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Norman Robinson

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 180 lb

BornApril 1, 1913 · Oklahoma City, OK, USA

Seasons7 (1940–1948)

Baltimore Elite Giants 1940; Baltimore Elite Giants 1943–1946; Birmingham Black Barons 1947–1948

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

10.3

193

7.2

171

6.2

3.1

2.1

12.4

3.1

RBI

5.2

17.5

83.5

47.4

.216

OBP

.298

6.2

SLG

.269

2.1

OPS

.567

3.1

wRC+

66.4

5.2

OPS+

58.9

3.1

wOBA

.284

4.1

sWAR

-0.4

4.1

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 179 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.3

55.5

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	RBI	BB	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	9	30	28	6	6	0	1	4	2	1	0	.214	.267	.286	.552	50.0	43.8	.263	-0.1
1943	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-80.0	-100.0	.000	0.0
1944	26	76	73	10	23	4	1	14	2	1	1	.315	.333	.397	.731	93.1	95.2	.340	0.1
1945	40	143	138	23	44	6	1	13	5	2	0	.319	.343	.377	.719	99.2	101.4	.340	0.5
1946	50	193	171	18	37	7	1	18	20	4	0	.216	.298	.269	.567	66.4	58.9	.284	-0.4
1947	15	69	66	12	21	4	0	2	2	2	0	.318	.348	.379	.727	93.7	95.4	.346	0.2
1948	29	123	111	15	29	2	3	21	9	5	0	.261	.322	.333	.656	79.0	75.7	.313	0.1

Career totals

171

635

588

160

RBI

.2721

OBP

.3206

SLG

.3350

OPS

.6556

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	RBI	BB	TB
1945-07-20	HOM @ BEG Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	6
1945-06-12	BEG @ PHS Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	2	5
1947-07-14	BBB @ KCM Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	0	5
1944-05-19	NBY @ BEG Gameday	5	0	3	1	2	0	4
1946-06-13	BEG @ PHS Gameday	4	0	3	1	2	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-05-14	HOM @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-05-14	HOM @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-05-21	BEG @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-05-21	BEG @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-05-27	NBY @ 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.