MLB / Players

Bill Nicholson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 205 lb

BornDecember 11, 1914 · Chestertown, MD, USA

MLB debutJune 13, 1936

Final gameSeptember 19, 1953

Seasons16 (1936–1953)

Philadelphia Athletics 1936; Chicago Cubs 1939–1948; Philadelphia Phillies 1949–1953

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

143

60.2

581

52.7

494

45.2

47.3

129

41.9

58.1

47.3

82.8

RBI

60.2

81.7

17.2

41.9

.261

OBP

.371

54.8

SLG

.445

64.5

OPS

.816

64.5

wRC+

124.8

69.9

OPS+

123.1

wOBA

.376

55.9

sWAR

3.0

61.3

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

132.4

92.2

OPS+

132.4

sWAR

39.3

97.8

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
1936	11	12	12	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-113.9	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1939	58	243	220	37	65	12	5	5	38	20	29	0	0	.295	.354	.464	.818	116.9	117.6	.372	1.0
1940	135	545	491	78	146	27	7	25	98	50	67	2	0	.297	.366	.534	.899	146.4	147.7	.402	4.3
1941	147	617	532	74	135	26	1	26	98	82	91	1	0	.254	.357	.453	.810	130.2	130.1	.377	3.6
1942	152	673	588	83	173	22	11	21	78	76	80	8	0	.294	.382	.476	.859	155.8	154.0	.402	5.9
1943	154	684	608	95	188	30	9	29	128	71	86	4	0	.309	.386	.531	.917	165.7	164.3	.425	6.8
1944	156	686	582	116	167	35	8	33	122	93	71	3	0	.287	.391	.545	.935	162.9	163.1	.425	6.6
1945	151	660	559	82	136	28	4	13	88	92	73	4	0	.243	.356	.377	.734	110.1	107.1	.354	2.2
1946	105	345	296	36	65	13	2	8	41	44	44	1	0	.220	.325	.358	.683	97.2	96.5	.330	0.6
1947	148	580	487	69	119	28	1	26	75	87	83	1	0	.244	.364	.466	.831	123.3	123.0	.380	2.9
1948	143	581	494	68	129	24	5	19	67	81	60	2	0	.261	.371	.445	.816	124.8	123.1	.376	3.0
1949	98	350	299	42	70	8	3	11	40	45	53	1	0	.234	.344	.391	.735	99.1	97.2	.342	0.6
1950	41	66	58	3	13	2	1	3	10	8	16	0	0	.224	.318	.448	.766	99.7	101.8	.342	0.1
1951	85	196	170	23	41	9	2	8	30	25	24	0	1	.241	.342	.459	.801	116.3	116.7	.361	0.8
1952	55	106	88	17	24	3	0	6	19	14	26	0	0	.273	.390	.511	.902	153.3	151.1	.408	0.9
1953	38	74	62	12	13	5	1	2	16	12	20	0	0	.210	.338	.419	.757	99.8	98.2	.342	0.2

Career totals

1,677

6,418

5,546

837

1,484

272

235

293rd-most career HR

RBI

948

365th-most career RBI

800

273rd-most career BB

828

.2676

OBP

.3651

374th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4654

329th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8305

282nd-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
1944-07-23	CHC @ SF Gameday	3	4	3	0	0	3	4	1	12
1942-08-15	PIT @ CHC Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	2	2	0	11
1944-06-18	CIN @ CHC Gameday	6	3	3	0	1	2	2	0	11
1944-06-28	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	5	1	10
1943-09-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-04-14	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-16	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-17	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-18	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-19	BOS @ ATH 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

5× 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.