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Whitey Kurowski

George John Kurowski

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 193 lb.

Born: April 19, 1918 in Reading, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 23, 1941
Team: Cardinals 1941-1949

Final Game: October 1, 1949
Died: December 9, 1999 in Sinking Spring, PA
Buried: Gethsemane Cemetery, Laureldale, PA
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All-Star

Standard Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	Pos	Awards
1937	19	STL-min	D	107	433	433		147	27	12	3					.339	.339	.478	.818		207					CTH · NEAR
1938	20	STL-min	C	129	542	542		209	41	6	14					.386	.386	.561	.946		304					PMO · MATL
1939	21	STL-min	AA	142	579	579		170	30	8	13					.294	.294	.440	.734		255					ROC,CLB · IL,AA
1940	22	STL-min	AA	133	520	520		145	28	2	15					.279	.279	.427	.706		222					ROC · IL
1941	23	STL-min	AA	142	574	500	96	144	26	11	13	69	21	66	87	.288	.374	.462	.836		231		3	5		ROC · IL
1941	23	STL	NL	5	10	9	1	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	.333	.400	.556	.956	160	5	0	1	0	/5
1942	24	STL	NL	115	418	366	51	93	17	3	9	42	7	33	60	.254	.326	.391	.717	103	143	6	6	13	*5/7O6	MVP-25
1943	25	STL	NL	139	565	522	69	150	24	8	13	70	3	31	54	.287	.330	.439	.768	116	229	11	2	10	*5/6	AS
1944	26	STL	NL	149	625	555	95	150	25	7	20	87	2	58	40	.270	.341	.449	.790	118	249	12	2	10	*5/46	AS,MVP-29
1945	27	STL	NL	133	573	511	84	165	27	3	21	102	1	45	45	.323	.383	.511	.894	144	261	10	5	12	*5/6	MVP-5
1946	28	STL	NL	142	601	519	76	156	32	5	14	89	2	72	47	.301	.391	.462	.853	137	240	10	5	5	*5	AS,MVP-30
1947	29	STL	NL	146	614	513	108	159	27	6	27	104	4	87	56	.310	.420	.544	.964	150	279	19	10	4	*5	AS,MVP-9
1948	30	STL	NL	77	270	220	34	47	8	0	2	33	0	42	28	.214	.352	.277	.629	68	61	3	5	3	5
1949	31	STL-min	AA	37	116	116		27	5	1	0					.233	.233	.293	.526		34					HSN · TL
1949	31	STL	NL	10	15	14	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.143	.200	.143	.343	-8	2	1	0	0	/5
1950	32	STL-min	B	21	42	42		12	0	0	1					.286	.286	.357	.643		15					LBG · PIED
1951	33	STL-min	B																							ALN · ISLG
1953	35	CLE-min	B	4																						PEO · IIIL
1955	37	STL-min	B	2	2	2																				PEO · IIIL
1959	41	STL-min	C	1	1	1		1								1.000	1.000									BIL · PION
9 Yrs				916	3691	3229	518	925	162	32	106	529	19	369	332	.286	.366	.455	.821	125	1469	72	36	57
162 Game Avg.				162	653	571	92	164	29	6	19	94	3	65	59	.286	.366	.455	.821	125	260	13	6	10

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
1941	23	STL	NL	5	10	1	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	0	1	0.1	.515	.500	0.1	0.0	1	$	/5
1942	24	STL	NL	115	418	0	-0	0	4	0	5	0.5	13	17	1.7	.505	.503	1.3	0.5	13	$	*5/7O6	MVP-25
1943	25	STL	NL	139	565	8	-0	0	-1	0	7	0.8	17	24	2.5	.506	.505	2.7	-0.1	26	$	*5/6	AS
1944	26	STL	NL	149	625	13	0	0	3	0	17	1.7	19	36	3.6	.512	.511	3.3	0.4	32	$	*5/46	AS,MVP-29
1945	27	STL	NL	133	573	29	0	0	-1	0	29	3.0	17	46	4.7	.522	.518	4.8	-0.0	47	$12,500	*5/6	MVP-5
1946	28	STL	NL	142	601	26	0	0	-3	0	23	2.5	21	44	4.6	.518	.516	4.9	-0.3	47	$13,500	*5	AS,MVP-30
1947	29	STL	NL	146	614	39	-0	0	-4	0	35	3.5	21	56	5.6	.524	.521	6.0	-0.3	60	$	*5	AS,MVP-9
1948	30	STL	NL	77	270	-8	-0	1	-1	0	-8	-0.9	10	1	0.0	.488	.494	0.1	-0.1	2	$	5
1949	31	STL	NL	10	15	-2	0	-0	0	0	-2	-0.2	0	-2	-0.2	.477	.499	-0.2	0.0	-2	$	/5
9 Seasons				916	3691	107	-1	0	-3	1	105	11.0	119	224	22.6	.512	.508	23.0	-0.1	227	$26,000

