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Bats: L · Throws: R · Born 1928-01-10 · Played 1952–1957 · College: University of Iowa (1947–1950) · Career WAR -0.8 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=dittmja01, LAHMAN=dittmja01, MLBAM=113394, RETROSHEET=dittj101

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1952	BSN	NL	93	326	26	63	7	2	7	41	1	0	26	26	.193	.255	.291	.546	-0.9
1953	ML1	NL	138	504	54	134	22	1	9	63	1	0	18	35	.266	.293	.367	.660	-0.2
1954	ML1	NL	66	192	22	47	8	0	6	20	0	1	19	17	.245	.319	.380	.699	0.8
1955	ML1	NL	38	72	4	9	1	1	1	4	0	0	4	15	.125	.171	.208	.379	-0.9
1956	ML1	NL	44	102	8	25	4	0	1	6	0	0	8	8	.245	.300	.314	.614	0.4
1957	DET	AL	16	22	3	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	.227	.292	.273	.565	0.0
Total			395	1218	117	283	43	4	24	136	2	1	77	102	.232	.278	.333	.611	-0.8

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1952	BSN	NL	2B	90			228	267	9	60
1953	ML1	NL	2B	138			290	343	23	95
1954	ML1	NL	2B	55	50	445.0	119	141	6	31
1955	ML1	NL	2B	28	17	165.2	44	42	2	9
1956	ML1	NL	2B	42	23	248.1	64	78	3	15
1957	DET	AL	2B	1	1	5.0	1	1	0	0
1957	DET	AL	3B	3	2	16.1	3	3	0	0
Total				357	93	880.1	749	875	43	210

Ejections (1)

Date	As	Reason
1955-09-13	Player	Call at 1B

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