Schoolboy Rowe

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 210 lb

BornJanuary 11, 1910 · Waco, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1933

Final gameSeptember 13, 1949

Seasons15 (1933–1949)

Detroit Tigers 1933–1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1942; Detroit Tigers 1942; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1943; Philadelphia Phillies 1946–1949

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified pitchers

39.5

63.2

72.4

46.1

39.5

78.9

SHO

18.4

232

10.5

11.8

78.9

43.4

3.9

195.7

63.2

ERA

4.32

17.1

WHIP

1.416

28.9

K/9

3.40

21.1

FIP

4.01

30.3

FIP-

101.0

31.6

ERA+

91.9

17.1

sWAR

2.2

42.1

of 77 qualified 1947 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.8

72.1

sWAR

38.0

97.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1933	21	53	50	6	11	1	0	0	6	1	4	0	0	.220	.235	.240	.475	20.4	25.9	.222	2.2
1934	51	119	109	15	33	8	1	2	22	6	20	0	0	.303	.339	.450	.789	99.9	103.8	.359	6.3
1935	45	124	109	19	34	3	2	3	28	12	12	0	0	.312	.380	.459	.839	120.0	120.7	.386	5.5
1936	45	106	90	16	23	2	1	1	12	13	15	0	0	.256	.356	.333	.689	76.3	71.5	.332	4.2
1937	10	12	10	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	.200	.273	.200	.473	20.9	20.6	.236	-0.9
1938	4	7	6	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.167	.167	.333	.500	4.1	19.3	.215	0.6
1939	31	69	61	7	15	0	1	1	12	5	7	1	1	.246	.303	.328	.631	55.7	57.7	.295	1.6
1940	27	73	67	7	18	6	1	1	18	5	13	1	1	.269	.319	.433	.752	83.4	86.9	.336	4.4
1941	32	61	55	10	15	0	3	1	12	5	8	0	0	.273	.333	.436	.770	91.7	94.8	.351	2.4
1942	16	25	23	2	4	0	0	0	2	1	4	0	0	.174	.208	.174	.382	-1.7	12.7	.189	0.1
1943	82	137	120	14	36	7	0	4	18	15	21	0	0	.300	.382	.458	.841	147.2	144.6	.397	4.1
1946	30	65	61	4	11	5	0	1	6	3	16	0	0	.180	.219	.311	.530	36.3	50.0	.248	3.7
1947	43	94	79	9	22	2	0	2	11	13	18	0	0	.278	.380	.380	.760	109.2	104.9	.360	2.2
1948	31	58	52	3	10	0	0	1	4	4	10	1	0	.192	.250	.250	.500	31.9	36.8	.239	1.3
1949	23	19	17	1	4	1	0	1	1	2	4	0	0	.235	.316	.471	.786	105.4	108.6	.351	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1933	19	15	7	4	0	8	1	129	49	31	75	7	123.3	3.58	1.297	5.47	3.33	77.5	120.2	2.2
1934	45	30	24	8	1	20	3	259	102	81	149	12	266.0	3.45	1.278	5.04	3.55	80.3	128.0	6.3
1935	42	34	19	13	3	21	6	272	113	68	140	11	275.7	3.69	1.233	4.57	3.36	78.7	115.6	5.5
1936	41	35	19	10	3	19	4	266	123	64	115	15	245.3	4.51	1.345	4.22	4.15	83.0	111.0	4.2
1937	10	2	1	4	0	1	0	49	30	9	6	7	31.3	8.62	1.851	1.72	6.61	142.1	54.0	-0.9
1938	4	3	0	2	0	0	0	20	7	11	4	1	21.0	3.00	1.476	1.71	4.93	97.8	167.8	0.6
1939	28	24	10	12	0	8	1	192	91	61	51	17	164.0	4.99	1.543	2.80	5.01	103.8	96.7	1.6
1940	27	23	16	3	0	11	1	170	65	43	61	15	169.0	3.46	1.260	3.25	4.14	88.6	134.9	4.4
1941	27	14	8	6	1	4	0	155	64	33	54	6	139.0	4.14	1.353	3.50	3.26	72.9	107.8	2.4
1942	11	3	2	0	0	0	0	45	18	14	13	2	40.7	3.98	1.451	2.88	3.46	102.1	87.0	0.1
1943	27	25	14	8	1	11	3	196	65	29	52	7	199.0	2.94	1.131	2.35	2.89	87.4	112.4	4.1
1946	17	16	11	4	0	9	2	112	32	21	51	3	136.0	2.12	.978	3.38	2.45	72.4	160.1	3.7
1947	31	28	14	10	1	15	1	232	94	45	74	22	195.7	4.32	1.416	3.40	4.01	101.0	91.9	2.2
1948	30	20	10	10	2	8	0	167	67	31	46	5	148.0	4.07	1.338	2.80	3.05	78.4	95.5	1.3
1949	23	6	3	7	0	2	0	68	35	17	22	2	65.3	4.82	1.301	3.03	3.13	77.8	83.4	0.3

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

491

1,022

909

116

239

RBI

153

157

.2629

OBP

.3280

SLG

.3817

OPS

.7097

Pitching

G (P)

382

278

424th-most career GS

158

234th-most career W

101

137

270th-most career CG

SHO

218th-most career SHO

2,219

342nd-most career IP

SO (P)

913

BB allowed

558

ERA

3.873

WHIP

1.3022

K/9

3.70

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	TB
1935-08-14	MIN @ DET Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	0	4	8
1940-07-27	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	5	7
1935-08-23	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	3	6
1946-06-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	1	1	6
1934-07-28	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	0	3	2	0	0	3	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-08-27	ATH @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	12	0
1934-07-12	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	4	11	0
1934-08-17	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	5	11	0
1936-05-20	NYY @ DET Gameday	10.0	6	3	3	3	10	1
1933-06-18	ATH @ DET Gameday	9.0	13	7	6	1	10	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

3× 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.