MLB / Players

Bobby Richardson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornAugust 19, 1935 · Sumter, SC, USA

MLB debutAugust 5, 1955

Final gameOctober 2, 1966

Seasons12 (1955–1966)

New York Yankees 1955–1966

Percentile snapshot

1966 season — qualified batters

149

42.6

648

68.1

610

81.9

43.6

153

56.4

39.4

27.7

RBI

9.6

6.4

100

52.1

35.1

.251

19.1

OBP

.280

2.1

SLG

.330

6.4

OPS

.610

2.1

wRC+

75.6

3.2

OPS+

77.9

4.3

wOBA

.277

1.1

sWAR

0.6

7.4

of 95 qualified 1966 batters (min 496 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

76.0

6.7

OPS+

78.4

7.9

sWAR

4.8

78.9

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
1955	11	29	26	2	4	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	1	.154	.214	.154	.368	-1.3	2.5	.188	-0.2
1956	5	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-36.3	-22.1	.133	-0.1
1957	97	320	305	36	78	11	1	0	19	9	26	1	3	.256	.274	.298	.573	51.0	59.6	.260	-0.7
1958	73	195	182	18	45	6	2	0	14	8	5	1	3	.247	.276	.302	.578	59.5	63.4	.266	-0.2
1959	134	508	469	53	141	18	6	2	33	26	20	5	5	.301	.335	.377	.713	98.7	100.1	.324	1.9
1960	150	507	460	45	116	12	3	1	26	35	19	6	6	.252	.303	.298	.601	65.1	68.7	.277	-0.2
1961	162	706	662	80	173	17	5	3	49	30	23	9	7	.261	.295	.316	.610	66.6	68.8	.280	-0.3
1962	161	754	692	99	209	38	5	8	59	37	24	11	9	.302	.337	.406	.743	103.8	104.1	.334	3.1
1963	151	668	630	72	167	20	6	3	48	25	22	15	1	.265	.294	.330	.624	75.7	77.4	.284	0.5
1964	159	728	679	90	181	25	4	4	50	28	36	11	2	.267	.294	.333	.626	71.4	74.5	.284	0.2
1965	160	713	664	76	164	28	2	6	47	37	39	7	5	.247	.287	.322	.609	71.8	74.5	.279	0.3
1966	149	648	610	71	153	21	3	7	42	25	28	6	6	.251	.280	.330	.610	75.6	77.9	.277	0.6

Career totals

1,412

5,783

5,386

643

1,432

196

RBI

390

262

243

.2659

OBP

.2992

SLG

.3349

OPS

.6341

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
1966-06-29	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	1	1	0	9
1965-07-03	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	9
1959-09-11	DET @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	4	0	7
1962-06-09	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	2	0	7
1966-08-15	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	1	0	7

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× Gold Glove1× World Series MVP7× 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.