Rainey Bibbs
Indianapolis ABCs/Detroit Stars 1933; Cincinnati Tigers 1937; Chicago American Giants 1938; Kansas City Monarchs 1938–1940; Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940; Kansas City Monarchs 1941; Chicago American Giants 1944; Cleveland Buckeyes 1944
Percentile snapshot
1941 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 173 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 12 | 37 | 35 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .314 | .333 | .314 | .648 | 80.5 | 78.3 | .300 | 0.1 |
| 1937 | 28 | 116 | 109 | 17 | 29 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .266 | .298 | .358 | .656 | 82.2 | 80.7 | .302 | 0.2 |
| 1938 | 45 | 193 | 174 | 27 | 52 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 15 | 1 | 10 | 0 | .299 | .361 | .339 | .700 | 104.0 | 102.9 | .338 | 0.8 |
| 1939 | 44 | 181 | 165 | 33 | 48 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .291 | .326 | .394 | .720 | 104.7 | 108.6 | .337 | 0.8 |
| 1940 | 21 | 92 | 82 | 15 | 28 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .341 | .400 | .439 | .839 | 143.0 | 152.7 | .409 | 0.8 |
| 1941 | 42 | 178 | 161 | 17 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .224 | .273 | .255 | .528 | 61.7 | 56.9 | .261 | -0.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | 35 | 30 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .412 | .367 | .778 | 143.9 | 141.6 | .385 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-09-17 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1944-08-01 | IC @ CLB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1937-07-25 | BBB @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1938-08-07 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1933-05-14 | IND @ CBB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-04-29 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933-04-30 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933-04-30 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933-05-01 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933-05-06 | TIC @ IND 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.