SPORTS  :  Baseball  |  Football  |  Basketball  |  Hockey  |  Olympics  Support B-R: T-Shirts & Hats or Page Sponsorships
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Luke Sewell

Luke Sewell
James Luther Sewell

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 5' 9", Weight 160 lb.
School University of Alabama

Debut June 30, 1921
Final Game August 1, 1942
Born January 5, 1901 in Titus, AL
Died May 14, 1987 in Akron, OH

Brother of Joe Sewell, Brother of Tommy Sewell, and Cousin of Rip Sewell

Managerial record
 About biographical information

BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this person (what's this?)
Oracle: Find all of this player's teammates.

Promote your website or business by sponsoring this page for $10 per year on Baseball-Reference.com.

  

Batting  Glossary / Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1921 20 CLE AL   3    6    0    0   0  0   0    1   0  0   0   3  .000  .000  .000 -100    0   1           0    
 1922 21 CLE AL  41   87   14   23   5  0   0   10   1  1   5   8  .264  .312  .322   65   28   2           1    
 1923 22 CLE AL  10   10    2    2   0  1   0    1   0  0   1   0  .200  .273  .400   76    4   0           0    
 1924 23 CLE AL  63  165   27   48   9  1   0   17   1  0  22  13  .291  .387  .358   92   59   3           4    
 1925 24 CLE AL  74  220   30   51  10  2   0   18   6  2  33  18  .232  .337  .295   61   65   7           2    
 1926 25 CLE AL 126  433   41  103  16  4   0   46   9  3  36  27  .238  .302  .293   55  127  26           4    
 1927 26 CLE AL 128  470   52  138  27  6   0   53   4  8  20  23  .294  .328  .377   82  177  18           4     MVP-9
 1928 27 CLE AL 122  411   52  111  16  9   3   52   3  4  26  27  .270  .318  .375   81  154  17           3     MVP-12
 1929 28 CLE AL 124  406   41   96  16  3   1   39   6  6  29  26  .236  .287  .298   48  121  22           0    
 1930 29 CLE AL  76  292   40   75  21  2   1   43   5  2  14   9  .257  .293  .353   60  103   8           1    
 1931 30 CLE AL 108  375   45  103  30  4   1   53   1  1  36  17  .275  .341  .384   86  144   9           2    
 1932 31 CLE AL  87  300   36   76  20  2   2   52   4  5  38  24  .253  .337  .353   74  106   5           0    
 1933 32 WSH AL 141  474   65  125  30  4   2   61   7  2  48  24  .264  .335  .357   84  169  11           3    
 1934 33 WSH AL  72  207   21   49   7  3   2   21   0  1  22  10  .237  .313  .329   68   68   1           1    
 1935 34 CHW AL 118  421   52  120  19  3   2   67   3  2  32  18  .285  .336  .359   78  151   5           0     MVP-15
 1936 35 CHW AL 128  451   59  113  20  5   5   73  11  2  54  16  .251  .332  .350   66  158   3           1    
 1937 36 CHW AL 122  412   51  111  21  6   1   61   4  5  46  18  .269  .343  .357   76  147   1           0     MVP-5,AS
 1938 37 CHW AL  65  211   23   45   4  1   0   27   0  0  20  20  .213  .284  .242   32   51   4           1    
 1939 38 CLE AL  16   20    1    3   1  0   0    1   0  0   3   1  .150  .261  .200   21    4   2           0   0
 1942 41 SLB AL   6   12    1    1   0  0   0    0   0  0   1   5  .083  .154  .083  -33    1   0           0   1
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 20 Seasons    1630 5383  653 1393 272 56  20  696  65 44 486 307  .259  .323  .341   70 1837 145   0   0  27   1