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1941	23	STL	NL	10	6	2	8.9	100	.429	.333	.274	.400	.345	.556	.386	.956	.731	160	.803	0.8	0.1	1.000	.222	.222
1942	24	STL	NL	418	292	45	4.2	93	.283	.254	.265	.326	.338	.391	.368	.717	.706	103	.539	0.6	0.1	.677	.246	.137	7.9
1943	25	STL	NL	565	393	75	5.2	94	.301	.287	.272	.330	.341	.439	.368	.768	.710	116	.619	7.6	0.8	.692	.216	.151	4.9
1944	26	STL	NL	625	427	84	5.3	97	.263	.270	.271	.341	.339	.449	.381	.790	.720	118	.603	12.1	1.2	.746	.286	.178	3.6
1945	27	STL	NL	573	368	99	7.2	99	.324	.323	.277	.383	.347	.511	.382	.894	.729	144	.722	29.3	3.0	.876	.278	.188	1.9
1946	28	STL	NL	601	378	93	6.6	96	.310	.301	.267	.391	.343	.462	.374	.853	.717	137	.710	27.8	2.9	.855	.304	.162	3.5
1947	29	STL	NL	614	377	114	8.0	109	.307	.310	.279	.420	.355	.544	.413	.964	.768	150	.732	39.9	3.8	1.019	.411	.234	7.0
1948	30	STL	NL	270	179	21	3.1	107	.237	.214	.276	.352	.351	.277	.408	.629	.760	68	.342	-8.1	-0.8	.614	.255	.064	.0
1949	31	STL	NL	15	13	0	0.0	107	.143	.143	.275	.200	.349	.143	.412	.343	.761	-8	.000	-2.2	-0.2	.231	.071	.000
9 Yrs				3691	2433	533	5.9	99	.293	.286	.272	.366	.345	.455	.384	.821	.729	125	.648	107.7	10.8	.797	.289	.168	32.2
162 Game Avg.				653	430	94	5.9	99	.293	.286	.272	.366	.345	.455	.384	.821	.729	125	.648	19	2	.797	.289	.168	6

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1942	24	STL	NL	WS	NYY	W	5	18	15	3	4	0	1	1	5	0	0	2	3	.267	.353	.600	.953	9	0	0	1	0	1
1943	25	STL	NL	WS	NYY	L	5	19	18	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.222	.222	.278	.500	5	1	0	1	0	0
1944	26	STL	NL	WS	SLB	W	6	25	23	2	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.217	.250	.261	.511	6	0	0	1	0	0

1946	28	STL	NL	WS	BOS	W	7	28	27	5	8	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.296	.321	.407	.729	11	1	1	0	0	0
4 Yrs (4 Series)							23	90	83	12	21	5	1	1	9	0	0	3	13	.253	.287	.373	.661	31	2	1	3	0	1
4 WS							23	90	83	12	21	5	1	1	9	0	0	3	13	.253	.287	.373	.661	31	2	1	3	0	1

