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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1926-11-22 · Played 1950–1967 · College: University of Richmond (1946) · Career WAR 28.6 (bWAR) ·

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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
1950	NYA	AL	2		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0
1951	BSN	NL	3		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0
1952	BSN	NL	45		35	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	.114	.205	.114	.319	-0.1
1953	ML1	NL	46		53	4	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	13	.170	.170	.170	.340	-0.1
1954	ML1	NL	39		79	3	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	14	.089	.119	.101	.220	-0.5
1955	ML1	NL	45		86	10	20	5	0	0	7	0	0	3	20	.233	.258	.291	.549	0.4
1956	ML1	NL	45		86	9	16	1	0	0	8	0	0	2	16	.186	.209	.198	.407	-0.1
1957	ML1	NL	41		88	11	13	2	0	2	9	0	0	3	22	.148	.183	.239	.422	0.1
1958	ML1	NL	47		99	11	24	1	1	3	15	0	0	3	24	.242	.272	.364	.636	0.8
1959	ML1	NL	52		104	14	21	7	1	0	8	0	0	3	36	.202	.231	.288	.519	0.7
1960	ML1	NL	46		91	11	16	3	0	2	4	0	0	7	22	.176	.240	.275	.515	0.4
1961	ML1	NL	42		103	10	21	5	0	3	11	0	0	2	39	.204	.219	.340	.559	0.7
1962	ML1	NL	39		51	6	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	17	.176	.208	.176	.384	-0.1
1963	ML1	NL	17		26	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	11	.038	.138	.115	.253	0.0
1963	SLN	NL	21		31	0	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	6	.097	.097	.129	.226
1964	SLN	NL	8		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.7
1964	CHN	NL	28		43	6	12	0	1	2	4	0	0	3	12	.279	.340	.465	.805
1965	CHN	NL	8		6	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.500	.833	0.3
1965	PHI	NL	19		20	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.300	.300	.300	.600
1966	CAL	AL	54		8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.250	0.0
1967	CAL	AL	19		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0
Total			666		1011	101	185	27	4	12	75	2	0	32	271	.183	.208	.253	.461	3.2

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1950	NYA	AL	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.1	3	1	0	0	0	6.75	2.250	0.0
1951	BSN	NL	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	4.1	6	3	0	5	1	6.23	2.538	-0.1
1952	BSN	NL	6	11	45	9	5	0	7	137.0	138	55	8	47	47	3.61	1.350	2.6
1953	ML1	NL	15	5	46	13	6	1	8	175.0	177	63	7	56	58	3.24	1.331	3.4
1954	ML1	NL	15	14	38	32	13	4	0	238.0	224	73	17	62	79	2.76	1.202	4.8
1955	ML1	NL	13	8	42	33	11	2	0	230.0	253	103	25	73	70	4.03	1.417	1.8
1956	ML1	NL	19	10	39	35	16	6	1	256.1	234	77	22	52	110	2.70	1.116	4.2
1957	ML1	NL	17	9	37	33	14	1	0	256.2	260	106	25	59	78	3.72	1.243	1.2
1958	ML1	NL	20	10	40	36	19	3	0	275.1	279	89	18	50	113	2.91	1.195	3.4
1959	ML1	NL	21	15	41	39	20	4	1	289.2	312	131	38	38	105	4.07	1.208	1.1
1960	ML1	NL	19	13	45	32	18	4	4	275.2	277	103	19	35	83	3.36	1.132	3.1
1961	ML1	NL	18	11	40	36	14	3	0	272.1	295	121	31	33	92	4.00	1.204	1.3
1962	ML1	NL	10	9	37	19	6	1	2	143.2	172	78	26	23	59	4.89	1.357	-0.5
1963	ML1	NL	6	5	15	13	4	1	0	84.0	71	34	15	24	28	3.64	1.131	-0.2
1963	SLN	NL	3	8	21	14	3	0	2	98.0	106	41	6	16	45	3.77	1.245
1964	SLN	NL	1	0	8	0	0	0	0	10.0	10	2	1	3	3	1.80	1.300	0.2
1964	CHN	NL	9	9	28	17	8	2	0	131.0	152	71	15	19	40	4.88	1.305
1965	CHN	NL	0	2	7	3	0	0	0	20.1	26	12	3	4	5	5.31	1.475	-1.6
1965	PHI	NL	3	3	19	9	1	1	0	70.2	95	43	5	17	23	5.48	1.585
1966	CAL	AL	7	2	54	0	0	0	5	79.2	80	30	4	12	27	3.39	1.155	0.9
1967	CAL	AL	1	0	19	0	0	0	1	18.1	16	10	4	0	8	4.91	.873	-0.2
Total			203	144	626	373	158	33	31	3067.1	3186	1246	289	628	1074	3.66	1.243	25.4

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1950	NYA	AL	P	2			0	1	0	1
1951	BSN	NL	P	3			0	1	0	0
1952	BSN	NL	P	45			9	29	1	3
1953	ML1	NL	P	46			11	37	1	6
1954	ML1	NL	P	38	32	238.0	17	49	4	4
1955	ML1	NL	P	42	33	230.0	18	47	2	6
1956	ML1	NL	P	39	35	256.1	19	48	1	4
1957	ML1	NL	P	37	33	256.2	22	53	4	3
1958	ML1	NL	P	40	36	275.1	27	53	1	4
1959	ML1	NL	P	41	39	289.2	21	47	1	6
1960	ML1	NL	P	45	32	275.2	31	68	2	6
1961	ML1	NL	P	40	36	272.1	27	60	1	2
1962	ML1	NL	P	37	19	143.2	8	33	2	1
1963	ML1	NL	P	15	13	84.1	7	15	3	2
1963	SLN	NL	P	21	14	98.1	4	12	2	1
1964	SLN	NL	P	8	0	10.0	0	2	0	0
1964	CHN	NL	P	28	17	131.0	10	34	0	3
1965	CHN	NL	P	7	3	20.1	2	3	0	0
1965	PHI	NL	P	19	9	70.2	4	14	0	3
1966	CAL	AL	P	54	0	79.2	8	11	2	0
1967	CAL	AL	P	19	0	18.1	0	5	0	0
Total				626	351	2750.1	245	622	27	55

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1957	Babe Ruth Award	NL
1957	World Series MVP	ML

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1973	BBWAA	12	285	No
1974	BBWAA	7	274	No
1975	BBWAA	11	272	No
1976	BBWAA	21	291	No
1977	BBWAA	85	288	No
1978	BBWAA	76	285	No
1979	BBWAA	53	324	No
1980	BBWAA	66	289	No
1981	BBWAA	48	301	No
1982	BBWAA	43	312	No
1983	BBWAA	43	281	No
1984	BBWAA	97	303	No
1985	BBWAA	82	297	No
1986	BBWAA	96	319	No
1987	BBWAA	96	310	No
2003	Veterans - Players			No
2005	Veterans - Players			No
2007	Veterans - Players			No

Ejections (4)

Date	As	Reason
1954-06-10	Player	Call at HP
1954-09-04	Player	Bench jockeying
1955-08-01	Player	Balls and strikes
1961-06-01	Player	Throwing at batter