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Gus Zernial

Gus Edward Zernial (Ozark Ike)

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: June 27, 1923 in Beaumont, TX
High School: Beaumont (Beaumont, TX) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1949
Teams (by GP): Athletics/WhiteSox/Tigers 1949-1959

Final Game: September 25, 1959
Died: January 20, 2011 in Fresno, CA
Buried: Clovis Cemetery, Clovis, CA
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:24AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #930. Trot Nixon… #931. Hoot Evers… #932. Richard Hidalgo… #933. GUS ZERNIAL… #934. Darryl Hamilton… #935. Leon Wagner… #936. Ben Zobrist… 

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1949 26 CHW AL 73 213 198 29 63 17 2 5 38 0 1 15 26 .318 .366 .500 .866 132 99 2 0 0 O
1950 27 CHW AL 143 584 543 75 152 16 4 29 93 0 2 38 110 .280 .330 .484 .815 109 263 16 3 0 *O
1951 28 TOT AL 143 638 571 92 153 30 5 33 129 2 2 63 101 .268 .345 .511 .856 128 292 15 4 0 *7 MVP-20
1951 28 CHW AL 4 21 19 2 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 2 .105 .190 .105 .296 -18 2 0 0 0 /7O
1951 28 PHA AL 139 617 552 90 151 30 5 33 125 2 2 61 99 .274 .350 .525 .875 133 290 15 4 0 *7O
1952 29 PHA AL 145 621 549 76 144 15 1 29 100 5 1 70 87 .262 .347 .452 .799 116 248 13 1 1 *O
1953 30 PHA AL 147 617 556 85 158 21 3 42 108 4 0 57 79 .284 .355 .559 .914 140 311 12 4 0 *O AS,MVP-18
1954 31 PHA AL 97 373 336 42 84 8 2 14 62 0 0 30 60 .250 .316 .411 .727 99 138 8 4 0 3 /3
1955 32 KCA AL 120 454 413 62 105 9 3 30 84 1 0 30 90 .254 .304 .508 .812 116 210 17 3 0 8 1 *
1956 33 KCA AL 109 311 272 36 61 12 0 16 44 2 0 33 66 .224 .315 .445 .760 99 121 5 4 0 2 2
1957 34 KCA AL 131 478 437 56 103 20 1 27 69 1 1 34 84 .236 .290 .471 .761 104 206 12 1 2 4 0 */3
1958 35 DET AL 66 131 124 8 40 7 1 5 23 0 0 6 25 .323 .351 .516 .867 129 64 3 0 0 1 0
1959 36 DET AL 60 141 132 11 30 4 0 7 26 0 0 7 27 .227 .262 .417 .679 79 55 3 0 0 2 0 3/
11 Seasons 1234 4561 4131 572 1093 159 22 237 776 15 7 383 755 .265 .329 .486 .815 116 2007 106 24 3 20 3
162 Game Avg. 162 599 542 75 143 21 3 31 102 2 1 50 99 .265 .329 .486 .815 116 263 14 3 0
KCA (7 yrs) 888 3471 3115 447 806 115 15 191 592 15 4 315 565 .259 .329 .489 .819 118 1524 82 21 3 17 3
CHW (3 yrs) 220 818 760 106 217 33 6 34 135 0 3 55 138 .286 .336 .479 .815 112 364 18 3 0
DET (2 yrs) 126 272 256 19 70 11 1 12 49 0 0 13 52 .273 .305 .465 .770 104 119 6 0 0 3 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1949 26 CHW AL 213 7 0 0 0 -2 -2 6 9 0.9 11 1.1 -0.2 $ O
1950 27 CHW AL 584 0 -1 0 0 2 -6 16 11 1.2 9 0.9 0.3 $ *O
1951 28 CHW AL 21 -3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 -0.3 -3 -0.3 0.0 $ /7O MVP-20
1951 28 PHA AL 617 20 0 0 0 1 -6 16 31 3.1 30 3.1 0.0 $ *7O MVP-20
1952 29 PHA AL 621 10 0 0 0 -2 -6 17 19 2.0 21 2.3 -0.3 $ *O
1953 30 PHA AL 617 23 0 0 0 0 -6 17 34 3.5 34 3.5 0.0 $ *O AS,MVP-18
1954 31 PHA AL 373 -1 -1 0 -1 -10 -4 11 -6 -0.7 4 0.5 -1.2 $ /3
1955 32 KCA AL 454 7 0 3 -3 -2 -5 13 13 1.3 15 1.6 -0.3 $ *
1956 33 KCA AL 312 -3 0 0 0 -2 -3 9 1 0.1 3 0.3 -0.2 $
1957 34 KCA AL 478 -1 -1 0 -2 -9 -6 14 -6 -0.7 4 0.4 -1.1 $ */3
1958 35 DET AL 131 5 0 -1 0 -6 -1 4 1 0.1 7 0.7 -0.6 $
1959 36 DET AL 141 -5 0 -1 0 -1 -2 4 -5 -0.5 -4 -0.4 -0.1 $ 3/
11 Seasons 4562 59 -3 1 -6 -32 -47 127 99 10.0 131 13.7 -3.7 $
KCA (7 yrs) 3472 55 -2 3 -6 -25 -36 97 86 8.6 111 11.7 -3.1 $
CHW (3 yrs) 818 4 -1 0 0 0 -8 22 17 1.8 17 1.7 0.1 $
DET (2 yrs) 272 0 0 -2 0 -7 -3 8 -4 -0.4 3 0.3 -0.7 $