All-Star Batting

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1943	STL	NL	25		DNP
1944	STL	NL	26		1	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
1945	STL	NL	27		DNP
1946	STL	NL	28	as 3B	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947	STL	NL	29		2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
5 Yrs (3 GP)					6	6	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.333	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1941	23	STL	NL	10	0.0%	20.0%	0.0%	20.0%	67%		4.5		4.5		70%
1942	24	STL	NL	418	2.2%	14.4%	7.9%	6.9%	31%	1.82	6.1	40.7	8.7		71%
1943	25	STL	NL	565	2.3%	9.6%	5.5%	8.0%	30%	1.74	9.7	40.2	7.5		81%
1944	26	STL	NL	625	3.2%	6.4%	9.3%	8.3%	35%	0.69	13.9	27.8	6.4		79%
1945	27	STL	NL	573	3.7%	7.9%	7.9%	8.9%	31%	1.00	11.4	24.3	5.0		78%
1946	28	STL	NL	601	2.3%	7.8%	12.0%	8.5%	33%	0.65	11.0	37.1	5.8		76%
1947	29	STL	NL	614	4.4%	9.1%	14.2%	9.8%	38%	0.64	9.2	19.0	4.9		70%
1948	30	STL	NL	270	0.7%	10.4%	15.6%	3.7%	21%	0.67	7.9	110.0	6.7	0.73	70%
1949	31	STL	NL	15	0.0%	0.0%	6.7%	0.0%	0%	0.00				1.00	93%
9 Yrs				3691	2.9%	9.0%	10.0%	8.1%	32%	0.90	9.7	30.5	6.1	0.76	76%
MLB Averages					1.3%	9.2%	9.3%	5.9%	26%	0.99	9.7	66.9	8.6	0.97	78%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1941	23	STL	NL	0.8	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1942	24	STL	NL	0.6	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1943	25	STL	NL	7.6	0.8	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1944	26	STL	NL	12.1	1.2	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1945	27	STL	NL	29.3	3.0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1946	28	STL	NL	27.8	2.9	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1947	29	STL	NL	39.9	3.8	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1948	30	STL	NL	-8.1	-0.8	109	0.6	2.3	-1.7	1.17	0.1	0.4	4.8	0.5	1.12	2.1	2.73	2
1949	31	STL	NL	-2.2	-0.2	10	-0.3	0.0	-0.3	.91	-0.2	-0.1	-2.7	-0.3	0.81	-2.6	0.85	6
9 Yrs				107.7	10.8	119	0.3	2.3	-2.0	1.15	-0.1	0.4	2.1	0.2	1.09	-0.5	1.32	8

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1948	30	STL	NL	3	35%	54	0	2	2	50%	10	7	3	3	2	1	7	1	6
1949	31	STL	NL	0	0%	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9 Yrs				3	34%	55	19	2	2	50%	10	7	3	3	2	1	7	1	6

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1948	30	STL	NL	270	42%	47			2	0	0	0	2.73	2	0	8	0	1	0	2	0	2	3	150%	34	3	9%	14	5	36%	97	16	16%	14	7	50%	11	6	55%	0
1949	31	STL	NL	15	100%	2			6	1	0	0	0.85	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	1	50%	1	0	0%	5	0	0%	1	0	0%	0	0		0
9 Yrs				285	47%	925			8	1	0	0	1.32	106	0	8	0	1	0	2	0	2	57	2850%	36	72	200%	15	5	33%	102	16	16%	15	7	47%	11	6	55%	0
MLB Averages					52%																			594%			63%			34%			15%			51%			56%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH
1941	23	5	10	9	1	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	.333	.400	.556	.956	160	5	0	1	0
1942	24	120	428	375	52	96	19	3	9	44	7	33	62	.256	.328	.395	.722	104	148	6	7	13
1943	25	259	993	897	121	246	43	11	22	114	10	64	116	.274	.329	.420	.749	111	377	17	9	23
1944	26	408	1618	1452	216	396	68	18	42	201	12	122	156	.273	.334	.431	.765	114	626	29	11	33
1945	27	541	2191	1963	300	561	95	21	63	303	13	167	201	.286	.347	.452	.799	122	887	39	16	45
1946	28	683	2792	2482	376	717	127	26	77	392	15	239	248	.289	.356	.454	.810	125	1127	49	21	50
1947	29	829	3406	2995	484	876	154	32	104	496	19	326	304	.292	.368	.469	.837	130	1406	68	31	54
1948	30	906	3676	3215	518	923	162	32	106	529	19	368	332	.287	.367	.456	.823	125	1467	71	36	57
1949	31	916	3691	3229	518	925	162	32	106	529	19	369	332	.286	.366	.455	.821	125	1469	72	36	57

