Eddie Stanky

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 3, 1915 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1943

Final gameJuly 25, 1953

Seasons11 (1943–1953)

Chicago Cubs 1943; Brooklyn Dodgers 1944; Chicago Cubs 1944; Brooklyn Dodgers 1945–1947; Boston Braves 1948–1949; New York Giants 1950–1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1952–1953

Percentile snapshot

1951 season — qualified batters

145

653

74.1

515

40.7

66.7

127

18.5

13.6

8.6

56.8

RBI

8.6

127

97.5

18.5

67.9

30.9

.247

6.2

OBP

.401

85.2

SLG

.369

19.8

OPS

.770

wRC+

118.7

OPS+

109.1

46.9

wOBA

.368

55.6

sWAR

3.9

70.4

of 82 qualified 1951 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.3

79.3

OPS+

109.7

61.5

sWAR

33.3

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
1943	142	616	510	92	125	15	1	0	47	92	42	4	0	.245	.363	.278	.641	95.5	86.7	.326	2.0
1944	102	343	286	36	78	9	3	0	16	46	15	4	0	.273	.375	.325	.701	105.0	98.2	.343	1.6
1945	153	726	555	128	143	29	5	1	39	148	42	6	0	.258	.417	.333	.751	122.8	109.9	.378	4.6
1946	144	642	483	98	132	24	7	0	36	137	56	8	0	.273	.436	.352	.788	140.8	124.6	.395	5.4
1947	146	679	559	97	141	24	5	3	53	103	39	3	0	.252	.373	.329	.702	92.5	85.9	.341	1.8
1948	67	312	247	49	79	14	2	2	29	61	13	3	0	.320	.455	.417	.872	150.3	140.3	.415	3.1
1949	138	628	506	90	144	24	5	1	42	113	41	3	0	.285	.417	.358	.775	125.4	116.0	.374	4.2
1950	152	691	527	115	158	25	5	8	51	144	50	9	0	.300	.460	.412	.872	143.7	131.9	.412	6.3
1951	145	653	515	88	127	17	2	14	43	127	63	8	5	.247	.401	.369	.770	118.7	109.1	.368	3.9
1952	53	105	83	13	19	4	0	0	7	19	9	0	0	.229	.373	.277	.650	93.9	83.0	.325	0.3
1953	17	40	30	5	8	0	0	0	1	6	4	0	0	.267	.405	.267	.672	92.2	79.6	.334	0.1

Career totals

1,259

5,435

4,301

811

1,154

185

RBI

364

996

128th-most career BB

374

.2683

OBP

.4098

42nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3478

OPS

.7576

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
1950-05-27	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	3	9
1949-05-13	LAD @ ATL Gameday	6	3	5	3	0	0	0	8
1947-06-03	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	0	3	8
1950-09-15	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1947-07-18	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	3	3	2	1	0	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-21	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-22	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-27	CHC @ STL 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

3× 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.