Wild Bill Wright
Nashville Elite Giants 1932–1934; Columbus Elite Giants 1935; Washington Elite Giants 1936–1937; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938–1939; Baltimore Elite Giants 1942; Baltimore Elite Giants 1945
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 133 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 27 | 91 | 82 | 13 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .256 | .330 | .329 | .659 | 103.2 | 101.2 | .323 | 0.2 |
| 1933 | 35 | 138 | 133 | 17 | 43 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .323 | .343 | .451 | .794 | 111.6 | 115.4 | .356 | 0.5 |
| 1934 | 38 | 155 | 136 | 22 | 34 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .250 | .311 | .368 | .678 | 89.8 | 89.7 | .322 | 0.2 |
| 1935 | 31 | 137 | 122 | 17 | 38 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 0 | .311 | .378 | .508 | .886 | 117.0 | 121.4 | .396 | 0.8 |
| 1936 | 37 | 159 | 141 | 37 | 49 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .348 | .414 | .518 | .932 | 131.4 | 136.6 | .424 | 1.2 |
| 1937 | 38 | 159 | 152 | 27 | 57 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 38 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .399 | .711 | 1.109 | 164.1 | 179.3 | .477 | 2.0 |
| 1938 | 33 | 145 | 130 | 22 | 39 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .300 | .359 | .485 | .844 | 115.3 | 120.9 | .381 | 0.7 |
| 1939 | 27 | 113 | 105 | 23 | 38 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .362 | .396 | .486 | .882 | 127.1 | 132.9 | .404 | 0.8 |
| 1942 | 53 | 225 | 200 | 27 | 62 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 35 | 22 | 4 | 5 | 0 | .310 | .379 | .440 | .819 | 126.4 | 133.3 | .386 | 1.4 |
| 1945 | 55 | 234 | 217 | 46 | 78 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 40 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .359 | .401 | .544 | .945 | 152.5 | 163.3 | .435 | 2.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-07-23 | BEG @ AKR Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 1937-06-01 | HOM @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 1945-08-01 | BEG @ CLB Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 1938-07-02 | BEG @ NBY Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1936-05-24 | TIC @ BEG Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-30 | BEG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-01 | BEG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-01 | BEG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-10 | BEG @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-11 | BEG @ 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.