
Chicago American Giants 1932–1933; Chicago American Giants 1936–1937
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -91.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1933 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -86.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1936 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -63.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1937 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 19.7 | 3.66 | 1.271 | 2.29 | 3.23 | 86.8 | 101.8 | 0.1 |
| 1933 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8.0 | 7.88 | 1.875 | 3.38 | 4.60 | 106.7 | 54.7 | -0.3 |
| 1936 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 12.0 | 3.75 | 1.667 | 3.00 | 4.99 | 106.1 | 125.5 | 0.2 |
| 1937 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.00 | 3.000 | 0.00 | 4.09 | 91.3 | — | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-23 | IND @ CAG Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | IND @ CAG Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-25 | IND @ CAG Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-30 | DTW @ CAG Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-01 | DTW @ CAG Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-05-17 | LBC @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1933-09-06 | HOM @ CAG Gameday | 8.0 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 1932-07-17 | MON @ CAG Gameday | 2.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-30 | DTW @ CAG Gameday | 1.0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-06-04 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 1.0 | 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.