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Whitey Kurowski played 9 major-league seasons (1941-1949) as a 3B (868), SS (10), 2B (9), OF (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 9 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 23 | SLN | 5 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .956 | 176 |
| 1942 | 24 | SLN | 115 | 366 | 51 | 93 | 9 | 42 | 7 | 33 | 60 | .254 | .717 | 116 |
| 1943 | 25 | SLN | 139 | 522 | 69 | 150 | 13 | 70 | 3 | 31 | 54 | .287 | .768 | 128 |
| 1944 | 26 | SLN | 149 | 555 | 95 | 150 | 20 | 87 | 2 | 58 | 40 | .270 | .790 | 128 |
| 1945 | 27 | SLN | 133 | 511 | 84 | 165 | 21 | 102 | 1 | 45 | 45 | .323 | .894 | 156 |
| 1946 | 28 | SLN | 142 | 519 | 76 | 156 | 14 | 89 | 2 | 72 | 47 | .301 | .853 | 149 |
| 1947 | 29 | SLN | 146 | 513 | 108 | 159 | 27 | 104 | 4 | 87 | 56 | .310 | .964 | 163 |
| 1948 | 30 | SLN | 77 | 220 | 34 | 47 | 2 | 33 | 0 | 42 | 28 | .214 | .629 | 78 |
| 1949 | 31 | SLN | 10 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .143 | .343 | -3 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 3B | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942 | 3B | 104 | 0 | 124 | 194 | 19 | 19 |
| 1942 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943 | 3B | 137 | 0 | 166 | 255 | 21 | 29 |
| 1943 | SS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944 | 3B | 146 | 0 | 188 | 281 | 17 | 20 |
| 1944 | 2B | 9 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 1944 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945 | 3B | 131 | 0 | 172 | 235 | 15 | 28 |
| 1945 | SS | 6 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1946 | 3B | 138 | 0 | 175 | 249 | 15 | 17 |
| 1947 | 3B | 141 | 0 | 140 | 250 | 19 | 17 |
| 1948 | 3B | 65 | 0 | 55 | 100 | 10 | 7 |
| 1949 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 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.
Whitey Kurowski won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1945 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1945 (NL), TSN All-Star 1945 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1946 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1946 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1947, 1946, 1945, 1944, 1942.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 25 | 6 / 336 | 0 |
| 1944 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 30 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1945 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 5 | 90 / 336 | 0 |
| 1946 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 31 | 3 / 336 | 0 |
| 1947 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 9 | 45 / 336 | 0 |
Whitey Kurowski ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #77 | third basemen | 1947 | 163 OPS+ |
| #101 | third basemen | 1945 | 156 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.