Statistics

Dominance and Leadership

Bucky Walters had an unusually well rounded career. The career is highlighted by exceptional statistics across fielding, hitting, pitching, and postseason play. The career of Bucky Walters is one of baseballs greatest Cinderella Stories.

Bats: Right Throws: Right
Height: 6′ 1″
Weight: 180 lbs.
Born: Apr 19, 1909 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died: Apr 20, 1991 in Abington, Pennsylvania
College: None

Fielding

Hitting

Pitching

Postseason

Career Fielding Statistics

	Year	Team	LG	POS	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	FPCT
	1931	Bos	NL	2B	3	11	2	9	0	2	1.000
	1931	Bos	NL	3B	6	19	5	13	1	0	0.947
	1932	Bos	NL	3B	22	67	17	44	6	8	0.910
	1933	Bos	AL	2B	7	41	16	23	2	3	0.951
	1933	Bos	AL	3B	43	134	42	84	8	11	0.940
	1934	Bos	AL	3B	23	96	33	54	9	6	0.906
	1934	Phi	NL	P	2	3	0	3	0	1	1.000
	1934	Phi	NL	2B	3	17	9	7	1	0	0.941
	1934	Phi	NL	3B	80	221	74	136	11	12	0.950
	1935	Phi	NL	3B	1	0	0	0	0	0	-.---
	1935	Phi	NL	2B	2	9	1	7	1	0	0.889
	1935	Phi	NL	OF	5	8	7	1	0	0	1.000
	1935	Phi	NL	P	24	47	7	40	0	4	1.000
	1936	Phi	NL	3B	1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000
	1936	Phi	NL	2B	1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000
	1936	Phi	NL	P	40	114	15	96	3	6	0.974
	1937	Phi	NL	P	37	98	12	85	1	7	0.990
	1938	Phi	NL	P	12	22	3	18	1	3	0.955
	1938	Cin	NL	P	27	52	3	48	1	2	0.981
	1939	Cin	NL	P	39	95	16	77	2	10	0.979
	1940	Cin	NL	P	36	73	13	56	4	7	0.945
	1941	Cin	NL	P	37	88	18	68	2	6	0.977
	1942	Cin	NL	OF	1	0	0	0	0	0	-.---
	1942	Cin	NL	P	34	76	13	60	3	6	0.961
	1943	Cin	NL	P	34	70	19	49	2	7	0.971
	1944	Cin	NL	P	34	70	15	55	0	7	1.000
	1945	Cin	NL	P	22	40	6	33	1	3	0.975
	1946	Cin	NL	P	22	50	10	37	3	7	0.940
	1947	Cin	NL	P	20	26	6	19	1	0	0.962
	1948	Cin	NL	P	7	12	1	11	0	0	1.000
	1950	Bos	NL	P	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000
Total					626	1562	364	1135	63	118	0.960

Career Hitting Statistics

	Year	Team	LG	AVG	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	OBP	SLG
	1931	Bos	NL	.211	9	38	2	8	2	0	0	0	0	3	.211	.263
	1932	Bos	NL	.187	22	75	8	14	3	1	0	4	2	18	.208	.253
	1933	Bos	AL	.256	52	195	27	50	8	3	4	28	19	24	.326	.390
	1934	Bos	AL	.216	23	88	10	19	4	4	4	18	3	12	.242	.489
	1934	Phi	NL	.260	83	300	36	78	20	3	4	38	19	54	.308	.387
	1935	Phi	NL	.250	49	96	14	24	2	1	0	6	9	12	.314	.292
	1936	Phi	NL	.240	64	121	12	29	10	1	1	16	7	15	.281	.364
	1937	Phi	NL	.277	56	137	15	38	6	0	1	16	5	16	.303	.343
	1938	Phi	NL	.286	15	35	6	10	2	0	1	3	1	5	.306	.429
	1938	Cin	NL	.141	36	64	10	9	1	0	0	5	7	18	.236	.156
	1939	Cin	NL	.325	40	120	16	39	8	1	1	16	5	12	.357	.433
	1940	Cin	NL	.205	37	117	11	24	3	0	1	18	4	14	.231	.256
	1941	Cin	NL	.189	39	106	6	20	6	0	0	9	7	13	.239	.245
	1942	Cin	NL	.242	40	99	13	24	6	1	2	13	3	13	.265	.384
	1943	Cin	NL	.267	37	90	11	24	7	1	1	12	6	15	.313	.400
	1944	Cin	NL	.280	37	107	9	30	4	0	0	13	8	18	.330	.318
	1945	Cin	NL	.230	24	61	11	14	3	0	3	8	3	14	.266	.426
	1946	Cin	NL	.127	24	55	6	7	2	0	0	5	4	12	.186	.164
	1947	Cin	NL	.267	20	45	3	12	2	0	0	4	2	13	.298	.311
	1948	Cin	NL	.267	7	15	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	2	.267	.267
	1950	Bos	NL	.000	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000
Totals				.243	715	1966	227	477	99	16	23	234	114	303	.286	.344

