Oscar Charleston

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 14, 1896 · Indianapolis, IN, USA

Final gameAugust 12, 1941

Seasons27 (1915–1941)

Indianapolis ABCs 1915–1916; New York Lincoln Stars 1916; Indianapolis ABCs 1917–1918; Chicago American Giants 1919; Detroit Stars 1919; Indianapolis ABCs 1920; St. Louis Giants 1921; Indianapolis ABCs 1922–1923; Harrisburg Giants 1924–1927; Hilldale Club 1928; Homestead Grays 1929; Hilldale Club 1929; Homestead Grays 1930–1931; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1932–1938; Toledo Crawfords 1939; Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940; Philadelphia Stars 1941

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified batters

4.6

3.4

4.6

6.9

9.2

RBI

4.6

87.4

48.3

.293

41.4

OBP

.369

42.5

SLG

.397

28.7

OPS

.766

33.3

wRC+

113.3

47.1

OPS+

116.4

52.9

wOBA

.364

37.9

sWAR

0.2

10.3

of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 58 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

158.0

99.1

OPS+

170.8

99.5

sWAR

62.9

99.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1915	57	241	221	31	57	9	5	2	31	13	0	14	0	.258	.302	.371	.673	103.9	110.1	.326	0.8
1916	33	141	122	25	39	1	3	0	13	14	0	7	0	.320	.390	.377	.767	117.1	118.5	.380	0.9
1917	48	205	178	26	52	6	4	1	19	14	0	3	0	.292	.354	.388	.741	138.8	142.9	.366	2.1
1918	40	171	154	39	60	8	8	3	46	13	0	13	0	.390	.437	.604	1.041	177.6	205.2	.490	2.3
1919	45	202	179	47	71	9	6	8	43	19	0	16	0	.397	.457	.648	1.105	187.0	209.1	.504	3.9
1920	76	329	285	60	95	18	5	5	45	35	1	20	0	.333	.408	.484	.892	157.9	167.3	.429	3.8
1921	62	272	226	90	98	12	10	12	74	34	2	35	3	.434	.515	.735	1.250	223.3	250.5	.562	5.1
1922	89	401	354	92	135	24	15	17	90	39	1	27	1	.381	.444	.678	1.122	179.1	198.0	.497	5.6
1923	84	373	308	68	112	25	6	11	94	48	0	25	0	.364	.453	.591	1.043	159.1	170.3	.471	4.1
1924	58	256	222	67	91	27	5	15	65	28	6	22	0	.410	.480	.779	1.259	211.7	237.6	.554	4.7
1925	71	321	255	97	109	23	3	20	97	51	0	17	0	.427	.523	.776	1.299	210.0	232.0	.563	5.7
1926	48	212	169	43	52	12	1	10	43	34	6	24	3	.308	.438	.568	1.006	161.8	173.8	.463	2.5
1927	69	304	247	68	98	20	6	13	73	49	0	21	1	.397	.500	.684	1.184	192.2	208.3	.529	4.5
1928	60	251	207	54	72	11	6	11	44	40	3	11	3	.348	.453	.618	1.072	167.5	180.2	.478	3.5
1929	82	360	291	71	106	23	7	7	64	56	1	8	2	.364	.471	.564	1.035	145.6	151.8	.472	3.3
1930	53	243	217	47	68	17	2	12	55	18	1	7	0	.313	.371	.576	.947	107.8	113.3	.409	0.9
1931	48	215	190	36	63	14	6	3	33	18	0	1	0	.332	.392	.516	.908	139.7	147.0	.410	1.7
1932	68	281	247	45	79	17	4	4	40	29	0	16	0	.320	.396	.470	.865	120.6	124.0	.399	1.5
1933	70	292	262	69	89	19	7	14	67	25	0	7	0	.340	.401	.626	1.027	163.8	176.7	.450	3.0
1934	59	232	200	35	64	10	2	7	41	27	3	6	0	.320	.406	.495	.901	145.0	151.8	.421	1.8
1935	41	176	155	21	42	10	1	2	29	16	3	8	0	.271	.343	.387	.730	86.6	83.9	.337	0.0
1936	32	110	93	18	32	8	0	4	18	13	1	0	0	.344	.430	.559	.989	143.1	150.8	.446	0.8
1937	15	45	41	4	9	2	0	1	6	2	0	0	0	.220	.273	.341	.614	61.5	57.2	.280	-0.1
1938	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-81.3	-100.0	.000	0.0
1939	17	65	58	9	17	3	0	1	7	7	0	1	0	.293	.369	.397	.766	113.3	116.4	.364	0.2
1940	8	20	17	2	6	1	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	.353	.450	.412	.862	154.3	160.0	.429	0.2
1941	2	6	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	.500	.667	.500	1.167	226.1	230.7	.561	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1915	6	5	1	1	2	38	20	18	23	5	40.7	4.43	1.377	5.09	4.47	154.6	65.3	0.8
1916	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.7	0.00	.600	5.40	2.54	57.9	—	0.9
1917	3	1	0	0	0	6	3	9	7	0	16.3	1.65	.918	3.86	2.83	128.0	133.7	2.1
1918	4	2	0	1	0	18	10	5	5	2	15.0	6.00	1.533	3.00	4.95	135.9	60.7	2.3
1919	1	1	1	0	1	4	1	3	5	1	9.0	1.00	.778	5.00	4.13	125.9	328.2	3.9
1920	3	1	0	0	0	22	6	6	5	0	16.3	3.31	1.714	2.76	3.60	100.4	108.6	3.8
1921	2	0	0	0	0	13	6	1	2	0	4.7	11.57	3.000	3.86	3.15	79.6	34.2	5.1
1923	5	3	1	2	1	31	15	13	7	1	29.3	4.60	1.500	2.15	4.69	106.6	95.5	4.1
1926	2	1	0	2	1	17	10	8	6	2	16.0	5.63	1.563	3.38	6.46	144.5	79.5	2.5
1927	1	0	0	0	0	6	5	2	1	0	2.7	16.88	3.000	3.38	4.90	107.0	27.2	4.5
1933	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	4	1	0	5.3	3.38	.938	1.69	7.97	185.0	127.7	3.0

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

1,336

5,725

4,903

1,164

220th-most career R

1,718

470th-most career H

329

378th-most career 2B

112

122nd-most career 3B

183

459th-most career HR

RBI

1,139

200th-most career RBI

647

459th-most career BB

311

164th-most career SB

.3504

6th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4299

12th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5752

16th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

1.0051

12th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

157

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.471

WHIP

1.4395

K/9

3.61

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.