MLB / Players

Frankie Gustine

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 20, 1920 · Hoopeston, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1939

Final gameMay 17, 1950

Seasons12 (1939–1950)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1939–1948; Chicago Cubs 1949; St. Louis Browns 1950

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

131

32.3

499

22.6

449

26.9

47.3

120

34.4

6.5

54.8

RBI

20.4

33.3

12.9

54.8

41.9

.267

31.2

OBP

.333

21.5

SLG

.379

30.1

OPS

.711

24.7

wRC+

88.5

23.7

OPS+

89.5

23.7

wOBA

.330

20.4

sWAR

1.1

25.8

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.0

15.8

OPS+

86.7

18.1

sWAR

10.4

87.4

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
1939	22	84	70	5	13	3	0	0	3	9	4	0	0	.186	.278	.229	.507	38.9	38.3	.252	-0.3
1940	133	565	524	59	147	32	7	1	55	35	39	7	0	.281	.328	.374	.702	92.1	93.4	.324	1.5
1941	121	497	463	46	125	24	7	1	46	28	38	5	0	.270	.313	.359	.672	85.7	88.8	.315	1.0
1942	115	422	388	34	89	11	4	2	35	29	27	5	0	.229	.286	.294	.580	64.0	68.1	.281	-0.2
1943	112	454	414	40	120	21	3	0	43	32	36	12	0	.290	.341	.355	.696	97.3	97.9	.334	1.8
1944	127	446	405	42	93	18	3	2	42	33	41	8	0	.230	.288	.304	.591	60.4	63.8	.282	0.0
1945	128	523	478	67	134	27	5	2	66	37	33	8	0	.280	.335	.370	.705	91.0	92.4	.335	1.7
1946	131	548	495	60	128	23	6	8	52	40	52	2	0	.259	.318	.378	.696	90.6	93.8	.329	1.5
1947	156	691	616	102	183	30	6	9	67	63	65	5	0	.297	.364	.409	.773	102.2	101.5	.358	2.7
1948	131	499	449	68	120	19	2	9	42	42	62	5	0	.267	.333	.379	.711	88.5	89.5	.330	1.1
1949	76	285	261	29	59	13	4	4	27	18	22	3	0	.226	.279	.352	.631	65.0	69.6	.289	-0.2
1950	9	23	19	1	3	1	0	0	2	3	8	0	1	.158	.273	.211	.483	20.8	21.3	.248	-0.1

Career totals

1,261

5,037

4,582

553

1,214

222

RBI

480

369

427

.2649

OBP

.3218

SLG

.3588

OPS

.6806

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
1948-05-21	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	1	2	9
1948-06-26	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	1	4	2	1	0	1	8
1947-08-17	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	2	8
1946-09-28	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	3	2	0	0	2	3	8
1944-08-29	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	0	4	1	1	0	3	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-18	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-24	PIT @ 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

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.