Willie Cornelius

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 180 lb

BornSeptember 3, 1906 · Atlanta, GA, USA

Seasons15 (1929–1946)

Memphis Red Sox 1929; Birmingham Black Barons 1930; Memphis Red Sox 1930; Chicago American Giants 1933–1942; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Jacksonville Red Caps 1942; Chicago American Giants 1943; Chicago American Giants 1945–1946

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified pitchers

7.8

19.6

15.7

76.5

23.5

SHO

86.3

90.2

87.3

84.3

62.0

13.7

ERA

3.92

26.5

WHIP

1.403

26.5

K/9

1.60

FIP

4.55

18.6

FIP-

121.0

3.9

ERA+

96.0

27.5

sWAR

0.7

20.6

of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 62 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.3

18.9

sWAR

9.3

86.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1929	9	29	25	4	7	0	0	0	3	4	0	1	.280	.379	.280	.659	85.3	74.7	.326	0.7
1930	29	49	45	4	6	1	3	0	1	2	0	0	.133	.170	.289	.459	23.6	20.1	.206	0.2
1933	15	47	39	7	6	4	0	0	1	7	0	0	.154	.283	.256	.539	61.3	48.6	.265	0.3
1934	16	39	36	5	6	0	1	0	3	2	1	0	.167	.231	.222	.453	35.8	27.3	.224	-0.3
1935	12	28	23	6	4	0	0	1	3	5	0	0	.174	.321	.304	.626	70.1	58.8	.305	0.5
1936	8	23	17	2	4	1	0	0	1	5	0	0	.235	.435	.294	.729	117.6	104.5	.376	0.4
1937	20	43	40	4	3	0	0	1	4	2	3	0	.075	.140	.150	.290	1.1	-19.9	.144	2.3
1938	20	38	30	3	5	1	1	0	3	5	2	0	.167	.306	.267	.572	78.6	65.6	.290	3.3
1939	18	41	34	4	9	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	.265	.342	.265	.607	85.1	77.6	.304	0.5
1940	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	185.2	201.7	.485	0.4
1941	10	25	20	2	7	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	.350	.409	.350	.759	126.7	125.9	.374	1.0
1942	16	21	20	2	7	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	.350	.381	.450	.831	139.8	148.1	.388	-0.4
1943	17	54	48	9	10	2	1	1	9	4	0	0	.208	.269	.354	.623	89.2	90.8	.299	0.7
1945	16	31	25	5	11	2	1	0	6	5	0	0	.440	.533	.600	1.133	212.7	231.3	.526	-0.8
1946	4	10	8	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.375	.500	.375	.875	162.0	158.8	.444	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
1929	6	4	3	3	0	4	0	49	19	10	30	1	41.0	4.17	1.439	6.59	3.36	74.5	108.3	0.7
1930	27	17	7	10	0	7	2	127	77	63	73	9	130.0	5.33	1.462	5.05	5.11	112.2	85.5	0.2
1933	15	13	6	6	0	9	0	109	55	40	49	4	98.7	5.02	1.510	4.47	4.69	108.8	85.9	0.3
1934	14	11	4	7	0	7	0	103	54	34	40	4	84.0	5.79	1.631	4.29	4.99	110.5	78.0	-0.3
1935	11	8	4	5	0	2	0	78	36	34	39	4	59.0	5.49	1.898	5.95	5.34	104.7	92.8	0.5
1936	8	7	3	3	0	4	1	63	33	18	36	1	52.7	5.64	1.538	6.15	4.68	99.4	83.5	0.4
1937	17	12	5	4	1	6	1	82	33	35	66	4	103.0	2.88	1.136	5.77	4.42	98.6	155.3	2.3
1938	20	8	9	1	3	8	0	84	24	30	77	2	102.0	2.12	1.118	6.79	3.76	88.2	201.3	3.3
1939	15	10	3	8	0	4	0	95	50	28	47	2	99.3	4.53	1.238	4.26	3.70	93.5	87.4	0.5
1940	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	4	0	1	7	0	7.0	0.00	.714	9.00	2.16	52.3	—	0.4
1941	10	9	0	7	0	3	0	57	24	23	21	2	61.7	3.50	1.297	3.06	4.63	124.8	106.0	1.0
1942	10	8	2	5	0	1	0	51	25	19	15	2	35.0	6.43	2.000	3.86	5.06	124.8	63.1	-0.4
1943	10	10	4	4	0	6	0	65	27	22	11	1	62.0	3.92	1.403	1.60	4.55	121.0	96.0	0.7
1945	10	7	3	2	0	3	0	71	44	13	17	1	50.7	7.82	1.658	3.02	4.28	101.0	54.3	-0.8
1946	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	5	9	9	0	17.3	2.60	1.385	4.67	4.93	120.3	157.9	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

211

480

412

RBI

.2160

OBP

.3069

SLG

.3034

OPS

.6103

Pitching

G (P)

177

125

SHO

1,003

SO (P)

537

BB allowed

379

ERA

4.539

WHIP

1.4272

K/9

4.82

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1943-06-21	CAG @ CLB Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	3	5
1945-08-17	CAG @ BEG Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4
1943-07-02	CAG @ CLB Gameday	6	1	2	1	0	2	4
1938-08-07	HSL @ CAG Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	4
1935-06-23	CAG @ PHS Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-07-03	BBB @ CAG Gameday	11.0	7	3	3	4	11	0
1938-05-28	KCM @ CAG Gameday	8.0	6	3	3	2	11	1
1939-05-21	KCM @ CAG Gameday	8.1	4	3	1	1	10	0
1934-07-29	CAG @ ND Gameday	9.0	12	4	3	3	9	0
1937-07-26	CAG @ KCM Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	9	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

3× 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.