Roosevelt Cox
Chicago American Giants 1937; Detroit Stars 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1938; New York Cubans 1942; New York Black Yankees 1943; New York Cubans 1943–1944
Percentile snapshot
1943 season — qualified batters
of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 83 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 18 | 75 | 64 | 13 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .313 | .397 | .406 | .804 | 120.9 | 122.1 | .378 | 0.5 |
| 1938 | 35 | 131 | 111 | 12 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .207 | .307 | .315 | .622 | 85.7 | 79.4 | .304 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 27 | 97 | 94 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .170 | .188 | .213 | .400 | 19.2 | 14.0 | .191 | -0.7 |
| 1943 | 32 | 129 | 125 | 17 | 29 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .232 | .256 | .312 | .568 | 54.0 | 51.3 | .269 | -0.3 |
| 1944 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .800 | .857 | .800 | 1.657 | 316.5 | 345.6 | .758 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-29 | DTS @ SLS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 1938-06-05 | ATL @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1938-07-10 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1943-05-23 | BEG @ NYC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-07-04 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-09 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | DTS @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-10 | DTS @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-10 | DTS @ CIN 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.