Red Howard
Birmingham Black Barons 1937; Atlanta Black Crackers 1938; Jacksonville Red Caps 1938; Cleveland Bears 1939; Memphis Red Sox 1939; Birmingham Black Barons 1940; Chicago American Giants 1946
Percentile snapshot
1940 season — qualified pitchers
of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 10 | 28 | 25 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .280 | .333 | .440 | .773 | 108.2 | 112.3 | .353 | -0.4 |
| 1938 | 16 | 27 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .333 | .273 | .606 | 82.7 | 75.3 | .298 | 0.7 |
| 1939 | 7 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .385 | .467 | .462 | .928 | 166.3 | 169.8 | .443 | 0.7 |
| 1940 | 16 | 24 | 22 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .292 | .318 | .610 | 84.3 | 84.0 | .302 | 0.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .375 | .500 | .875 | 147.5 | 157.6 | .418 | -0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 43 | 30 | 14 | 25 | 4 | 37.3 | 7.23 | 1.527 | 6.03 | 5.26 | 117.6 | 61.9 | -0.4 |
| 1938 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 2 | 31.7 | 3.41 | 1.389 | 4.55 | 5.22 | 122.4 | 125.0 | 0.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 24.0 | 3.00 | 1.333 | 4.13 | 5.63 | 142.3 | 132.0 | 0.7 |
| 1940 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 24 | 20 | 27 | 0 | 55.0 | 3.93 | 1.273 | 4.42 | 3.90 | 94.3 | 105.2 | 0.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 22.3 | 8.06 | 2.104 | 3.63 | 5.38 | 131.2 | 50.9 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-16 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1940-06-28 | BBB @ JRC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1946-06-11 | CAG @ IC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1938-05-23 | ATL @ JRC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1940-04-21 | BEG @ BBB Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-27 | BBB @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1937-05-31 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 1938-06-28 | ATL @ MEM Gameday | 4.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1937-07-24 | BBB @ CIN Gameday | 5.1 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 1940-07-04 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 4.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 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.