Lou Klein

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 167 lb

BornOctober 22, 1918 · New Orleans, LA, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1943

Final gameSeptember 30, 1951

Seasons5 (1943–1951)

St. Louis Cardinals 1943; St. Louis Cardinals 1945–1946; St. Louis Cardinals 1949; Cleveland Indians 1951; Philadelphia Athletics 1951

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

154

90.6

694

97.8

627

98.6

92.8

180

92.8

82.6

99.3

75.4

RBI

70.3

59.4

82.6

31.9

.287

65.2

OBP

.342

48.6

SLG

.410

70.3

OPS

.752

61.6

wRC+

115.5

OPS+

116.3

61.6

wOBA

.356

57.2

sWAR

4.0

86.2

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.4

77.9

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
1943	154	694	627	91	180	28	14	7	62	50	70	9	.287	.342	.410	.752	115.5	116.3	.356	4.0
1945	19	72	57	12	13	4	1	1	6	14	9	0	.228	.389	.386	.775	123.9	116.6	.379	0.5
1946	23	105	93	12	18	3	0	1	4	9	7	1	.194	.265	.258	.523	40.8	47.4	.257	-0.3
1949	58	142	114	25	25	6	0	2	12	22	20	0	.219	.355	.325	.680	88.0	81.6	.329	0.4
1951	51	158	146	22	33	7	0	5	17	10	13	0	.226	.276	.377	.652	66.3	73.3	.300	-0.1

Career totals

305

1,171

1,037

162

269

RBI

101

105

119

.2594

OBP

.3304

SLG

.3809

OPS

.7113

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
1943-06-30	STL @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1949-06-24	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1943-08-07	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	0	0	0	6
1943-08-18	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	6
1943-08-14	STL @ SF Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	0	2	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-21	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-22	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-27	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.