Pepper Bassett
Philadelphia Stars 1935; Homestead Grays 1936; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1937–1938; Chicago American Giants 1939; Chicago American Giants 1941; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Birmingham Black Barons 1944; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1944; Birmingham Black Barons 1945–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 15 | 44 | 42 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .233 | .262 | .494 | 29.8 | 24.5 | .227 | -0.2 |
| 1936 | 17 | 62 | 57 | 7 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .351 | .393 | .509 | .902 | 123.6 | 128.8 | .409 | 0.5 |
| 1937 | 21 | 70 | 65 | 11 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .369 | .397 | .538 | .936 | 131.8 | 138.5 | .415 | 0.6 |
| 1938 | 20 | 62 | 56 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .232 | .271 | .393 | .664 | 73.2 | 73.4 | .300 | 0.1 |
| 1939 | 33 | 123 | 114 | 13 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .219 | .256 | .281 | .537 | 57.4 | 56.0 | .256 | 0.0 |
| 1941 | 12 | 38 | 34 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .265 | .324 | .265 | .589 | 81.0 | 75.4 | .295 | 0.2 |
| 1943 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .273 | .318 | .591 | 77.3 | 81.2 | .279 | 0.3 |
| 1944 | 19 | 65 | 61 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .148 | .188 | .180 | .368 | 17.1 | 15.5 | .184 | -1.2 |
| 1945 | 18 | 56 | 55 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .218 | .232 | .273 | .505 | 50.4 | 47.4 | .237 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 9 | 37 | 35 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .229 | .270 | .229 | .499 | 53.4 | 47.4 | .250 | 0.0 |
| 1947 | 16 | 52 | 49 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .204 | .250 | .286 | .536 | 48.3 | 44.0 | .258 | -0.1 |
| 1948 | 15 | 57 | 50 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .280 | .357 | .420 | .777 | 106.0 | 107.5 | .364 | 0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5.0 | 0.00 | 2.000 | 9.00 | 2.69 | 71.5 | — | 0.3 |
| 1944 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 16.3 | 8.82 | 1.714 | 3.31 | 3.02 | 89.6 | 38.2 | -1.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-06-06 | NBY @ TIC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1936-06-24 | BEG @ HOM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1936-07-26 | NE @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1937-06-06 | TIC @ HOM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1937-08-14 | TIC @ PHS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-07-21 | MEM @ IC Gameday | 5.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1944-04-17 | KCM @ IC Gameday | 4.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1944-05-14 | IC @ CLB Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1944-06-05 | IC @ PHS Gameday | 4.1 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-05-04 | PHS @ HOM 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.