Preacher Henry

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 5 in · 148 lb

BornMarch 10, 1911 · Inverness, FL, USA

Seasons9 (1938–1948)

Jacksonville Red Caps 1938; Cleveland Bears 1939–1940; Jacksonville Red Caps 1941–1942; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1946–1947; Indianapolis Clowns 1948

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified pitchers

22.3

28.7

19.1

56.4

43.6

SHO

40.4

101

72.3

70.2

64.9

43.6

92.0

27.7

ERA

5.09

WHIP

1.565

18.1

K/9

6.16

91.5

FIP

4.18

42.6

FIP-

101.1

36.2

ERA+

81.2

9.6

sWAR

-0.3

6.4

of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 37 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.8

62.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1938	6	20	17	1	1	0	1	2	3	0	.059	.200	.176	.376	30.9	8.9	.201	0.0
1939	16	42	37	2	6	2	0	2	2	0	.162	.205	.216	.421	27.6	22.5	.205	2.0
1940	16	40	32	1	0	0	0	1	5	1	.000	.135	.000	.135	-24.5	-59.1	.105	-0.3
1941	5	12	11	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	.182	.250	.182	.432	39.8	28.8	.223	0.7
1942	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-87.6	-100.0	.000	-0.9
1943	9	15	14	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	.071	.071	.071	.143	-50.7	-56.1	.068	-0.7
1946	6	14	11	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	.182	.250	.182	.432	39.3	27.7	.225	0.1
1947	5	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-84.4	-100.0	.000	0.0
1948	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1938	6	5	3	3	0	4	0	54	26	17	24	3	46.3	5.05	1.532	4.66	4.96	116.3	84.4	0.0
1939	15	13	6	2	0	7	1	84	36	59	54	1	108.0	3.00	1.324	4.50	4.32	109.2	132.0	2.0
1940	16	13	5	7	0	9	1	101	52	43	63	2	92.0	5.09	1.565	6.16	4.18	101.1	81.2	-0.3
1941	5	4	2	1	1	2	0	30	10	12	17	0	32.3	2.78	1.299	4.73	3.64	98.1	133.4	0.7
1942	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	21	14	6	1	0	9.7	13.03	2.793	0.93	5.20	128.3	31.1	-0.9
1943	9	5	3	2	0	2	0	46	25	17	17	2	39.0	5.77	1.615	3.92	4.75	126.1	65.2	-0.7
1946	6	6	1	4	0	2	0	44	18	15	27	2	34.7	4.67	1.702	7.01	4.21	102.8	87.7	0.1
1947	5	4	0	4	0	3	0	37	18	11	8	3	29.3	5.52	1.636	2.45	5.96	121.0	89.2	0.0
1948	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	4	0	0	0.7	27.00	7.500	0.00	22.06	455.9	17.9	-0.1

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

157

135

RBI

.0889

OBP

.1633

SLG

.1185

OPS

.2818

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

392

SO (P)

211

BB allowed

184

ERA

4.615

WHIP

1.5357

K/9

4.84

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	RBI	TB
1938-07-03	JRC @ ATL Gameday	5	1	1	0	1	2	3
1939-08-13	JRC @ CAG Gameday	4	1	1	1	0	1	2
1939-06-25	HSL @ JRC Gameday	4	0	1	1	0	0	2
1939-06-15	JRC @ ATL Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1	1
1941-05-25	JRC @ BBB Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-05-11	JRC @ HSL Gameday	9.0	9	3	1	0	9	0
1940-06-02	KCM @ JRC Gameday	9.0	11	8	7	0	8	0
1946-06-10	IC @ CAG Gameday	9.0	3	1	0	2	8	0
1940-08-04	JRC @ CAG Gameday	8.0	6	5	3	4	8	0
1939-05-30	JRC @ KCM Gameday	9.0	8	5	4	3	7	1

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

1× 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.