Ted Strong
Chicago American Giants 1936–1937; Indianapolis Athletics 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1937; Indianapolis ABCs 1938; Kansas City Monarchs 1938–1939; Kansas City Monarchs 1941–1942; Kansas City Monarchs 1946–1947; Indianapolis Clowns 1948
Percentile snapshot
1942 season — qualified batters
of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 155 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 17 | 59 | 55 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .164 | .220 | .291 | .511 | 52.1 | 40.5 | .240 | -0.1 |
| 1937 | 26 | 120 | 100 | 23 | 32 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .320 | .429 | .510 | .939 | 147.9 | 159.3 | .431 | 1.2 |
| 1938 | 21 | 83 | 75 | 22 | 30 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 0 | .400 | .458 | .733 | 1.191 | 208.3 | 240.4 | .534 | 1.4 |
| 1939 | 47 | 194 | 163 | 36 | 53 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 23 | 1 | 14 | 0 | .325 | .411 | .460 | .872 | 147.0 | 153.1 | .410 | 2.0 |
| 1941 | 37 | 160 | 121 | 31 | 41 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .339 | .494 | .587 | 1.080 | 202.3 | 220.0 | .505 | 2.7 |
| 1942 | 45 | 197 | 170 | 42 | 59 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 42 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .347 | .437 | .559 | .995 | 181.6 | 195.0 | .459 | 2.4 |
| 1946 | 34 | 133 | 110 | 30 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .364 | .466 | .500 | .966 | 174.3 | 184.8 | .466 | 1.4 |
| 1947 | 41 | 138 | 116 | 12 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .224 | .348 | .310 | .658 | 86.1 | 77.7 | .331 | 0.0 |
| 1948 | 13 | 46 | 37 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .378 | .489 | .405 | .894 | 144.0 | 141.2 | .436 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-08-06 | HSL @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1941-05-24 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1942-08-30 | PHS @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1946-08-19 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1941-09-14 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-08 | SLS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | SLS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | CAG @ MEM 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.