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1941	23	5	10	9	1	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	.333	.400	.556	.956	2	5
1942	24	122	447	390	56	101	18	3	10	46	8	36	64	.259	.333	.397	.730	50	115
1943	25	145	596	551	76	162	26	9	14	77	3	33	56	.294	.336	.450	.786	83	139
1944	26	155	649	577	99	156	26	7	21	91	2	60	42	.270	.341	.449	.790	88	149
1945	27	139	595	531	85	169	28	3	22	103	1	46	47	.318	.378	.507	.885	99	133
1946	28	148	637	549	85	170	35	5	15	99	2	78	49	.310	.400	.474	.874	103	142
1947	29	153	628	528	105	158	27	6	27	101	4	86	59	.299	.407	.527	.934	111	146
1948	30	80	278	228	33	47	8	0	2	32	0	42	29	.206	.342	.268	.609	20	77
1949	31	10	16	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.063	.000	.063	0	10
9 Yrs		957	3856	3378	540	966	170	33	111	551	20	382	348	.286	.365	.454	.819	556	916
162 Game Avg.		162	653	572	91	164	29	6	19	93	3	65	59	.286	.365	.454	.819	94	916

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 1943 1944 * 1945--not played 1946 (3B) 1947 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1942 NL (25, 2%) 1944 NL (29, 0%) 1945 NL (5, 27%) 1946 NL (30, 1%) 1947 NL (9, 13%) 0.43 Career Shares (489th)	Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y 1945 NL 4.7 (10th) 1947 NL 5.6 (10th)	WAR Position Players† s c a p y 1945 NL 4.7 (8th) 1946 NL 4.6 (6th) 1947 NL 5.6 (6th)
Offensive WAR† s c a p y 1945 NL 4.8 (5th) 1946 NL 4.9 (4th) 1947 NL 6.0 (3rd)	Batting Average s c a p y 1945 NL .323 (5th) 1946 NL .301 (7th) 1947 NL .310 (6th)	On-Base% s c a p y 1945 NL .383 (7th) 1946 NL .391 (6th) 1947 NL .420 (2nd)	Slugging % s c a p y 1943 NL .439 (6th) 1945 NL .511 (2nd) 1946 NL .462 (4th) 1947 NL .544 (4th)
On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y 1945 NL .894 (4th) 1946 NL .853 (2nd) 1947 NL .964 (3rd)	Runs Scored s c a p y 1944 NL 95 (8th) 1946 NL 76 (9th) 1947 NL 108 (5th)	Hits s c a p y 1946 NL 156 (7th)	Total Bases s c a p y 1945 NL 261 (5th) 1946 NL 240 (6th) 1947 NL 279 (7th)
Doubles s c a p y 1946 NL 32 (3rd)	Triples s c a p y 1943 NL 8 (10th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1943 NL 13 (6th) 1944 NL 20 (4th) 1945 NL 21 (4th) 1946 NL 14 (7th) 1947 NL 27 (6th)	Runs Batted In s c a p y 1944 NL 87 (10th) 1945 NL 102 (7th) 1946 NL 89 (4th) 1947 NL 104 (6th)
Bases on Balls s c a p y 1946 NL 72 (8th) 1947 NL 87 (7th)	Strikeouts s c a p y 1942 NL 60 (6th)	Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y 1945 NL 144 (4th) 1946 NL 137 (4th) 1947 NL 150 (3rd)	Runs Created s c a p y 1945 NL 99 (7th) 1946 NL 93 (5th) 1947 NL 114 (5th)
Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y 1945 NL 29 (6th) 1946 NL 28 (5th) 1947 NL 40 (3rd)	Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y 1945 NL 3.0 (6th) 1946 NL 2.9 (5th) 1947 NL 3.8 (3rd)	Extra Base Hits s c a p y 1943 NL 45 (9th) 1945 NL 51 (5th) 1946 NL 51 (4th) 1947 NL 60 (8th)	Times On Base s c a p y 1946 NL 233 (9th) 1947 NL 256 (6th)
Offensive Win % s c a p y 1945 NL .722 (4th) 1946 NL .710 (4th) 1947 NL .732 (4th) Career .649 (214th)	Hit By Pitch s c a p y 1942 NL 6 (4th) 1945 NL 5 (6th) 1946 NL 5 (2nd) 1947 NL 10 (1st) 1948 NL 5 (2nd)	Sacrifice Hits s c a p y 1942 NL 13 (7th)	Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y 1947 NL 19 (1st)
Power-Speed # s c a p y 1942 NL 7.9 (8th)	AB per HR s c a p y 1943 NL 40.2 (8th) 1944 NL 27.8 (4th) 1945 NL 24.3 (6th) 1946 NL 37.1 (7th) 1947 NL 19.0 (8th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray Ink	Batting - 79 (306), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 42 (465), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 16 (993), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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