MLB / Players

Burgess Whitehead

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornJune 29, 1910 · Tarboro, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 30, 1933

Final gameSeptember 29, 1946

Seasons9 (1933–1946)

St. Louis Cardinals 1933–1935; New York Giants 1936–1937; New York Giants 1939–1941; Pittsburgh Pirates 1946

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

133

48.9

606

64.7

568

79.1

51.1

160

75.5

61.9

RBI

32.4

33.8

61.9

77.7

42.4

.282

43.9

OBP

.319

18.7

SLG

.340

14.4

OPS

.659

13.7

wRC+

78.6

15.8

OPS+

80.9

17.3

wOBA

.306

12.2

sWAR

0.6

25.2

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

69.5

OPS+

72.4

3.9

sWAR

-0.2

25.9

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1933	12	8	7	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	52.5	60.6	.265	0.0
1934	100	357	332	55	92	13	5	1	24	12	19	5	.277	.310	.355	.666	71.7	74.5	.305	0.2
1935	107	358	338	45	89	10	2	0	33	11	14	5	.263	.289	.305	.593	54.9	58.2	.273	-0.7
1936	154	685	632	99	176	31	3	4	47	29	32	14	.278	.317	.356	.673	81.9	83.6	.312	0.9
1937	152	613	574	64	164	15	6	5	52	28	20	7	.286	.323	.359	.682	84.0	85.8	.316	1.1
1939	95	370	335	31	80	6	3	2	24	24	19	1	.239	.299	.293	.592	57.2	59.3	.282	-0.6
1940	133	606	568	68	160	9	6	4	36	26	17	9	.282	.319	.340	.659	78.6	80.9	.306	0.6
1941	116	429	403	41	92	15	4	1	23	14	10	7	.228	.258	.293	.551	45.8	53.4	.259	-1.2
1946	55	136	127	10	28	1	2	0	5	6	6	3	.220	.261	.260	.521	35.3	45.7	.252	-0.5

Career totals

924

3,562

3,316

415

883

100

RBI

245

150

138

.2663

OBP

.3039

SLG

.3305

OPS

.6344

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
1937-04-29	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	5	9
1936-07-29	CHC @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	2	8
1934-07-07	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	0	1	8
1936-09-27	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	2	7
1936-07-04	ATL @ SF Gameday	6	2	5	1	0	0	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1933-04-12	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-13	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-21	CHC @ STL 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

2× 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.