MLB / Players

Joe Cunningham

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 27, 1931 · Paterson, NJ, USA

MLB debutJune 30, 1954

Final gameApril 17, 1966

Seasons12 (1954–1966)

St. Louis Cardinals 1954; St. Louis Cardinals 1956–1961; Chicago White Sox 1962–1964; Washington Senators 1964–1966

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified batters

149

39.8

652

59.2

526

70.9

155

51.5

88.3

75.7

17.5

RBI

45.6

101

95.1

70.9

29.1

48.5

.295

70.9

OBP

.410

96.1

SLG

.428

47.6

OPS

.837

75.7

wRC+

134.8

86.4

OPS+

128.5

78.6

wOBA

.384

81.6

sWAR

3.7

74.8

of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.5

88.6

OPS+

119.9

79.2

sWAR

19.5

93.3

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
1954	85	356	310	40	88	11	3	11	50	43	40	1	1	.284	.375	.445	.820	115.9	112.1	.371	1.2
1956	4	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	-1.9	-24.6	.184	0.0
1957	122	329	261	50	83	15	0	9	52	56	29	3	3	.318	.439	.479	.918	150.8	145.5	.408	2.4
1958	131	424	337	61	105	20	3	12	57	82	23	4	4	.312	.449	.496	.945	157.9	146.7	.427	3.5
1959	144	556	458	65	158	28	6	7	60	88	47	2	6	.345	.453	.478	.931	151.4	143.0	.420	4.4
1960	139	563	492	68	138	28	3	6	39	59	59	1	7	.280	.363	.386	.749	103.5	99.2	.344	1.4
1961	113	390	322	60	92	11	2	7	40	53	32	1	0	.286	.403	.398	.801	114.8	106.9	.370	1.5
1962	149	652	526	91	155	32	7	8	70	101	59	3	3	.295	.410	.428	.837	134.8	128.5	.384	3.7
1963	67	252	210	32	60	12	1	1	31	33	23	1	0	.286	.388	.367	.755	123.6	117.4	.350	1.0
1964	89	278	234	28	54	11	0	0	17	37	28	0	2	.231	.348	.278	.626	86.7	78.4	.304	-0.2
1965	95	249	201	29	46	9	1	3	20	46	27	0	1	.229	.375	.328	.703	115.6	102.4	.343	0.8
1966	3	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-45.9	-27.6	.114	-0.1

Career totals

1,141

4,061

3,362

525

980

177

RBI

436

599

369

.2915

370th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4035

58th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4167

OPS

.8202

350th-highest career OPS

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
1954-07-05	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1961-04-17	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1954-07-01	STL @ ATL Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1958-09-14	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1959-08-27	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-04-29	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-03	SF @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-25	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-06-12	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-06-13	PIT @ 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

1× 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.