Bill White played 13 seasons (1956–1969) for SF, STL and PHI. Career regular-season line: 1,706 hits, 202 home runs and a .286 average. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1963. Honors: 7× Gold Gloves and 5× All-Star Selections.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 96.9th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleMLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsMLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every Team
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
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Rate Bill White — All-Time
11 seasons · peak 13.1 in 1963
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
35.0 career wins over 11 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1963 · +5.0 wins
Latest season · 1968 · +0.9 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Bill White led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 8 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1963, 11 rated seasons.
Season boards
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top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 14 seasons (1956–1969) — a true nomad. The crest trail: