Paul Hardy
Montgomery Grey Sox 1932; Indianapolis ABCs/Detroit Stars 1933; Nashville Elite Giants 1934; Columbus Elite Giants 1935; Chicago American Giants 1937–1938; Kansas City Monarchs 1939; Birmingham Black Barons 1940–1943
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 | 23 | 86 | 78 | 17 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .277 | .308 | .585 | 79.0 | 78.3 | .282 | 0.2 |
| 1933 | 26 | 86 | 78 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .192 | .241 | .218 | .459 | 35.6 | 26.5 | .219 | -0.3 |
| 1934 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -88.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1935 | 18 | 57 | 53 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .236 | .208 | .444 | 21.7 | 13.0 | .211 | -0.3 |
| 1937 | 18 | 58 | 52 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .231 | .286 | .308 | .593 | 70.6 | 64.1 | .280 | 0.1 |
| 1938 | 8 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .176 | .067 | .243 | 0.8 | -28.3 | .145 | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 16 | 47 | 42 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .286 | .362 | .333 | .695 | 105.8 | 102.7 | .339 | 0.3 |
| 1940 | 25 | 88 | 75 | 7 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .213 | .306 | .280 | .586 | 82.6 | 76.8 | .299 | 0.3 |
| 1941 | 22 | 68 | 62 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .290 | .343 | .403 | .747 | 117.1 | 121.1 | .357 | 0.6 |
| 1942 | 25 | 85 | 77 | 12 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .273 | .325 | .364 | .689 | 103.9 | 104.9 | .326 | 0.5 |
| 1943 | 33 | 112 | 103 | 9 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .214 | .270 | .223 | .494 | 58.3 | 52.1 | .248 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-09-08 | BBB @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1932-05-03 | MNT @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 1932-07-09 | MNT @ LBC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1941-08-13 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1933-06-17 | IND @ TIC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-23 | ATL @ MNT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | ATL @ MNT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | ATL @ MNT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-02 | MNT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-03 | MNT @ ATL 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.