Rip Radcliff

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 19, 1906 · Kiowa, OK, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1934

Final gameSeptember 29, 1943

Seasons10 (1934–1943)

Chicago White Sox 1934–1939; St. Louis Browns 1940; Detroit Tigers 1941; St. Louis Browns 1941; Detroit Tigers 1942–1943

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

150

86.3

636

81.3

584

87.1

69.1

200

98.6

81.3

80.6

RBI

76.3

61.2

62.6

.342

93.5

OBP

.392

76.3

SLG

.466

69.8

OPS

.858

75.5

wRC+

118.9

65.5

OPS+

118.0

63.3

wOBA

.388

72.7

sWAR

2.9

69.8

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.7

35.2

OPS+

97.2

36.1

sWAR

7.7

83.9

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
1934	14	57	56	7	15	2	1	0	5	0	2	1	0	.268	.268	.339	.607	45.1	53.3	.276	-0.3
1935	146	682	623	95	178	28	8	10	68	53	21	4	4	.286	.346	.404	.750	89.9	91.2	.347	0.7
1936	138	665	618	120	207	31	7	8	82	44	12	6	3	.335	.381	.447	.828	100.9	101.7	.379	1.6
1937	144	643	584	105	190	38	10	4	79	53	25	6	1	.325	.383	.445	.829	109.4	109.2	.379	2.2
1938	129	545	503	64	166	23	6	5	81	36	17	5	7	.330	.376	.429	.805	100.2	100.7	.370	1.1
1939	113	435	397	49	105	25	2	2	53	26	21	6	4	.264	.313	.353	.666	68.9	70.4	.308	-0.8
1940	150	636	584	83	200	33	9	7	81	47	20	6	4	.342	.392	.466	.858	118.9	118.0	.388	2.9
1941	115	485	450	59	140	16	7	5	54	29	14	5	5	.311	.354	.411	.765	93.4	95.3	.353	0.6
1942	62	155	144	13	36	5	0	1	20	9	6	0	1	.250	.294	.306	.600	58.7	64.0	.287	-0.4
1943	70	133	115	3	30	4	0	0	10	13	3	1	1	.261	.341	.296	.637	84.6	82.4	.316	0.1

Career totals

1,081

4,436

4,074

598

1,267

205

RBI

533

310

141

.3110

111th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3618

436th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4168

OPS

.7786

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
1937-07-03	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	5	2	1	0	1	0	9
1936-06-02	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	7	1	9
1936-07-18	CWS @ ATH Gameday	7	4	6	2	0	0	4	0	8
1938-06-22	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	0	4	1	1	0	6	1	7
1936-07-12	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-04-17	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-18	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-19	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-22	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-24	CWS @ DET 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

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.