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        535   65  138  27  6   2   69   6  4  48  31  .259  .323  .341   70  183  14   0   0   3   0
 Career High    141  474   65  138  30  9   5   73  11  8  54  27  .294  .343  .384   86  177  26   0   0   4   1
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
Special Batting  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1921 20 CLE AL    7    7    0   0.0   116| .000  .302| .000  .368| .000  .424| .000  .792|-100  .000  -1.9  -0.2   0%
 1922 21 CLE AL   95   67    8   3.2   111| .264  .294| .312  .359| .322  .413| .634  .773|  65  .327  -4.5  -0.4  50%
 1923 22 CLE AL   11    8    1   3.4   108| .200  .290| .273  .360| .400  .401| .673  .761|  76  .351  -0.5  -0.1   0%
 1924 23 CLE AL  194  120   22   4.9   113| .291  .299| .387  .369| .358  .411| .745  .780|  92  .501  -0.7  -0.1 100%
 1925 24 CLE AL  262  178   22   3.3   116| .232  .301| .337  .371| .295  .422| .632  .793|  61  .310 -12.5  -1.2  75%
 1926 25 CLE AL  499  359   38   2.8   110| .238  .291| .302  .363| .293  .408| .595  .771|  55  .283 -29.4  -2.9  75%
 1927 26 CLE AL  512  358   55   4.1   111| .294  .294| .328  .362| .377  .413| .705  .776|  82  .424 -14.0  -1.4  33%
 1928 27 CLE AL  457  321   47   3.9   109| .270  .290| .318  .355| .375  .412| .693  .767|  81  .413 -13.2  -1.3  42%
 1929 28 CLE AL  457  338   34   2.7   116| .236  .297| .287  .364| .298  .429| .585  .793|  48  .246 -32.8  -3.2  50%
 1930 29 CLE AL  315  227   30   3.5   119| .257  .300| .293  .365| .353  .441| .646  .806|  60  .324 -18.4  -1.7  71%
 1931 30 CLE AL  422  282   49   4.6   113| .275  .294| .341  .362| .384  .420| .725  .782|  86  .474  -7.6  -0.7  50%
 1932 31 CLE AL  343  234   35   4.0   118| .253  .295| .337  .367| .353  .433| .690  .800|  74  .399 -11.7  -1.1  44%
 1933 32 WSH AL  536  362   57   4.2   105| .264  .280| .335  .351| .357  .403| .692  .754|  84  .446  -9.9  -1.0  77%
 1934 33 WSH AL  231  160   21   3.5   108| .237  .283| .313  .356| .329  .408| .642  .764|  68  .340  -9.9  -0.9   0%
 1935 34 CHW AL  458  308   51   4.4   113| .285  .290| .336  .363| .359  .419| .695  .782|  78  .443 -14.3  -1.4  60%
 1936 35 CHW AL  509  343   54   4.2   125| .251  .304| .332  .380| .350  .446| .682  .826|  66  .375 -25.8  -2.3  84%
 1937 36 CHW AL  459  307   50   4.3   117| .269  .290| .343  .365| .357  .432| .700  .797|  76  .410 -14.7  -1.4  44%
 1938 37 CHW AL  236  170   14   2.2   120| .213  .293| .284  .372| .242  .436| .526  .808|  32  .164 -23.0  -2.1   0%
 1939 38 CLE AL   25   19    1   1.4   111| .150  .283| .261  .357| .200  .418| .461  .775|  21  .087  -2.3  -0.2   0%
 1942 41 SLB AL   13   12    0   0.0    95| .083  .267| .154  .341| .083  .373| .237  .715| -33  .000  -2.2  -0.2   0%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 20 Seasons     6041 4180  589   3.8   114| .259  .293| .323  .364| .341  .422| .664  .785|  70  .372 -249.4 -23.8  59%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary / Sort by Position, then Year
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  PB  WP  SB   CS  LF   CF   RF
