Al Dark

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornJanuary 7, 1922 · Comanche, OK, USA

MLB debutJuly 14, 1946

Final gameOctober 2, 1960

Seasons14 (1946–1960)

Boston Braves 1946; Boston Braves 1948–1949; New York Giants 1950–1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956–1957; Chicago Cubs 1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1958; Chicago Cubs 1959; Milwaukee Braves 1960; Philadelphia Phillies 1960

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified batters

136

24.6

545

27.5

477

23.2

15.9

126

17.4

92.8

15.9

RBI

17.4

52.2

63.8

8.7

76.8

.264

27.5

OBP

.342

47.8

SLG

.386

24.6

OPS

.728

27.5

wRC+

93.5

20.3

OPS+

93.9

23.2

wOBA

.327

24.6

sWAR

1.6

24.6

of 70 qualified 1959 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.4

36.6

OPS+

98.6

sWAR

30.5

96.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1946	15	13	13	0	3	3	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.231	.231	.462	.692	79.3	93.3	.310	0.1
1948	137	579	543	85	175	39	6	3	48	24	36	4	0	.322	.353	.433	.786	112.5	114.5	.358	3.5
1949	130	572	529	74	146	23	5	3	53	31	43	5	0	.276	.317	.355	.673	83.0	85.5	.310	1.3
1950	154	643	587	79	164	36	5	16	67	39	60	9	0	.279	.331	.440	.770	98.8	101.2	.344	2.8
1951	156	700	646	114	196	41	7	14	69	42	39	12	7	.303	.352	.454	.805	114.6	115.5	.362	4.3
1952	151	649	589	92	177	29	3	14	73	47	39	6	6	.301	.357	.431	.788	118.0	117.5	.360	4.4
1953	155	693	647	126	194	41	6	23	88	28	34	7	2	.300	.335	.488	.823	108.4	110.9	.359	3.3
1954	154	693	644	98	189	26	6	20	70	27	40	5	3	.293	.325	.446	.770	96.8	99.9	.340	2.7
1955	115	508	475	77	134	20	3	9	45	22	32	2	1	.282	.319	.394	.713	89.2	89.6	.319	1.6
1956	148	664	619	73	170	26	7	6	54	29	46	3	1	.275	.307	.368	.675	80.3	80.9	.303	1.4
1957	140	625	583	80	169	25	8	4	64	29	56	3	4	.290	.326	.381	.707	87.1	88.2	.316	1.8
1958	132	572	528	61	156	16	4	4	48	31	29	1	1	.295	.337	.364	.700	87.1	86.5	.318	1.3
1959	136	545	477	60	126	22	9	6	45	55	50	1	1	.264	.342	.386	.728	93.5	93.9	.327	1.6
1960	105	373	339	45	90	11	3	4	32	26	27	1	1	.265	.321	.351	.672	85.8	86.9	.305	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1953	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	1	1.0	18.00	2.000	0.00	18.62	432.9	23.9	3.3

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,828

385th-most career G

7,829

318th-most career PA

7,219

266th-most career AB

1,064

299th-most career R

2,089

248th-most career H

358

295th-most career 2B

362nd-most career 3B

126

RBI

757

430

534

.2894

424th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3327

SLG

.4113

OPS

.7440

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

18.000

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

0.00

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1952-09-24	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	1	2	9
1951-06-09	CHC @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	9
1953-09-05	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	3	9
1953-08-26	STL @ SF Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	1	5	8
1954-05-14	CHC @ SF Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	1	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	HR
1953-09-27	SF @ PIT Gameday	1.0	1	2	2	1	1
1946-04-16	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-17	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-20	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-21	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× Rookie of the Year3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.