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1949 CHW AL 26 OF 46 77 73 4 0 0 1.000 1.67 .980 2.44
1949 CHW AL 26 LF 46 43 34 77 73 4 0 0 1.000 1.67 .983 2.43
1950 CHW AL 27 OF 137 325 306 9 10 2 .969 2.30 .979 2.47
1950 CHW AL 27 LF 137 136 128 1178.1 321 301 10 10 2 .969 2.38 2.27 .978 2.41 2.37
1951 TOT AL 28 LF 142 142 142 1253.2 356 331 15 10 3 .972 2.48 2.44 .974 2.43 2.42 MVP-20
1951 TOT AL 28 OF 142 142 142 1253.2 362 334 18 10 3 .972 2.53 2.48 .977 11.75 2.44 MVP-20
1951 CHW AL 28 LF 4 4 4 36.0 15 13 1 1 0 .933 3.50 3.50 .974 2.42 2.42
1951 CHW AL 28 OF 4 4 4 36.0 15 13 1 1 0 .933 3.50 3.50 .977 11.75 2.45
1951 PHA AL 28 LF 138 138 138 1217.2 341 318 14 9 3 .974 2.45 2.41 .974 2.43 2.42
1951 PHA AL 28 OF 138 138 138 1217.2 347 321 17 9 3 .974 2.50 2.45 .977 11.75 2.44
1952 PHA AL 29 OF 141 317 302 6 9 0 .972 2.18 .980 2.40
1952 PHA AL 29 LF 141 141 137 1251.2 319 304 6 9 0 .972 2.23 2.20 .979 2.29 2.29
1953 PHA AL 30 OF 141 326 300 17 9 2 .972 2.25 .981 2.41 AS,MVP-18
1953 PHA AL 30 LF 141 141 136 1238.2 329 303 17 9 2 .973 2.33 2.27 .973 2.22 2.21 AS,MVP-18
1954 PHA AL 31 OF 90 193 180 4 9 1 .953 -10 2.04 .979 2.37
1954 PHA AL 31 1B 2 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 -0 2.50 .990 9.55
1954 PHA AL 31 LF 90 87 79 753.1 192 179 4 9 1 .953 -10 -16 2.19 2.03 .977 2.26 2.24
1955 KCA AL 32 OF 103 249 231 9 9 4 .964 -2 2.33 .982 2.38
1955 KCA AL 32 LF 103 102 80 860.1 251 234 8 9 5 .964 -2 -3 2.53 2.35 .980 2.26 2.25
1956 KCA AL 33 OF 69 122 111 9 2 1 .984 -2 1.74 .979 2.32
1956 KCA AL 33 LF 69 69 42 525.1 123 112 9 2 1 .984 -2 -5 2.07 1.75 .977 2.10 2.09
1957 KCA AL 34 OF 113 228 213 4 11 1 .952 -9 1.92 .980 2.25
1957 KCA AL 34 1B 1 6 4 1 1 0 .833 -1 5.00 .992 9.70
1957 KCA AL 34 LF 113 111 85 941.0 225 210 4 11 1 .951 -9 -11 2.05 1.89 .980 2.10 2.11
1958 DET AL 35 OF 24 33 30 1 2 0 .939 -6 1.29 .982 2.25
1958 DET AL 35 LF 24 24 8 163.0 35 32 1 2 0 .943 -6 -40 1.82 1.38 .979 2.09 2.07
1959 DET AL 36 1B 32 213 197 10 6 20 .972 -1 6.47 .990 9.77
1959 DET AL 36 OF 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 1.00 .980 2.20
1959 DET AL 36 RF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .980 1.80 1.90
11 Seasons OF 1007 142 142 1253.2 2233 2081 81 71 14 .968 -28 -27 2.53 2.15 .980 11.75 2.39
10 Seasons LF 1006 996 871 8165.1 2228 2079 78 71 15 .968 -28 -4 2.29 2.14 .977 2.27 2.27
3 Seasons 1B 35 224 206 11 7 20 .969 -2 6.20 .990 9.75
1 Season RF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .980 1.80 1.90
11 Seasons TOT 1042 142 142 1253.2 2457 2287 92 78 34 .968 -30 -29 2.53 2.28 .981 11.75 2.63
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1953 (LF)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1951 AL (20, 4%)
1953 AL (18, 5%)
0.09 Career Shares (940th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1953 AL  3.5 (10th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1951 AL  .511 (3rd)
1953 AL  .559 (2nd)
1955 AL  .508 (3rd)
1957 AL  .471 (8th)
Career  .486 (156th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1951 AL  .856 (10th)
1953 AL  .914 (3rd)