Batting, Baserunning, Misc

	Year	Team	LG	HBP	GDP	TB	IBB	SH	SF	SB	CS	SB%	AB/HR	AB/K
	1931	Bos	NL	0	--	10	--	0	--	0	--	-.---	--.-	12.7
	1932	Bos	NL	0	--	19	--	6	--	0	--	-.---	--.-	4.2
	1933	Bos	AL	1	--	76	--	10	--	1	1	.500	48.8	8.1
	1934	Bos	AL	0	--	43	--	0	--	0	0	-.---	22.0	7.3
	1934	Phi	NL	2	11	116	--	3	--	1	--	-.---	75.0	5.6
	1935	Phi	NL	0	2	28	--	2	--	0	--	-.---	--.-	8.0
	1936	Phi	NL	0	3	44	--	3	--	0	--	-.---	121.0	8.1
	1937	Phi	NL	0	3	47	--	2	--	1	--	-.---	137.0	8.6
	1938	Phi	NL	0	1	15	--	0	--	1	--	-.---	35.0	7.0
	1938	Cin	NL	1	1	10	--	2	--	0	--	-.---	--.-	3.6
	1939	Cin	NL	1	2	52	--	5	--	1	--	-.---	120.0	10.0
	1940	Cin	NL	0	1	30	--	6	--	2	--	-.---	117.0	8.4
	1941	Cin	NL	0	3	26	--	4	--	0	--	-.---	--.-	8.2
	1942	Cin	NL	0	2	38	--	2	--	0	--	-.---	49.5	7.6
	1943	Cin	NL	0	1	36	--	5	--	1	--	-.---	90.0	6.0
	1944	Cin	NL	0	0	34	--	5	--	0	--	-.---	--.-	5.9
	1945	Cin	NL	0	2	26	--	3	--	2	--	-.---	20.3	4.4
	1946	Cin	NL	0	1	9	--	4	--	2	--	-.---	--.-	4.6
	1947	Cin	NL	0	0	14	--	2	--	0	--	-.---	--.-	3.5
	1948	Cin	NL	0	1	4	--	0	--	0	--	-.---	--.-	7.5
	1950	Bos	NL	0	0	0	--	0	--	0	--	-.---	--.-	--.-
Totals				5	34	677	--	64	--	12	1	.923	85.5	6.5

Career Pitching Statistics

	Year	Team	LG	ERA	W	L	Sv	G	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	AVG A
	1934	Phi	NL	1.29	0	0	0	2	7.0	8	3	1	2	7	.296
	1935	Phi	NL	4.17	9	9	0	24	151.0	168	86	70	68	40	.289
	1936	Phi	NL	4.26	11	21	0	40	258.0	284	146	122	115	66	.277
	1937	Phi	NL	4.75	14	15	0	37	246.1	292	148	130	86	87	.295
	1938	Phi	NL	5.23	4	8	0	12	82.2	91	53	48	42	28	.276
	1938	Cin	NL	3.69	11	6	1	27	168.1	168	81	69	66	65	.255
	1939	Cin	NL	2.29	27	11	0	39	319.0	250	98	81	109	137	.220
	1940	Cin	NL	2.48	22	10	0	36	305.0	241	95	84	92	115	.220
	1941	Cin	NL	2.83	19	15	2	37	302.0	292	108	95	88	129	.255
	1942	Cin	NL	2.66	15	14	0	34	253.2	223	101	75	73	109	.231
	1943	Cin	NL	3.54	15	15	0	34	246.1	244	105	97	109	80	.264
	1944	Cin	NL	2.40	23	8	1	34	285.0	233	92	76	87	77	.219
	1945	Cin	NL	2.68	10	10	0	22	168.0	166	62	50	51	45	.259
	1946	Cin	NL	2.56	10	7	0	22	151.1	146	55	43	64	60	.258
	1947	Cin	NL	5.75	8	8	0	20	122.0	137	83	78	49	43	.278
	1948	Cin	NL	4.63	0	3	0	7	35.0	42	25	18	18	19	.316
	1950	Bos	NL	4.50	0	0	0	1	4.0	5	2	2	2	0	.313
Totals				3.30	198	160	4	428	3104.2	2990	1343	1139	1121	1107	.253

