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Bats: B · Throws: R · Born 1928-10-17 · Played 1953–1966 · Career WAR 44.5 (bWAR) ·

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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
1953	BRO	NL	151	605	125	168	31	17	6	63	21	14	100	38	.278	.383	.415	.798	3.9
1954	BRO	NL	146	607	107	171	28	8	13	52	8	7	76	30	.282	.361	.418	.779	2.9
1955	BRO	NL	147	538	110	134	20	8	7	40	15	15	70	37	.249	.341	.355	.696	3.5
1956	BRO	NL	153	594	102	178	23	8	6	43	21	9	95	39	.300	.399	.396	.795	6.1
1957	BRO	NL	149	617	89	154	26	4	2	37	26	10	64	31	.250	.323	.314	.637	0.8
1958	LAN	NL	147	555	81	145	25	5	2	43	18	11	78	22	.261	.352	.335	.687	2.0
1959	LAN	NL	145	553	91	156	18	4	3	34	23	10	96	25	.282	.387	.345	.732	2.4
1960	LAN	NL	151	557	96	138	20	2	5	40	12	9	96	28	.248	.359	.318	.677	4.4
1961	LAN	NL	144	439	74	107	26	3	4	32	8	4	79	34	.244	.358	.344	.702	2.4
1962	LAN	NL	160	588	83	159	24	1	4	43	17	7	93	35	.270	.370	.335	.705	4.1
1963	LAN	NL	148	525	77	148	27	4	6	49	19	5	60	28	.282	.354	.383	.737	5.2
1964	LAN	NL	116	334	44	76	8	3	2	27	4	4	42	21	.228	.318	.287	.605	0.2
1965	LAN	NL	111	372	54	104	19	4	4	39	9	5	53	31	.280	.374	.384	.758	2.8
1966	LAN	NL	88	235	30	51	9	0	1	16	2	1	34	17	.217	.315	.268	.583	-0.1
Total			1956	7119	1163	1889	304	71	65	558	203	111	1036	416	.265	.359	.355	.714	40.6

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1953	BRO	NL	2B	149			332	426	19	102
1954	BRO	NL	2B	143	139	1261.0	340	388	17	99
1954	BRO	NL	OF	4	5	40.2	9	0	0	0
1955	BRO	NL	2B	99	91	833.2	213	269	16	64
1955	BRO	NL	OF	46	43	368.2	96	2	3	0
1956	BRO	NL	2B	102	98	865.0	233	326	11	64
1956	BRO	NL	OF	56	54	451.2	107	6	1	1
1957	BRO	NL	2B	148	148	1328.1	407	390	11	90
1957	BRO	NL	OF	2	1	18.0	9	0	0	0
1958	LAN	NL	2B	32	26	243.0	65	68	1	19
1958	LAN	NL	3B	44	39	353.1	38	103	9	16
1958	LAN	NL	OF	75	71	619.2	142	5	2	2
1959	LAN	NL	2B	8	6	63.0	16	13	1	2
1959	LAN	NL	3B	132	127	1156.1	121	245	16	18
1959	LAN	NL	OF	3	4	30.0	6	0	0	0
1960	LAN	NL	2B	30	23	234.1	51	69	1	12
1960	LAN	NL	3B	130	119	1065.1	101	262	15	21
1961	LAN	NL	2B	71	66	550.0	133	179	6	45
1961	LAN	NL	3B	74	35	406.1	48	104	7	9
1961	LAN	NL	OF	11	9	63.0	14	0	0	0
1962	LAN	NL	2B	113	96	817.2	192	262	9	60
1962	LAN	NL	3B	90	60	544.0	51	126	11	12
1962	LAN	NL	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
1963	LAN	NL	2B	119	110	928.0	242	277	8	61
1963	LAN	NL	3B	55	27	264.2	25	66	5	6
1964	LAN	NL	2B	25	17	178.0	47	50	6	8
1964	LAN	NL	3B	86	62	614.0	54	121	12	7
1964	LAN	NL	OF	2	0	1.1	0	0	0	0
1965	LAN	NL	2B	5	3	20.2	6	7	1	2
1965	LAN	NL	3B	80	77	587.1	55	135	8	13
1965	LAN	NL	OF	22	20	168.0	24	0	1	0
1966	LAN	NL	1B	2	0	4.0	1	0	0	0
1966	LAN	NL	2B	2	0	1.0	2	0	0	0
1966	LAN	NL	3B	70	52	477.1	40	103	7	8
Total				2031	1628	14559.1	3220	4002	204	741

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1953	Rookie of the Year	NL
1953	TSN Rookie of the Year	NL
1963	TSN All-Star	NL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Inducted
2003	Veterans - Players	No
2005	Veterans - Players	No
2007	Veterans - Players	No

Ejections (6)

Date	As	Reason
1957-07-11	Player	Fighting
1960-05-07	Player	Call at 3B (Bumped umpire)
1961-04-22	Player	Call at 2B
1962-05-10	Player	Call at 2B (Threw helmet)
1963-06-23	Player	Called third strike
1966-09-11	Player	Called strike 3

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