Harry Walker

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 175 lb

BornSeptember 22, 1918 · Pascagoula, MS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 25, 1940

Final gameAugust 19, 1955

Seasons11 (1940–1955)

St. Louis Cardinals 1940–1943; St. Louis Cardinals 1946; Philadelphia Phillies 1947; St. Louis Cardinals 1947; Philadelphia Phillies 1948; Chicago Cubs 1949; Cincinnati Reds 1949; St. Louis Cardinals 1950–1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1955

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified batters

128

525

18.7

473

22.7

142

41.3

49.3

9.3

RBI

2.7

89.3

49.3

.300

70.7

OBP

.361

45.3

SLG

.378

OPS

.739

wRC+

99.2

37.3

OPS+

98.1

34.7

wOBA

.343

25.3

sWAR

1.2

22.7

of 76 qualified 1949 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.2

88.1

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
1940	7	28	27	2	5	2	0	0	6	0	2	0	.185	.185	.259	.444	3.8	19.2	.199	-0.2
1941	7	17	15	3	4	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	.267	.353	.333	.686	93.4	90.2	.332	0.0
1942	74	209	191	38	60	12	2	0	16	11	14	2	.314	.355	.398	.753	116.1	116.2	.356	1.1
1943	148	640	564	76	166	28	6	2	53	40	24	5	.294	.341	.376	.717	105.7	106.7	.342	2.7
1946	112	385	346	53	82	14	6	3	27	30	29	12	.237	.300	.338	.638	74.9	79.3	.305	0.1
1947	140	598	513	81	186	29	16	1	41	63	39	13	.363	.436	.487	.924	151.3	147.6	.424	5.9
1948	112	368	332	34	97	11	2	2	23	33	30	4	.292	.358	.355	.713	96.8	95.2	.336	1.0
1949	128	525	473	73	142	21	5	2	37	45	23	6	.300	.361	.378	.739	99.2	98.1	.343	1.2
1950	60	168	150	17	31	5	0	0	7	18	12	0	.207	.292	.240	.532	38.8	39.7	.258	-0.8
1951	8	28	26	6	8	1	0	0	2	2	1	0	.308	.357	.346	.703	90.8	90.2	.328	0.0
1955	11	15	14	2	5	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	.357	.400	.500	.900	142.3	136.5	.402	0.1

Career totals

807

2,981

2,651

385

786

126

RBI

214

245

175

.2965

OBP

.3576

SLG

.3833

OPS

.7409

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	BB	TB
1943-06-01	LAD @ STL Gameday	6	3	4	0	0	1	3	1	7
1948-09-28	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	0	6
1946-06-02	SF @ STL Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	3	2	6
1946-07-31	STL @ LAD Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	6
1943-07-27	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-19	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-20	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-21	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-22	STL @ CIN 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.