Andy Cooper

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 220 lb

BornApril 24, 1897 · Washington County, TX, USA

Final gameSeptember 4, 1939

Seasons18 (1920–1939)

Detroit Stars 1920–1927; Kansas City Monarchs 1928–1929; Detroit Stars 1930; Kansas City Monarchs 1933–1936; Chicago American Giants 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1937–1939

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified pitchers

91.2

46.1

SHO

100

4.9

97.1

11.0

ERA

3.27

79.4

WHIP

1.182

86.3

K/9

6.55

96.1

FIP

2.42

100

FIP-

68.4

ERA+

107.9

56.9

sWAR

0.2

18.6

of 103 qualified 1934 pitchers (min 9 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

122.3

91.5

sWAR

26.7

95.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1920	10	16	15	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.067	.125	.067	.192	-29.1	-42.3	.109	0.3
1921	23	48	42	5	11	1	2	0	3	1	0	.262	.295	.381	.676	87.7	90.1	.316	0.7
1922	20	53	47	6	8	1	0	1	3	1	1	.170	.188	.255	.443	23.5	18.1	.202	1.5
1923	36	71	64	2	7	3	0	0	5	2	0	.109	.136	.156	.293	-13.9	-23.8	.139	2.9
1924	34	70	62	5	11	1	0	0	1	3	2	.177	.215	.194	.409	21.4	12.6	.201	2.1
1925	32	60	54	6	13	0	3	1	5	4	0	.241	.293	.407	.701	85.9	86.2	.316	5.1
1926	37	73	65	4	10	1	0	0	3	2	1	.154	.179	.169	.348	-4.1	-9.8	.166	2.3
1927	14	33	29	3	6	0	0	0	2	1	0	.207	.233	.207	.440	20.1	19.4	.210	0.1
1928	23	57	49	5	13	3	1	0	6	3	1	.265	.308	.367	.675	83.5	83.5	.311	2.1
1929	22	55	42	3	11	1	2	1	6	5	0	.262	.340	.452	.793	103.3	105.0	.359	3.8
1930	19	45	41	3	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	.098	.140	.098	.237	-22.8	-35.8	.121	2.1
1933	3	8	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	37.2	33.7	.234	0.5
1934	3	4	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	270.8	280.7	.606	0.2
1935	3	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-81.6	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1936	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-63.1	-100.0	.000	0.8
1937	12	21	21	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.095	.095	.095	.190	-27.5	-47.2	.088	1.4
1938	3	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	7.3	-3.8	.157	0.3
1939	4	9	9	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	91.5	94.1	.315	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1920	9	4	1	2	1	2	0	35	17	16	13	2	42.3	3.61	1.205	2.76	4.25	118.4	99.3	0.3
1921	19	11	4	8	0	5	1	116	50	23	33	5	102.3	4.40	1.358	2.90	4.21	106.3	90.0	0.7
1922	20	17	9	4	1	11	4	130	63	25	61	11	129.3	4.38	1.198	4.24	4.82	103.0	106.8	1.5
1923	36	19	15	7	6	12	1	168	71	44	68	13	183.3	3.49	1.156	3.34	4.20	95.6	126.1	2.9
1924	31	14	12	7	5	8	1	145	62	33	81	8	151.0	3.70	1.179	4.83	3.93	91.9	115.9	2.1
1925	30	13	12	2	4	8	1	133	47	25	49	0	146.7	2.88	1.077	3.01	4.86	92.7	181.9	5.1
1926	37	23	13	9	3	12	1	196	84	35	70	7	182.0	4.15	1.269	3.46	4.00	85.3	112.9	2.3
1927	12	9	4	4	2	5	0	102	41	13	27	6	78.3	4.71	1.468	3.10	4.02	100.8	84.6	0.1
1928	22	17	12	7	0	9	2	128	56	18	53	3	130.3	3.87	1.120	3.66	3.62	84.6	110.5	2.1
1929	23	12	11	3	6	10	2	136	43	27	48	3	130.7	2.96	1.247	3.31	3.88	85.9	152.5	3.8
1930	19	13	9	6	2	11	1	119	48	26	52	7	122.7	3.52	1.182	3.82	4.39	96.3	129.4	2.1
1933	3	1	2	1	0	1	0	17	4	2	9	0	16.3	2.20	1.163	4.96	2.62	68.8	172.9	0.5
1934	3	1	0	2	1	1	0	11	4	2	8	0	11.0	3.27	1.182	6.55	2.42	68.4	107.9	0.2
1935	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	15	7	2	5	0	11.7	5.40	1.457	3.86	3.81	87.8	80.4	-0.1
1936	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	7	0	4	11	0	13.0	0.00	.846	7.62	3.89	82.7	—	0.8
1937	10	7	3	2	0	5	0	43	17	10	40	1	57.7	2.65	.919	6.24	3.50	78.1	168.7	1.4
1938	3	2	2	0	0	2	0	14	7	4	9	0	17.7	3.57	1.019	4.58	3.99	93.5	119.5	0.3
1939	4	2	2	0	0	1	0	18	5	4	22	0	21.7	2.08	1.015	9.14	2.03	51.3	190.6	0.7

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

300

640

568

105

RBI

.1849

OBP

.2205

SLG

.2482

OPS

.4687

Pitching

G (P)

286

167

114

493rd-most career W

105

384th-most career CG

SHO

396th-most career SHO

1,548

SO (P)

659

BB allowed

313

ERA

3.640

WHIP

1.1925

151st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.83

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	TB
1922-09-25	DTS @ SLS Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	2	6
1921-08-16	KCM @ DTS Gameday	4	1	2	0	2	0	0	6
1923-06-03	TOL @ DTS Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3	3
1930-05-21	CAG @ DTS Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	2
1923-07-17	DTS @ SLS Gameday	4	0	1	1	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1937-07-05	KCM @ CAG Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	9
1939-07-08	KCM @ HSL Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	1	8
1922-09-30	DTS @ CAG Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	7
1930-08-19	CUB @ DTS Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	0	7
1922-06-28	SLS @ DTS Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	6

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)

1× 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.