Shirley Petway
Birmingham Black Barons 1932; Louisville Black Caps 1932; Detroit Stars 1937; Cleveland Buckeyes 1944
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 16 | 63 | 54 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .259 | .344 | .259 | .604 | 93.1 | 86.4 | .306 | 0.1 |
| 1937 | 8 | 26 | 24 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .423 | .375 | .798 | 121.0 | 122.2 | .378 | 0.2 |
| 1944 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 506.6 | 520.5 | .960 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-05-21 | BBB @ MON Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1932-04-22 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1932-04-24 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1932-05-24 | IND @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1937-05-23 | ATH @ DTS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-22 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-23 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-27 | CUP @ LBC 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.