Josh Gibson played 14 seasons (1930–1946) for Memphis Red Sox, Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays. Career regular-season line: 843 hits, 176 home runs and a .371 average. Late Developer career, peaking in 1943. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1972.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 98.1th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Historical franchise
No continuous modern successor — attributed to the franchise itself, never folded into a modern club.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 K
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
Fan Rating
Rate Josh Gibson — All-Time
12 seasons · peak 19.0 in 1943 · league-best season: 1943
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
42.3 career wins over 12 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1943 · +7.3 wins
Latest season · 1946 · +2.1 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Josh Gibson led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Late Developer
Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 1943, 12 rated seasons.
Ranked against the single greatest era-translated seasons in every sport by z — robust standard deviations above Josh Gibson's own era's positional peers, the one dominance measure comparable across the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.
The season chip above measures Josh Gibson's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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