Wally Berger

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 198 lb

BornOctober 10, 1905 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1930

Final gameJuly 4, 1940

Seasons11 (1930–1940)

Boston Braves 1930–1935; Boston Bees 1936–1937; New York Giants 1937; Cincinnati Reds 1938; New York Giants 1938; Cincinnati Reds 1939–1940; Philadelphia Phillies 1940

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

115

20.7

472

19.8

439

60.3

131

37.2

27.3

79.3

RBI

45.5

26.4

20.7

.298

53.7

OBP

.347

38.8

SLG

.478

73.6

OPS

.826

66.9

wRC+

126.8

76.9

OPS+

128.8

76.9

wOBA

.374

66.1

sWAR

2.6

70.2

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

136.0

94.3

OPS+

138.9

95.1

sWAR

44.2

98.3

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
1930	151	625	555	98	172	27	14	38	119	54	69	3	.310	.375	.614	.990	132.4	137.4	.421	4.0
1931	156	678	617	94	199	44	8	19	84	55	70	13	.323	.380	.512	.892	142.0	142.3	.402	6.1
1932	145	639	602	90	185	34	6	17	73	33	66	5	.307	.346	.468	.815	120.6	121.7	.361	3.9
1933	137	574	528	84	165	37	8	27	106	41	77	2	.313	.365	.566	.932	171.9	174.2	.417	7.3
1934	150	668	615	92	183	35	8	34	121	49	65	2	.298	.352	.546	.899	141.3	145.0	.396	5.9
1935	150	644	589	91	174	39	4	34	130	50	80	3	.295	.355	.548	.903	142.6	146.7	.398	5.8
1936	138	595	534	88	154	23	3	25	91	53	84	1	.288	.361	.483	.844	130.2	131.8	.384	4.4
1937	89	347	312	54	89	20	3	17	65	29	63	3	.285	.354	.532	.886	138.8	142.0	.396	2.7
1938	115	472	439	79	131	23	4	16	60	31	48	2	.298	.347	.478	.826	126.8	128.8	.374	2.6
1939	97	374	329	36	85	15	1	14	44	36	63	1	.258	.341	.438	.778	108.8	109.4	.357	1.3
1940	22	47	43	3	13	2	0	1	5	4	9	1	.302	.362	.419	.780	116.4	115.9	.360	0.2

Career totals

1,350

5,663

5,163

809

1,550

299

497th-most career 2B

242

274th-most career HR

RBI

898

408th-most career RBI

435

694

.3002

215th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3589

SLG

.5216

64th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8805

105th-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	BB	TB
1935-08-11	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	1	4	2	1	1	5	0	11
1930-07-20	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	1	3	1	11
1934-07-07	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	3	0	11
1936-07-04	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	3	0	10
1930-09-17	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	4	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-15	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-19	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-20	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-21	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-25	LAD @ ATL 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.

Honors

4× 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.