Wally Berger

Walter Anton Berger

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 198 lb.

Born: October 10, 1905 in Chicago, IL
High School: Mission HS (San Francisco, CA)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1930
Teams (by GP): Braves/Reds/Bees/Giants/Phillies 1930-1940

Final Game: July 4, 1940
Died: November 30, 1988 in Redondo Beach, CA
Buried: Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1930	BSN	NL	24	LF	145	145	143		328	307	10	11	3	.966		2.19	.968		2.01
1930	BSN	NL	24	OF	145	145	143		328	307	10	11	3	.966		2.19	.968		2.40
1931	BSN	NL	25	CF	156	156	155		484	457	16	11	5	.977		3.03	.974		2.88
1931	BSN	NL	25	OF	156	156	155		484	457	16	11	5	.977		3.03	.973		2.48
1931	BSN	NL	25	1B	1	0	0		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.990		10.10
1932	BSN	NL	26	CF	134	133	130		409	396	10	3	3	.993		3.03	.982		2.97	MVP-13
1932	BSN	NL	26	OF	134	133	130		409	396	10	3	3	.993		3.03	.976		2.52	MVP-13
1932	BSN	NL	26	1B	11	10	10		106	102	4	0	7	1.000		9.64	.990		10.19	MVP-13
1933	BSN	NL	27	CF	136	136	135		397	382	6	9	4	.977		2.85	.979		2.78	AS,MVP-3
1933	BSN	NL	27	OF	136	136	135		397	382	6	9	4	.977		2.85	.977		2.43	AS,MVP-3
1934	BSN	NL	28	CF	150	150	150		403	385	9	9	2	.978		2.63	.979		2.70	AS,MVP-12
1934	BSN	NL	28	OF	150	150	150		403	385	9	9	2	.978		2.63	.973		2.37	AS,MVP-12
1935	BSN	NL	29	CF	149	149	140		483	458	8	17	1	.965		3.13	.974		2.83	AS,MVP-6
1935	BSN	NL	29	OF	149	149	140		483	458	8	17	1	.965		3.13	.971		2.42	AS,MVP-6
1936	BSN	NL	30	CF	133	133	131		408	384	10	14	1	.966		2.96	.979		2.84	AS,MVP-16
1936	BSN	NL	30	OF	133	133	131		408	384	10	14	1	.966		2.96	.973		2.38	AS,MVP-16
1937	TOT	NL	31	OF	80	78	58		167	158	5	4	0	.976		2.04	.974		2.24
1937	TOT	NL	31	LF	30	29	28		55	54	1	0	0	1.000		1.83	.973		2.10
1937	BSN	NL	31	LF	28	28	27		52	51	1	0	0	1.000		1.86	.973		2.10
1937	BSN	NL	31	OF	28	28	27		52	51	1	0	0	1.000		1.86	.974		2.24
1937	NYG	NL	31	OF	52	50	31		115	107	4	4	0	.965		2.13	.974		2.24
1937	NYG	NL	31	CF	45	44	28		102	96	2	4	0	.961		2.18	.977		2.63
1937	NYG	NL	31	RF	5	5	2		10	8	2	0	0	1.000		2.00	.972		2.00
1937	NYG	NL	31	LF	2	1	1		3	3	0	0	0	1.000		1.50	.973		2.10
1938	TOT	NL	32	OF	107	102	101		235	221	7	7	2	.970		2.13	.976		2.34
1938	NYG	NL	32	OF	9	7	7		29	29	0	0	0	1.000		3.22	.976		2.34
1938	NYG	NL	32	CF	8	7	7		28	28	0	0	0	1.000		3.50	.978		2.72
1938	NYG	NL	32	RF	1	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.980		2.10
1938	CIN	NL	32	LF	98	95	94		206	192	7	7	2	.966		2.03	.971		2.23
1938	CIN	NL	32	OF	98	95	94		206	192	7	7	2	.966		2.03	.976		2.34
1939	CIN	NL	33	OF	95	89	77		169	158	6	5	0	.970		1.73	.975		2.32
1939	CIN	NL	33	LF	69	67	58		117	109	6	2	0	.983		1.67	.974		2.16
1939	CIN	NL	33	CF	26	22	19		52	49	0	3	0	.942		1.88	.977		2.70
1940	PHI	NL	34	OF	11	8	7		19	18	0	1	0	.947		1.64	.977		2.32
1940	PHI	NL	34	LF	5	4	4		9	9	0	0	0	1.000		1.80	.974		2.24
1940	PHI	NL	34	RF	5	4	3		10	9	0	1	0	.900		1.80	.974		2.04
1940	PHI	NL	34	1B	1	0	0		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.990		10.50
1940	PHI	NL	34	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.70
	11 Seasons			OF	1296	1279	1227		3502	3324	87	91	21	.974		2.63	.973		2.40
	10 Seasons			CF	938	930	895		2766	2635	61	70	16	.975		2.87	.978		2.82
	5 Seasons			LF	347	340	327		715	671	24	20	5	.972		2.00	.970		2.11
	3 Seasons			1B	13	10	10		110	106	4	0	7	1.000		8.46	.990		10.21
	3 Seasons			RF	11	9	5		21	18	2	1	0	.952		1.82	.973		2.03
	11 Seasons			TOT	1309	1289	1237		3612	3430	91	91	28	.975		2.69	.974		2.48
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1930	BSN	NL	24	151	145	151	145	0	145	0	0	145	6	0
1931	BSN	NL	25	156	156	156	156	1	0	156	0	156	0	0
1932	BSN	NL	26	145	143	145	144	11	0	134	0	134	1	0
1933	BSN	NL	27	137	136	137	136	0	0	136	0	136	1	0
1934	BSN	NL	28	150	150	150	150	0	0	150	0	150	0	0
1935	BSN	NL	29	150	149	150	149	0	0	149	0	149	1	0
1936	BSN	NL	30	138	133	138	133	0	0	133	0	133	5	0
1937	NYG	NL	31	59	50	59	52	0	2	45	5	52	7	0
1937	BSN	NL	31	30	28	30	28	0	28	0	0	28	2	0
1938	CIN	NL	32	99	95	99	98	0	98	0	0	98	1	0
1938	NYG	NL	32	16	7	16	9	0	0	8	1	9	6	1
1939	CIN	NL	33	97	89	97	95	0	69	26	0	95	2	0
1940	PHI	NL	34	20	8	20	12	1	5	1	5	11	8	0
1940	CIN	NL	34	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
	11 Seasons			1350	1289	1350	1307	13	347	938	11	1296	42	1

