Rufus Ligon
Little Rock Grays 1932; Memphis Red Sox 1944–1945
Percentile snapshot
1932 season — qualified pitchers
of 138 qualified 1932 pitchers (min 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 8 | 17 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .294 | .250 | .544 | 70.7 | 66.6 | .269 | 0.3 |
| 1944 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 52.3 | 55.1 | .240 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .833 | 156.0 | 146.7 | .425 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 23.0 | 3.52 | 1.000 | 2.74 | 3.61 | 96.9 | 105.8 | 0.3 |
| 1944 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2.3 | 7.71 | 3.000 | 7.71 | 5.34 | 158.8 | 43.6 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9.0 | 8.00 | 1.556 | 1.00 | 3.98 | 93.8 | 53.0 | -0.2 |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-05-14 | LRG @ MON Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1932-05-28 | MEM @ LRG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1944-05-25 | IC @ MEM Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1945-09-02 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1932-05-15 | LRG @ MON Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-05-14 | LRG @ MON Gameday | 8.0 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1932-06-05 | LRG @ MNT Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1944-05-14 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1945-07-19 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 5.2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1945-09-02 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 2.1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 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.