Red Schoendienst

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 2, 1923 · Germantown, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1945

Final gameJuly 7, 1963

Seasons19 (1945–1963)

St. Louis Cardinals 1945–1955; New York Giants 1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; Milwaukee Braves 1957; New York Giants 1957; Milwaukee Braves 1958–1960; St. Louis Cardinals 1961–1963

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified batters

150

694

93.2

648

98.6

79.7

200

100

87.8

86.5

52.7

RBI

54.1

16.2

98.6

52.7

36.5

.309

85.1

OBP

.344

51.4

SLG

.451

63.5

OPS

.795

59.5

wRC+

119.1

64.9

OPS+

117.4

64.9

wOBA

.353

60.8

sWAR

4.2

79.7

of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

93.6

29.4

OPS+

94.3

30.2

sWAR

25.8

95.6

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
1945	137	597	565	89	157	22	6	1	47	21	17	26	0	.278	.305	.343	.648	76.3	80.6	.305	-0.4
1946	142	650	606	94	170	28	5	0	34	37	27	12	0	.281	.322	.343	.665	83.4	87.2	.317	1.1
1947	151	710	659	91	167	25	9	3	48	48	27	6	0	.253	.304	.332	.636	63.4	67.1	.297	-0.7
1948	119	438	408	64	111	21	4	4	36	28	16	1	0	.272	.319	.373	.691	80.6	83.6	.319	0.5
1949	151	702	640	102	190	25	2	3	54	51	18	8	0	.297	.351	.356	.707	88.3	88.1	.329	1.6
1950	153	693	642	81	177	43	9	7	63	33	32	3	0	.276	.313	.403	.717	80.3	84.4	.321	0.8
1951	135	602	553	88	160	32	7	6	54	35	23	0	1	.289	.335	.405	.740	96.5	98.2	.336	1.9
1952	152	673	620	91	188	40	7	7	67	42	30	9	6	.303	.347	.424	.772	112.5	113.3	.352	3.6
1953	146	627	564	107	193	35	5	15	79	60	23	3	3	.342	.405	.502	.907	136.8	134.6	.402	5.2
1954	148	679	610	98	192	38	8	5	79	54	22	4	2	.315	.366	.428	.794	106.3	105.7	.357	3.0
1955	145	615	553	68	148	21	3	11	51	54	28	7	7	.268	.335	.376	.711	88.7	87.9	.321	1.4
1956	132	536	487	61	147	21	3	2	29	41	15	1	3	.302	.356	.370	.726	100.8	96.7	.332	2.1
1957	150	694	648	91	200	31	8	15	65	33	15	4	4	.309	.344	.451	.795	119.1	117.4	.353	4.2
1958	106	465	427	47	112	23	1	1	24	31	21	3	1	.262	.313	.328	.641	79.8	78.6	.295	0.6
1959	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.2	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1960	68	246	226	21	58	9	1	1	19	17	13	1	0	.257	.311	.319	.630	77.8	80.1	.286	0.3
1961	72	133	120	9	36	9	0	1	12	12	6	1	0	.300	.364	.400	.764	97.0	96.1	.343	0.4
1962	98	153	143	21	43	4	0	2	12	9	12	0	0	.301	.346	.371	.717	84.9	86.4	.326	0.3
1963	6	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-137.6	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

2,216

140th-most career G

9,222

141st-most career PA

8,479

110th-most career AB

1,223

176th-most career R

2,449

118th-most career H

427

149th-most career 2B

302nd-most career 3B

RBI

773

606

346

.2888

441st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3371

SLG

.3873

OPS

.7244

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
1948-06-06	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	1	3	0	10
1953-05-20	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	3	4	2	0	1	6	1	9
1952-07-20	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	2	0	9
1957-06-05	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1950-07-08	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	1	5	1	1	0	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-04-17	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-19	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-21	CIN @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-22	CIN @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-22	CIN @ 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

Hall of Fame, 1989 (Veterans)

10× 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.