MLB / Players

Sammy Hale

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 160 lb

BornSeptember 10, 1896 · Glen Rose, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1920

Final gameAugust 23, 1930

Seasons10 (1920–1930)

Detroit Tigers 1920–1921; Philadelphia Athletics 1923–1929; St. Louis Browns 1930

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

131

62.7

564

65.1

501

67.5

70.4

157

73.4

65.1

67.5

59.8

RBI

82.2

46.2

17.8

66.3

21.9

.313

61.5

OBP

.358

45.6

SLG

.423

53.8

OPS

.781

51.5

wRC+

98.8

38.5

OPS+

100.3

43.2

wOBA

.362

49.1

sWAR

1.9

54.4

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.0

24.5

OPS+

94.3

30.1

sWAR

7.8

84.1

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1920	76	124	116	13	34	3	3	1	14	5	15	2	0	.293	.322	.397	.719	87.1	90.7	.333	0.2
1921	9	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.3	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1923	115	473	434	68	125	22	8	3	51	17	31	8	3	.288	.327	.396	.723	84.0	87.8	.337	0.8
1924	80	287	261	41	83	14	2	2	17	17	19	3	2	.318	.367	.410	.777	97.6	98.6	.366	0.9
1925	110	426	391	62	135	30	11	8	63	17	27	7	4	.345	.376	.540	.915	122.0	126.1	.413	2.7
1926	111	353	327	49	92	22	9	4	43	13	36	1	4	.281	.311	.440	.751	86.0	92.4	.343	0.6
1927	131	564	501	77	157	24	8	5	81	32	32	11	3	.313	.358	.423	.781	98.8	100.3	.362	1.9
1928	88	336	314	38	97	20	9	4	58	9	21	2	0	.309	.334	.468	.803	104.8	108.7	.361	1.4
1929	101	416	379	51	105	14	3	1	40	12	18	6	2	.277	.303	.338	.641	61.0	64.4	.295	-0.5
1930	62	204	190	21	52	8	1	2	25	8	18	1	1	.274	.303	.358	.661	62.0	64.2	.300	-0.3

Career totals

883

3,185

2,915

422

880

157

RBI

392

130

218

.3019

200th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3365

SLG

.4237

OPS

.7602

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
1925-06-06	DET @ ATH Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1925-04-23	ATH @ BOS Gameday	6	3	5	1	1	0	3	0	8
1927-04-14	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	1	4	0	2	0	4	0	8
1923-08-09	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	1	6	1	7
1923-08-06	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	4	4	3	0	0	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-04-14	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-17	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-18	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-19	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-20	DET @ CLE 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.