Dick Bartell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornNovember 22, 1907 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutOctober 2, 1927

Final gameMay 24, 1946

Seasons18 (1927–1946)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1927–1930; Philadelphia Phillies 1931–1934; New York Giants 1935–1938; Chicago Cubs 1939; Detroit Tigers 1940–1941; New York Giants 1941–1943; New York Giants 1946

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

139

61.2

620

74.1

528

64.7

61.9

123

41.7

52.5

25.2

RBI

47.5

87.1

23.7

87.1

24.5

.233

OBP

.335

29.5

SLG

.330

12.2

OPS

.665

16.5

wRC+

69.5

10.8

OPS+

67.6

10.1

wOBA

.314

16.5

sWAR

0.3

17.3

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.3

36.4

OPS+

96.3

34.5

sWAR

34.3

97.2

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
1927	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	113.7	39.9	.379	0.0
1928	72	271	233	27	71	8	4	1	36	21	18	4	0	.305	.377	.386	.763	99.8	97.3	.359	1.1
1929	143	674	610	101	184	40	13	2	57	40	29	11	0	.302	.347	.420	.766	86.1	87.5	.347	1.4
1930	129	541	475	69	152	32	13	4	75	39	34	8	0	.320	.378	.467	.845	103.0	102.7	.376	2.4
1931	135	614	554	88	160	43	7	0	34	27	38	6	0	.289	.325	.392	.717	79.6	82.9	.328	1.1
1932	154	719	614	118	189	48	7	1	53	64	47	8	0	.308	.379	.414	.792	103.4	100.6	.361	3.3
1933	152	685	587	78	159	25	5	1	37	56	46	6	0	.271	.340	.336	.675	82.6	81.7	.321	1.6
1934	146	686	604	102	187	30	4	0	37	64	59	13	0	.310	.384	.373	.757	94.0	90.8	.354	2.4
1935	137	603	539	60	141	28	4	14	53	37	52	5	0	.262	.316	.406	.722	94.9	96.2	.327	2.2
1936	145	573	510	71	152	31	3	8	42	40	36	6	0	.298	.355	.418	.773	110.2	110.3	.357	3.2
1937	128	580	516	91	158	38	2	14	62	40	38	5	0	.306	.367	.469	.836	126.4	126.5	.381	4.4
1938	127	553	481	67	126	26	1	9	49	55	60	4	0	.262	.347	.376	.724	101.4	99.3	.340	2.5
1939	105	395	336	37	80	24	2	3	34	42	25	6	0	.238	.335	.348	.683	85.4	83.4	.325	1.1
1940	139	620	528	76	123	24	3	7	53	76	53	12	2	.233	.335	.330	.665	69.5	67.6	.314	0.3
1941	109	454	385	44	115	21	0	5	36	54	31	6	1	.299	.392	.392	.784	123.5	118.7	.375	3.0
1942	90	373	316	53	77	10	3	5	24	44	34	4	0	.244	.351	.342	.692	107.8	103.1	.339	1.8
1943	99	396	337	48	91	14	0	5	28	47	27	5	0	.270	.371	.356	.727	113.8	108.0	.356	2.2
1946	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-142.9	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

2,016

241st-most career G

8,743

186th-most career PA

7,629

198th-most career AB

1,130

240th-most career R

2,165

203rd-most career H

442

121st-most career 2B

382nd-most career 3B

RBI

710

748

325th-most career BB

627

109

.2838

OBP

.3552

SLG

.3914

OPS

.7466

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
1935-06-25	CHC @ SF Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	4	0	9
1937-05-04	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	1	9
1929-08-05	SF @ PIT Gameday	6	2	5	1	1	0	0	0	8
1941-07-13	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	4	0	8
1933-04-25	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	4	4	0	0	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1927-04-12	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-16	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-17	PIT @ CHC 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.