Sam Hairston
Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1944–1947; Indianapolis Clowns 1948; Chicago White Sox 1951
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 8 | 25 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .292 | .364 | .655 | 100.9 | 102.8 | .317 | 0.1 |
| 1945 | 20 | 71 | 62 | 10 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .258 | .352 | .339 | .691 | 106.5 | 102.7 | .337 | 0.4 |
| 1946 | 26 | 115 | 102 | 16 | 33 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .324 | .395 | .471 | .865 | 145.8 | 155.0 | .415 | 1.1 |
| 1947 | 29 | 122 | 112 | 20 | 34 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .304 | .350 | .429 | .779 | 104.5 | 109.0 | .367 | 0.6 |
| 1948 | 31 | 130 | 115 | 25 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .357 | .426 | .435 | .861 | 129.0 | 130.9 | .407 | 0.9 |
| 1951 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .571 | .600 | 1.171 | 227.0 | 222.0 | .538 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-09-17 | NBY @ IC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1946-08-12 | IC @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1948-05-28 | IC @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1946-07-23 | IC @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1944-08-22 | CLB @ IC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-05-07 | CLB @ IC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-07 | CLB @ IC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-09 | CLB @ IC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-10 | CLB @ IC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-11 | IC @ CAG 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.