Pinky Higgins

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornMay 27, 1909 · Red Oak, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 25, 1930

Final gameSeptember 29, 1946

Seasons14 (1930–1946)

Philadelphia Athletics 1930; Philadelphia Athletics 1933–1936; Boston Red Sox 1937–1938; Detroit Tigers 1939–1944; Boston Red Sox 1946; Detroit Tigers 1946

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified batters

148

71.8

640

75.5

543

65.5

68.2

161

74.5

79.1

37.3

61.8

RBI

74.5

91.8

45.5

39.1

18.2

.297

67.3

OBP

.392

SLG

.409

56.4

OPS

.801

65.5

wRC+

130.6

70.9

OPS+

125.1

66.4

wOBA

.384

69.1

sWAR

4.7

81.8

of 111 qualified 1944 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

107.4

56.5

OPS+

107.1

56.6

sWAR

34.5

97.2

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
1930	14	28	24	1	6	2	0	0	0	4	5	0	0	.250	.357	.333	.690	81.6	75.7	.329	0.0
1933	152	635	567	85	178	34	12	13	99	61	53	2	7	.314	.383	.485	.868	126.1	127.5	.396	4.4
1934	144	606	543	89	179	37	6	16	90	56	70	9	2	.330	.392	.508	.901	130.8	133.1	.410	4.5
1935	133	573	524	69	155	32	4	23	94	42	62	6	2	.296	.350	.504	.854	113.8	117.5	.384	3.0
1936	146	620	550	89	159	32	2	12	80	67	61	7	4	.289	.366	.420	.786	93.8	93.4	.364	1.7
1937	153	654	570	88	172	33	5	9	106	76	51	2	6	.302	.385	.425	.809	103.8	101.9	.374	2.6
1938	139	603	524	77	159	29	5	5	106	71	55	10	9	.303	.388	.406	.794	98.4	96.1	.372	2.0
1939	132	561	489	57	135	23	2	8	76	56	41	7	4	.276	.353	.380	.733	84.0	83.3	.342	0.9
1940	131	551	480	70	130	24	3	13	76	61	31	4	2	.271	.357	.415	.771	93.6	93.0	.353	1.5
1941	147	619	540	79	161	28	3	11	73	67	45	5	4	.298	.378	.422	.800	105.0	103.6	.372	2.6
1942	143	579	499	65	133	34	2	11	79	72	21	3	7	.267	.362	.409	.771	112.3	110.5	.367	3.0
1943	138	592	523	62	145	20	1	10	84	57	31	2	5	.277	.349	.377	.726	108.4	107.2	.349	2.8
1944	148	640	543	79	161	32	4	7	76	81	34	4	4	.297	.392	.409	.801	130.6	125.1	.384	4.7
1946	82	293	260	20	68	14	2	2	36	29	30	0	3	.262	.338	.354	.692	89.2	89.1	.329	0.7

Career totals

1,802

409th-most career G

7,554

358th-most career PA

6,636

374th-most career AB

930

445th-most career R

1,941

324th-most career H

374

259th-most career 2B

140

RBI

1,075

240th-most career RBI

800

273rd-most career BB

590

.2925

355th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3705

277th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4275

OPS

.7980

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	TB
1940-05-20	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	7	12
1935-06-27	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	5	12
1933-08-06	ATH @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	5	10
1933-06-30	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	1	5	2	1	0	5	9
1946-06-11	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	1	6	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-15	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-19	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-20	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-21	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-22	ATH @ NYY 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

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.