MLB / Players

Johnny Callison

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 12, 1939 · Qualls, OK, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1958

Final gameAugust 17, 1973

Seasons16 (1958–1973)

Chicago White Sox 1958–1959; Philadelphia Phillies 1960–1969; Chicago Cubs 1970–1971; New York Yankees 1972–1973

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified batters

147

38.9

543

15.9

477

15.9

25.7

126

13.3

41.6

17.7

55.8

RBI

45.1

68.1

56.6

63.7

.264

35.4

OBP

.348

50.4

SLG

.440

49.6

OPS

.788

50.4

wRC+

99.2

OPS+

101.1

31.9

wOBA

.353

44.2

sWAR

1.0

17.7

of 114 qualified 1970 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.1

71.5

OPS+

114.8

71.5

sWAR

29.0

96.3

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
1958	18	71	64	10	19	4	2	1	12	6	14	1	0	.297	.352	.469	.821	129.2	128.4	.367	0.4
1959	49	118	104	12	18	3	0	3	12	13	20	0	1	.173	.271	.288	.560	59.0	56.3	.267	-0.4
1960	99	335	288	36	75	11	5	9	30	45	70	0	4	.260	.360	.427	.787	119.8	114.5	.359	1.5
1961	138	538	455	74	121	20	11	9	47	69	76	10	4	.266	.363	.418	.780	110.7	107.9	.352	1.9
1962	157	672	603	107	181	26	10	23	83	54	96	10	3	.300	.363	.491	.854	132.0	130.1	.382	4.2
1963	157	692	626	96	178	36	11	26	78	50	111	8	3	.284	.339	.502	.840	144.1	141.3	.374	5.1
1964	162	705	654	101	179	30	10	31	104	36	95	6	3	.274	.316	.492	.809	126.8	126.2	.357	3.8
1965	160	691	619	93	162	25	16	32	101	57	117	6	5	.262	.328	.509	.836	135.7	134.4	.370	4.5
1966	155	677	612	93	169	40	7	11	55	56	83	8	8	.276	.338	.418	.756	112.4	110.0	.340	2.5
1967	149	620	556	62	145	30	5	14	64	55	63	6	12	.261	.329	.408	.737	106.8	109.6	.331	1.7
1968	121	448	398	46	97	18	4	14	40	42	70	4	3	.244	.319	.415	.734	122.7	118.8	.341	2.1
1969	134	552	495	66	131	29	5	16	64	49	73	2	1	.265	.332	.440	.773	113.7	116.9	.347	2.1
1970	147	543	477	65	126	23	2	19	68	60	63	7	2	.264	.348	.440	.788	99.2	101.1	.353	1.0
1971	103	333	290	27	61	12	1	8	38	36	55	2	1	.210	.298	.341	.640	64.2	71.7	.292	-0.8
1972	92	300	275	28	71	10	0	9	34	18	34	3	0	.258	.299	.393	.691	106.2	108.2	.319	0.8
1973	45	142	136	10	24	4	0	1	10	4	24	1	1	.176	.197	.228	.425	12.9	22.1	.198	-1.3

Career totals

1,886

343rd-most career G

7,437

373rd-most career PA

6,652

371st-most career AB

926

451st-most career R

1,757

444th-most career H

321

410th-most career 2B

220th-most career 3B

226

313th-most career HR

RBI

840

470th-most career RBI

650

449th-most career BB

1,064

341st-most career SO

.2641

OBP

.3314

SLG

.4411

OPS

.7725

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
1965-06-06	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	3	4	0	13
1964-09-27	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	4	0	12
1963-06-27	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	4	1	10
1963-07-16	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	3	0	10
1963-09-17	PHI @ NYM Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	3	0	10

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 Game MVP3× 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.