Dick Howser

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 155 lb

BornMay 14, 1936 · Miami, FL, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1961

Final gameSeptember 27, 1968

Seasons8 (1961–1968)

Kansas City Athletics 1961–1962; Cleveland Indians 1963; Kansas City Athletics 1963; Cleveland Indians 1964–1966; New York Yankees 1967–1968

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified batters

162

88.3

735

98.9

637

92.6

101

92.6

163

69.1

47.9

44.7

5.3

RBI

24.5

85.1

96.8

92.6

11.7

.256

26.6

OBP

.335

46.8

SLG

.319

7.4

OPS

.654

wRC+

88.1

22.3

OPS+

84.1

wOBA

.307

24.5

sWAR

2.3

41.5

of 95 qualified 1964 batters (min 508 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.0

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
1961	158	719	611	108	171	29	6	3	45	92	38	37	9	.280	.377	.362	.739	102.6	96.1	.348	3.4
1962	83	337	286	53	68	8	3	6	34	38	8	19	2	.238	.326	.350	.676	80.2	78.0	.314	0.7
1963	64	239	203	29	48	5	0	1	11	29	21	9	3	.236	.329	.276	.605	75.6	71.7	.289	0.4
1964	162	735	637	101	163	23	4	3	52	76	39	20	7	.256	.335	.319	.654	88.1	84.1	.307	2.3
1965	107	377	307	47	72	8	2	1	6	57	25	17	4	.235	.354	.283	.638	94.3	83.8	.313	1.4
1966	67	161	140	18	32	9	1	2	4	15	23	2	4	.229	.299	.350	.649	88.5	86.9	.299	0.5
1967	63	179	149	18	40	6	0	0	10	25	15	1	4	.268	.381	.309	.689	122.3	110.0	.338	1.2
1968	85	190	150	24	23	2	1	0	3	35	17	0	1	.153	.321	.180	.501	74.9	57.9	.271	0.2

Career totals

789

2,937

2,483

398

617

RBI

165

367

186

105

.2485

OBP

.3463

SLG

.3178

OPS

.6641

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	TB
1961-09-10	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	0	2	8
1962-06-16	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	2	8
1961-08-05	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	1	4	0	0	1	2	7
1962-05-05	CLE @ ATH Gameday	6	4	4	0	0	1	1	7
1961-08-15	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-05-26	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-27	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-19	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-20	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-21	LAA @ ATH 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.