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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1931	BRO	NL	5		12	1	3	0	1	0	0	0		0	2	.250	.250	.417	.667	0.1
1932	BRO	NL	39		79	3	16	2	0	0	2	0		3	20	.203	.232	.228	.460	0.0
1933	BRO	NL	41		84	2	15	1	1	0	4	0		2	12	.179	.198	.214	.412	0.1
1934	BRO	NL	46		121	10	30	5	0	0	10	0		4	26	.248	.272	.289	.561	0.7
1935	BRO	NL	44		90	9	26	3	0	0	19	0		1	10	.289	.297	.322	.619	0.6
1936	BRO	NL	50		123	11	22	2	0	0	11	0		1	26	.179	.185	.195	.380	-0.3
1937	BRO	NL	28		64	4	16	3	0	0	9	0		3	16	.250	.284	.297	.581	0.3
1938	BRO	NL	32		47	5	9	1	0	0	4	1		7	14	.191	.296	.213	.509	0.3
1939	BRO	NL	29		29	5	10	3	0	0	4	0		3	8	.345	.406	.448	.854	0.4
1940	BRO	NL	8		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1
1941	BRO	NL	2		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0
1942	NY1	NL	9		14	1	3	0	0	0	0	0		0	5	.214	.214	.214	.428	0.0
1943	NY1	NL	49		44	1	7	1	0	0	2	0		1	14	.159	.178	.182	.360	-0.2
1945	NY1	NL	28		73	4	17	3	2	0	9	0		4	10	.233	.282	.329	.611	0.4
Total			410		787	56	174	24	4	0	74	1	0	29	164	.221	.249	.262	.511	2.3

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1931	BRO	NL	3	1	5	4	2	1	0	31.0	27	8	0	13	12	2.32	1.290	1.0
1932	BRO	NL	13	11	39	33	11	1	2	223.1	224	110	9	115	107	4.43	1.518	0.7
1933	BRO	NL	16	15	41	28	18	3	0	248.0	223	75	7	84	110	2.72	1.238	5.2
1934	BRO	NL	18	16	45	38	22	3	3	315.1	300	118	15	104	184	3.37	1.281	4.7
1935	BRO	NL	16	10	37	26	18	4	2	214.1	205	87	13	90	143	3.65	1.376	2.5
1936	BRO	NL	18	19	45	37	22	2	3	311.2	275	116	8	118	238	3.35	1.261	6.6
1937	BRO	NL	9	11	25	21	14	0	3	161.0	136	52	3	56	122	2.91	1.193	4.3
1938	BRO	NL	4	11	24	18	6	2	0	133.1	133	58	11	72	72	3.92	1.538	0.5
1939	BRO	NL	4	5	14	10	1	0	0	77.1	70	28	7	33	34	3.26	1.332	1.2
1940	BRO	NL	1	0	7	0	0	0	1	22.0	24	6	1	10	9	2.45	1.545	0.8
1941	BRO	NL	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2.0	1	1	0	2	0	4.50	1.500	0.0
1942	NY1	NL	1	2	9	5	0	0	0	36.1	38	24	4	21	27	5.94	1.624	-1.3
1943	NY1	NL	3	7	45	13	2	2	2	154.1	140	67	7	79	83	3.91	1.419	1.5
1945	NY1	NL	14	7	26	26	7	2	0	183.0	161	65	4	71	101	3.20	1.268	3.0
Total			120	115	364	259	123	20	16	2113.0	1957	815	89	868	1242	3.47	1.337	30.7

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1931	BRO	NL	P	5			1	4	0	0
1932	BRO	NL	P	39			15	48	2	4
1933	BRO	NL	P	41			15	55	3	1
1934	BRO	NL	P	45			14	67	3	3
1935	BRO	NL	P	37			10	45	2	1
1936	BRO	NL	OF	1			1	0	0	0
1936	BRO	NL	P	45			11	67	8	7
1937	BRO	NL	P	25			12	41	0	0
1938	BRO	NL	P	24			4	31	0	2
1939	BRO	NL	OF	1			0	0	0	0
1939	BRO	NL	P	14			4	10	0	0
1940	BRO	NL	P	7			0	3	0	0
1941	BRO	NL	P	2			0	1	0	0
1942	NY1	NL	P	9			2	6	0	2
1943	NY1	NL	P	45			5	36	0	1
1945	NY1	NL	P	26			6	34	5	1
Total				366			100	448	23	22

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1945	BBWAA	1	186	No
1948	BBWAA	1	91	No
1958	BBWAA	2	200	No
1960	BBWAA	2	202	No

Ejections (4)

Date	As	Reason
1932-06-23	Player	Call at 1B
1932-09-20	Player	Call at 2B
1933-07-14	Player	Balls and strikes
1936-04-15	Player	Fighting