Sam Leslie

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 192 lb

BornJuly 26, 1905 · Moss Point, MS, USA

MLB debutOctober 6, 1929

Final gameSeptember 27, 1938

Seasons10 (1929–1938)

New York Giants 1929–1932; Brooklyn Dodgers 1933; New York Giants 1933; Brooklyn Dodgers 1934–1935; New York Giants 1936–1938

Percentile snapshot

1935 season — qualified batters

142

61.2

581

54.3

520

52.6

47.4

160

62.1

65.5

56.9

38.8

RBI

66.4

34.5

41.4

.308

62.9

OBP

.379

67.2

SLG

.421

44.8

OPS

.800

56.9

wRC+

118.6

70.7

OPS+

116.3

66.4

wOBA

.368

56.9

sWAR

2.1

56.9

of 117 qualified 1935 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.8

86.8

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
1929	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-116.4	-100.0	.000	0.0
1930	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	150.2	146.7	.452	0.0
1931	53	54	53	11	16	4	0	3	5	1	2	3	.302	.315	.547	.862	125.9	130.8	.379	0.3
1932	77	79	75	5	22	4	0	1	15	2	5	0	.293	.329	.387	.716	93.6	94.6	.323	0.2
1933	136	545	501	62	148	23	7	8	73	35	23	1	.295	.351	.417	.768	122.7	121.6	.356	2.2
1934	146	621	546	75	181	29	6	9	102	69	34	5	.332	.409	.456	.865	138.3	135.2	.397	3.9
1935	142	581	520	72	160	30	7	5	93	55	19	4	.308	.379	.421	.800	118.6	116.3	.368	2.1
1936	117	448	417	49	123	19	5	6	54	23	16	0	.295	.335	.408	.743	100.1	101.8	.341	0.6
1937	72	213	191	25	59	7	2	3	30	20	12	1	.309	.380	.414	.794	118.7	116.3	.369	0.8
1938	76	166	154	12	39	7	1	1	16	11	6	0	.253	.307	.331	.638	74.1	75.8	.299	-0.3

Career totals

822

2,711

2,460

311

749

123

RBI

389

216

118

.3045

OBP

.3661

SLG

.4211

OPS

.7872

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
1936-05-24	PHI @ SF Gameday	5	2	5	1	1	1	2	1	11
1935-08-04	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	3	0	1	2	0	10
1933-09-17	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	1	2	0	9
1934-05-10	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	4	0	8
1938-06-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	6	2	5	2	0	0	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1929-04-18	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-19	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-23	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-24	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-26	ATL @ SF 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.