MLB / Players

Don Hurst

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 215 lb

BornAugust 12, 1905 · Maysville, KY, USA

MLB debutMay 13, 1928

Final gameSeptember 20, 1934

Seasons7 (1928–1934)

Philadelphia Phillies 1928–1933; Chicago Cubs 1934; Philadelphia Phillies 1934

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

147

80.5

610

74.5

550

74.5

147

65.1

67.8

77.2

70.5

RBI

78.5

69.8

38.9

34.9

35.6

.267

30.2

OBP

.327

32.2

SLG

.389

OPS

.716

40.3

wRC+

90.9

32.9

OPS+

91.5

34.2

wOBA

.333

39.6

sWAR

0.0

12.1

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.3

68.5

OPS+

112.1

66.5

sWAR

11.3

88.2

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
1928	107	475	396	73	113	23	4	19	64	68	40	3	.285	.391	.508	.899	127.0	125.5	.408	2.3
1929	154	692	589	100	179	29	4	31	125	80	36	10	.304	.390	.525	.914	113.2	113.9	.407	2.2
1930	119	451	391	78	128	19	3	17	78	46	22	6	.327	.401	.522	.923	110.6	110.5	.406	1.4
1931	137	567	489	63	149	37	5	11	91	64	28	8	.305	.386	.468	.855	121.0	117.9	.391	2.2
1932	150	665	579	109	196	41	4	24	143	65	27	10	.339	.412	.547	.959	144.8	140.4	.424	4.6
1933	147	610	550	58	147	27	8	8	76	48	32	3	.267	.327	.389	.716	90.9	91.5	.333	0.0
1934	91	302	281	29	64	14	0	5	33	20	25	1	.228	.279	.331	.610	55.6	58.8	.281	-1.4

Career totals

905

3,762

3,275

510

976

190

115

RBI

610

391

210

.2980

250th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3754

233rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4785

231st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8539

181st-highest career OPS

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
1929-05-11	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	4	11
1930-07-23	PIT @ PHI Gameday	8	3	4	1	0	2	4	11
1932-07-23	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	6	9
1930-09-11	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	5	9
1932-05-15	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	2	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-05-10	PHI @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-05-11	PHI @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-05-12	PHI @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-05-13	PHI @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-05-14	PHI @ CIN 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.