MLB / Players

Bill Dickey

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornJune 6, 1907 · Bastrop, LA, USA

MLB debutAugust 15, 1928

Final gameSeptember 8, 1946

Seasons17 (1928–1946)

New York Yankees 1928–1943; New York Yankees 1946

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified batters

128

33.3

565

49.4

480

40.2

74.7

145

42.5

29.9

20.7

89.7

RBI

105

87.4

81.6

44.8

48.3

.302

51.7

OBP

.403

80.5

SLG

.513

81.6

OPS

.915

82.8

wRC+

136.4

80.5

OPS+

138.2

80.5

wOBA

.414

81.6

sWAR

5.4

of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.8

87.6

OPS+

128.5

89.1

sWAR

60.0

99.4

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
1928	10	15	15	1	3	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.400	.600	46.2	57.3	.261	0.0
1929	130	473	447	60	145	30	6	10	65	14	16	5	3	.324	.346	.485	.832	113.8	118.0	.372	3.4
1930	109	396	366	55	124	25	7	5	65	21	14	7	1	.339	.375	.486	.861	118.4	120.7	.384	3.0
1931	130	523	477	65	156	17	10	6	78	39	20	2	1	.327	.378	.442	.820	119.6	120.8	.378	3.9
1932	108	459	423	66	131	20	4	15	84	34	13	2	4	.310	.361	.482	.843	114.6	117.1	.379	3.2
1933	130	532	478	58	152	24	8	14	97	47	14	3	4	.318	.381	.490	.871	133.8	136.9	.397	5.0
1934	104	438	395	56	127	24	4	12	72	38	18	0	3	.322	.384	.494	.878	130.2	133.6	.400	3.9
1935	120	491	448	54	125	26	6	14	81	35	11	1	1	.279	.339	.458	.797	108.3	111.9	.362	3.0
1936	112	472	423	99	153	26	8	22	107	46	16	0	2	.362	.428	.617	1.045	155.7	162.1	.462	5.7
1937	140	608	530	87	176	35	2	29	133	73	22	3	2	.332	.417	.570	.987	145.0	146.4	.439	6.5
1938	132	532	454	84	142	27	4	27	115	75	22	3	0	.313	.412	.568	.981	144.0	147.8	.437	5.6
1939	128	565	480	98	145	23	3	24	105	77	37	5	0	.302	.403	.513	.915	136.4	138.2	.414	5.4
1940	106	424	372	45	92	11	1	9	54	48	32	0	3	.247	.336	.355	.691	82.1	80.3	.322	1.2
1941	109	397	348	35	99	15	5	7	71	45	17	2	1	.284	.371	.417	.788	113.1	111.9	.367	2.8
1942	82	295	268	28	79	13	1	2	37	26	11	2	2	.295	.359	.373	.732	111.1	110.4	.350	2.1
1943	85	284	242	29	85	18	2	4	33	41	12	2	1	.351	.445	.492	.937	182.8	175.8	.444	4.4
1946	54	156	134	10	35	8	0	2	10	19	12	0	1	.261	.357	.366	.723	105.7	102.4	.346	1.0

Career totals

1,789

424th-most career G

7,060

447th-most career PA

6,300

441st-most career AB

930

445th-most career R

1,969

312th-most career H

343

336th-most career 2B

362nd-most career 3B

202

375th-most career HR

RBI

1,209

152nd-most career RBI

678

407th-most career BB

289

.3125

95th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3821

173rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4860

186th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8681

131st-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
1939-07-26	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	3	5	0	13
1939-06-25	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	3	1	10
1930-09-03	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	1	6	0	10
1934-04-18	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	6	0	9
1936-08-09	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	3	4	2	0	1	1	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-11	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-13	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-16	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-18	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-19	NYY @ BOS 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, 1954 (BBWAA)

11× 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.