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame 1956 BBWAA ( 0.5%) 1958 BBWAA ( 0.8%)	All-Star Games 1933 (CF) 1934 (CF) 1935 (CF) 1936	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1932 NL (13, 8%) 1933 NL (3, 55%) 1934 NL (12, 16%) 1935 NL (6, 25%) 1936 NL (16, 5%) 1.09 Career Shares (219th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 NL 145 (1st)
Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 NL 307 (1st)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 NL 10 (3rd) 1938 NL 7 (5th) 1939 NL 6 (5th)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 NL 11 (2nd) 1938 NL 7 (4th)	Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL 156 (1st) 1932 NL 134 (1st) 1933 NL 136 (2nd) 1934 NL 150 (1st) 1935 NL 149 (2nd) 1936 NL 133 (2nd) Career 938 (91st)
Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL 457 (2nd) 1932 NL 396 (3rd) 1933 NL 382 (2nd) 1934 NL 385 (2nd) 1935 NL 458 (1st) 1936 NL 384 (2nd) Career 2,635 (77th)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL 16 (2nd) 1932 NL 10 (3rd) 1933 NL 6 (5th) 1934 NL 9 (3rd) 1935 NL 8 (4th) 1936 NL 10 (3rd) Career 61 (83rd)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL 11 (2nd) 1933 NL 9 (3rd) 1934 NL 9 (2nd) 1935 NL 17 (1st) 1936 NL 14 (1st) 1937 NL 4 (5th) Career 70 (30th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1931 NL 156 (1st) 1934 NL 150 (3rd)
Putouts as OF s c a p y 1931 NL 457 (2nd) 1932 NL 396 (3rd) 1933 NL 382 (3rd) 1934 NL 385 (2nd) 1935 NL 458 (1st) 1936 NL 384 (2nd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1931 NL 11 (5th) 1935 NL 17 (1st) 1936 NL 14 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 NL 2.19 (2nd) 1938 NL 2.03 (5th)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 NL .966 (5th) 1938 NL .966 (5th)
Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL 3.03 (3rd) 1932 NL 3.03 (3rd) 1933 NL 2.85 (3rd) 1934 NL 2.63 (4th) 1935 NL 3.13 (1st) 1936 NL 2.96 (2nd) Career 2.87 (13th)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 NL .977 (4th) 1932 NL .993 (1st) 1933 NL .977 (5th) 1934 NL .978 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1931 NL 3.03 (2nd) 1932 NL 3.03 (4th) 1933 NL 2.85 (2nd) 1934 NL 2.63 (5th) 1935 NL 3.13 (1st) 1936 NL 2.96 (2nd) Career 2.63 (31st)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1932 NL .993 (1st)

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