Spoon Carter

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 176 lb

BornDecember 8, 1902 · Harpersville, AL, USA

Seasons15 (1932–1948)

Birmingham Black Barons 1932; Louisville Black Caps 1932; Memphis Red Sox 1932; Akron Grays / Cleveland Giants 1933; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1933; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1935–1937; Birmingham Black Barons 1938; Philadelphia Stars 1938–1939; Toledo Crawfords 1939; Newark Eagles 1940; New York Cubans 1940; Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940; Homestead Grays 1942–1945; Memphis Red Sox 1946–1948

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified pitchers

13.7

16.8

18.9

90.5

18.9

SHO

103

78.9

81.1

83.2

6.3

87.4

78.0

15.8

ERA

4.73

8.4

WHIP

1.628

3.2

K/9

2.88

32.6

FIP

4.23

11.6

FIP-

97.9

41.1

ERA+

91.2

18.9

sWAR

0.3

9.5

of 96 qualified 1944 pitchers (min 43 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.9

79.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	11	34	32	4	5	1	1	0	4	0	0	.156	.156	.250	.406	22.0	23.1	.188	1.7
1933	8	23	19	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	.211	.286	.211	.496	49.5	38.0	.245	-0.5
1935	11	26	25	1	7	1	0	0	3	1	1	.280	.308	.320	.628	62.5	58.7	.290	1.6
1936	9	13	10	5	4	0	0	0	1	2	0	.400	.500	.400	.900	137.7	132.4	.436	-0.2
1937	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-83.9	-100.0	.000	-0.8
1938	21	47	41	5	5	1	0	0	5	2	0	.122	.163	.146	.309	-2.4	-17.7	.151	-0.5
1939	9	25	19	2	7	0	0	0	2	4	0	.368	.500	.368	.868	154.0	147.7	.434	0.0
1940	10	19	17	2	4	0	0	1	3	1	0	.235	.278	.412	.690	84.0	79.6	.313	1.1
1942	12	25	25	4	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	18.6	14.2	.190	-0.9
1943	22	60	52	4	10	4	0	0	1	4	0	.192	.250	.269	.519	46.5	38.7	.254	2.3
1944	12	29	28	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-17.2	-23.3	.135	0.3
1945	7	14	13	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	.231	.231	.308	.538	47.8	50.1	.249	0.7
1946	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-86.8	-100.0	.000	0.1
1947	1	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	78.9	79.6	.317	0.0
1948	8	12	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.083	.083	.083	.167	-45.7	-55.3	.078	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1932	11	8	5	5	0	6	0	69	23	13	30	2	78.0	2.65	1.051	3.46	3.77	101.2	140.4	1.7
1933	7	6	0	6	0	4	0	57	33	17	22	4	47.0	6.32	1.574	4.21	5.17	119.5	68.4	-0.5
1935	11	5	4	1	0	3	0	53	19	19	20	2	55.7	3.07	1.293	3.23	4.93	96.7	166.0	1.6
1936	9	3	3	2	0	1	0	38	28	25	14	3	35.0	7.20	1.800	3.60	6.47	126.7	71.0	-0.2
1937	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	11	11	4	0	1	3.0	33.00	5.000	0.00	12.36	247.8	15.1	-0.8
1938	21	13	7	4	0	6	0	131	81	48	59	13	117.3	6.21	1.526	4.53	5.65	112.7	80.5	-0.5
1939	8	6	4	1	0	3	0	52	28	23	24	5	43.7	5.77	1.718	4.95	5.70	134.8	73.4	0.0
1940	9	3	2	0	3	2	0	31	10	12	23	2	32.7	2.76	1.316	6.34	4.40	89.7	174.2	1.1
1942	12	7	2	4	0	3	0	79	42	16	23	4	62.0	6.10	1.532	3.34	4.19	106.8	64.3	-0.9
1943	21	12	14	2	0	8	1	127	50	36	45	4	119.3	3.77	1.366	3.39	4.79	99.6	127.5	2.3
1944	12	10	6	3	0	6	0	103	41	24	25	1	78.0	4.73	1.628	2.88	4.23	97.9	91.2	0.3
1945	7	3	2	1	1	1	0	40	12	9	23	0	35.0	3.09	1.400	5.91	3.18	77.1	133.6	0.7
1946	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	11	4	3	4	0	9.3	3.86	1.500	3.86	3.83	93.4	106.3	0.1
1947	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	9	4	1	4	1	5.7	6.35	1.765	6.35	5.47	110.9	77.6	0.0
1948	8	5	3	2	0	2	0	42	21	15	9	1	32.7	5.79	1.745	2.48	5.29	109.3	83.6	-0.1

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

147

336

302

RBI

.1987

OBP

.2414

SLG

.2417

OPS

.4831

Pitching

G (P)

142

SHO

754

SO (P)

325

BB allowed

265

ERA

4.856

WHIP

1.4821

K/9

3.88

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	HR	RBI	TB
1940-09-02	BEG @ NE Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	3	5
1932-08-07	BEG @ MEM Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	2	3
1935-08-27	TIC @ CAG Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	1	3
1938-06-04	WBS @ PHS Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	3
1945-07-25	BEG @ HOM Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-07-16	TIC @ PHS Gameday	8.0	9	7	6	4	9	2
1940-06-02	HSL @ TIC Gameday	10.0	9	1	1	3	8	0
1943-06-19	HOM @ PHS Gameday	9.0	12	4	4	5	8	0
1945-06-23	HOM @ KCM Gameday	9.0	8	2	1	0	8	0
1943-07-24	HOM @ PHS Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	2	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.

Honors

2× 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.