Obie Lackey
Homestead Grays 1929; Hilldale Club 1929–1930; Hilldale Club 1932; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1933; Baltimore Sox 1933; Philadelphia Bacharach Giants 1934; Philadelphia Stars 1935–1937; Homestead Grays 1938; New York Black Yankees 1943
Percentile snapshot
1934 season — qualified batters
of 135 qualified 1934 batters (min 77 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 37 | 137 | 129 | 11 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .271 | .304 | .302 | .606 | 53.1 | 48.5 | .286 | -0.3 |
| 1930 | 34 | 125 | 109 | 11 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .248 | .317 | .330 | .647 | 55.9 | 48.7 | .301 | -0.3 |
| 1932 | 25 | 100 | 92 | 10 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .289 | .380 | .669 | 81.0 | 84.0 | .315 | 0.1 |
| 1933 | 28 | 108 | 93 | 14 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .280 | .337 | .387 | .724 | 98.3 | 97.3 | .332 | 0.4 |
| 1934 | 18 | 78 | 73 | 8 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .247 | .267 | .342 | .609 | 68.8 | 70.0 | .284 | 0.0 |
| 1935 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .263 | .300 | .263 | .563 | 50.7 | 43.4 | .267 | -0.1 |
| 1936 | 26 | 98 | 92 | 13 | 34 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .370 | .389 | .457 | .846 | 112.4 | 115.4 | .387 | 0.6 |
| 1937 | 16 | 57 | 52 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .286 | .250 | .536 | 49.0 | 39.4 | .256 | -0.2 |
| 1938 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .571 | .667 | 1.238 | 206.3 | 225.9 | .558 | 0.1 |
| 1943 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .375 | .375 | .750 | 98.3 | 100.6 | .358 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-06-11 | WPI @ HIL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-06-13 | WPI @ HIL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1933-06-04 | CAG @ TIC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1936-07-20 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1933-05-22 | CBB @ TIC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-05-07 | NEW @ HIL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-09 | WPI @ HIL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-10 | WPI @ HIL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-13 | BBS @ HIL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-14 | BBS @ HIL 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.