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Joe Cunningham played 12 major-league seasons (1954-1966) as a 1B (607), OF (440). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 12 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 23 | SLN | 85 | 310 | 40 | 88 | 11 | 50 | 1 | 43 | 40 | .284 | .820 | 120 |
| 1956 | 25 | SLN | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .250 | -23 |
| 1957 | 26 | SLN | 122 | 261 | 50 | 83 | 9 | 52 | 3 | 56 | 29 | .318 | .918 | 155 |
| 1958 | 27 | SLN | 131 | 337 | 61 | 105 | 12 | 57 | 4 | 82 | 23 | .312 | .945 | 158 |
| 1959 | 28 | SLN | 144 | 458 | 65 | 158 | 7 | 60 | 2 | 88 | 47 | .345 | .931 | 158 |
| 1960 | 29 | SLN | 139 | 492 | 68 | 138 | 6 | 39 | 1 | 59 | 59 | .280 | .749 | 112 |
| 1961 | 30 | SLN | 113 | 322 | 60 | 92 | 7 | 40 | 1 | 53 | 32 | .286 | .801 | 120 |
| 1962 | 31 | CHA | 149 | 526 | 91 | 155 | 8 | 70 | 3 | 101 | 59 | .295 | .837 | 134 |
| 1963 | 32 | CHA | 67 | 210 | 32 | 60 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 33 | 23 | .286 | .755 | 120 |
| 1964 | 33 | CHA|WS2 | 89 | 234 | 28 | 54 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 37 | 28 | .231 | .626 | 83 |
| 1965 | 34 | WS2 | 95 | 201 | 29 | 46 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 46 | 27 | .229 | .703 | 109 |
| 1966 | 35 | WS2 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .125 | .250 | -25 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 1B | 85 | 84 | 814 | 68 | 10 | 96 |
| 1956 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957 | 1B | 57 | 22 | 279 | 17 | 0 | 17 |
| 1957 | OF | 46 | 42 | 81 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1958 | 1B | 67 | 31 | 328 | 23 | 1 | 19 |
| 1958 | OF | 66 | 60 | 90 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 1959 | OF | 121 | 117 | 201 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 1959 | 1B | 35 | 10 | 158 | 9 | 1 | 22 |
| 1960 | OF | 116 | 108 | 184 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
| 1960 | 1B | 15 | 14 | 114 | 10 | 0 | 7 |
| 1961 | OF | 86 | 77 | 131 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 1961 | 1B | 10 | 6 | 69 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1962 | 1B | 143 | 142 | 1282 | 90 | 8 | 118 |
| 1962 | OF | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1963 | 1B | 58 | 57 | 535 | 24 | 6 | 39 |
| 1964 | 1B | 74 | 63 | 580 | 29 | 2 | 53 |
| 1965 | 1B | 59 | 43 | 393 | 24 | 6 | 44 |
| 1966 | 1B | 3 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1962, 1959.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 14 | 12 / 336 | 0 |
| 1962 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 18 | 9 / 280 | 0 |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.