MLB / Players

Ernie White

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornSeptember 5, 1916 · Pacolet Mills, SC, USA

MLB debutMay 9, 1940

Final gameOctober 3, 1948

Seasons7 (1940–1948)

St. Louis Cardinals 1940–1943; Boston Braves 1946–1948

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified pitchers

57.7

89.7

63.9

82.5

62.9

SHO

78.4

169

55.7

63.9

117

90.7

22.7

210.0

77.3

ERA

2.40

91.8

WHIP

1.138

89.7

K/9

5.01

80.4

FIP

3.28

84.5

FIP-

86.8

84.5

ERA+

157.4

89.7

sWAR

5.5

94.8

of 98 qualified 1941 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.9

86.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	9	8	7	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	.429	.500	.429	.929	165.5	153.6	.439	0.3
1941	33	85	79	6	15	2	1	10	3	8	0	.190	.220	.241	.460	16.1	27.0	.218	5.5
1942	27	49	41	5	8	0	0	3	3	4	0	.195	.250	.195	.445	21.5	28.8	.223	2.7
1943	21	31	28	5	6	0	0	0	1	2	0	.214	.241	.214	.456	20.8	31.9	.222	0.4
1946	14	4	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	26.4	41.6	.236	0.0
1947	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	478.7	441.5	.922	0.3
1948	16	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.4	-100.0	.000	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1940	8	1	1	1	0	0	0	29	10	14	15	0	21.7	4.15	1.985	6.23	3.44	86.2	96.0	0.3
1941	32	25	17	7	2	12	3	169	56	70	117	12	210.0	2.40	1.138	5.01	3.28	86.8	157.4	5.5
1942	26	19	7	5	2	7	1	113	36	41	67	11	128.3	2.52	1.200	4.70	3.36	97.9	136.0	2.7
1943	14	10	5	5	0	5	1	78	33	33	28	4	78.7	3.78	1.411	3.20	3.72	110.1	89.4	0.4
1946	12	1	0	1	0	0	0	22	11	12	8	1	23.7	4.18	1.437	3.04	3.71	108.1	82.1	0.0
1947	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	4.0	0.00	.500	2.25	2.82	71.6	—	0.3
1948	15	0	0	2	2	0	0	13	5	17	8	0	23.0	1.96	1.304	3.13	4.09	106.1	197.0	0.7

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

121

181

163

RBI

.2086

OBP

.2456

SLG

.2331

OPS

.4787

Pitching

G (P)

108

SHO

489

SO (P)

244

BB allowed

188

ERA

2.777

WHIP

1.2527

K/9

4.49

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	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1940-05-09	PHI @ STL Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	1	3
1941-09-01	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	0	1	1	1	0	3
1941-07-04	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	2
1942-09-27	CHC @ STL Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	0	2
1941-08-04	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-06-25	ATL @ STL Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	2	9	0
1941-09-11	LAD @ STL Gameday	11.0	7	6	2	2	8	1
1941-08-04	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	8	0
1942-09-27	CHC @ STL Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	1	8	0
1941-08-10	PIT @ STL Gameday	8.1	5	2	2	2	8	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.