Enos Slaughter

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 180 lb

BornApril 27, 1916 · Roxboro, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1938

Final gameSeptember 29, 1959

Seasons19 (1938–1959)

St. Louis Cardinals 1938–1942; St. Louis Cardinals 1946–1953; New York Yankees 1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955; New York Yankees 1955; Kansas City Athletics 1956; New York Yankees 1956–1958; Milwaukee Braves 1959; New York Yankees 1959

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified batters

143

578

34.5

492

17.9

143

32.1

86.9

88.1

RBI

67.9

83.3

89.3

58.3

26.2

.291

60.7

OBP

.395

83.3

SLG

.433

OPS

.828

66.7

wRC+

119.7

67.9

OPS+

115.5

65.5

wOBA

.376

sWAR

2.7

53.6

of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.9

87.8

OPS+

124.9

85.6

sWAR

49.7

98.8

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1938	112	431	395	59	109	20	10	8	58	32	38	1	0	.276	.330	.438	.768	103.4	105.2	.350	1.2
1939	149	664	604	95	193	52	5	12	86	44	53	2	0	.320	.371	.482	.852	122.4	122.0	.387	3.2
1940	140	569	516	96	158	25	13	17	73	50	35	8	0	.306	.370	.504	.874	135.2	134.5	.394	3.6
1941	113	484	425	71	132	22	9	13	76	53	28	4	0	.311	.390	.496	.886	145.3	143.7	.409	3.7
1942	152	687	591	100	188	31	17	13	98	88	30	9	0	.318	.412	.494	.906	165.5	159.8	.425	6.8
1946	156	685	609	100	183	30	8	18	130	69	41	9	0	.300	.374	.465	.838	137.2	135.1	.392	4.5
1947	147	619	551	100	162	31	13	10	86	59	27	4	0	.294	.366	.452	.818	114.1	113.9	.374	2.4
1948	146	637	549	91	176	27	11	11	90	81	29	4	0	.321	.409	.470	.879	137.6	133.6	.404	4.3
1949	151	654	568	92	191	34	13	13	96	79	37	3	0	.336	.418	.511	.929	148.6	145.3	.420	5.3
1950	148	632	556	82	161	26	7	10	101	66	33	3	0	.290	.367	.415	.782	104.1	102.6	.357	1.7
1951	123	483	409	48	115	17	8	4	64	67	25	7	2	.281	.386	.391	.777	115.0	109.8	.363	1.9
1952	140	587	510	73	153	17	12	11	101	70	25	6	1	.300	.386	.445	.831	133.6	130.2	.382	3.7
1953	143	578	492	64	143	34	9	6	89	80	28	4	4	.291	.395	.433	.828	119.7	115.5	.376	2.7
1954	69	154	125	19	31	4	2	1	19	28	8	0	2	.248	.386	.336	.722	115.1	105.3	.355	0.6
1955	118	325	276	50	87	12	4	5	35	41	18	2	3	.315	.401	.442	.843	125.6	123.6	.390	1.7
1956	115	344	306	52	86	18	5	2	27	34	26	2	1	.281	.354	.392	.746	98.3	96.7	.348	0.7
1957	96	256	209	24	53	7	1	5	34	40	19	0	2	.254	.369	.368	.737	108.1	106.3	.342	0.7
1958	77	160	138	21	42	4	1	4	19	21	16	2	0	.304	.396	.435	.831	141.7	134.9	.384	1.2
1959	85	135	117	10	20	2	0	6	22	16	22	1	0	.171	.269	.342	.611	68.9	70.2	.279	-0.2

Career totals

2,380

94th-most career G

9,084

153rd-most career PA

7,946

160th-most career AB

1,247

157th-most career R

2,383

131st-most career H

413

170th-most career 2B

148

54th-most career 3B

169

RBI

1,304

116th-most career RBI

1,018

118th-most career BB

538

.2999

220th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3815

177th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4529

451st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8344

260th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1946-05-16	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	4	4	1	2	4	1	11
1950-07-27	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	5	0	10
1946-09-02	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	3	0	10
1946-08-11	STL @ CIN Gameday	6	1	5	1	1	7	0	9
1940-07-21	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	5	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-19	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-22	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	STL @ CHC 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

Hall of Fame, 1985 (Veterans)

10× 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.