Walter Cannady
Cleveland Tate Stars 1922; Harrisburg Giants 1925–1926; New York Lincoln Giants 1926; Harrisburg Giants 1927; Homestead Grays 1928; Hilldale Club 1928; Homestead Grays 1929; New York Lincoln Giants 1930; Hilldale Club 1931; Homestead Grays 1932; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1932; New York Black Yankees 1933–1939; Chicago American Giants 1942; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1944; Homestead Grays 1944; New York Cubans 1945
Percentile snapshot
1936 season — qualified batters
of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 89 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 15 | 45 | 42 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .381 | .422 | .476 | .898 | 135.6 | 141.1 | .414 | 1.0 |
| 1925 | 72 | 319 | 275 | 56 | 107 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 86 | 27 | 0 | 10 | 0 | .389 | .444 | .604 | 1.047 | 159.0 | 168.6 | .468 | 3.7 |
| 1926 | 49 | 212 | 191 | 34 | 52 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 32 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 0 | .272 | .341 | .377 | .718 | 95.8 | 95.9 | .343 | 0.8 |
| 1927 | 69 | 297 | 266 | 45 | 88 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 58 | 19 | 0 | 14 | 0 | .331 | .378 | .504 | .881 | 123.7 | 129.7 | .402 | 2.1 |
| 1928 | 63 | 269 | 233 | 53 | 81 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 48 | 26 | 5 | 15 | 2 | .348 | .413 | .515 | .928 | 137.6 | 143.5 | .423 | 2.1 |
| 1929 | 51 | 211 | 196 | 47 | 67 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 1 | .342 | .371 | .490 | .861 | 104.6 | 108.6 | .390 | 1.2 |
| 1930 | 49 | 209 | 182 | 38 | 60 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 50 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 1 | .330 | .390 | .549 | .939 | 108.9 | 112.6 | .411 | 1.2 |
| 1931 | 46 | 186 | 160 | 30 | 49 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .306 | .383 | .431 | .815 | 121.2 | 122.9 | .377 | 1.4 |
| 1932 | 48 | 199 | 184 | 33 | 54 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 31 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .293 | .333 | .418 | .752 | 97.1 | 99.3 | .349 | 0.7 |
| 1933 | 16 | 69 | 63 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .302 | .353 | .444 | .797 | 108.2 | 111.7 | .368 | 0.4 |
| 1934 | 20 | 83 | 73 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .192 | .253 | .205 | .459 | 39.9 | 32.1 | .222 | -0.3 |
| 1935 | 11 | 48 | 45 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .267 | .313 | .356 | .668 | 84.0 | 81.5 | .304 | 0.1 |
| 1936 | 32 | 143 | 126 | 35 | 39 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .310 | .392 | .524 | .915 | 126.1 | 131.9 | .413 | 1.1 |
| 1937 | 35 | 145 | 132 | 20 | 43 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .326 | .373 | .432 | .805 | 106.1 | 106.8 | .366 | 0.7 |
| 1938 | 29 | 116 | 106 | 15 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .245 | .304 | .321 | .625 | 70.4 | 65.2 | .294 | -0.4 |
| 1939 | 24 | 98 | 89 | 16 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .348 | .389 | .427 | .816 | 114.4 | 116.4 | .379 | 0.6 |
| 1942 | 14 | 55 | 51 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .255 | .283 | .275 | .558 | 68.7 | 66.4 | .266 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 42 | 167 | 151 | 21 | 47 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .311 | .373 | .384 | .758 | 106.1 | 105.6 | .360 | 0.8 |
| 1945 | 14 | 50 | 46 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .152 | .220 | .196 | .416 | 25.7 | 16.9 | .210 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 27.0 | 3.33 | 1.185 | 3.33 | 5.01 | 107.1 | 140.4 | 1.0 |
| 1925 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 27.00 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 4.48 | 91.7 | 18.1 | 3.7 |
| 1929 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 24.3 | 5.18 | 1.479 | 2.59 | 4.83 | 88.7 | 105.2 | 1.2 |
| 1938 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 10.7 | 9.28 | 2.156 | 3.38 | 6.68 | 132.2 | 54.4 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-07-20 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1937-06-07 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1939-06-25 | NE @ NBY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1944-07-18 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1944-06-24 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-05-09 | PTK @ CTS Gameday | 8.2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 1922-05-13 | CUB @ CTS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1938-07-09 | TIC @ NBY Gameday | 3.1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 1922-05-21 | CTS @ DTS Gameday | 5.2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 1938-06-06 | NBY @ TIC Gameday | 7.1 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.