Ernie Banks (innate January 31, 1931) is an American former Major League baseball player who played from either 1953 to 1971. Banks occurs as member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. His nickname was "Mr. Cub".

He was natural within Dallas, Texas, signed with a Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in 1950 and broke into a major leagues around 1953 sustaining a Chicago Cubs as their first melanise streaming video player. Banks played for the Cubs his entire career starting at shortstop and moving to first base within 1962. He bore a total Xiv as a Cub, & is one of merely 4 Cubs players, world health organization will have their total out per organization. He is easily known for his catchphrase of ''"let's play two"'', expressing his wish to play the double-twin bill daily away from his pure love for the game of baseball.

Banks won a National League Most Valuable Player Award twice, in 1958 and 1959. This exploit is amazing, since a Cubs were never pennant competition in the period of Banks' career & this award is unremarkably given to players world health organization contribute substantially to their teams' championship causes. The contemporary sports writer remarked that, "Without Ernie Banks, the Cubs would have finished the season in Albuquerque!"

In 22 August 1982 No. Fourteen became a total one streaming video player to keep close at hand his number out per Chicago Cubs.

Stats
Height: Half a dozen'- 1" Weight: 180 lb (82 kg) Bats: Right Throws: Right Uniform number: 14 MLB Batting average: .274 Hits: 2,583 RBI's: 1,636 Homeruns: 512 '''Cubs' all-time leader: Games played (2,528) At-bats (9,421) Total bases (4,706)

Major League Single Season Records''' 5 grand slam home runs in 1955

Years Led League by Statistical category
Shortstop Major League Leader: Fielding Average - 1 time Fewest errors - 1 time National League Leader: Games played - 6 times Extra base hits - 4 times Home runs - 2 times RBI's - 2 times Slugging percentage - 1 time Total bases - 1 time At bats - 1 time