Bob Nieman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 195 lb

BornJanuary 26, 1927 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1951

Final gameOctober 3, 1962

Seasons12 (1951–1962)

St. Louis Browns 1951–1952; Detroit Tigers 1953–1954; Chicago White Sox 1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Chicago White Sox 1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957–1959; St. Louis Cardinals 1960; Cleveland Indians 1961; St. Louis Cardinals 1961; Cleveland Indians 1962; San Francisco Giants 1962

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified batters

129

9.5

521

18.9

445

9.5

29.7

123

16.2

66.2

47.3

RBI

60.8

66.2

10.8

52.7

36.5

.276

48.6

OBP

.363

67.6

SLG

.429

52.7

OPS

.792

58.1

wRC+

124.9

68.9

OPS+

123.4

70.3

wOBA

.362

66.2

sWAR

2.7

62.2

of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

132.1

92.1

OPS+

131.4

91.2

sWAR

23.6

94.9

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
1951	12	47	43	6	16	3	1	2	8	3	5	0	0	.372	.413	.628	1.041	171.8	172.0	.466	0.5
1952	131	533	478	66	138	22	2	18	74	46	73	0	4	.289	.352	.456	.808	118.4	119.1	.373	2.2
1953	142	568	508	72	143	32	5	15	69	57	57	0	3	.281	.354	.453	.807	114.8	115.4	.369	2.2
1954	91	279	251	24	66	14	1	8	35	22	32	0	2	.263	.319	.422	.741	99.0	102.8	.339	0.6
1955	99	317	272	36	77	11	2	11	53	36	37	1	0	.283	.366	.460	.826	122.5	121.9	.380	1.5
1956	128	522	428	63	137	21	6	14	68	90	63	1	6	.320	.436	.495	.931	156.7	154.4	.427	4.7
1957	129	521	445	61	123	17	6	13	70	63	86	4	4	.276	.363	.429	.792	124.9	123.4	.362	2.7
1958	105	414	366	56	119	20	2	16	60	44	57	2	8	.325	.395	.522	.917	158.5	158.4	.406	3.8
1959	118	409	360	49	105	18	2	21	60	42	55	1	2	.292	.367	.528	.895	146.3	147.5	.395	3.2
1960	81	215	188	19	54	13	5	4	31	24	31	0	1	.287	.372	.473	.845	128.3	123.0	.380	1.2
1961	45	89	82	2	31	7	0	2	12	7	6	1	0	.378	.427	.537	.964	161.9	156.7	.431	0.9
1962	32	33	31	1	9	2	0	1	4	1	10	0	0	.290	.303	.452	.755	97.3	98.9	.330	0.1

Career totals

1,113

3,947

3,452

455

1,018

180

125

RBI

544

435

512

.2949

308th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3729

254th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4742

272nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8471

209th-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
1958-07-27	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	4	1	10
1955-04-23	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	7	1	9
1951-09-14	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1960-09-04	CHC @ STL Gameday	3	1	3	1	1	1	4	0	9
1959-08-23	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-07-06	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-07-06	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-07-07	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-07-12	ATH @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-07-12	ATH @ BAL 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.