MLB / Players

Willard Brown

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 200 lb

BornJune 26, 1915 · Shreveport, LA, USA

MLB debutJuly 19, 1947

Final gameSeptember 18, 1949

Seasons13 (1935–1948)

Kansas City Monarchs 1935–1944; Kansas City Monarchs 1946–1947; St. Louis Browns 1947; Kansas City Monarchs 1948

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

31.9

221

32.6

204

32.6

31.9

34.1

39.1

22.5

75.4

RBI

38.4

21.7

70.3

41.3

31.9

.333

92.8

OBP

.382

77.5

SLG

.520

94.9

OPS

.901

93.5

wRC+

164.6

96.4

OPS+

175.8

97.8

wOBA

.423

93.5

sWAR

2.7

68.8

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 155 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

22.5

94.5

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	13	52	47	8	16	3	0	5	13	5	1	2	0	.340	.404	.723	1.127	180.1	199.5	.480	0.8
1936	11	49	47	11	18	1	2	1	10	1	1	3	0	.383	.396	.553	.949	143.7	160.4	.431	0.6
1937	56	235	214	51	81	11	10	10	60	19	0	10	0	.379	.432	.664	1.095	176.1	199.1	.486	3.0
1938	47	191	180	36	62	16	4	7	48	11	0	20	0	.344	.382	.594	.977	160.1	178.7	.443	2.1
1939	45	188	179	36	64	15	7	4	44	8	0	9	0	.358	.383	.587	.970	165.7	179.7	.442	2.0
1940	3	11	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.182	.182	.182	.364	14.8	9.7	.176	-0.1
1941	42	176	159	35	54	9	4	6	34	16	1	14	0	.340	.403	.560	.963	169.4	184.7	.448	2.3
1942	46	199	182	36	69	12	2	6	38	16	1	7	1	.379	.429	.566	.995	181.1	194.8	.458	2.7
1943	54	221	204	33	68	13	2	7	33	16	0	4	0	.333	.382	.520	.901	164.6	175.8	.423	2.7
1944	3	10	9	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	.333	.400	.333	.733	131.0	128.0	.365	0.1
1946	38	153	145	30	48	11	6	3	27	7	2	3	0	.331	.362	.552	.914	152.6	168.7	.428	1.5
1947	69	283	267	46	87	25	7	7	70	15	7	14	2	.326	.364	.551	.915	134.7	146.2	.419	1.8
1948	46	197	174	43	71	23	2	7	54	22	3	8	0	.408	.477	.684	1.161	189.1	208.3	.521	2.8

Career totals

473

1,965

1,818

368

643

139

RBI

432

137

.3537

OBP

.4000

SLG

.5847

OPS

.9847

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
1939-07-19	CAG @ KCM Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	1	5	0	11
1939-05-26	KCM @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	2	2	0	3	0	10
1948-05-27	IC @ KCM Gameday	5	2	5	4	0	0	9	1	9
1947-05-25	MEM @ KCM Gameday	5	1	4	0	2	0	3	0	8
1939-04-30	KCM @ CAG Gameday	4	4	4	0	2	0	2	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-05-09	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-09	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-13	KCM @ CAG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-14	CAG @ KCM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-15	CAG @ KCM 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

Hall of Fame, 2006 (Negro League)

5× 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.