	Year	Team	LG	GS	CG	Sho	GF	K/BB	BB/9	K/9	Ratio	HR	HB	IBB	SH	WP	BK
	1934	Phi	NL	1	0	0	1	3.50	2.57	9.00	1.43	1	1	--	0	0	0
	1935	Phi	NL	22	8	2	2	0.59	4.05	2.38	1.56	9	7	--	9	4	0
	1936	Phi	NL	33	15	4	3	0.57	4.01	2.30	1.55	11	5	--	15	7	0
	1937	Phi	NL	34	15	3	1	1.01	3.14	3.18	1.53	14	3	--	14	4	0
	1938	Phi	NL	12	9	1	0	0.67	4.57	3.05	1.61	8	3	--	1	2	0
	1938	Cin	NL	22	11	2	3	0.98	3.53	3.48	1.39	5	2	--	7	9	0
	1939	Cin	NL	36	31	2	2	1.26	3.08	3.87	1.13	15	6	--	30	8	3
	1940	Cin	NL	36	29	3	0	1.25	2.71	3.39	1.09	19	5	--	14	3	0
	1941	Cin	NL	35	27	5	2	1.47	2.62	3.84	1.26	10	2	--	15	7	0
	1942	Cin	NL	32	21	2	1	1.49	2.59	3.87	1.17	8	5	--	12	2	0
	1943	Cin	NL	34	21	5	0	0.73	3.98	2.92	1.43	8	1	--	19	8	1
	1944	Cin	NL	32	27	6	2	0.89	2.75	2.43	1.12	10	4	--	7	2	0
	1945	Cin	NL	22	12	3	0	0.88	2.73	2.41	1.29	6	2	--	12	3	0
	1946	Cin	NL	22	10	2	0	0.94	3.81	3.57	1.39	9	2	--	5	2	1
	1947	Cin	NL	20	5	2	0	0.88	3.61	3.17	1.52	15	3	--	6	0	1
	1948	Cin	NL	5	1	0	1	1.06	4.63	4.89	1.71	6	0	--	6	1	0
	1950	Bos	NL	0	0	0	0	0.00	4.50	0.00	1.75	0	0	--	1	1	0
Totals				398	242	42	18	0.99	3.25	3.21	1.32	154	51	--	173	63	6

World Series Pitching Statistics

	Year	Team	LG	ERA	W	L	G	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	AVG A
	1939	Cin	NL	4.91	0	2	2	11.0	13	9	6	1	6	.295
	1940	Cin	NL	1.50	2	0	2	18.0	8	3	3	6	6	.133
Totals				2.79	2	2	4	29.0	21	12	9	7	12	.202

	Year	Team	LG	GS	CG	Sho	GF	K/BB	BB/9	K/9	Ratio	HR	SH
	1939	Cin	NL	1	1	0	1	6.00	0.82	4.91	1.27	1	2
	1940	Cin	NL	2	2	1	0	1.00	3.00	3.00	0.78	0	0
Totals				3	3	1	1	1.71	2.17	3.72	0.97	1	2

Postseason Pitching Totals

	Year	Team	ERA	W	L	G	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	AVG A
	1939	Cin	4.91	0	2	2	11.0	13	9	6	1	6	.295
	1940	Cin	1.50	2	0	2	18.0	8	3	3	6	6	.133
Totals			2.79	2	2	4	29.0	21	12	9	7	12	.202

	Year	Team	GS	CG	Sho	GF	K/BB	BB/9	K/9	Ratio	HR	SH
	1939	Cin	1	1	0	1	6.00	0.82	4.91	1.27	1	2
	1940	Cin	2	2	1	0	1.00	3.00	3.00	0.78	0	0
Totals			3	3	1	1	1.71	2.17	3.72	0.97	1	2

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William Henry (Bucky) Walters (1909 – 1991)

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