Dale Long

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 205 lb

BornFebruary 6, 1926 · Springfield, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1951

Final gameJuly 18, 1963

Seasons10 (1951–1963)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1951; St. Louis Browns 1951; Pittsburgh Pirates 1955–1956; Chicago Cubs 1957; Pittsburgh Pirates 1957; Chicago Cubs 1958–1959; New York Yankees 1960; San Francisco Giants 1960; Washington Senators 1961; New York Yankees 1962; Washington Senators 1962; New York Yankees 1963

Percentile snapshot

1958 season — qualified batters

142

43.7

554

29.6

480

26.8

36.6

130

36.6

71.8

43.7

RBI

76.1

39.4

28.2

91.5

.271

43.7

OBP

.357

64.8

SLG

.467

67.6

OPS

.824

67.6

wRC+

117.2

56.3

OPS+

117.6

56.3

wOBA

.361

60.6

sWAR

1.9

35.2

of 72 qualified 1958 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.0

67.6

OPS+

114.2

70.6

sWAR

9.8

86.8

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
1951	44	128	117	12	27	5	1	3	12	10	25	0	0	.231	.297	.368	.664	69.9	74.3	.310	-0.3
1955	131	478	419	59	122	19	13	16	79	48	72	0	1	.291	.362	.513	.875	129.4	129.8	.381	2.3
1956	148	582	517	64	136	20	7	27	91	54	85	1	0	.263	.326	.485	.812	112.8	117.0	.347	1.7
1957	130	482	419	55	125	20	0	21	67	56	73	1	1	.298	.378	.496	.875	136.1	132.9	.385	2.8
1958	142	554	480	68	130	26	4	20	75	66	64	2	0	.271	.357	.467	.824	117.2	117.6	.361	1.9
1959	110	330	296	34	70	10	3	14	37	31	53	0	0	.236	.306	.432	.738	93.3	94.4	.327	0.1
1960	63	107	95	10	24	3	1	6	16	12	13	0	0	.253	.336	.495	.831	127.7	129.9	.364	0.5
1961	123	423	377	52	94	20	4	17	49	39	41	0	0	.249	.317	.459	.776	101.3	106.5	.339	0.7
1962	108	326	285	29	74	12	0	8	41	36	31	6	1	.260	.340	.386	.726	100.2	98.6	.333	0.4
1963	14	16	15	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.200	.250	.200	.450	27.5	30.1	.216	-0.1

Career totals

1,013

3,426

3,020

384

805

135

132

RBI

467

353

460

.2666

OBP

.3407

SLG

.4642

343rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8049

457th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1955-06-19	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	3	0	10
1955-07-31	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	0	9
1961-05-27	MIN @ TEX Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	1	1	8
1958-05-08	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	2	1	1	0	8
1956-04-17	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-04-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-04-25	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-05-11	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-05-13	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-05-15	SF @ PIT 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

1× 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.