Bobby Thomson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 25, 1923 · Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1946

Final gameJuly 17, 1960

Seasons15 (1946–1960)

New York Giants 1946–1953; Milwaukee Braves 1954–1957; New York Giants 1957; Chicago Cubs 1958–1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960; Boston Red Sox 1960

Percentile snapshot

1958 season — qualified batters

152

87.3

615

64.8

547

33.8

155

60.6

77.5

54.9

67.6

RBI

74.6

56.3

29.6

52.1

.283

60.6

OBP

.351

59.2

SLG

.466

66.2

OPS

.817

63.4

wRC+

115.4

54.9

OPS+

115.5

54.9

wOBA

.359

59.2

sWAR

3.4

of 72 qualified 1958 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

109.3

60.2

OPS+

111.2

64.9

sWAR

30.1

96.5

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
1946	18	58	54	8	17	4	1	2	9	4	5	0	0	.315	.362	.537	.899	151.3	151.5	.412	0.6
1947	138	591	545	105	154	26	5	29	85	40	78	1	0	.283	.336	.508	.844	116.1	119.7	.376	3.4
1948	138	506	471	75	117	20	2	16	63	30	77	2	0	.248	.296	.401	.697	81.4	86.2	.317	0.2
1949	156	689	641	99	198	35	9	27	109	44	45	10	0	.309	.355	.518	.873	129.8	131.8	.388	5.1
1950	149	625	563	79	142	22	7	25	85	55	45	3	0	.252	.324	.449	.774	99.4	101.7	.345	2.2
1951	148	602	518	89	152	27	8	32	101	73	57	5	5	.293	.385	.562	.947	152.2	152.0	.418	5.8
1952	153	666	608	89	164	29	14	24	108	52	74	5	2	.270	.331	.482	.813	120.9	122.8	.365	4.2
1953	154	656	608	80	175	22	6	26	106	43	57	4	2	.288	.338	.472	.810	106.2	107.9	.356	2.9
1954	43	113	99	7	23	3	0	2	15	12	29	0	0	.232	.315	.323	.639	75.0	74.2	.298	-0.1
1955	101	383	343	40	88	12	3	12	56	34	52	2	1	.257	.319	.414	.733	97.3	99.5	.324	0.7
1956	142	505	451	59	106	10	4	20	74	43	75	2	4	.235	.302	.408	.710	94.5	95.5	.314	0.7
1957	122	397	363	39	87	12	7	12	61	27	66	3	3	.240	.295	.410	.706	89.6	90.8	.312	0.2
1958	152	615	547	67	155	27	5	21	82	56	76	0	2	.283	.351	.466	.817	115.4	115.5	.359	3.4
1959	122	418	374	55	97	15	2	11	52	35	50	1	0	.259	.322	.398	.721	88.4	91.0	.319	0.4
1960	43	133	120	12	30	3	1	5	20	11	18	0	1	.250	.308	.417	.725	89.0	91.3	.327	0.2

Career totals

1,779

436th-most career G

6,957

474th-most career PA

6,305

439th-most career AB

903

475th-most career R

1,705

479th-most career H

267

345th-most career 3B

264

229th-most career HR

RBI

1,026

279th-most career RBI

559

804

.2704

OBP

.3320

SLG

.4619

368th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7939

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	BB	TB
1950-06-06	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	6	0	11
1956-07-22	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	3	0	11
1949-09-18	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	4	4	0	2	5	1	10
1952-06-18	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	3	0	10
1947-04-18	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	2	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-04-16	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-17	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-18	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-20	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-21	SF @ LAD 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

3× 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.