Tom Parker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 235 lb

BornFebruary 12, 1912 · Alexandria, LA, USA

Seasons12 (1931–1948)

Indianapolis ABCs 1931; Nashville Elite Giants 1934; Homestead Grays 1935–1939; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1941; New York Black Yankees 1942; Harrisburg-St. Louis Stars 1943; New York Cubans 1945; Homestead Grays 1948

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

2.7

4.5

5.4

6.3

17.1

RBI

4.5

76.6

35.1

.286

64.9

OBP

.310

14.4

SLG

.393

54.1

OPS

.703

33.3

wRC+

92.7

29.7

OPS+

96.3

32.4

wOBA

.329

29.7

sWAR

0.1

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 83 PA)

1948 season — qualified pitchers

6.9

11.1

98.6

13.9

SHO

100

93.1

81.9

6.9

83.3

74.3

5.6

ERA

3.03

79.2

WHIP

1.211

83.3

K/9

4.96

72.2

FIP

3.99

38.9

FIP-

112.4

15.3

ERA+

117.2

63.9

sWAR

0.8

16.7

of 73 qualified 1948 pitchers (min 62 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.2

71.1

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1931	11	15	15	4	4	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	.267	.267	.600	.867	122.0	138.5	.387	-2.0
1934	34	135	123	23	37	4	4	2	23	8	0	2	.301	.344	.447	.791	115.3	120.6	.368	1.4
1935	25	50	44	10	15	2	0	2	12	4	0	0	.341	.408	.523	.931	128.2	133.1	.418	-1.0
1936	20	48	45	8	13	3	2	0	5	0	0	0	.289	.289	.444	.733	80.4	84.8	.326	0.4
1937	19	46	42	14	17	2	0	3	14	3	0	0	.405	.444	.667	1.111	168.3	182.0	.485	0.9
1938	11	37	33	4	4	2	0	1	6	2	0	0	.121	.171	.273	.444	23.2	15.6	.203	0.3
1939	17	49	42	9	15	1	1	2	11	6	0	0	.357	.429	.571	1.000	149.7	163.3	.447	0.9
1941	7	23	21	1	9	1	0	0	4	2	1	0	.429	.478	.476	.954	175.7	183.4	.459	0.0
1942	33	133	121	10	28	5	1	1	16	10	1	0	.231	.295	.314	.610	76.7	73.8	.296	0.0
1943	14	61	59	8	21	7	0	0	9	2	0	1	.356	.377	.475	.852	118.8	126.8	.399	0.4
1945	23	87	84	7	24	4	1	1	10	3	1	0	.286	.310	.393	.703	92.7	96.3	.329	0.1
1948	34	114	106	11	23	3	0	0	12	8	0	1	.217	.272	.245	.517	53.3	50.1	.255	0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1931	11	8	1	4	1	0	49	44	38	30	1	35.0	11.31	2.486	7.71	5.45	129.4	37.2	-2.0
1934	4	3	2	0	2	1	14	6	11	24	0	22.0	2.45	1.136	9.82	3.39	75.1	183.8	1.4
1935	12	7	0	6	3	0	55	46	45	35	3	43.0	9.63	2.326	7.33	6.47	126.9	53.0	-1.0
1936	10	10	4	5	5	0	56	40	37	30	2	62.0	5.81	1.500	4.35	5.45	106.7	88.0	0.4
1937	11	9	7	1	3	1	70	37	24	41	3	60.0	5.55	1.567	6.15	4.66	93.5	89.9	0.9
1938	5	4	2	3	2	0	31	14	18	10	2	30.0	4.20	1.633	3.00	5.96	118.0	120.3	0.3
1939	6	5	3	3	1	0	36	21	19	26	2	38.3	4.93	1.435	6.10	4.67	96.3	98.3	0.9
1941	1	1	0	1	0	0	8	6	1	2	0	6.3	8.53	1.421	2.84	3.42	92.2	43.5	0.0
1942	4	4	2	2	3	0	32	15	14	13	2	29.3	4.60	1.568	3.99	4.65	118.6	85.2	0.0
1943	1	1	1	0	1	0	3	2	4	2	0	5.0	3.60	1.400	3.60	5.73	119.1	133.6	0.4
1948	9	9	6	2	6	0	55	25	35	41	3	74.3	3.03	1.211	4.96	3.99	112.4	117.2	0.8

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

248

798

735

109

210

RBI

126

.2857

OBP

.3308

SLG

.4122

OPS

.7430

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

405

SO (P)

254

BB allowed

246

ERA

5.684

WHIP

1.6160

K/9

5.64

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
1934-07-16	BEG @ ND Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	2	3	11
1935-05-26	HOM @ NYC Gameday	6	2	4	1	0	1	3	8
1937-05-15	HOM @ NE Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	4	8
1937-08-14	HOM @ NE Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	4	7
1936-05-30	NE @ HOM Gameday	4	0	3	0	2	0	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-07-29	NYC @ HOM Gameday	7.0	3	3	2	4	13	1
1934-05-23	CAG @ BEG Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	5	10	0
1939-06-07	NE @ HOM Gameday	8.1	8	7	6	8	10	0
1935-06-29	HOM @ BEG Gameday	6.0	3	2	2	4	10	0
1937-05-15	HOM @ NE Gameday	9.0	8	3	2	3	9	1

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.