Walter Harper
Birmingham Black Barons 1923; Chicago American Giants 1929; Chicago Columbia Giants 1931
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 38.8 | 32.7 | .190 | 0.0 |
| 1929 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -91.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1931 | 8 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .048 | .048 | .048 | .095 | -65.0 | -73.4 | .045 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-07-04 | CAG @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1931-05-02 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-05-03 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-05-03 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-05-04 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-05-02 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-05-03 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-05-03 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-05-04 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-05-16 | CAG @ DTS 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.