MLB / Players

Whitey Kurowski

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 193 lb

BornApril 19, 1918 · Reading, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 23, 1941

Final gameOctober 1, 1949

Seasons9 (1941–1949)

St. Louis Cardinals 1941–1949

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

146

64.1

614

68.9

513

49.5

108

94.2

159

79.6

72.8

52.4

92.2

RBI

104

94.2

85.4

22.3

43.7

37.9

.310

80.6

OBP

.420

96.1

SLG

.544

95.1

OPS

.964

96.1

wRC+

153.6

95.1

OPS+

151.4

95.1

wOBA

.434

96.1

sWAR

6.4

96.1

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

128.8

89.4

OPS+

127.7

88.3

sWAR

26.3

95.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	5	10	9	1	3	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	.333	.400	.556	.956	163.1	162.2	.435	0.1
1942	115	418	366	51	93	17	3	9	42	33	60	7	.254	.326	.391	.717	104.8	105.6	.340	1.8
1943	139	565	522	69	150	24	8	13	70	31	54	3	.287	.330	.439	.768	118.0	120.7	.359	3.3
1944	149	625	555	95	150	25	7	20	87	58	40	2	.270	.341	.449	.790	121.9	123.1	.365	4.0
1945	133	573	511	84	165	27	3	21	102	45	45	1	.323	.383	.511	.894	146.2	148.1	.413	5.3
1946	142	601	519	76	156	32	5	14	89	72	47	2	.301	.391	.462	.853	144.0	139.6	.402	5.4
1947	146	614	513	108	159	27	6	27	104	87	56	4	.310	.420	.544	.964	153.6	151.4	.434	6.4
1948	77	270	220	34	47	8	0	2	33	42	28	0	.214	.352	.277	.629	77.6	69.6	.314	0.2
1949	10	15	14	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.143	.200	.143	.343	-16.0	-7.5	.172	-0.2

Career totals

916

3,691

3,229

518

925

162

106

RBI

529

369

332

.2865

492nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3660

357th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4549

437th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8209

344th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1945-08-13	STL @ LAD Gameday	7	2	4	0	0	2	4	1	10
1944-05-20	SF @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	3	0	9
1944-05-30	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	4	3	0	0	2	5	2	9
1947-08-01	PHI @ STL Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1943-08-19	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	2	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-04-15	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-17	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-18	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-20	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.

Honors

5× 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.