Charlie Gelbert

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 26, 1906 · Scranton, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1929

Final gameSeptember 28, 1940

Seasons9 (1929–1940)

St. Louis Cardinals 1929–1932; St. Louis Cardinals 1935–1936; Cincinnati Reds 1937; Detroit Tigers 1937; Washington Senators 1939; Boston Red Sox 1940; Washington Senators 1940

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified batters

122

503

455

122

64.5

79.5

25.3

RBI

53.6

66.3

33.7

74.7

27.7

.268

27.1

OBP

.330

30.1

SLG

.376

OPS

.706

34.3

wRC+

88.0

28.3

OPS+

87.6

25.3

wOBA

.322

29.5

sWAR

1.5

52.4

of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

82.9

13.4

OPS+

82.4

12.1

sWAR

6.9

82.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1929	146	578	512	60	134	29	8	3	65	51	46	8	.262	.329	.367	.696	72.5	72.4	.321	0.5
1930	139	573	513	92	156	39	11	3	72	43	41	6	.304	.360	.441	.801	90.9	90.9	.357	1.8
1931	131	505	447	61	129	29	5	1	62	54	31	7	.289	.365	.383	.748	101.9	99.1	.350	2.5
1932	122	503	455	60	122	28	9	1	45	39	30	8	.268	.330	.376	.706	88.0	87.6	.322	1.5
1935	62	187	168	24	49	7	2	2	21	17	18	0	.292	.357	.393	.750	101.1	99.5	.345	0.8
1936	93	307	280	33	64	15	2	3	27	25	26	2	.229	.292	.329	.620	66.0	67.4	.291	0.0
1937	63	182	161	16	26	6	0	1	14	19	23	1	.161	.250	.217	.467	27.2	28.8	.232	-0.7
1939	68	222	188	36	48	7	5	3	29	30	11	2	.255	.361	.394	.754	95.8	93.4	.353	0.8
1940	52	158	145	16	38	9	1	0	15	12	19	0	.262	.323	.338	.661	71.6	73.3	.307	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1940	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	4	3	1	2	4.0	9.00	2.000	2.25	11.17	270.4	45.9	-0.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

876

3,215

2,869

398

766

169

RBI

350

290

245

.2670

OBP

.3358

SLG

.3736

OPS

.7094

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

9.000

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

2.25

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	TB
1930-05-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	1	2	9
1935-06-09	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	8
1932-05-13	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	2	7
1930-06-23	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	1	5	1	0	0	3	6
1929-07-25	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	0	4	2	0	0	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-06-15	MIN @ DET Gameday	1.0	1	1	1	2	1	1
1940-05-17	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3.0	4	3	3	1	0	1
1929-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-17	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-18	STL @ CIN 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.