MLB / Players

Dave Nicholson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornAugust 29, 1939 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutMay 24, 1960

Final gameOctober 1, 1967

Seasons7 (1960–1967)

Baltimore Orioles 1960; Baltimore Orioles 1962; Chicago White Sox 1963–1965; Houston Astros 1966; Atlanta Braves 1967

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified batters

126

520

8.9

449

15.8

103

40.6

69.3

RBI

59.4

78.2

175

24.8

74.3

.229

6.9

OBP

.319

36.6

SLG

.419

55.4

OPS

.738

50.5

wRC+

110.9

52.5

OPS+

109.1

52.5

wOBA

.332

51.5

sWAR

1.8

36.6

of 102 qualified 1963 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.4

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
1960	54	133	113	17	21	1	1	5	11	20	55	0	2	.186	.308	.345	.653	83.7	79.4	.309	-0.1
1962	97	202	173	25	30	4	1	9	15	27	76	3	4	.173	.289	.364	.653	83.4	80.8	.301	0.0
1963	126	520	449	53	103	11	4	22	70	63	175	2	1	.229	.319	.419	.738	110.9	109.1	.332	1.8
1964	97	350	294	40	60	6	1	13	39	52	126	0	2	.204	.329	.364	.693	103.8	97.4	.323	0.9
1965	54	94	85	11	13	2	1	2	12	9	40	0	0	.153	.234	.271	.505	49.2	48.7	.240	-0.5
1966	100	333	280	36	69	8	4	10	31	46	92	1	1	.246	.356	.411	.767	120.3	118.2	.346	1.5
1967	10	29	25	2	5	0	0	0	1	2	9	0	0	.200	.250	.200	.450	15.2	31.4	.200	-0.2

Career totals

538

1,661

1,419

184

301

RBI

179

219

573

.2121

OBP

.3180

SLG

.3805

OPS

.6985

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
1966-05-25	NYM @ HOU Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	2	0	8
1962-05-29	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1963-05-04	TEX @ CWS Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	3	1	8
1964-05-06	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1966-07-05	ATL @ HOU Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-05-11	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-05-14	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-05-20	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-06-30	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-07-01	ATL @ 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.