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Russell Powell

HandednessThrows Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 173 lb

BornJanuary 21, 1890 · Mount Pleasant, OH, USA

Seasons7 (1914–1921)

Indianapolis ABCs 1914–1918; Indianapolis ABCs 1920–1921

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

21.8

225

18.2

186

12.7

15.2

13.3

9.1

6.1

83.6

RBI

21.8

38.2

76.4

10.9

52.1

.226

10.9

OBP

.345

53.3

SLG

.344

35.2

OPS

.690

wRC+

115.6

59.4

OPS+

115.3

61.8

wOBA

.347

55.2

sWAR

1.7

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 195 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.4

80.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1914	54	207	186	20	43	6	2	1	22	13	0	1	.231	.285	.301	.586	68.5	63.1	.282	0.3
1915	58	225	186	28	42	5	1	5	28	33	0	4	.226	.345	.344	.690	115.6	115.3	.347	1.7
1916	38	135	116	16	35	5	3	0	24	15	0	1	.302	.382	.397	.778	130.3	134.6	.385	1.3
1917	42	156	139	9	33	4	2	0	13	11	0	1	.237	.303	.295	.598	95.0	95.6	.301	0.9
1918	30	114	105	11	24	2	1	1	14	7	0	0	.229	.277	.295	.572	71.5	67.9	.282	0.2
1920	60	214	190	20	44	7	0	0	17	17	0	1	.232	.301	.268	.570	75.5	71.0	.288	0.5
1921	49	187	165	12	41	2	2	0	16	14	1	0	.248	.311	.285	.596	74.5	68.9	.291	0.4

Career totals

331

1,238

1,087

116

262

RBI

134

110

.2410

OBP

.3148

SLG

.3091

OPS

.6239

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	TB
1920-07-10	CUB @ ABC Gameday	5	1	4	1	2	5
1920-08-05	ABC @ CUB Gameday	4	1	3	1	2	4
1920-08-11	ABC @ SLS Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	3
1920-05-09	CUB @ ABC Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	3
1920-08-28	CUB @ ABC Gameday	5	1	2	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-09	CUB @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-09	CUB @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-10	CUB @ ABC 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.