Bill White

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornJanuary 28, 1934 · Lakewood, FL, USA

MLB debutMay 7, 1956

Final gameSeptember 24, 1969

Seasons13 (1956–1969)

New York Giants 1956; San Francisco Giants 1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1959–1965; Philadelphia Phillies 1966–1968; St. Louis Cardinals 1969

Percentile snapshot

1966 season — qualified batters

159

86.2

659

73.4

577

72.3

159

55.3

64.9

RBI

103

92.6

80.9

109

10.6

81.9

35.1

.276

56.4

OBP

.352

73.4

SLG

.451

68.1

OPS

.803

73.4

wRC+

122.7

68.1

OPS+

122.6

70.2

wOBA

.355

70.2

sWAR

2.6

45.7

of 95 qualified 1966 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.8

77.3

OPS+

116.9

74.5

sWAR

23.9

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1956	138	568	508	63	130	23	7	22	59	47	72	15	8	.256	.321	.459	.780	108.7	107.8	.343	1.3
1958	26	36	29	5	7	1	0	1	4	7	5	1	0	.241	.389	.379	.768	110.5	106.4	.351	0.1
1959	138	561	517	77	156	33	9	12	72	34	61	15	10	.302	.344	.470	.814	111.1	109.5	.360	1.6
1960	144	606	554	81	157	27	10	16	79	42	83	12	6	.283	.334	.455	.789	109.8	107.4	.353	1.7
1961	153	663	591	89	169	28	11	20	90	64	84	8	11	.286	.354	.472	.826	111.5	109.9	.365	1.9
1962	159	682	614	93	199	31	3	20	102	58	69	9	7	.324	.386	.482	.868	126.6	124.1	.389	3.2
1963	162	726	658	106	200	26	8	27	109	59	100	10	9	.304	.360	.491	.851	138.7	134.9	.379	4.3
1964	160	693	631	92	191	37	4	21	102	52	103	7	6	.303	.355	.474	.829	126.0	123.7	.369	3.1
1965	148	618	543	82	157	26	3	24	73	63	86	3	3	.289	.364	.481	.845	132.1	131.0	.374	3.1
1966	159	659	577	85	159	23	6	22	103	68	109	16	6	.276	.352	.451	.803	122.7	122.6	.355	2.6
1967	110	369	308	29	77	6	2	8	33	52	61	6	1	.250	.359	.360	.719	108.7	106.3	.334	0.7
1968	127	431	385	34	92	16	2	9	40	39	79	0	1	.239	.309	.361	.670	100.8	100.7	.312	0.4
1969	49	68	57	7	12	1	0	0	4	11	15	1	0	.211	.338	.228	.566	74.5	62.3	.292	-0.1

Career totals

1,673

6,680

5,972

843

1,706

477th-most career H

278

466th-most career 3B

202

375th-most career HR

RBI

870

439th-most career RBI

596

927

474th-most career SO

103

.2857

OBP

.3509

SLG

.4555

429th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8064

439th-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1961-07-05	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	3	4	1	14
1966-07-31	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	2	5	3	0	1	5	0	11
1960-05-30	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	6	1	11
1960-08-14	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1964-07-18	NYM @ STL Gameday	4	3	4	2	0	1	4	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1956-04-18	PIT @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-04-19	PIT @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-05-02	SF @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-05-16	CHC @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-06-30	SF @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

7× Gold Glove5× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.