Buster Brown

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 31, 1881 · Boone, IA, USA

MLB debutJune 22, 1905

Final gameApril 26, 1913

Seasons9 (1905–1913)

St. Louis Cardinals 1905–1906; Philadelphia Phillies 1907; St. Louis Cardinals 1907; Philadelphia Phillies 1908; Boston Doves 1909; Philadelphia Phillies 1909; Boston Doves 1910; Boston Rustlers 1911; Boston Braves 1912–1913

Percentile snapshot

1912 season — qualified pitchers

36.8

42.5

5.7

26.4

41.4

SHO

146

80.5

48.3

51.7

32.2

13.8

168.3

26.4

ERA

4.01

10.3

WHIP

1.259

55.2

K/9

3.64

29.9

FIP

3.69

11.5

FIP-

103.4

ERA+

89.0

13.8

sWAR

0.9

17.2

of 88 qualified 1912 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.2

18.5

sWAR

12.1

88.9

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
1905	23	66	65	3	6	0	3	0	1	1	23	.092	.106	.185	.291	-19.5	-13.2	.136	1.4
1906	32	95	85	4	14	3	0	1	4	4	23	.165	.202	.235	.438	30.7	37.7	.216	2.2
1907	30	81	79	8	17	3	3	0	7	1	14	.215	.225	.329	.554	63.1	74.6	.264	1.5
1908	4	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	13.7	26.9	.192	0.0
1909	25	59	57	4	7	0	0	0	0	1	11	.123	.153	.123	.275	-28.1	-16.8	.141	0.3
1910	46	89	81	6	16	3	1	1	3	3	21	.198	.226	.296	.522	35.6	46.8	.250	4.5
1911	42	91	84	6	21	7	0	1	5	4	24	.250	.284	.369	.653	66.3	73.7	.307	1.3
1912	31	64	61	6	13	7	0	0	3	2	18	.213	.238	.328	.566	42.0	50.2	.264	0.9
1913	2	7	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.286	.000	.286	20.7	-15.6	.217	-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
1905	23	21	8	11	0	17	3	172	59	62	57	5	178.7	2.97	1.310	2.87	3.52	119.8	98.8	1.4
1906	32	27	8	16	0	21	0	208	70	112	109	2	238.3	2.64	1.343	4.12	3.00	116.5	97.5	2.2
1907	30	24	10	12	0	19	4	175	59	101	55	5	193.7	2.74	1.425	2.56	3.52	144.7	88.5	1.5
1908	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	2	5	3	0	7.0	2.57	2.000	3.86	3.67	154.3	92.4	0.0
1909	25	18	4	8	0	8	2	130	52	72	42	2	148.3	3.16	1.362	2.55	3.38	124.3	86.2	0.3
1910	46	29	9	23	2	16	1	251	78	94	88	4	263.0	2.67	1.312	3.01	3.03	93.2	121.7	4.5
1911	42	25	8	18	2	13	0	258	115	116	76	11	241.0	4.29	1.552	2.84	4.15	111.2	87.0	1.3
1912	31	21	4	15	0	12	0	146	75	66	68	7	168.3	4.01	1.259	3.64	3.69	103.4	89.0	0.9
1913	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	7	3	3	0	13.3	4.73	1.650	2.03	3.30	100.6	69.4	-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

235

557

522

RBI

139

.1820

OBP

.2107

SLG

.2701

OPS

.4808

Pitching

G (P)

234

165

103

106

380th-most career CG

SHO

1,452

SO (P)

501

BB allowed

631

490th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.205

259th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3770

K/9

3.11

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
1912-09-14	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	1	5
1910-05-18	ATL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2	5
1907-05-30	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	0	2	0	1	0	1	4
1907-07-25	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	4
1910-08-27	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO	HR
1906-05-30	STL @ CHC Gameday	15.0	3	2	8	8	0
1912-05-27	ATL @ PHI Gameday	7.0	2	0	2	8	0
1907-05-30	CIN @ STL Gameday	15.0	12	7	5	7	0
1906-04-24	STL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	9	3	2	7	0
1910-07-06	SF @ ATL Gameday	14.0	11	8	2	6	1

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.