MLB / Players

Cookie Lavagetto

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 1, 1912 · Oakland, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1934

Final gameSeptember 28, 1947

Seasons10 (1934–1947)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1934–1936; Brooklyn Dodgers 1937–1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1946–1947

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

132

49.6

523

44.6

441

39.6

65.5

122

39.6

51.1

70.5

9.4

RBI

74.1

84.2

61.2

71.2

36.7

.277

52.5

OBP

.388

77.7

SLG

.370

38.8

OPS

.757

51.8

wRC+

118.8

66.9

OPS+

112.3

60.4

wOBA

.366

57.6

sWAR

3.1

71.9

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.8

47.3

OPS+

99.8

40.9

sWAR

16.3

91.8

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
1934	87	336	304	41	67	16	3	3	46	32	39	6	.220	.295	.322	.617	63.8	64.1	.288	-0.3
1935	78	249	231	27	67	9	4	0	19	18	15	1	.290	.341	.364	.705	88.6	87.9	.326	0.6
1936	60	213	197	21	48	15	2	2	26	15	13	0	.244	.300	.371	.671	76.9	79.2	.310	0.2
1937	149	587	503	64	142	26	6	8	70	74	41	13	.282	.375	.406	.781	113.4	109.9	.365	3.1
1938	137	562	487	68	133	34	6	6	79	68	31	15	.273	.364	.405	.769	112.0	109.1	.359	2.9
1939	153	678	587	93	176	28	5	10	87	78	30	14	.300	.387	.416	.802	117.2	113.3	.375	3.9
1940	118	523	448	56	115	21	3	4	43	70	32	4	.257	.361	.344	.705	96.9	91.9	.337	1.7
1941	132	523	441	75	122	24	7	1	78	80	21	7	.277	.388	.370	.757	118.8	112.3	.366	3.1
1946	88	286	242	36	57	9	1	3	27	38	17	3	.236	.339	.318	.657	90.0	86.9	.324	0.7
1947	41	82	69	6	18	1	0	3	11	12	5	0	.261	.370	.406	.776	106.8	103.7	.363	0.3

Career totals

1,043

4,039

3,509

487

945

183

RBI

486

485

244

.2693

OBP

.3600

483rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3767

OPS

.7367

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
1939-09-23	LAD @ PHI Gameday	6	4	6	1	1	0	0	1	9
1937-07-04	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1934-05-21	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	5	0	8
1938-04-19	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	2	0	8
1940-07-15	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-04-17	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-18	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-19	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-21	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-22	PIT @ 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.

Honors

4× 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.