Sammy White
Boston Red Sox 1951–1959; Milwaukee Braves 1961; Philadelphia Phillies 1962
Percentile snapshot
1955 season — qualified batters
of 82 qualified 1955 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .182 | .364 | -25.7 | -5.5 | .170 | -0.1 |
| 1952 | 115 | 399 | 381 | 35 | 107 | 20 | 2 | 10 | 49 | 16 | 43 | 2 | 3 | .281 | .310 | .423 | .732 | 90.7 | 96.6 | .335 | 1.9 |
| 1953 | 136 | 515 | 476 | 59 | 130 | 34 | 2 | 13 | 64 | 29 | 48 | 3 | 2 | .273 | .318 | .435 | .752 | 92.8 | 97.1 | .342 | 2.3 |
| 1954 | 137 | 530 | 493 | 46 | 139 | 25 | 2 | 14 | 75 | 21 | 50 | 1 | 3 | .282 | .307 | .426 | .732 | 84.4 | 91.6 | .331 | 1.9 |
| 1955 | 143 | 603 | 544 | 65 | 142 | 30 | 4 | 11 | 64 | 44 | 58 | 1 | 2 | .261 | .323 | .392 | .714 | 82.5 | 85.5 | .330 | 1.9 |
| 1956 | 114 | 433 | 392 | 28 | 96 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 44 | 35 | 40 | 2 | 1 | .245 | .304 | .332 | .636 | 52.3 | 60.8 | .291 | -0.2 |
| 1957 | 111 | 370 | 340 | 24 | 73 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 25 | 38 | 0 | 1 | .215 | .267 | .276 | .544 | 34.7 | 45.5 | .249 | -0.7 |
| 1958 | 102 | 351 | 328 | 25 | 85 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 35 | 21 | 37 | 1 | 1 | .259 | .305 | .378 | .683 | 76.8 | 81.8 | .306 | 1.1 |
| 1959 | 119 | 405 | 377 | 34 | 107 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 42 | 23 | 39 | 4 | 2 | .284 | .324 | .347 | .672 | 75.8 | 80.6 | .303 | 1.2 |
| 1961 | 21 | 68 | 63 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .242 | .286 | .528 | 40.9 | 44.2 | .238 | -0.1 |
| 1962 | 41 | 103 | 97 | 7 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .216 | .238 | .320 | .557 | 44.9 | 50.2 | .250 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-06-07 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1954-04-15 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1958-07-19 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1954-09-26 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1953-04-29 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-06-17 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-07-26 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-07-24 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-09-18 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-09-19 | BOS @ ATH 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.