Tommy Sampson
Birmingham Black Barons 1940–1947; New York Cubans 1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 27 | 112 | 104 | 20 | 35 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .337 | .378 | .433 | .811 | 134.4 | 144.6 | .393 | 0.9 |
| 1941 | 26 | 97 | 88 | 11 | 26 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .295 | .326 | .398 | .724 | 109.4 | 114.3 | .344 | 0.5 |
| 1942 | 35 | 143 | 135 | 28 | 45 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .333 | .366 | .430 | .796 | 130.6 | 136.4 | .372 | 1.0 |
| 1943 | 42 | 184 | 168 | 25 | 49 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .292 | .335 | .339 | .674 | 106.2 | 107.2 | .327 | 0.8 |
| 1944 | 30 | 124 | 112 | 18 | 38 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .339 | .393 | .411 | .804 | 146.8 | 149.4 | .390 | 1.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | 24 | 23 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .261 | .292 | .261 | .553 | 67.2 | 62.4 | .267 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .500 | .200 | .700 | 143.6 | 108.0 | .412 | 0.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 38.1 | 34.7 | .238 | -0.1 |
| 1948 | 21 | 97 | 89 | 12 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .236 | .277 | .292 | .569 | 64.5 | 64.5 | .274 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-06-28 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1943-06-25 | NYC @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1940-09-01 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1940-06-23 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-07-13 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-04-14 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-21 | BEG @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-21 | BEG @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-28 | BBB @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB 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.