Gus Mancuso

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 5, 1905 · Galveston, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 30, 1928

Final gameSeptember 11, 1945

Seasons17 (1928–1945)

St. Louis Cardinals 1928; St. Louis Cardinals 1930–1932; New York Giants 1933–1938; Chicago Cubs 1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940; St. Louis Cardinals 1941; New York Giants 1942; St. Louis Cardinals 1942; New York Giants 1943–1944; Philadelphia Phillies 1945

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

139

564

41.7

519

44.2

28.3

156

51.7

33.3

21.7

63.3

RBI

41.7

43.3

60.8

39.2

.301

50.8

OBP

.351

31.7

SLG

.405

42.5

OPS

.755

37.5

wRC+

105.4

48.3

OPS+

105.7

48.3

wOBA

.349

32.5

sWAR

3.3

74.2

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.3

17.8

OPS+

85.2

16.1

sWAR

19.1

93.2

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
1928	11	40	38	2	7	0	1	0	3	0	5	0	.184	.184	.237	.421	-5.2	9.2	.190	-0.3
1930	76	254	227	39	83	17	2	7	59	18	16	1	.366	.415	.551	.965	128.8	129.1	.423	2.2
1931	67	208	187	13	49	16	1	1	23	18	13	2	.262	.327	.374	.701	85.5	86.0	.325	0.8
1932	103	344	310	25	88	23	1	5	43	30	15	0	.284	.347	.413	.760	102.6	101.6	.344	1.9
1933	144	540	481	39	127	17	2	6	56	48	21	0	.264	.331	.345	.676	97.7	96.1	.319	2.9
1934	122	422	383	32	94	14	0	7	46	27	19	0	.245	.295	.337	.632	71.3	72.6	.291	0.9
1935	128	489	447	33	133	18	2	5	56	30	16	1	.298	.342	.380	.722	97.4	97.4	.331	2.5
1936	139	564	519	55	156	21	3	9	63	39	28	0	.301	.351	.405	.755	105.4	105.7	.349	3.3
1937	86	307	287	30	80	17	1	4	39	17	20	1	.279	.319	.387	.706	89.2	91.5	.324	1.3
1938	52	178	158	19	55	8	0	2	15	17	13	0	.348	.411	.437	.848	137.9	133.7	.394	1.8
1939	80	281	251	17	58	10	0	2	17	24	19	0	.231	.298	.295	.593	57.7	59.4	.283	0.1
1940	60	157	144	16	33	8	0	0	16	13	7	0	.229	.293	.285	.578	55.3	57.2	.275	0.1
1941	106	375	328	25	75	13	1	2	37	37	19	0	.229	.309	.293	.601	66.8	66.7	.293	0.6
1942	44	139	122	4	22	1	1	0	9	14	7	1	.180	.265	.205	.470	36.6	38.8	.240	-0.2
1943	94	290	252	11	50	5	0	2	20	28	16	0	.198	.284	.242	.526	49.1	50.8	.265	-0.1
1944	78	231	195	15	49	4	1	1	25	30	20	0	.251	.351	.297	.649	88.1	82.6	.320	1.0
1945	70	206	176	11	35	5	0	0	16	28	10	2	.199	.309	.227	.536	57.0	50.8	.276	0.2

Career totals

1,460

5,025

4,505

386

1,194

197

RBI

543

418

264

.2650

OBP

.3281

SLG

.3512

OPS

.6793

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
1934-09-26	PHI @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	4	1	8
1930-09-20	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	0	8
1935-05-11	PIT @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	2	0	8
1931-07-12	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	2	1	7
1932-05-04	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-11	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-12	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-15	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-16	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

2× 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.