In a seven-season career, Bonura posted a .307 batting average (1099-for-3582) with 119 home runs and 704 RBI in 917 games played.

In June 1925, at the age of sixteen, Bonura became the youngest male athlete ever to win an event at the National (AAU) Track and Field Championships.

Bonura's winning effort was a meet record by nearly twenty-feet; a prodigious mark that remained on the books until 1930.

With the outbreak of World War II, he was recalled to active duty, and returned to Camp Shelby where he was in charge of organizing baseball.

[3][4] The North African World Series was a best two-out-of-three-game championship played on October 3 and 4, 1943, at Eugene Stadium in Algiers, Algeria, between the two teams.

[3][6] The winners were presented with baseballs autographed by General Eisenhower, and the winning team received a trophy made from an unexploded Italian bomb.

[7] Bonura made his debut in professional baseball at the age of 25 in 1934 by making the Opening Day roster of the Chicago White Sox.

The following year, he played in 138 games and batted .295 while having 162 hits and 92 RBIs on the way to receiving a 15th place finish for MVP.

The next year, he batted .330 in 148 games with a career-high 138 RBIs and a 19th place MVP finish with another top performance in fielding percentage.

In his final season with the Sox in 1937, he had a .345 average in 116 games (fourth best in the American League behind Charlie Gehringer, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio) to go with 100 RBIs and a career-high 41 doubles.