Charlie Maxwell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornApril 8, 1927 · Lawton, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 20, 1950

Final gameApril 26, 1964

Seasons14 (1950–1964)

Boston Red Sox 1950–1952; Boston Red Sox 1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Detroit Tigers 1955–1961; Chicago White Sox 1962; Detroit Tigers 1962; Chicago White Sox 1963–1964

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified batters

134

19.8

549

33.3

482

32.1

44.4

114

6.2

13.6

55.6

81.5

RBI

72.8

28.4

54.3

85.2

.237

2.5

OBP

.325

32.1

SLG

.440

60.5

OPS

.765

46.9

wRC+

101.7

OPS+

103.5

39.5

wOBA

.343

44.4

sWAR

1.3

of 82 qualified 1960 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.3

76.6

OPS+

117.4

75.2

sWAR

16.3

91.8

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
1950	3	9	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.000	.111	.000	.111	-82.5	-70.8	.085	-0.2
1951	49	89	80	8	15	1	0	3	12	9	18	0	1	.188	.270	.313	.582	44.6	50.6	.277	-0.4
1952	8	18	15	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	11	0	0	.067	.222	.133	.356	-3.5	-2.4	.200	-0.2
1954	74	117	104	9	26	4	1	0	5	12	21	3	0	.250	.328	.308	.635	67.5	68.3	.307	-0.2
1955	59	126	113	19	29	7	1	7	18	8	21	0	0	.257	.315	.522	.837	121.0	125.5	.374	0.6
1956	141	592	500	96	163	14	3	28	87	79	74	1	1	.326	.414	.534	.948	152.2	150.7	.428	5.1
1957	138	580	492	75	136	23	3	24	82	76	84	3	2	.276	.377	.482	.858	135.0	132.4	.387	3.6
1958	131	466	397	56	108	14	4	13	65	64	54	6	1	.272	.369	.426	.795	115.5	112.5	.361	1.7
1959	145	611	518	81	130	12	2	31	95	81	91	0	2	.251	.357	.461	.819	120.4	118.8	.369	2.9
1960	134	549	482	70	114	16	5	24	81	58	75	5	0	.237	.325	.440	.765	101.7	103.5	.343	1.3
1961	79	153	131	11	30	4	2	5	18	20	24	0	0	.229	.333	.405	.738	94.6	95.8	.333	0.3
1962	99	319	273	35	74	10	3	10	52	42	42	0	0	.271	.365	.440	.804	117.4	117.5	.360	1.3
1963	71	165	130	17	30	4	2	3	17	31	27	0	0	.231	.370	.362	.731	115.2	110.3	.338	0.6
1964	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.6	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,133

3,796

3,245

478

856

110

148

RBI

532

484

545

.2638

OBP

.3603

466th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4505

478th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8108

420th-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
1959-05-03	NYY @ DET Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	3	6	1	12
1960-06-02	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	3	0	10
1956-06-29	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1956-05-08	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1960-06-25	MIN @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	1	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1950-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-05-30	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-16	BOS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-17	BOS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-20	BOS @ CWS 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

2× 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.