Goose Curry

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornMay 19, 1905 · Mexia, TX, USA

Seasons17 (1928–1947)

Cleveland Tigers 1928; Memphis Red Sox 1929–1930; Monroe Monarchs 1932; Memphis Red Sox 1932; Nashville Elite Giants 1933; Washington Elite Giants 1936; Indianapolis Athletics 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1937; Memphis Red Sox 1937; New York Black Yankees 1938; Baltimore Elite Giants 1939; New York Black Yankees 1939; Baltimore Elite Giants 1940; New York Black Yankees 1940; Baltimore Elite Giants 1941; Philadelphia Stars 1942; Memphis Red Sox 1943; Philadelphia Stars 1943–1947

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

12.6

171

10.8

141

9.9

22.5

10.8

8.1

49.5

RBI

31.5

72.1

65.8

28.8

.284

59.5

OBP

.395

85.6

SLG

.433

76.6

OPS

.828

86.5

wRC+

130.6

81.1

OPS+

131.8

81.1

wOBA

.396

85.6

sWAR

1.2

37.8

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 124 PA)

1932 season — qualified pitchers

32.1

34.3

22.6

43.1

25.5

SHO

101

61.3

82.5

21.9

71.5

87.0

32.8

ERA

4.03

42.3

WHIP

1.345

56.2

K/9

2.90

28.5

FIP

3.53

79.6

FIP-

94.7

60.6

ERA+

92.4

24.1

sWAR

1.7

48.9

of 138 qualified 1932 pitchers (min 50 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

13.8

90.3

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
1928	40	118	108	15	38	6	2	2	12	4	0	0	0	.352	.386	.500	.886	135.3	140.1	.402	1.6
1929	25	83	75	9	21	2	2	3	16	4	0	2	0	.280	.316	.480	.796	100.4	104.8	.353	-0.3
1930	35	68	60	8	21	4	1	0	8	5	0	3	0	.350	.400	.450	.850	123.7	125.9	.390	-0.3
1932	47	185	165	25	48	9	4	0	21	16	0	13	0	.291	.354	.394	.748	125.2	128.1	.359	1.7
1933	17	69	58	15	14	3	0	0	5	4	0	2	0	.241	.353	.293	.646	88.4	78.8	.314	0.1
1936	45	207	170	40	51	5	2	2	26	32	1	2	0	.300	.411	.388	.799	109.7	105.1	.382	0.1
1937	22	88	78	22	27	5	2	2	15	9	1	8	0	.346	.414	.538	.952	148.5	161.3	.432	0.3
1938	13	36	31	2	9	1	0	1	2	3	0	3	0	.290	.371	.419	.791	107.9	108.4	.367	-0.2
1939	26	97	76	19	26	3	1	2	15	19	0	1	0	.342	.474	.487	.961	151.1	155.5	.450	0.8
1940	45	158	119	35	38	12	2	2	26	34	0	5	0	.319	.484	.504	.988	152.9	157.8	.464	1.5
1941	58	260	218	48	66	10	3	3	26	37	12	7	1	.303	.406	.417	.824	130.8	131.2	.390	2.0
1942	54	217	181	47	54	9	2	0	19	34	1	2	0	.298	.409	.370	.779	125.1	122.9	.384	1.3
1943	48	211	166	48	48	7	4	2	23	43	1	5	0	.289	.435	.416	.851	129.1	127.5	.418	1.8
1944	43	174	138	30	41	5	2	3	27	29	2	3	0	.297	.429	.428	.857	131.8	130.0	.413	1.8
1945	46	171	141	33	40	5	2	4	24	25	2	7	1	.284	.395	.433	.828	130.6	131.8	.396	1.2
1946	36	94	78	11	18	0	2	0	11	15	0	2	0	.231	.362	.282	.644	91.7	80.7	.331	0.1
1947	17	22	17	3	8	1	2	0	3	4	1	0	0	.471	.591	.765	1.356	244.9	269.4	.607	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1928	23	15	7	10	0	6	0	143	69	29	36	11	125.7	4.94	1.369	2.58	5.10	119.3	86.5	1.6
1929	12	9	2	8	0	6	0	125	59	20	40	10	85.0	6.25	1.706	4.24	4.89	108.2	72.3	-0.3
1930	22	6	5	3	1	2	1	103	62	22	29	1	85.0	6.56	1.471	3.07	4.22	92.6	69.4	-0.3
1932	13	11	5	8	0	6	0	101	39	16	28	1	87.0	4.03	1.345	2.90	3.53	94.7	92.4	1.7
1936	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	28	20	6	8	3	15.0	12.00	2.267	4.80	6.75	132.1	42.6	0.1
1937	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	20	14	5	6	1	13.3	9.45	1.875	4.05	5.29	118.1	47.4	0.3
1938	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	20	15	8	5	2	15.7	8.62	1.787	2.87	6.52	128.9	58.6	-0.2
1939	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	1	0	0	0.3	81.00	18.000	0.00	12.78	263.8	6.0	0.8
1940	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0.7	13.50	1.500	0.00	4.03	77.2	38.7	1.5
1941	3	2	1	1	0	2	0	24	9	5	7	1	20.0	4.05	1.450	3.15	4.49	101.7	109.0	2.0
1943	7	5	3	3	0	3	1	47	22	15	18	0	41.7	4.75	1.488	3.89	4.34	90.3	101.2	1.8
1944	5	2	0	1	0	0	0	20	6	3	11	0	20.3	2.66	1.131	4.87	3.10	71.8	162.5	1.8
1945	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	22	8	7	9	2	16.3	4.41	1.776	4.96	5.50	133.3	93.5	1.2
1946	3	2	2	1	0	1	0	22	11	3	6	0	18.0	5.50	1.389	3.00	3.52	79.8	80.3	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

617

2,258

1,879

410

568

RBI

279

317

.3023

OBP

.4084

SLG

.4252

OPS

.8336

Pitching

G (P)

101

SHO

544

SO (P)

203

BB allowed

140

ERA

5.592

WHIP

1.5092

K/9

3.36

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	BB	TB
1940-06-25	KCM @ BEG Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1945-06-17	PHS @ NBY Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1943-07-25	PHS @ HOM Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	1	0	7
1932-08-07	BEG @ MEM Gameday	4	2	3	2	1	0	2	0	7
1936-09-20	PHS @ BEG Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	4	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-07-11	BEG @ TIC Gameday	9.0	14	15	13	3	7	3
1937-05-27	SLS @ MEM Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	2	6	0
1941-09-09	BEG @ NE Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	2	5	1
1943-07-05	NYC @ PHS Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	4	5	0
1932-07-16	MEM @ LBC Gameday	8.0	12	5	5	0	5	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.