Edsall Walker

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 215 lb

BornSeptember 15, 1910 · Catskill, NY, USA

Seasons10 (1936–1945)

Homestead Grays 1936–1941; Philadelphia Stars 1941; Homestead Grays 1942; Philadelphia Stars 1942; Homestead Grays 1943–1945

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified pitchers

9.5

12.6

83.2

SHO

85.3

84.2

90.5

12.6

69.5

64.3

10.5

ERA

5.46

2.1

WHIP

1.477

12.6

K/9

4.48

FIP

4.53

7.4

FIP-

105.0

22.1

ERA+

79.1

7.4

sWAR

0.2

7.4

of 96 qualified 1944 pitchers (min 43 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

12.2

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
1936	8	16	14	4	5	0	1	1	3	0	0	0	.357	.357	.714	1.071	152.4	167.5	.464	0.5
1937	16	33	30	8	8	2	0	1	5	1	0	0	.267	.290	.433	.724	82.1	83.7	.319	1.7
1938	12	33	30	8	9	1	0	1	5	1	0	0	.300	.323	.433	.756	94.7	97.9	.341	2.0
1939	11	33	30	1	7	1	0	1	5	2	0	0	.233	.281	.367	.648	72.3	70.7	.298	1.6
1940	21	59	52	8	12	1	0	0	8	3	0	1	.231	.273	.250	.523	44.6	36.7	.253	2.8
1941	17	38	34	6	8	1	1	1	3	4	1	0	.235	.316	.412	.728	101.3	100.5	.337	0.3
1942	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	44.6	42.7	.237	0.3
1943	28	54	48	13	16	2	2	1	8	6	0	0	.333	.407	.521	.928	136.4	147.1	.434	2.9
1944	16	31	29	4	10	0	1	0	6	1	0	0	.345	.387	.414	.801	113.5	114.6	.378	0.2
1945	13	22	19	2	4	1	1	0	3	3	2	0	.211	.318	.368	.687	93.9	92.0	.331	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1936	6	6	2	0	0	1	0	34	17	16	19	4	29.7	5.16	1.685	5.76	6.31	123.5	99.1	0.5
1937	16	9	7	1	2	5	0	59	31	35	34	1	74.3	3.75	1.265	4.12	4.70	94.3	132.9	1.7
1938	11	10	10	0	0	6	2	71	30	22	42	0	74.7	3.62	1.246	5.06	3.72	73.6	139.7	2.0
1939	11	9	5	3	0	7	0	69	31	25	40	3	72.0	3.88	1.306	5.00	4.25	87.8	125.0	1.6
1940	21	18	13	4	1	12	1	127	63	64	81	4	136.7	4.15	1.398	5.33	4.68	89.5	125.9	2.8
1941	14	11	3	8	0	8	0	93	50	33	43	2	84.7	5.31	1.488	4.57	4.20	95.3	83.0	0.3
1942	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	5	2	4	5	0	9.3	1.93	.964	4.82	3.43	79.4	203.4	0.3
1943	21	12	9	4	2	9	0	91	45	52	50	2	111.7	3.63	1.281	4.03	4.91	102.2	132.6	2.9
1944	11	4	5	4	0	2	0	76	39	19	32	4	64.3	5.46	1.477	4.48	4.53	105.0	79.1	0.2
1945	8	3	0	4	1	0	0	34	16	10	12	0	23.3	6.17	1.886	4.63	3.98	96.5	66.8	-0.2

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

144

323

290

RBI

.2759

OBP

.3269

SLG

.4103

OPS

.7372

Pitching

G (P)

121

SHO

681

SO (P)

358

BB allowed

280

ERA

4.284

WHIP

1.3795

K/9

4.73

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
1943-08-22	BEG @ HOM Gameday	4	4	4	1	1	0	3	7
1943-07-25	PHS @ HOM Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	1	3	6
1938-07-17	HOM @ NBY Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	1	3	5
1936-07-26	NE @ HOM Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	2	5
1941-07-12	MEM @ PHS Gameday	2	2	2	1	1	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-07-26	NE @ HOM Gameday	9.0	10	6	3	2	10	0
1937-05-16	HOM @ NE Gameday	7.0	1	3	2	6	9	0
1944-08-31	KCM @ HOM Gameday	11.0	11	5	5	0	8	1
1940-06-20	KCM @ HOM Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	3	8	0
1940-05-12	NYC @ HOM Gameday	7.1	9	6	3	3	8	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.