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+----+---+----+----+----+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1921 20 CLE AL C 3 7 4 0 0 1.000 .973 3.67 4.33 0 1922 21 CLE AL C 39 108 21 5 2 .963 .977 3.31 4.24 3 1923 22 CLE AL C 7 5 5 2 0 .833 .971 1.43 4.20 1 1924 23 CLE AL C 57 171 42 9 5 .959 .972 3.74 4.02 5 1925 24 CLE AL C 66 216 54 8 13 .971 .977 4.09 3.82 4 OF 2 6 0 0 0 1.000 .968 3.00 2.25 2 0 0 1926 25 CLE AL C 125 437 91 9 3 .983 .979 4.22 3.95 3 1927 26 CLE AL C 126 402 119 20 14 .963 .974 4.13 3.91 7 1928 27 CLE AL C 118 430 117 16 13 .972 .976 4.64 4.03 13 1929 28 CLE AL C 124 433 81 18 11 .966 .976 4.15 4.04 9 1930 29 CLE AL C 76 283 49 9 5 .974 .984 4.37 4.19 3 1931 30 CLE AL C 104 384 61 9 5 .980 .981 4.28 4.34 5 1932 31 CLE AL C 84 306 50 8 8 .978 .982 4.24 4.23 2 1933 32 WSH AL C 141 516 61 6 12 .990 .988 4.09 4.28 3 1934 33 WSH AL C 50 143 23 1 6 .994 .981 3.32 4.36 2 OF 7 14 3 1 1 .944 .966 2.43 2.16 2 0 5 1B 6 57 3 0 4 1.000 .992 10.00 9.92 2B 1 1 1 0 0 1.000 .952 2.00 5.70 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00 1935 34 CHW AL C 112 399 83 6 10 .988 .984 4.30 4.20 9 1936 35 CHW AL C 126 461 87 9 12 .984 .979 4.35 4.22 9 1937 36 CHW AL C 118 502 72 9 11 .985 .980 4.86 4.62 8 AS 1938 37 CHW AL C 65 205 55 4 7 .985 .983 4.00 4.37 5 1939 38 CLE AL C 15 24 4 1 0 .966 .982 1.87 4.44 0 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 9.40 1942 41 SLB AL C 6 12 5 1 1 .944 .977 2.83 4.28 0
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1934 33 WSH AL 1B 6 57 3 0 4 1.000 .992 10.00 9.92 1939 38 CLE AL 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 9.40 1934 33 WSH AL 2B 1 1 1 0 0 1.000 .952 2.00 5.70 1934 33 WSH AL 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00 1921 20 CLE AL C 3 7 4 0 0 1.000 .973 3.67 4.33 0 1922 21 CLE AL C 39 108 21 5 2 .963 .977 3.31 4.24 3 1923 22 CLE AL C 7 5 5 2 0 .833 .971 1.43 4.20 1 1924 23 CLE AL C 57 171 42 9 5 .959 .972 3.74 4.02 5 1925 24 CLE AL C 66 216 54 8 13 .971 .977 4.09 3.82 4 1926 25 CLE AL C 125 437 91 9 3 .983 .979 4.22 3.95 3 1927 26 CLE AL C 126 402 119 20 14 .963 .974 4.13 3.91 7 1928 27 CLE AL C 118 430 117 16 13 .972 .976 4.64 4.03 13 1929 28 CLE AL C 124 433 81 18 11 .966 .976 4.15 4.04 9 1930 29 CLE AL C 76 283 49 9 5 .974 .984 4.37 4.19 3 1931 30 CLE AL C 104 384 61 9 5 .980 .981 4.28 4.34 5 1932 31 CLE AL C 84 306 50 8 8 .978 .982 4.24 4.23 2 1933 32 WSH AL C 141 516 61 6 12 .990 .988 4.09 4.28 3 1934 33 WSH AL C 50 143 23 1 6 .994 .981 3.32 4.36 2 1935 34 CHW AL C 112 399 83 6 10 .988 .984 4.30 4.20 9 1936 35 CHW AL C 126 461 87 9 12 .984 .979 4.35 4.22 9 1937 36 CHW AL C 118 502 72 9 11 .985 .980 4.86 4.62 8 1938 37 CHW AL C 65 205 55 4 7 .985 .983 4.00 4.37 5 1939 38 CLE AL C 15 24 4 1 0 .966 .982 1.87 4.44 0 1942 41 SLB AL C 6 12 5 1 1 .944 .977 2.83 4.28 0 1925 24 CLE AL OF 2 6 0 0 0 1.000 .968 3.00 2.25 2 0 0 1934 33 WSH AL OF 7 14 3 1 1 .944 .966 2.43 2.16 2 0 5
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+----+---+----+----+----+ Position Total C 1562 5444 1084 150 138 .978 .980 4.18 4.18 91 OF 9 20 3 1 1 .958 .966 2.56 2.18 4 0 5 1B 7 57 3 0 4 1.000 .992 8.57 9.84 2B 1 1 1 0 0 1.000 .952 2.00 5.70 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+----+---+----+----+----+ Overall Total 1580 5522 1091 151 143 .978 .980 4.19 4.19
An Important note about our fielding stats

