MLB / Players

Norm Cash

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornNovember 10, 1933 · Justiceburg, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 18, 1958

Final gameAugust 6, 1974

Seasons17 (1958–1974)

Chicago White Sox 1958–1959; Detroit Tigers 1960–1974

Percentile snapshot

1972 season — qualified batters

137

34.2

501

10.8

440

10.8

23.4

114

RBI

54.1

48.6

46.8

71.2

.259

42.3

OBP

.338

SLG

.445

74.8

OPS

.783

69.4

wRC+

129.3

72.1

OPS+

130.9

74.8

wOBA

.355

62.2

sWAR

2.0

42.3

of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

142.0

96.9

OPS+

139.5

95.4

sWAR

48.5

98.7

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	13	8	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	32.6	41.0	.229	-0.1
1959	58	130	104	16	25	0	1	4	16	18	9	1	1	.240	.372	.375	.747	109.8	109.1	.343	0.3
1960	121	428	353	64	101	16	3	18	63	65	58	4	2	.286	.402	.501	.903	146.2	141.3	.408	3.0
1961	159	672	535	119	193	22	8	41	132	124	85	11	5	.361	.487	.662	1.148	202.3	203.0	.494	9.2
1962	148	629	507	94	123	16	2	39	89	104	82	6	3	.243	.382	.513	.894	136.0	136.4	.392	3.6
1963	147	593	493	67	133	19	1	26	79	89	76	2	3	.270	.386	.471	.856	140.5	136.0	.382	3.6
1964	144	559	479	63	123	15	5	23	83	70	66	2	1	.257	.351	.453	.804	123.3	121.0	.358	2.2
1965	142	553	467	79	124	23	1	30	82	77	62	6	6	.266	.371	.512	.883	151.3	147.9	.394	4.1
1966	160	679	603	98	168	18	3	32	93	66	91	2	1	.279	.351	.478	.829	137.4	134.1	.369	3.9
1967	152	577	488	64	118	16	5	22	72	81	100	3	2	.242	.352	.430	.783	131.7	128.8	.358	2.7
1968	127	458	411	50	108	15	1	25	63	39	70	1	1	.263	.329	.487	.816	144.8	143.3	.367	2.8
1969	142	556	483	81	135	15	4	22	74	63	80	2	1	.280	.368	.464	.831	131.5	128.7	.380	2.8
1970	130	452	370	58	96	18	2	15	53	72	58	0	1	.259	.383	.441	.823	130.4	126.7	.377	2.2
1971	135	523	452	72	128	10	3	32	91	59	86	1	0	.283	.372	.531	.903	154.5	152.0	.405	4.0
1972	137	501	440	51	114	16	0	22	61	50	64	0	2	.259	.338	.445	.783	129.3	130.9	.355	2.0
1973	121	420	363	51	95	19	0	19	40	47	73	1	0	.262	.357	.471	.828	126.4	126.7	.374	1.7
1974	53	172	149	17	34	3	2	7	12	19	30	1	1	.228	.327	.416	.744	110.7	109.7	.343	0.4

Career totals

2,089

198th-most career G

7,910

307th-most career PA

6,705

358th-most career AB

1,046

318th-most career R

1,820

395th-most career H

241

377

78th-most career HR

RBI

1,103

224th-most career RBI

1,043

108th-most career BB

1,091

316th-most career SO

.2714

OBP

.3741

246th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4883

173rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8624

144th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1971-05-23	TEX @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	5	0	10
1965-07-25	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	4	0	9
1964-05-06	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	0	9
1968-07-04	LAA @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	0	9
1968-09-19	NYY @ DET Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	3	1	9

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

4× 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.