Bert Cunningham

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 147 lb

BornNovember 25, 1865 · Wilmington, DE, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1887

Final gameApril 28, 1901

Seasons12 (1887–1901)

Brooklyn Grays 1887; Baltimore Orioles 1888–1889; Buffalo Bisons 1890; Philadelphia Athletics 1890; Baltimore Orioles 1891; Louisville Colonels 1895–1899; Chicago Orphans 1900–1901

Percentile snapshot

1899 season — qualified pitchers

70.6

74.5

52.9

25.5

72.5

SHO

37.3

385

7.8

138

13.7

21.6

56.9

323.7

80.4

ERA

3.84

33.3

WHIP

1.421

35.3

K/9

1.00

FIP

3.71

56.9

FIP-

96.4

58.8

ERA+

100.3

33.3

sWAR

3.5

54.9

of 52 qualified 1899 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

91.6

9.1

sWAR

18.8

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1887	3	10	8	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	14.3	-41.9	.153	0.0
1888	51	184	177	17	33	3	2	1	9	5	39	2	.186	.217	.243	.460	58.7	47.2	.222	2.7
1889	41	137	131	10	27	4	2	0	18	4	25	3	.206	.241	.267	.508	54.5	44.4	.245	0.0
1890	43	161	153	17	29	6	2	0	14	8	34	1	.190	.230	.255	.485	42.0	29.2	.233	-0.8
1891	31	113	100	17	15	3	1	1	11	13	20	4	.150	.248	.230	.478	51.0	36.5	.247	1.6
1895	32	109	100	14	30	7	3	0	13	9	20	0	.300	.358	.430	.788	100.4	102.4	.369	2.8
1896	29	94	88	11	22	3	2	2	15	5	14	0	.250	.290	.398	.688	78.8	80.3	.320	0.9
1897	32	104	97	13	22	0	1	2	10	1	13	1	.227	.242	.309	.552	47.0	45.0	.258	2.6
1898	44	150	140	21	32	3	1	1	16	10	20	1	.229	.280	.286	.566	64.6	61.9	.279	5.5
1899	44	163	154	17	40	2	0	2	17	5	13	1	.260	.283	.312	.595	63.5	62.8	.285	3.5
1900	8	29	27	5	4	1	0	0	1	1	5	1	.148	.207	.185	.392	17.8	8.6	.198	0.1
1901	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	132.2	52.4	.382	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1887	3	3	0	2	0	3	0	26	13	13	8	0	23.0	5.09	1.696	3.13	4.97	115.8	84.3	0.0
1888	51	51	22	29	0	50	0	412	171	157	186	8	453.3	3.39	1.255	3.69	3.35	109.6	90.1	2.7
1889	39	33	16	19	1	29	0	306	151	141	140	11	279.3	4.87	1.600	4.51	4.20	109.4	79.0	0.0
1890	39	36	12	24	0	35	2	384	200	201	111	8	319.7	5.63	1.830	3.13	4.58	108.3	75.1	-0.8
1891	30	25	11	14	0	21	0	241	106	138	59	8	237.7	4.01	1.595	2.23	4.48	120.8	92.4	1.6
1895	31	28	11	16	0	24	1	299	122	104	49	6	231.0	4.75	1.745	1.91	4.91	102.9	100.4	2.8
1896	27	20	7	14	1	17	0	242	107	74	37	6	189.3	5.09	1.669	1.76	4.76	109.1	85.7	0.9
1897	30	28	14	13	0	26	0	294	112	72	49	3	242.7	4.15	1.508	1.82	4.14	96.2	103.6	2.6
1898	44	42	28	15	0	41	0	387	127	65	34	8	362.0	3.16	1.249	0.85	3.57	99.1	114.1	5.5
1899	39	37	17	17	0	33	1	385	138	75	36	4	323.7	3.84	1.421	1.00	3.71	96.4	100.3	3.5
1900	8	7	4	3	0	7	0	84	31	21	7	0	64.0	4.36	1.641	0.98	3.78	102.3	84.8	0.1
1901	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	11	5	3	2	0	9.0	5.00	1.556	2.00	3.49	106.9	65.4	-0.1

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

359

1,258

1,176

145

254

RBI

124

206

.2160

OBP

.2600

SLG

.2900

OPS

.5500

Pitching

G (P)

342

311

321st-most career GS

142

301st-most career W

167

97th-most career L

287

51st-most career CG

SHO

2,735

188th-most career IP

SO (P)

718

BB allowed

1,064

92nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.222

WHIP

1.5121

K/9

2.36

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
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	CIN @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1901-04-28	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	11	6	5	3	2
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	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.