Zeke Bonura

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 210 lb

BornSeptember 20, 1908 · New Orleans, LA, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1934

Final gameSeptember 26, 1940

Seasons7 (1934–1940)

Chicago White Sox 1934–1937; Washington Senators 1938; New York Giants 1939; Chicago Cubs 1940; Washington Senators 1940

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

128

43.2

545

46.8

493

49.6

48.2

133

46.8

74.1

25.2

RBI

63.3

62.6

61.9

30.2

42.4

.270

28.1

OBP

.338

33.1

SLG

.385

32.4

OPS

.724

29.5

wRC+

95.9

32.4

OPS+

95.5

32.4

wOBA

.333

26.6

sWAR

0.5

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.1

79.2

OPS+

121.1

80.9

sWAR

16.2

91.7

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1934	127	575	510	86	154	35	4	27	110	64	31	0	2	.302	.380	.545	.925	128.9	132.5	.416	3.0
1935	138	611	550	107	162	34	4	21	92	57	28	4	0	.295	.364	.485	.849	113.5	115.5	.386	1.9
1936	148	687	587	120	194	39	7	12	138	94	29	4	2	.330	.426	.482	.908	123.3	121.7	.418	3.2
1937	116	502	447	79	154	41	2	19	100	49	24	5	1	.345	.412	.573	.984	144.8	146.7	.437	3.6
1938	137	589	540	72	156	27	3	22	114	44	29	2	2	.289	.346	.472	.818	105.0	108.7	.368	1.3
1939	123	517	455	75	146	26	6	11	85	46	22	1	0	.321	.388	.477	.865	132.6	130.8	.396	2.7
1940	128	545	493	61	133	30	3	7	65	50	17	3	0	.270	.338	.385	.724	95.9	95.5	.333	0.5

Career totals

917

4,026

3,582

600

1,099

232

119

RBI

704

404

180

.3068

148th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3797

190th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4874

177th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8671

134th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1937-06-11	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	4	4	2	1	5	1	9
1938-08-04	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	4	0	9
1938-08-20	MIN @ BOS Gameday	5	1	4	2	1	3	0	9
1935-04-24	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	4	0	9
1936-06-06	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-04-17	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-18	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-19	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-22	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-24	CWS @ DET 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.