MLB / Players

Arky Vaughan

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 9, 1912 · Clifty, AR, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1932

Final gameSeptember 22, 1948

Seasons14 (1932–1948)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1932–1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1942–1943; Brooklyn Dodgers 1947–1948

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

149

79.7

685

97.1

610

94.9

112

100

186

95.7

97.8

69.6

68.1

RBI

74.6

76.1

60.1

95.7

31.9

.305

81.9

OBP

.370

73.2

SLG

.413

73.2

OPS

.783

72.5

wRC+

126.9

76.8

OPS+

124.5

73.2

wOBA

.373

70.3

sWAR

5.1

92.8

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

140.4

96.2

OPS+

136.1

93.9

sWAR

70.5

99.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	129	555	497	71	158	15	10	4	61	39	26	10	.318	.375	.412	.787	115.4	113.2	.358	3.5
1933	152	655	573	85	180	29	19	9	97	64	23	3	.314	.388	.478	.866	150.3	146.4	.398	7.0
1934	149	660	558	115	186	41	11	12	94	94	38	10	.333	.431	.511	.942	153.6	149.6	.427	7.3
1935	137	610	499	108	192	34	10	19	99	97	18	4	.385	.491	.607	1.098	193.2	190.8	.489	9.8
1936	156	701	568	122	190	30	11	9	78	118	21	6	.335	.453	.474	.927	155.5	149.0	.432	7.8
1937	126	531	469	71	151	17	17	5	72	54	22	7	.322	.394	.463	.857	135.1	133.2	.394	4.6
1938	148	650	541	88	174	35	5	7	68	104	21	14	.322	.433	.444	.876	148.7	141.4	.411	6.7
1939	152	693	595	94	182	30	11	6	62	70	20	12	.306	.385	.424	.808	120.9	118.0	.376	4.8
1940	156	689	594	113	178	40	15	7	95	88	25	12	.300	.393	.453	.846	136.3	132.8	.390	6.1
1941	106	437	374	69	118	20	7	6	38	50	13	8	.316	.399	.455	.854	142.9	140.0	.400	4.2
1942	128	558	495	82	137	18	4	2	49	51	17	8	.277	.348	.341	.689	103.7	101.8	.334	2.3
1943	149	685	610	112	186	39	6	5	66	60	13	20	.305	.370	.413	.783	126.9	124.5	.373	5.1
1947	64	153	126	24	41	5	2	2	25	27	11	4	.325	.444	.444	.889	142.1	134.1	.417	1.2
1948	65	144	123	19	30	3	0	3	22	21	8	0	.244	.354	.341	.696	91.5	87.3	.333	0.2

Career totals

1,817

398th-most career G

7,721

333rd-most career PA

6,622

377th-most career AB

1,173

213th-most career R

2,103

237th-most career H

356

300th-most career 2B

128

85th-most career 3B

RBI

926

384th-most career RBI

937

160th-most career BB

276

118

.3176

69th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4058

54th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4535

450th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8593

152nd-highest career OPS

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	BB	TB
1933-06-24	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	1	5	1	11
1939-07-19	PIT @ SF Gameday	5	4	5	1	1	1	2	0	11
1933-07-12	ATL @ PIT Gameday	6	1	4	1	2	0	5	0	9
1936-07-12	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1941-08-27	PIT @ PHI Gameday	6	4	5	3	0	0	0	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-04-12	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-13	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	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

Hall of Fame, 1985 (Veterans)

9× 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.