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Walker Cooper played 18 major-league seasons (1940-1957) as a C (1,223). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 18 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 25 | SLN | 6 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .316 | .749 | 115 |
| 1941 | 26 | SLN | 68 | 200 | 19 | 49 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 13 | 14 | .245 | .606 | 76 |
| 1942 | 27 | SLN | 125 | 438 | 58 | 123 | 7 | 65 | 4 | 29 | 29 | .281 | .761 | 129 |
| 1943 | 28 | SLN | 122 | 449 | 52 | 143 | 9 | 81 | 1 | 19 | 19 | .318 | .812 | 141 |
| 1944 | 29 | SLN | 112 | 397 | 56 | 126 | 13 | 72 | 4 | 20 | 19 | .317 | .855 | 147 |
| 1945 | 30 | SLN | 4 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .389 | .778 | 124 |
| 1946 | 31 | NY1 | 87 | 280 | 29 | 75 | 8 | 46 | 0 | 17 | 12 | .268 | .706 | 106 |
| 1947 | 32 | NY1 | 140 | 515 | 79 | 157 | 35 | 122 | 2 | 24 | 43 | .305 | .926 | 151 |
| 1948 | 33 | NY1 | 91 | 290 | 40 | 77 | 16 | 54 | 1 | 28 | 29 | .266 | .805 | 123 |
| 1949 | 34 | NY1|CIN | 124 | 454 | 48 | 117 | 20 | 83 | 0 | 28 | 32 | .258 | .744 | 104 |
| 1950 | 35 | CIN|BSN | 117 | 384 | 55 | 120 | 14 | 64 | 1 | 30 | 31 | .313 | .862 | 133 |
| 1951 | 36 | BSN | 109 | 342 | 42 | 107 | 18 | 59 | 1 | 28 | 18 | .313 | .884 | 143 |
| 1952 | 37 | BSN | 102 | 349 | 33 | 82 | 10 | 55 | 1 | 22 | 32 | .235 | .643 | 84 |
| 1953 | 38 | ML1 | 53 | 137 | 12 | 30 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 15 | .219 | .615 | 65 |
| 1954 | 39 | PIT|CHN | 71 | 173 | 21 | 52 | 7 | 33 | 0 | 23 | 24 | .301 | .903 | 141 |
| 1955 | 40 | CHN | 54 | 111 | 11 | 31 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 6 | 19 | .279 | .881 | 135 |
| 1956 | 41 | SLN | 40 | 68 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 8 | .265 | .752 | 105 |
| 1957 | 42 | SLN | 48 | 78 | 7 | 21 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 10 | .269 | .784 | 114 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | C | 6 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941 | C | 63 | 0 | 247 | 39 | 10 | 11 |
| 1942 | C | 115 | 0 | 519 | 62 | 17 | 6 |
| 1943 | C | 112 | 0 | 504 | 49 | 14 | 5 |
| 1944 | C | 97 | 0 | 442 | 40 | 10 | 7 |
| 1945 | C | 4 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1946 | C | 73 | 0 | 277 | 38 | 9 | 3 |
| 1947 | C | 132 | 0 | 561 | 51 | 13 | 8 |
| 1948 | C | 79 | 0 | 307 | 21 | 7 | 3 |
| 1949 | C | 117 | 0 | 464 | 61 | 11 | 5 |
| 1950 | C | 101 | 0 | 448 | 54 | 14 | 9 |
| 1951 | C | 90 | 0 | 367 | 57 | 8 | 9 |
| 1952 | C | 89 | 0 | 417 | 55 | 8 | 8 |
| 1953 | C | 35 | 0 | 165 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| 1954 | C | 50 | 44 | 196 | 31 | 5 | 4 |
| 1955 | C | 31 | 21 | 88 | 11 | 4 | 1 |
| 1956 | C | 16 | 12 | 56 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 1957 | C | 13 | 12 | 62 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
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.
Walker Cooper won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (NL), TSN All-Star 1943 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1944 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1944 (NL), TSN All-Star 1944 (ML), TSN All-Star 1947 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1952, 1947, 1944, 1943, 1942.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 11 | 28 / 336 | 0 |
| 1943 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 2 | 192 / 336 | 5 |
| 1944 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 8 | 72 / 336 | 1 |
| 1947 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 18 | 19 / 336 | 0 |
| 1952 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 40 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
Walker Cooper ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #59 | catchers | 1947 | 151 OPS+ |
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.