Jim King

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornAugust 27, 1932 · Elkins, AR, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1955

Final gameSeptember 24, 1967

Seasons11 (1955–1967)

Chicago Cubs 1955–1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1957; San Francisco Giants 1958; Washington Senators 1961–1966; Chicago White Sox 1967; Cleveland Indians 1967; Washington Senators 1967

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified batters

136

7.9

510

459

29.7

106

8.9

56.4

77.2

RBI

50.5

48.5

91.1

32.7

87.1

.231

9.9

OBP

.300

22.8

SLG

.444

67.3

OPS

.744

54.5

wRC+

104.0

45.5

OPS+

104.8

47.5

wOBA

.329

47.5

sWAR

1.3

24.8

of 102 qualified 1963 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.6

46.7

OPS+

102.3

46.4

sWAR

7.7

83.9

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
1955	113	333	301	43	77	12	3	11	45	24	39	2	1	.256	.312	.425	.737	92.1	92.6	.327	0.3
1956	118	354	317	32	79	13	2	15	54	30	40	1	2	.249	.313	.445	.757	98.6	101.3	.329	0.7
1957	22	39	35	1	11	0	0	0	2	4	2	0	0	.314	.385	.314	.699	82.6	89.9	.309	0.0
1958	34	67	56	8	12	2	1	2	8	10	8	0	1	.214	.343	.393	.736	98.6	96.1	.334	0.1
1961	110	306	263	43	71	12	1	11	46	38	45	4	0	.270	.363	.449	.811	117.5	117.7	.363	1.2
1962	132	396	333	39	81	15	0	11	35	55	37	4	2	.243	.353	.387	.740	99.2	100.4	.333	0.7
1963	136	510	459	61	106	16	5	24	62	45	43	3	0	.231	.300	.444	.744	104.0	104.8	.329	1.3
1964	134	478	415	46	100	15	1	18	56	55	65	3	1	.241	.335	.412	.747	105.7	105.6	.334	1.3
1965	120	309	258	46	55	10	2	14	49	44	50	1	0	.213	.337	.430	.767	120.7	116.9	.350	1.4
1966	117	350	310	41	77	14	2	10	30	38	41	4	0	.248	.330	.403	.733	113.0	110.1	.333	1.3
1967	89	195	171	14	30	3	2	1	14	20	31	1	1	.175	.272	.234	.506	57.0	54.2	.251	-0.6

Career totals

1,125

3,337

2,918

374

699

112

117

RBI

401

363

401

.2395

OBP

.3262

SLG

.4112

OPS

.7374

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
1964-06-08	ATH @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	3	0	12
1964-05-26	TEX @ BOS Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1963-08-04	BOS @ TEX Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1963-06-14	TEX @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1955-08-03	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	2	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-04-17	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-04-17	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-05-05	CHC @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-05-14	SF @ 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.