Postseason Batting Gamelogs / Vs. Pitcher

 Year   Round Tm  Opp WLser  G   AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG   SB CS  SH  SF HBP
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+
 1933   WS    WSH NYG     L   5  17   1   3  0  0  0   1   2   0  .176  .263  .176   1  0   0   0   0 
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+

WLser shows whether the player's team Won or Lost the series.
All-Star Game Batting 

 Year   Tm  Lg  GS  AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO  SB CS  SH  SF HBP
+------+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+---------+
 1937   CHW AL       Was selected, but did not play in the game.
+------+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+---------+
Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

All-Star
1937

MVP (YrLg-Rk-Shr)
1927-AL-9-0.20
1928-AL-12-0.09
1935-AL-15-0.09
1937-AL-5-0.28
Car-341-0.66 shares

Hit By Pitch
1933 AL-3-6

Sac. Hits
1926 AL-26-10
1929 AL-22-7

At Bats per Strikeout
1935 AL-23.4-8
1936 AL-28.2-5
1937 AL-22.9-6

Oldest Player
1938 AL-37-10
1939 AL-38-8
1942 AL-41-3

Youngest Player
1921 AL-20-5

         

HOF Standards: Batting - 12.9 (1254) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 38.0 (476) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.


Similar Batters  View in Pop-up

Compare Stats
  1. Marty Marion (956)
  2. Scott Fletcher (949)
  3. Jack O'Connor (938)
  4. Bill Wambsganss (934)
  5. Tom Herr (934)
  6. Rollie Hemsley (933)
  7. Ski Melillo (933)
  8. Wilbert Robinson (931) *
  9. Leo Durocher (929) *
  10. Claude Ritchey (928)
Most Similar by Age 

Click on C to compare their stats
Mouse over numbers to view names
  1. Bryan Little (982)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Jose Vizcaino (981)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Kevin Stocker (976)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Ray Morgan (977)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Kevin Stocker (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Mickey Owen (961)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Cy Perkins (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Jackie Hayes (964)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Jackie Hayes (968)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Rollie Hemsley (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. Ski Melillo (955)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  12. Scott Fletcher (946)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  13. Billy Jurges (939)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  14. Jack O'Connor (938)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  15. Jack O'Connor (938)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

January 7, 1933: Traded by the Cleveland Indians to the Washington Senators for Roy Spencer.

January 19, 1935: Traded by the Washington Senators with cash to the St. Louis Browns for Bump Hadley.

January 19, 1935: Purchased by the Chicago White Sox from the St. Louis Browns.

December 19, 1938: Purchased by the Brooklyn Dodgers from the Chicago White Sox.

April 20, 1939: Released by the Brooklyn Dodgers.

April 23, 1939: Signed as a Free Agent with the Cleveland Indians.

May 20, 1943: Released by the St. Louis Browns.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
Uniforms 
View Luke Sewell's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit

Other References 
Error?     Compare     Search Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Luke Sewell    

Viewed 28533 times through September 6, 2008.
Name and misspellings: James jim jimmie jimmy Luke Luther Sewell

Pages Updated through September 5,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Luke Sewell
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through September 5, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.