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Wally Berger played 11 major-league seasons (1930-1940) as a OF (1,296), 1B (13). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 11 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 25 | BSN | 151 | 555 | 98 | 172 | 38 | 119 | 3 | 54 | 69 | .310 | .990 | 141 |
| 1931 | 26 | BSN | 156 | 617 | 94 | 199 | 19 | 84 | 13 | 55 | 70 | .323 | .892 | 146 |
| 1932 | 27 | BSN | 145 | 602 | 90 | 185 | 17 | 73 | 5 | 33 | 66 | .307 | .815 | 124 |
| 1933 | 28 | BSN | 137 | 528 | 84 | 165 | 27 | 106 | 2 | 41 | 77 | .313 | .932 | 172 |
| 1934 | 29 | BSN | 150 | 615 | 92 | 183 | 34 | 121 | 2 | 49 | 65 | .298 | .899 | 145 |
| 1935 | 30 | BSN | 150 | 589 | 91 | 174 | 34 | 130 | 3 | 50 | 80 | .295 | .903 | 147 |
| 1936 | 31 | BSN | 138 | 534 | 88 | 154 | 25 | 91 | 1 | 53 | 84 | .288 | .844 | 133 |
| 1937 | 32 | BSN|NY1 | 89 | 312 | 54 | 89 | 17 | 65 | 3 | 29 | 63 | .285 | .886 | 146 |
| 1938 | 33 | NY1|CIN | 115 | 439 | 79 | 131 | 16 | 60 | 2 | 31 | 48 | .298 | .826 | 133 |
| 1939 | 34 | CIN | 97 | 329 | 36 | 85 | 14 | 44 | 1 | 36 | 63 | .258 | .778 | 115 |
| 1940 | 35 | CIN|PHI | 22 | 43 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 9 | .302 | .780 | 122 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | OF | 145 | 0 | 307 | 10 | 11 | 3 |
| 1931 | OF | 156 | 0 | 457 | 16 | 11 | 5 |
| 1931 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932 | OF | 134 | 0 | 396 | 10 | 3 | 3 |
| 1932 | 1B | 11 | 0 | 102 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1933 | OF | 136 | 0 | 382 | 6 | 9 | 4 |
| 1934 | OF | 150 | 0 | 385 | 9 | 9 | 2 |
| 1935 | OF | 149 | 0 | 458 | 8 | 17 | 1 |
| 1936 | OF | 133 | 0 | 384 | 10 | 14 | 1 |
| 1937 | OF | 80 | 0 | 158 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 1938 | OF | 107 | 0 | 221 | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| 1939 | OF | 95 | 0 | 158 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| 1940 | OF | 11 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1940 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Wally Berger won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1933 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1933 (NL), TSN All-Star 1933 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1935 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1935 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1936, 1935, 1934, 1933, 1932.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 13 | 6 / 80 | 0 |
| 1933 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 3 | 44 / 80 | 0 |
| 1934 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 12 | 13 / 80 | 0 |
| 1935 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 6 | 20 / 80 | 0 |
| 1936 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 16 | 4 / 80 | 0 |
Wally Berger ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #82 | center fielders | 1933 | 172 OPS+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.