Ping Gardner
Brooklyn Royal Giants 1920; New York Lincoln Giants 1921; Hilldale Club 1923; Harrisburg Giants 1924–1927; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1928–1929; Hilldale Club 1930; Newark Browns 1932
Percentile snapshot
1928 season — qualified batters
of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 21 PA)
1932 season — qualified pitchers
of 138 qualified 1932 pitchers (min 4 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .083 | .083 | .167 | -42.4 | -43.1 | .082 | 0.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .364 | .417 | .364 | .780 | 106.1 | 102.9 | .373 | 0.2 |
| 1923 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -13.9 | -29.7 | .117 | 0.3 |
| 1924 | 18 | 57 | 51 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .275 | .327 | .314 | .641 | 79.0 | 74.6 | .307 | 1.7 |
| 1925 | 23 | 59 | 55 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .164 | .193 | .255 | .448 | 19.3 | 14.9 | .205 | 2.3 |
| 1926 | 20 | 48 | 44 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .205 | .222 | .205 | .427 | 20.8 | 17.0 | .206 | 0.8 |
| 1927 | 9 | 24 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .318 | .350 | .668 | 77.2 | 75.1 | .317 | 0.5 |
| 1928 | 20 | 51 | 45 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .156 | .191 | .178 | .369 | 4.7 | -4.1 | .178 | -0.2 |
| 1929 | 12 | 26 | 23 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .261 | .292 | .261 | .553 | 42.4 | 35.9 | .265 | -1.0 |
| 1930 | 6 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .286 | .091 | .377 | 20.7 | -8.5 | .228 | 0.1 |
| 1932 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 38.5 | 38.2 | .238 | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 27.0 | 1.33 | 1.074 | 3.33 | 2.96 | 121.5 | 182.9 | 0.5 |
| 1921 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 23.3 | 4.63 | 1.757 | 5.01 | 6.64 | 161.9 | 88.7 | 0.2 |
| 1923 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 19.0 | 2.84 | .947 | 2.37 | 4.13 | 104.5 | 138.9 | 0.3 |
| 1924 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 134 | 63 | 45 | 60 | 7 | 134.3 | 4.22 | 1.333 | 4.02 | 4.78 | 108.8 | 104.0 | 1.7 |
| 1925 | 23 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 127 | 62 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 138.3 | 4.03 | 1.207 | 2.60 | 4.94 | 101.2 | 121.0 | 2.3 |
| 1926 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 131 | 58 | 42 | 51 | 5 | 114.0 | 4.58 | 1.518 | 4.03 | 4.25 | 95.0 | 97.7 | 0.8 |
| 1927 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 53 | 31 | 21 | 31 | 4 | 57.7 | 4.84 | 1.283 | 4.84 | 4.48 | 97.7 | 94.7 | 0.5 |
| 1928 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 141 | 82 | 42 | 50 | 9 | 119.7 | 6.17 | 1.529 | 3.76 | 5.28 | 100.3 | 85.4 | -0.2 |
| 1929 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 79 | 52 | 30 | 14 | 3 | 53.0 | 8.83 | 2.057 | 2.38 | 6.14 | 112.6 | 61.7 | -1.0 |
| 1930 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 29.0 | 6.21 | 1.448 | 2.17 | 5.52 | 102.4 | 86.8 | 0.1 |
| 1932 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10.3 | 8.71 | 2.032 | 2.61 | 5.13 | 122.8 | 48.0 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-05-30 | BRG @ HIL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1932-05-07 | NEW @ HIL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1923-04-28 | BG @ HIL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-04-29 | HIL @ NYL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-05-12 | BRG @ HIL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-05-07 | NEW @ HIL Gameday | 8.0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 1923-04-28 | BG @ HIL Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1923-05-30 | BRG @ HIL Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 1923-05-28 | HIL @ BBS Gameday | 3.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-05-27 | HIL @ BBS Gameday | 2.2 | 3 | 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.