Wild Bill Wright
1933–1945 · bats B / throws R · ASE, ASW, Baltimore Elite Giants, KCR, NAS, NNL, NNS, NSH
408G
.320AVG
.373OBP
.491SLG
More career statistics
486H
29HR
273RBI
48SB
2.0IP
0K
0.00ERA
0GS
Career summary: MLB’s official regular-season totals. Season lines, splits and historical game logs below are reconstructed from the covered Retrosheet records and can differ in coverage or scorer revisions. Compare sources and coverage.
Why official totals and the game-record sums differ
The sources can disagree on historical scorer decisions, appearances, and which games belong to a major-league record. The career summary uses the official total; the source game rows retain their recorded values.
| Statistic | MLB official | Recorded game sum |
|---|---|---|
| Batting · Games | 408 | 371 |
| Batting · At bats | 1,518 | 1,354 |
| Batting · Doubles | 84 | 64 |
| Batting · Hits | 486 | 461 |
| Batting · Hit by pitch | 15 | 13 |
| Batting · Home runs | 29 | 40 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 1,670 | 1,475 |
| Batting · Runs | 269 | 266 |
| Batting · RBI | 273 | 154 |
| Batting · Stolen bases | 48 | 43 |
| Batting · Triples | 44 | 27 |
| Batting · Walks | 113 | 100 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 408 | 1,670 | 1,518 | 269 | 486 | 84 | 44 | 29 | 273 | 113 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 745 | .320 | .373 | .491 | .864 |
Career pitching
| IP | G | GS | CG | W | L | SV | H | R | ER | HR | BB | K | HBP | WP | ERA | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
Streaks
15longest hitting streak · 1937-05-22 to 1937-06-26
31longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 11 total bases | 1933-07-23 | 1 in 2,522 player-games | box score ↗ |
| 41 | 4 walks | 1942-05-10 | 1 in 2,226 player-games | box score ↗ |
| 38 | 6 RBI | 1937-06-01 | 1 in 1,786 player-games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 171 | 654 | 216 | 21 | 83 | 47 | 1 | .361 | .402 | .568 |
| Away | 200 | 821 | 245 | 19 | 71 | 53 | 1 | .325 | .363 | .475 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 5 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .188 | .300 | .312 |
| May | 88 | 332 | 103 | 10 | 30 | 27 | 2 | .342 | .392 | .522 |
| June | 80 | 331 | 98 | 13 | 35 | 18 | 0 | .319 | .350 | .537 |
| July | 98 | 376 | 131 | 15 | 44 | 32 | 0 | .388 | .434 | .624 |
| August | 60 | 253 | 80 | 2 | 24 | 10 | 0 | .335 | .356 | .423 |
| September | 33 | 136 | 39 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 0 | .305 | .346 | .406 |
| October | 6 | 23 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .318 | .348 | .364 |
| 12 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| philadelphia-stars | 85 | 346 | 112 | 8 | 37 | 23 | 1 | .349 | .390 | .498 |
| homestead-grays | 51 | 205 | 66 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 0 | .349 | .385 | .550 |
| pittsburgh-crawfords | 46 | 178 | 51 | 7 | 20 | 11 | 0 | .311 | .348 | .518 |
| newark-eagles | 45 | 179 | 63 | 10 | 29 | 18 | 0 | .394 | .453 | .688 |
| new-york-black-yankees | 40 | 160 | 56 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 0 | .373 | .400 | .507 |
| new-york-cubans | 27 | 110 | 30 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 0 | .294 | .327 | .373 |
| NW1 | 21 | 84 | 34 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | .425 | .440 | .575 |
| chicago-american-giants | 15 | 49 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | .163 | .265 | .209 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | NSH, PRG | 38 | 129 | 38 | 1 | 7 | 3 | .295 | – | – |
| 1934 | NSH | 37 | 122 | 33 | 3 | 8 | 7 | .270 | 2 | – |
| 1935 | NAS, NSH | 39 | 145 | 45 | 5 | 13 | 8 | .310 | – | – |
| 1936 | NNS, WEG | 50 | 190 | 60 | 4 | 13 | 6 | .316 | – | – |
| 1937 | WEG | 47 | 168 | 68 | 15 | 39 | – | .405 | – | – |
| 1938 |  Baltimore Elite Giants | 35 | 134 | 42 | 4 | 17 | 7 | .313 | – | – |
| 1939 | Baltimore Elite Giants, NAS | 31 | 112 | 50 | 4 | 13 | 5 | .446 | – | – |
| 1942 | Baltimore Elite Giants | 42 | 152 | 49 | 1 | 23 | 3 | .322 | – | – |
| 1944 | KCR | 1 | 4 | 1 | – | 2 | – | .250 | – | – |
| 1945 | Baltimore Elite Giants | 51 | 198 | 75 | 3 | 19 | 4 | .379 | – | – |