Babe Dahlgren

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornJune 15, 1912 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1935

Final gameSeptember 3, 1946

Seasons12 (1935–1946)

Boston Red Sox 1935–1936; New York Yankees 1937–1940; Boston Braves 1941; Chicago Cubs 1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1942; Chicago Cubs 1942; St. Louis Browns 1942; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1943; Pittsburgh Pirates 1944–1945; St. Louis Browns 1946

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

144

591

63.1

531

67.6

48.6

133

52.3

62.2

83.8

55.9

RBI

78.4

63.1

18.9

9.9

35.1

.250

OBP

.318

19.8

SLG

.354

32.4

OPS

.673

28.8

wRC+

82.1

17.1

OPS+

83.6

19.8

wOBA

.321

24.3

sWAR

-0.6

1.8

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.2

25.1

OPS+

93.1

27.9

sWAR

1.8

68.9

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
1935	149	596	525	77	138	27	7	9	63	56	67	6	5	.263	.337	.392	.730	83.0	84.1	.340	-0.5
1936	16	65	57	6	16	3	1	1	7	7	1	2	1	.281	.359	.421	.780	88.6	88.8	.360	0.0
1937	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.8	-100.0	.000	0.0
1938	27	44	43	8	8	1	0	0	1	1	7	0	0	.186	.205	.209	.414	0.0	5.8	.194	-0.5
1939	144	603	531	71	125	18	6	15	89	57	54	2	3	.235	.312	.377	.689	78.8	79.5	.318	-0.8
1940	155	622	568	51	150	24	4	12	73	46	54	1	1	.264	.325	.384	.709	82.6	83.8	.323	-0.6
1941	143	586	525	70	140	28	2	23	89	59	52	2	0	.267	.343	.459	.802	125.7	127.6	.370	2.6
1942	36	85	77	6	13	1	0	0	6	8	7	0	0	.169	.247	.182	.429	24.8	26.8	.220	-0.7
1943	136	565	508	55	146	19	2	5	56	50	39	2	0	.287	.354	.362	.716	110.4	108.8	.345	2.1
1944	158	659	599	67	173	28	7	12	101	47	56	2	0	.289	.347	.419	.766	110.9	111.2	.356	1.6
1945	144	591	531	57	133	24	8	5	75	51	51	1	0	.250	.318	.354	.673	82.1	83.6	.321	-0.6
1946	28	89	80	2	14	1	0	0	9	8	13	0	1	.175	.250	.188	.438	12.7	20.7	.222	-0.9

Career totals

1,137

4,506

4,045

470

1,056

174

RBI

569

390

401

.2611

OBP

.3294

SLG

.3832

OPS

.7126

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1939-08-12	NYY @ ATH Gameday	6	4	4	0	2	6	10
1939-06-28	NYY @ ATH Gameday	6	2	4	0	2	5	10
1944-08-01	PIT @ ATL Gameday	6	1	4	1	1	6	9
1940-07-19	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	9
1940-05-22	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	1	5	0	1	4	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-04-16	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-17	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-18	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-19	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-20	BOS @ MIN 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

1× 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.