Burnett's professional career spanned 1887 to 1903, although records of the era are incomplete. He played one game in the major leagues for the
Louisville Colonels in 1888 while the team was in the
American Association, and five games in 1895 when the Colonels were a member of the
National League. In 1903, he served as
player-manager for the
Montgomery Black Sox of the
Interstate League. Outside of his baseball career, Burnett worked for 47 years for the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He was already working for the railroad, as a
fireman, at the time of his marriage in 1889. He died in 1936 at the age of 71 in his hometown of
Louisville, Kentucky, and is interred at
Eastern Cemetery there. ==See also==