Sam Thompson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 158 lb

BornMay 27, 1908 · Sulligent, AL, USA

Seasons9 (1932–1942)

Indianapolis ABCs 1932; Kansas City Monarchs 1934; Columbus Elite Giants 1935; Philadelphia Stars 1936–1940; Chicago American Giants 1942

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified pitchers

3.7

6.5

48.1

8.3

SHO

79.6

82.4

93.5

8.3

70.4

52.3

7.4

ERA

4.64

14.8

WHIP

1.605

6.5

K/9

3.44

38.9

FIP

4.56

6.5

FIP-

112.4

16.7

ERA+

87.3

22.2

sWAR

0.0

of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 44 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.6

80.7

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	16	44	39	5	7	2	0	2	4	0	0	.179	.256	.231	.487	56.6	48.8	.245	2.5
1934	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	43.2	42.7	.227	0.0
1935	10	27	22	4	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	.091	.167	.091	.258	-15.2	-33.1	.139	0.7
1936	13	23	21	2	4	1	0	2	1	0	0	.190	.227	.238	.465	25.4	19.0	.220	0.5
1937	10	27	23	2	4	1	0	2	1	0	0	.174	.208	.217	.426	19.4	9.9	.199	1.1
1938	1	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	15.9	-28.9	.188	-0.2
1939	14	23	22	2	8	0	0	3	0	0	0	.364	.364	.364	.727	93.0	93.4	.338	0.3
1940	15	28	26	3	6	1	1	2	1	0	0	.231	.259	.385	.644	55.6	66.0	.274	0.7
1942	9	21	20	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.150	.150	.150	.300	-5.0	-10.5	.141	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1932	15	11	7	5	1	10	1	94	30	24	52	3	104.7	2.58	1.127	4.47	3.59	96.3	144.5	2.5
1934	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	16	4	3	3	1	8.7	4.15	2.192	3.12	5.17	146.4	85.0	0.0
1935	10	9	3	3	0	3	1	68	34	14	30	2	65.7	4.66	1.249	4.11	4.22	82.8	109.4	0.7
1936	12	7	4	3	0	4	0	64	33	23	23	5	57.3	5.18	1.517	3.61	5.55	108.7	98.6	0.5
1937	10	8	5	4	0	5	1	71	31	13	27	9	66.7	4.19	1.260	3.65	5.61	112.3	119.2	1.1
1938	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	12	7	1	2	2	8.0	7.88	1.625	2.25	7.09	140.3	64.2	-0.2
1939	14	6	3	3	1	1	0	60	32	23	28	4	51.3	5.61	1.617	4.91	5.05	104.2	86.3	0.3
1940	12	7	2	5	0	5	0	74	34	21	31	5	59.3	5.16	1.601	4.70	5.25	100.5	101.2	0.7
1942	9	6	0	7	0	3	0	69	27	15	20	3	52.3	4.64	1.605	3.44	4.56	112.4	87.3	0.0

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

201

180

RBI

.1944

OBP

.2368

SLG

.2389

OPS

.4757

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

474

SO (P)

216

BB allowed

137

ERA

4.405

WHIP

1.4030

K/9

4.10

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	HR	RBI	TB
1940-07-06	NYC @ PHS Gameday	4	1	1	1	1	4
1936-08-29	PHS @ TIC Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2
1939-06-03	NYC @ PHS Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	2
1939-07-11	BEG @ PHS Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	2
1939-08-12	NE @ PHS Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-08-29	BEG @ NYC Gameday	10.0	7	2	1	1	12	0
1932-07-10	BEG @ IND Gameday	9.0	5	4	4	3	9	0
1935-08-04	PHS @ BEG Gameday	15.0	9	5	3	4	7	1
1932-05-08	ATL @ IND Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	7	0
1937-05-23	PHS @ NE Gameday	8.0	4	1	1	3	7	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.