MLB / Players

Dee Fondy

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 31, 1924 · Slaton, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1951

Final gameSeptember 21, 1958

Seasons8 (1951–1958)

Chicago Cubs 1951–1957; Pittsburgh Pirates 1957; Cincinnati Redlegs 1958

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified batters

137

20.7

580

37.8

543

62.2

6.1

146

41.5

84.1

RBI

9.8

1.2

23.2

80.5

9.8

.269

37.8

OBP

.290

3.7

SLG

.392

29.3

OPS

.682

18.3

wRC+

76.5

12.2

OPS+

81.8

17.1

wOBA

.297

4.9

sWAR

-0.9

of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.9

26.3

OPS+

94.0

29.5

sWAR

0.9

63.3

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	49	184	170	23	46	7	2	3	20	11	20	5	6	.271	.319	.388	.707	84.3	87.2	.321	-0.1
1952	145	587	554	69	166	21	9	10	67	28	60	13	11	.300	.334	.424	.759	105.1	107.2	.344	1.1
1953	150	641	595	79	184	24	11	18	78	44	106	10	7	.309	.358	.477	.835	111.9	112.4	.368	1.9
1954	141	610	568	77	162	30	4	9	49	35	84	20	5	.285	.326	.400	.725	83.9	86.7	.325	-0.4
1955	150	618	574	69	152	23	8	17	65	35	87	8	9	.265	.307	.422	.729	87.3	90.3	.320	-0.2
1956	137	580	543	52	146	22	9	9	46	20	74	9	7	.269	.290	.392	.682	76.5	81.8	.297	-0.9
1957	106	408	374	45	117	16	3	2	37	25	68	12	7	.313	.354	.388	.742	105.4	102.7	.336	0.9
1958	89	131	124	23	27	1	1	1	11	5	27	7	1	.218	.246	.266	.512	24.0	32.7	.234	-1.2

Career totals

967

3,759

3,502

437

1,000

144

RBI

373

203

526

.2856

OBP

.3240

SLG

.4126

OPS

.7366

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
1953-06-09	CHC @ PHI Gameday	6	3	4	1	2	5	0	11
1951-05-16	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	4	0	10
1955-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	7	2	3	0	2	3	0	9
1955-07-27	SF @ CHC Gameday	3	3	2	0	2	3	2	8
1952-05-25	CHC @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-04-22	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-04-24	PIT @ CHC 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

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.