MLB / Players

Dick Newsome

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 13, 1909 · Ahoskie, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 25, 1941

Final gameSeptember 27, 1943

Seasons3 (1941–1943)

Boston Red Sox 1941–1943

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified pitchers

43.5

58.3

41.7

59.3

SHO

174

9.3

22.2

14.8

158.0

45.4

ERA

5.01

9.3

WHIP

1.525

K/9

2.28

8.3

FIP

4.22

13.9

FIP-

112.7

15.7

ERA+

74.8

9.3

sWAR

-0.6

5.6

of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.9

63.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	36	86	78	3	19	3	8	2	22	.244	.263	.282	.545	36.6	44.1	.253	2.4
1942	24	62	55	3	13	2	3	1	7	.236	.250	.273	.523	34.8	45.2	.247	-0.6
1943	27	55	48	2	7	0	4	5	14	.146	.226	.146	.372	3.7	9.2	.197	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1941	36	29	19	10	17	2	235	98	79	58	13	213.7	4.13	1.470	2.44	4.22	101.8	100.4	2.4
1942	24	23	8	10	11	0	174	88	67	40	11	158.0	5.01	1.525	2.28	4.22	112.7	74.8	-0.6
1943	25	22	8	13	8	2	166	77	68	40	8	154.3	4.49	1.516	2.33	3.92	117.7	74.2	-0.8

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

203

181

RBI

.2155

OBP

.2487

SLG

.2431

OPS

.4918

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

526

SO (P)

138

BB allowed

214

ERA

4.500

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

2.36

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	RBI	TB
1942-04-30	DET @ BOS Gameday	3	0	2	2	2
1942-08-22	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	2	1	2
1941-06-24	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	0	2	0	2
1941-07-12	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	0	2	0	2
1941-08-31	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-08-24	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	3	8	0
1942-06-14	DET @ BOS Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	1	5	0
1942-07-12	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	5	5	0
1941-09-28	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4.2	13	11	11	3	5	0
1942-08-02	BOS @ DET Gameday	3.1	7	8	8	1	5	2

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.