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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1929-07-14 · Played 1954–1966 · Career WAR 22.8 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=purkebo01, LAHMAN=purkebo01, MLBAM=120807, RETROSHEET=purkb101

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1954	PIT	NL	36	26	2	2	1	0	0	4	4	12	.077	.200	.115	.315	-0.2
1955	PIT	NL	14	19	1	6	0	0	1	4	0	4	.316	.316	.474	.790	0.2
1956	PIT	NL	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0
1957	PIT	NL	48	45	3	5	0	2	0	6	3	22	.111	.180	.200	.380	0.0
1958	CIN	NL	37	81	9	9	2	0	1	4	6	42	.111	.170	.173	.343	-0.4
1959	CIN	NL	38	66	8	11	2	1	1	6	6	34	.167	.247	.273	.520	0.2
1960	CIN	NL	41	83	6	11	0	0	0	5	7	44	.133	.200	.133	.333	-0.2
1961	CIN	NL	36	80	6	8	2	0	1	4	2	32	.100	.133	.163	.296	-0.5
1962	CIN	NL	37	107	9	11	2	0	2	3	4	56	.103	.134	.178	.312	-0.2
1963	CIN	NL	21	41	3	4	0	0	0	2	4	22	.098	.174	.098	.272	0.0
1964	CIN	NL	34	58	3	3	0	0	0	1	1	33	.052	.082	.052	.134	-0.5
1965	SLN	NL	32	35	3	1	0	0	0	3	1	21	.029	.056	.029	.085	-0.4
1966	PIT	NL	11	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1
Total			387	645	53	71	9	3	6	42	38	325	.110	.160	.161	.321	-2.1

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1954	PIT	NL	3	8	36	11	0	0	0	131.1	145	74	3	62	38	5.07	1.576	0.9
1955	PIT	NL	2	7	14	10	2	0	1	67.2	77	40	5	25	24	5.32	1.507	-0.2
1956	PIT	NL	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	4.0	2	1	1	0	1	2.25	.500	0.1
1957	PIT	NL	11	14	48	21	6	1	2	179.2	194	77	10	38	51	3.86	1.291	1.4
1958	CIN	NL	17	11	37	34	17	3	0	250.0	259	100	25	49	70	3.60	1.232	4.9
1959	CIN	NL	13	18	38	33	9	1	1	218.0	241	103	25	43	78	4.25	1.303	1.3
1960	CIN	NL	17	11	41	33	11	1	0	252.2	259	101	23	59	97	3.60	1.259	3.6
1961	CIN	NL	16	12	36	34	13	1	1	246.1	245	102	27	51	116	3.73	1.202	2.7
1962	CIN	NL	23	5	37	37	18	2	0	288.1	260	90	28	64	141	2.81	1.124	7.2
1963	CIN	NL	6	10	21	21	4	1	0	137.0	143	54	12	33	55	3.55	1.285	1.1
1964	CIN	NL	11	9	34	25	9	2	1	195.2	181	66	16	49	78	3.04	1.175	3.0
1965	SLN	NL	10	9	32	17	3	1	2	124.1	148	80	20	33	39	5.79	1.456	-1.9
1966	PIT	NL	0	1	10	0	0	0	1	19.2	16	3	0	4	5	1.37	1.017	0.8
Total			129	115	386	276	92	13	9	2114.2	2170	891	195	510	793	3.79	1.267	24.9

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1954	PIT	NL	P	36	11	131.1	16	40	0	6
1955	PIT	NL	P	14	10	67.2	2	16	1	0
1956	PIT	NL	P	2	0	4.0	0	1	0	0
1957	PIT	NL	P	48	21	179.2	13	30	3	3
1958	CIN	NL	P	37	34	250.0	10	56	1	2
1959	CIN	NL	P	38	33	218.0	19	35	2	1
1960	CIN	NL	P	41	33	252.2	30	47	1	5
1961	CIN	NL	P	36	34	246.1	29	69	2	2
1962	CIN	NL	P	37	37	288.1	25	59	4	7
1963	CIN	NL	P	21	21	137.0	15	29	3	0
1964	CIN	NL	P	34	25	195.2	17	44	4	4
1965	SLN	NL	P	32	17	124.1	8	28	1	1
1966	PIT	NL	P	10	0	19.2	0	10	1	1
Total				386	276	2114.2	184	464	23	32

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1962	TSN All-Star	NL

Ejections (3)