MLB / Players

Donie Bush

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 140 lb

BornOctober 8, 1887 · Indianapolis, IN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1908

Final gameSeptember 15, 1923

Seasons16 (1908–1923)

Detroit Tigers 1908–1921; Washington Senators 1921–1923

Percentile snapshot

1921 season — qualified batters

127

585

57.7

486

53.7

71.1

131

45.6

14.1

24.8

RBI

24.2

82.6

35.6

48.3

12.1

.270

22.8

OBP

.347

41.6

SLG

.305

8.1

OPS

.652

17.4

wRC+

71.5

11.4

OPS+

67.7

8.7

wOBA

.317

21.5

sWAR

0.3

22.1

of 150 qualified 1921 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.0

33.7

OPS+

90.5

23.8

sWAR

36.1

97.4

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1908	20	79	68	13	20	1	1	0	4	7	11	2	0	.294	.360	.338	.698	126.9	123.9	.345	0.6
1909	157	676	532	115	145	18	2	0	33	88	74	53	0	.273	.380	.314	.694	124.4	115.5	.353	5.1
1910	142	606	496	90	130	13	4	3	34	78	82	49	0	.262	.365	.323	.687	115.5	109.3	.347	3.9
1911	150	692	561	126	130	18	5	1	36	98	64	40	0	.232	.349	.287	.636	83.8	75.9	.325	1.7
1912	144	643	511	107	118	14	8	2	38	117	53	35	18	.231	.377	.301	.679	102.9	92.5	.350	3.2
1913	153	694	597	98	150	19	10	1	40	80	32	44	0	.251	.344	.322	.665	97.8	94.6	.333	3.1
1914	157	721	596	97	150	18	4	0	32	112	54	35	26	.252	.373	.295	.668	107.0	97.7	.345	4.0
1915	155	703	561	99	128	12	8	1	44	118	44	35	27	.228	.364	.283	.648	99.2	89.7	.339	3.1
1916	145	653	550	73	124	5	9	0	34	75	42	19	0	.225	.319	.267	.587	76.6	73.9	.302	1.2
1917	147	673	581	112	163	18	3	0	24	80	40	34	0	.281	.370	.322	.691	114.9	109.5	.349	4.4
1918	128	593	500	74	117	10	3	0	22	79	31	9	0	.234	.340	.266	.606	91.4	84.9	.316	2.1
1919	129	602	509	82	124	11	6	0	26	75	36	22	0	.244	.343	.289	.632	83.3	78.2	.317	1.5
1920	141	628	506	85	133	18	5	1	33	73	32	15	7	.263	.357	.324	.681	87.0	82.3	.333	1.7
1921	127	585	486	87	131	7	5	0	29	57	27	10	13	.270	.347	.305	.652	71.5	67.7	.317	0.3
1922	41	159	134	17	32	4	1	0	7	21	7	1	1	.239	.342	.284	.626	74.4	68.3	.310	0.1
1923	10	27	22	6	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	.409	.409	.409	.818	120.7	121.6	.385	0.1

Career totals

1,946

298th-most career G

8,734

188th-most career PA

7,210

271st-most career AB

1,281

139th-most career R

1,804

405th-most career H

186

345th-most career 3B

RBI

436

1,158

72nd-most career BB

630

404

71st-most career SB

.2502

OBP

.3562

SLG

.3003

OPS

.6565

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	RBI	TB
1916-09-15	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	1	7
1910-05-29	DET @ BAL Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	0	6
1920-09-21	MIN @ DET Gameday	6	2	5	1	0	0	6
1919-05-13	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	2	6
1913-08-26	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1908-04-14	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-16	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-17	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-20	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-21	BAL @ DET 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.