Rube Curry
Kansas City Monarchs 1920–1923; Hilldale Club 1924–1925; Chicago American Giants 1926–1927; Detroit Stars 1928; Baltimore Black Sox 1930; Kansas City Monarchs 1932
Percentile snapshot
1927 season — qualified pitchers
of 130 qualified 1927 pitchers (min 94 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 26 | 78 | 70 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .157 | .192 | .157 | .349 | 10.9 | 4.7 | .177 | 2.7 |
| 1921 | 39 | 100 | 95 | 11 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .189 | .230 | .295 | .525 | 50.4 | 47.5 | .248 | 3.1 |
| 1922 | 32 | 102 | 93 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .215 | .240 | .333 | .573 | 54.4 | 52.6 | .261 | 3.1 |
| 1923 | 39 | 100 | 91 | 11 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .274 | .319 | .592 | 57.1 | 54.1 | .275 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 12 | 22 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .381 | .278 | .659 | 91.8 | 80.9 | .331 | 0.7 |
| 1925 | 19 | 53 | 45 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .265 | .244 | .510 | 41.4 | 32.8 | .247 | 1.6 |
| 1926 | 26 | 71 | 62 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .290 | .323 | .323 | .646 | 69.5 | 66.8 | .303 | 3.6 |
| 1927 | 18 | 50 | 43 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .140 | .178 | .186 | .364 | -1.4 | -1.9 | .174 | 1.8 |
| 1928 | 18 | 35 | 34 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .257 | .235 | .492 | 38.3 | 35.2 | .233 | 0.5 |
| 1930 | 11 | 39 | 36 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .270 | .472 | .742 | 63.6 | 66.2 | .317 | 0.5 |
| 1932 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .650 | 89.4 | 72.0 | .338 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 25 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 174 | 63 | 40 | 89 | 0 | 186.7 | 3.04 | 1.146 | 4.29 | 2.92 | 81.2 | 118.2 | 2.7 |
| 1921 | 31 | 21 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 168 | 73 | 43 | 102 | 7 | 193.0 | 3.40 | 1.093 | 4.76 | 3.62 | 91.4 | 116.3 | 3.1 |
| 1922 | 25 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 204 | 85 | 47 | 107 | 6 | 190.0 | 4.03 | 1.321 | 5.07 | 4.00 | 85.4 | 116.3 | 3.1 |
| 1923 | 33 | 23 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 229 | 77 | 53 | 119 | 9 | 213.7 | 3.24 | 1.320 | 5.01 | 3.56 | 81.1 | 135.6 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 66 | 28 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 58.3 | 4.32 | 1.371 | 2.47 | 5.01 | 114.2 | 101.6 | 0.7 |
| 1925 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 130 | 65 | 26 | 47 | 9 | 128.0 | 4.57 | 1.219 | 3.30 | 5.29 | 108.4 | 106.8 | 1.6 |
| 1926 | 21 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 143 | 47 | 30 | 53 | 4 | 137.0 | 3.09 | 1.263 | 3.48 | 3.95 | 84.2 | 151.8 | 3.6 |
| 1927 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 105 | 31 | 22 | 27 | 4 | 96.3 | 2.90 | 1.318 | 2.52 | 3.86 | 97.0 | 137.5 | 1.8 |
| 1928 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 97 | 45 | 28 | 30 | 4 | 86.7 | 4.67 | 1.442 | 3.12 | 4.58 | 107.2 | 91.4 | 0.5 |
| 1930 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 25.7 | 4.21 | 1.364 | 2.45 | 5.31 | 98.5 | 128.1 | 0.5 |
| 1932 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.00 | .667 | 2.00 | 3.55 | 91.8 | — | 0.5 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-05-28 | PTK @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1922-07-19 | KCM @ CTS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1921-07-10 | KCM @ CUB Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-06-01 | ABC @ KCM Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1922-07-26 | KCM @ DTS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-05-13 | KCM @ MIL Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 0 |
| 1920-09-27 | ABC @ KCM Gameday | 15.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 0 |
| 1921-06-05 | CHG @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 1920-06-27 | CHG @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1922-05-28 | PTK @ KCM Gameday | 10.0 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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.