Sammy Hughes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 192 lb

BornOctober 20, 1910 · Louisville, KY, USA

Final gameSeptember 15, 1946

Seasons12 (1931–1946)

Louisville White Sox 1931; Washington Pilots 1932; Nashville Elite Giants 1933–1934; Columbus Elite Giants 1935; Washington Elite Giants 1936–1937; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938–1940; Baltimore Elite Giants 1942; Baltimore Elite Giants 1946

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified batters

32.2

239

211

41.8

35.6

41.8

10.3

42.5

RBI

34.2

25.3

63.7

25.3

31.5

.294

76.7

OBP

.349

52.7

SLG

.408

68.5

OPS

.757

61.6

wRC+

111.6

56.8

OPS+

115.5

60.3

wOBA

.359

60.3

sWAR

1.3

47.9

of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 117 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.8

88.6

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
1931	24	92	83	13	28	9	1	1	14	7	0	0	0	.337	.389	.506	.895	139.2	148.4	.418	0.8
1932	36	134	115	22	40	3	3	1	15	14	0	2	0	.348	.423	.452	.875	138.5	141.6	.418	1.0
1933	23	99	86	11	29	4	1	0	13	10	0	1	0	.337	.406	.407	.813	123.5	123.2	.377	0.7
1934	37	151	135	26	43	7	0	1	21	12	1	5	0	.319	.374	.393	.767	114.0	115.0	.365	0.9
1935	27	136	120	31	38	10	2	0	17	15	0	0	0	.317	.393	.433	.826	108.8	108.2	.380	0.6
1936	32	139	119	29	38	2	5	3	22	16	0	1	0	.319	.404	.496	.900	125.1	128.8	.411	1.0
1937	27	114	100	23	34	8	3	2	15	9	0	0	0	.340	.400	.540	.940	133.0	139.7	.417	0.9
1938	26	117	105	24	38	7	4	2	22	10	0	3	0	.362	.422	.562	.984	146.9	157.8	.443	1.2
1939	25	110	95	20	34	10	2	0	11	13	2	0	0	.358	.435	.505	.940	142.4	148.8	.433	1.1
1940	58	260	229	53	65	15	4	6	37	27	4	4	0	.284	.362	.463	.825	109.1	113.5	.379	1.4
1942	54	239	211	47	62	13	1	3	30	18	4	2	1	.294	.349	.408	.757	111.6	115.5	.359	1.3
1946	43	164	132	26	35	3	1	2	18	26	0	3	0	.265	.394	.348	.742	113.5	107.9	.371	0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1937	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1.7	5.40	1.800	0.00	5.83	116.8	92.4	0.9

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

412

1,755

1,530

325

484

RBI

235

177

.3163

OBP

.3897

SLG

.4523

OPS

.8420

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

5.400

WHIP

1.8000

K/9

0.00

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
1942-05-10	PHS @ BEG Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1936-08-19	TIC @ BEG Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1939-08-13	BEG @ NYC Gameday	6	2	4	1	1	0	2	0	7
1935-07-14	BEG @ ND Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	0	0	7
1934-05-23	CAG @ BEG Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	1	3	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB
1937-06-12	PHS @ BEG Gameday	1.2	2	1	1	1
1931-05-09	DTS @ LBC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-23	IND @ LBC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-24	IND @ LBC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1931-05-25	IND @ LBC Gameday	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

6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.