Roosevelt Tate
Birmingham Black Barons 1932; Louisville Black Caps 1932; Nashville Elite Giants 1932; Chicago American Giants 1937; Cincinnati Tigers 1937
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 29 | 122 | 117 | 16 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .248 | .273 | .316 | .589 | 78.1 | 79.5 | .281 | 0.1 |
| 1937 | 12 | 51 | 49 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .082 | .118 | .143 | .261 | -8.7 | -27.7 | .125 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-22 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1932-06-19 | BEG @ MON Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1932-06-20 | BEG @ MON Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1932-07-10 | BEG @ IND Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1937-05-29 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-22 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-23 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-27 | CUP @ LBC 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.