At Bats s c a p y
1951 AL  571 (7th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1951 AL  92 (8th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1951 AL  292 (2nd)
1952 AL  248 (8th)
1953 AL  311 (3rd)

Doubles s c a p y
1951 AL  30 (9th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1950 AL  29 (5th)
1951 AL  33 (1st)
1952 AL  29 (4th)
1953 AL  42 (2nd)
1955 AL  30 (2nd)
1957 AL  27 (5th)
Career  237 (230th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1951 AL  129 (1st)
1952 AL  100 (4th)
1953 AL  108 (4th)
1955 AL  84 (9th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1950 AL  110 (1st)
1951 AL  101 (1st)
1952 AL  87 (4th)
1953 AL  79 (4th)
1955 AL  90 (4th)
1957 AL  84 (4th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1953 AL  140 (7th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1951 AL  100 (5th)
1952 AL  86 (10th)
1953 AL  110 (3rd)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1953 AL  27 (8th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1953 AL  2.7 (8th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1951 AL  68 (1st)
1953 AL  66 (3rd)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1951 AL  .640 (10th)
1953 AL  .706 (4th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1955 AL  8 (2nd)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1955 AL  17 (6th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1952 AL  8.5 (9th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1950 AL  18.7 (4th)
1951 AL  17.3 (1st)
1952 AL  18.9 (5th)
1953 AL  13.2 (1st)
1955 AL  13.8 (1st)
1957 AL  16.2 (4th)
Career  17.4 (57th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1951 AL  435 (7th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1953 AL  4.0 (6th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1953 AL  2.4 (10th)

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  1,006 (60th)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  2,079 (44th)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  78 (41st)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  71 (24th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1951 AL  142 (3rd)
1952 AL  141 (5th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1951 AL  18 (1st)
1953 AL  17 (3rd)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1950 AL  10 (2nd)
1951 AL  10 (3rd)
1952 AL  9 (2nd)
1953 AL  9 (3rd)
1954 AL  9 (2nd)
1955 AL  9 (2nd)
1957 AL  11 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1951 AL  2.48 (3rd)
1952 AL  2.23 (4th)
1953 AL  2.33 (1st)
1954 AL  2.19 (5th)
1955 AL  2.53 (1st)
1957 AL  2.05 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1950 AL  2.27 (5th)
1951 AL  2.44 (2nd)
1952 AL  2.20 (1st)
1953 AL  2.27 (1st)
1954 AL  2.03 (5th)
1955 AL  2.35 (1st)
Career  2.14 (35th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1951 AL  .972 (5th)
1952 AL  .972 (5th)
1953 AL  .973 (4th)

             

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 8 (283), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 58 (434), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 28 (640), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 18 (886), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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