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Bats: L · Throws: R · Born 1907-05-11 · Played 1932–1949 · College: Marion Military Institute (1927–1929), Vanderbilt University (1930–1931) · Career WAR 27.1 (bWAR) ·

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1932	DET	AL	5	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	0.0
1938	PIT	NL	17	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	.083	.083	.083	.166	-0.1
1939	PIT	NL	52	55	5	11	1	0	1	4	0		3	11	.200	.241	.273	.514	0.2
1940	PIT	NL	47	73	14	14	2	1	1	4	0		3	19	.192	.224	.288	.512	0.1
1941	PIT	NL	42	92	12	16	2	0	1	5	0		3	15	.174	.200	.228	.428	0.0
1942	PIT	NL	41	87	9	13	3	0	0	4	2		3	19	.149	.178	.184	.362	-0.2
1943	PIT	NL	41	105	9	30	4	1	0	17	7		2	21	.286	.299	.343	.642	0.8
1944	PIT	NL	44	112	10	25	4	1	1	12	1		2	19	.223	.237	.304	.541	0.3
1945	PIT	NL	35	64	10	20	3	0	0	6	1		7	11	.312	.380	.359	.739	0.7
1946	PIT	NL	26	50	4	9	2	0	0	1	1		4	12	.180	.241	.220	.461	0.0
1947	PIT	NL	24	40	2	5	0	0	1	4	0		1	6	.125	.146	.200	.346	-0.2
1948	PIT	NL	21	42	5	6	1	0	1	2	0		6	15	.143	.250	.238	.488	0.2
1949	PIT	NL	28	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0		3	4	.062	.250	.062	.312	0.0
Total			423	750	81	152	22	3	6	59	12	0	37	154	.203	.240	.264	.504	1.8

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1932	DET	AL	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	10.2	19	15	2	8	2	12.66	2.531	-0.5
1938	PIT	NL	0	1	17	0	0	0	1	38.1	41	18	3	21	17	4.23	1.617	-0.5
1939	PIT	NL	10	9	52	12	5	1	2	176.1	177	80	10	73	69	4.08	1.418	1.1
1940	PIT	NL	16	5	33	23	14	2	1	189.2	169	59	6	67	60	2.80	1.244	4.5
1941	PIT	NL	14	17	39	32	18	2	2	249.0	225	103	18	84	76	3.72	1.241	1.4
1942	PIT	NL	17	15	40	33	18	5	2	248.0	259	94	13	72	69	3.41	1.335	2.0
1943	PIT	NL	21	9	35	31	25	2	3	265.1	267	75	6	75	65	2.54	1.289	5.0
1944	PIT	NL	21	12	38	33	24	3	2	286.0	263	101	15	99	87	3.18	1.266	6.0
1945	PIT	NL	11	9	33	24	9	1	1	188.0	212	85	9	91	60	4.07	1.612	-0.2
1946	PIT	NL	8	12	25	20	11	2	0	149.1	140	61	6	53	33	3.68	1.292	1.9
1947	PIT	NL	6	4	24	12	4	1	0	121.0	121	48	11	36	36	3.57	1.298	1.7
1948	PIT	NL	13	3	21	17	7	0	0	121.2	126	47	9	37	36	3.48	1.340	1.7
1949	PIT	NL	6	1	28	6	2	1	1	76.0	82	33	8	32	26	3.91	1.500	1.2
Total			143	97	390	243	137	20	15	2119.1	2101	819	116	748	636	3.48	1.344	25.3

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	PO	A	E	DP
1932	DET	AL	P	5	1	3	0	0
1938	PIT	NL	P	17	0	13	1	3
1939	PIT	NL	P	52	9	47	1	3
1940	PIT	NL	P	33	17	46	5	0
1941	PIT	NL	P	39	21	56	2	6
1942	PIT	NL	P	40	19	51	2	3
1943	PIT	NL	P	35	13	60	4	4
1944	PIT	NL	P	38	21	49	4	1
1945	PIT	NL	P	33	10	35	1	2
1946	PIT	NL	P	25	8	26	2	1
1947	PIT	NL	P	24	10	26	1	3
1948	PIT	NL	P	21	10	21	3	1
1949	PIT	NL	P	28	3	12	2	0
Total				390	142	445	28	27

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1943	Baseball Magazine All-Star	NL
1943	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML
1943	TSN All-Star	ML

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1958	BBWAA	1	200	No
1962	BBWAA	1	120	No
1964	BBWAA	1	151	No
2003	Veterans - Players			No
2005	Veterans - Players			No
2007	Veterans - Players			No

Ejections (6)

Date	As	Reason
1939-07-18	Player	Fair/foul call
1942-06-20	Player	Call 1t 2B
1943-05-13	Player	Call at 1B
1943-08-02	Player	Interference non-call
1943-08-03	Player	Bench jockeying before game
1947-07-24	Player	Out of uniform (Civilian clothes)