Roosevelt Davis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 168 lb

BornNovember 19, 1904 · Bartlesville, OK, USA

Seasons20 (1924–1945)

St. Louis Stars 1924–1928; Chicago American Giants 1929; St. Louis Stars 1929; Kansas City Monarchs 1930; St. Louis Stars 1930; Indianapolis ABCs 1931; St. Louis Stars 1931; Cleveland Stars 1932; Pollock's Cuban Stars 1932; Columbus Blue Birds 1933; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1934–1935; New York Black Yankees 1936–1937; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1937; New York Black Yankees 1938; Newark Eagles 1938; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1938; Memphis Red Sox 1939–1940; New York Black Yankees 1940; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1944; Cleveland Buckeyes 1945; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1945

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified pitchers

16.7

13.3

1.1

81.1

35.6

11.1

SHO

42.2

85.6

86.7

6.7

82.2

66.7

ERA

4.46

WHIP

1.470

42.2

K/9

3.65

52.2

FIP

5.11

FIP-

100.1

38.9

ERA+

114.7

61.1

sWAR

0.9

22.2

of 91 qualified 1936 pitchers (min 29 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.2

70.3

sWAR

19.8

93.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1924	25	45	40	4	6	0	1	0	2	2	.150	.190	.200	.390	15.4	7.1	.190	0.6
1925	35	64	61	4	10	1	0	1	5	1	.164	.177	.230	.407	15.9	8.5	.184	2.8
1926	36	59	55	2	8	0	0	0	1	3	.145	.190	.145	.335	-3.8	-12.5	.167	0.1
1927	34	66	58	6	13	1	1	0	4	3	.224	.262	.276	.538	45.6	45.1	.253	1.3
1928	24	38	34	4	10	1	0	2	4	2	.294	.333	.500	.833	119.1	124.6	.373	2.0
1929	35	51	48	3	10	2	0	0	1	2	.208	.240	.250	.490	33.0	28.0	.229	2.4
1930	21	51	48	3	11	1	0	0	3	2	.229	.260	.250	.510	42.2	36.3	.240	1.0
1931	7	23	21	1	4	2	0	0	4	2	.190	.261	.286	.547	56.5	52.9	.267	0.4
1932	8	24	22	2	3	0	0	0	1	2	.136	.208	.136	.345	8.3	-3.6	.183	0.9
1933	8	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.067	.000	.067	-58.5	-80.1	.049	1.0
1934	5	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-36.3	-43.8	.094	0.3
1935	13	37	32	4	11	2	0	0	4	3	.344	.400	.406	.806	105.7	104.0	.374	2.6
1936	14	27	25	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	.120	.154	.120	.274	-18.3	-29.2	.136	0.9
1937	9	22	19	0	3	0	0	0	2	2	.158	.238	.158	.396	20.9	5.3	.202	-0.1
1938	5	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-81.3	-100.0	.000	-0.9
1939	5	17	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.063	.063	.063	.125	-57.5	-63.6	.059	0.6
1940	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	51.3	50.8	.243	0.4
1943	9	22	20	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	.150	.190	.150	.340	12.7	5.0	.173	1.5
1944	8	26	26	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	.077	.077	.077	.154	-52.5	-52.3	.074	0.9
1945	4	16	13	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	.077	.188	.154	.341	17.7	3.0	.179	1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1924	25	12	7	4	0	6	0	142	62	31	51	7	120.7	4.62	1.434	3.80	4.34	101.3	92.6	0.6
1925	35	19	16	6	0	9	0	175	83	26	48	0	168.0	4.45	1.196	2.57	4.93	93.9	118.0	2.8
1926	36	18	7	5	3	1	0	182	87	46	49	8	145.3	5.39	1.569	3.03	4.79	102.2	87.0	0.1
1927	34	17	10	8	2	9	0	193	75	36	63	3	162.7	4.15	1.408	3.49	3.34	83.8	96.0	1.3
1928	24	9	8	0	1	5	1	108	40	13	36	2	98.0	3.67	1.235	3.31	3.56	83.3	116.3	2.0
1929	34	15	6	7	3	8	3	148	63	32	58	5	144.7	3.92	1.244	3.61	3.91	86.6	115.2	2.4
1930	21	11	11	3	0	7	0	134	60	46	68	4	115.3	4.68	1.561	5.31	4.46	97.8	97.3	1.0
1931	7	4	2	4	0	3	0	60	25	23	27	5	50.3	4.47	1.649	4.83	5.04	119.7	94.2	0.4
1932	8	7	3	3	0	6	0	60	22	13	41	0	58.3	3.39	1.251	6.33	2.95	70.6	123.1	0.9
1933	8	4	2	2	0	2	0	50	13	9	16	1	44.0	2.66	1.341	3.27	4.24	98.3	162.1	1.0
1934	5	2	1	0	1	1	0	25	10	10	12	2	23.0	3.91	1.522	4.70	5.46	121.0	115.3	0.3
1935	13	8	5	1	1	5	1	87	30	24	49	5	86.0	3.14	1.291	5.13	4.54	89.1	162.4	2.6
1936	14	9	2	4	1	4	1	76	33	22	27	4	66.7	4.46	1.470	3.65	5.11	100.1	114.7	0.9
1937	8	6	2	4	0	5	0	56	31	9	22	3	46.7	5.98	1.393	4.24	4.63	92.8	83.5	-0.1
1938	5	3	0	3	0	0	0	32	18	9	4	4	11.7	13.89	3.514	3.09	10.05	198.8	36.4	-0.9
1939	5	5	2	3	0	4	0	44	13	4	20	2	40.0	2.93	1.200	4.50	3.46	87.4	135.4	0.6
1940	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	7	1	3	6	0	9.7	0.93	1.034	5.59	3.47	81.6	463.8	0.4
1943	9	6	5	2	2	6	1	45	16	10	37	1	61.3	2.35	.897	5.43	3.08	81.9	160.3	1.5
1944	8	8	6	2	0	5	1	59	16	16	42	0	60.0	2.40	1.250	6.30	2.60	77.3	140.3	0.9
1945	4	3	2	0	0	2	1	19	6	9	13	1	32.7	1.65	.857	3.58	4.39	103.5	256.5	1.2

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

307

622

569

101

RBI

.1775

OBP

.2170

SLG

.2197

OPS

.4367

Pitching

G (P)

305

167

488th-most career CG

SHO

1,545

SO (P)

689

BB allowed

391

ERA

4.101

WHIP

1.3547

K/9

4.01

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	RBI	BB	TB
1935-06-01	TIC @ ND Gameday	5	1	2	2	2	0	4
1930-07-01	CAG @ SLS Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	0	3
1935-07-07	HOM @ TIC Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3
1935-07-13	TIC @ NE Gameday	4	0	3	0	1	0	3
1930-05-10	CAG @ SLS Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1932-05-22	CLS @ WPI Gameday	9.0	5	3	2	3	14
1944-06-11	IC @ NBY Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	0	10
1943-05-23	CAG @ IC Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	0	9
1944-05-24	IC @ MEM Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	4	9
1944-06-04	CAG @ IC Gameday	9.0	10	3	1	3	9

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.