Red Schoendienst

Teams Red Schoendienst Managed

St. Louis Cardinals (1965-1990)

Where does Red Schoendienst rank among baseball greats?

Red Schoendienst ranks among the Top 50 all-time at 2B. Rankings
 

Red Schoendienst All Time Teammates:

Best Season: 1953
Schoendienst was in his ninth year with the Cardinals, and he finished second in the NL batting race, hitting .342 to Carl Furillo's .344. He scored 107 runs, collected 193 hits, 35 doubles, five triples and 60 walks. He drove in 79 runs from the #2 spot in the order and set a career-high with 15 home runs. He was elected to the All-Star team for the seventh time.

Where He Played
Led NL second basemen in fielding seven times, and in 1956 his .9934 fielding average set a record. In 1950, Schoendienst went 57 straight games without an error, and 323 chances - a record.

Born
Albert Fred Schoendienst was born on February 2, 1923, in Germantown, IL.

Batted:  Both
Threw:  Right

Major League Debut
4 17,1945

Nine Other Players Who Debuted in 1945
Red Schoendienst
Whitey Lockman
Del Rice
Billy Pierce
Art Houtteman
Sal Maglie
Joe Astroth
Herm Wehmeier
Pete Gray

Similar Players
Derek Jeter

Related Players
Ryne Sandberg finally broke Schoendienst's 30-year old fielding record, in 1986.

Post-Season Appearances
1946 World Series
1957 World Series
1958 World Series

Batting Feats

• July 8, 1951: Switch HR same game...

Notes
Was third in 1957 NL MVP voting, behind Hank Aaron and Stan Musial... Schoendienst was a .303 batter as a pinch-hitter over his career. His lifetime batting average was .289.

Hitting Streaks
28 games (1954)
23 games (1957)

All-Star Selections
1946 NL
1948 NL
1949 NL
1950 NL
1951 NL
1952 NL
1953 NL
1954 NL
1955 NL
1957 NL

Replaced
Emil Verban

Replaced By
Chuck Cottier, Julian Javier

Best Strength as a Player
Range at second base, and he was also excellent at the hit-and-run. He was a prototypical #2 hitter.

Largest Weakness as a Player
He had very little home run power, though for some reason he belted 15 longballs in 1953, which was more than twice as many as he had hit before that. It was his finest offensive season.