Thad Christopher
New York Black Yankees 1935; Newark Eagles 1936; Washington Elite Giants 1936; New York Black Yankees 1938; Newark Eagles 1941; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Baltimore Elite Giants 1943; Cleveland Buckeyes 1943; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Homestead Grays 1943; New York Black Yankees 1944–1945; Newark Eagles 1945
Percentile snapshot
1941 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 114 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 10 | 32 | 31 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .281 | .548 | .830 | 112.3 | 119.6 | .355 | 0.2 |
| 1936 | 32 | 134 | 114 | 23 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .254 | .361 | .404 | .764 | 97.3 | 94.6 | .358 | 0.3 |
| 1938 | 15 | 58 | 53 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .310 | .453 | .763 | 96.0 | 99.2 | .344 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 37 | 146 | 127 | 15 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .213 | .301 | .260 | .561 | 67.5 | 58.2 | .277 | -0.3 |
| 1942 | 31 | 106 | 93 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .204 | .288 | .290 | .579 | 78.2 | 72.6 | .283 | 0.0 |
| 1943 | 34 | 121 | 110 | 15 | 35 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .318 | .375 | .445 | .820 | 137.1 | 142.4 | .390 | 0.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | 38 | 32 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .313 | .405 | .531 | .937 | 142.0 | 149.6 | .432 | 0.3 |
| 1945 | 24 | 92 | 72 | 10 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .236 | .396 | .375 | .771 | 121.9 | 116.6 | .381 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-07-04 | IC @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1943-05-09 | IC @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1936-06-12 | NE @ TIC Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1936-09-15 | TIC @ NE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1945-08-26 | NBY @ NYC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-05-09 | BEG @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-10 | BEG @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-10 | BEG @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-16 | NE @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-05-17 | NE @ BEG 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.