Dick Schofield

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 163 lb

BornJanuary 7, 1935 · Springfield, IL, USA

MLB debutJuly 3, 1953

Final gameSeptember 30, 1971

Seasons19 (1953–1971)

St. Louis Cardinals 1953–1957; Pittsburgh Pirates 1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1958; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959–1965; San Francisco Giants 1965; Los Angeles Dodgers 1966; New York Yankees 1966; San Francisco Giants 1966; Los Angeles Dodgers 1967; St. Louis Cardinals 1968; Boston Red Sox 1969–1970; Milwaukee Brewers 1971; St. Louis Cardinals 1971

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified batters

132

2.1

548

14.7

488

14.7

12.6

102

3.2

1.1

4.2

RBI

1.1

44.2

66.3

27.4

36.8

.209

OBP

.282

6.3

SLG

.256

OPS

.538

wRC+

54.5

1.1

OPS+

53.0

1.1

wOBA

.258

1.1

sWAR

-0.6

3.2

of 96 qualified 1965 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

77.4

7.9

OPS+

74.2

4.9

sWAR

6.3

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
1953	33	41	39	9	7	0	0	2	4	2	11	0	0	.179	.220	.333	.553	32.9	41.4	.243	-0.1
1954	43	7	7	17	1	0	1	0	1	0	3	1	1	.143	.143	.429	.571	22.9	41.5	.235	0.0
1955	12	4	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.3	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1956	16	30	30	3	3	2	0	0	1	0	6	0	0	.100	.100	.167	.267	-48.8	-29.9	.116	-0.4
1957	65	64	56	10	9	0	0	0	1	7	13	1	3	.161	.254	.161	.415	15.3	14.2	.211	-0.3
1958	65	164	135	20	27	4	1	1	10	26	21	0	3	.200	.325	.267	.592	64.6	57.9	.289	0.0
1959	81	163	145	21	34	10	1	1	9	16	22	1	1	.234	.311	.338	.648	78.3	75.1	.301	0.2
1960	65	121	102	9	34	4	1	0	10	16	20	0	1	.333	.429	.392	.821	131.4	128.0	.374	1.0
1961	60	90	78	16	15	2	1	0	2	10	19	0	1	.192	.284	.244	.528	48.0	43.1	.256	-0.2
1962	54	123	104	19	30	3	0	2	10	17	22	0	1	.288	.382	.375	.757	112.0	105.7	.354	0.6
1963	138	619	541	54	133	18	2	3	32	69	83	2	4	.246	.333	.303	.636	91.6	85.5	.304	2.2
1964	121	464	398	50	98	22	5	3	36	54	60	1	2	.246	.345	.349	.694	103.1	97.6	.324	2.4
1965	132	548	488	52	102	15	1	2	25	48	69	3	4	.209	.282	.256	.538	54.5	53.0	.258	-0.6
1966	56	170	144	19	28	2	0	0	6	19	18	1	1	.194	.295	.208	.504	56.8	49.8	.252	-0.1
1967	84	268	232	23	50	10	1	2	15	31	40	1	2	.216	.307	.293	.600	82.6	80.5	.285	0.7
1968	69	142	127	14	28	7	1	1	8	13	31	1	2	.220	.303	.315	.618	89.6	88.6	.294	0.6
1969	94	261	226	30	58	9	3	2	20	29	44	0	2	.257	.349	.350	.698	95.9	91.6	.333	0.9
1970	76	163	139	16	26	1	2	1	14	21	26	0	1	.187	.294	.245	.539	44.8	46.3	.262	-0.5
1971	57	103	88	9	16	4	0	1	7	12	17	0	0	.182	.301	.261	.562	66.0	59.8	.282	0.1

Career totals

1,321

3,545

3,083

394

699

113

RBI

211

390

526

.2267

OBP

.3171

SLG

.2968

OPS

.6139

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
1967-07-04	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	6
1964-06-23	PIT @ NYM Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	4	1	6
1967-06-19	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	0	6
1969-06-11	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	3	0	0	1	1	6
1963-07-16	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1953-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953-04-19	ATL @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953-04-20	ATL @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953-04-26	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953-05-03	STL @ 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.