Dick Seay

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 162 lb

BornNovember 30, 1904 · West New York, NJ, USA

Seasons16 (1926–1947)

Baltimore Black Sox 1926; Newark Stars 1926; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1927; Baltimore Black Sox 1932; Baltimore Sox 1933; Philadelphia Stars 1934–1935; New York Black Yankees 1936; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1936; Newark Eagles 1937–1939; New York Black Yankees 1940; Newark Eagles 1940; New York Black Yankees 1941–1942; New York Black Yankees 1945–1947

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified batters

0.7

1.4

2.7

8.2

RBI

1.4

4.1

70.5

25.3

39.7

.256

30.8

OBP

.326

SLG

.295

13.7

OPS

.620

18.5

wRC+

82.4

22.6

OPS+

77.4

19.2

wOBA

.306

21.9

sWAR

0.1

13.7

of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 86 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-3.4

0.3

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
1926	27	98	87	4	10	0	1	1	4	7	6	0	0	.115	.189	.172	.362	9.1	-1.2	.185	-0.7
1927	17	72	65	6	11	1	0	0	4	4	0	0	0	.169	.250	.185	.435	26.2	15.3	.222	-0.4
1932	59	249	219	35	63	8	3	1	21	19	0	2	0	.288	.361	.365	.726	101.9	100.6	.352	1.0
1933	34	157	142	25	30	4	3	0	11	8	0	5	0	.211	.273	.282	.554	58.7	52.0	.261	-0.3
1934	68	261	231	21	43	6	1	0	15	20	2	4	0	.186	.254	.221	.475	42.9	33.7	.237	-0.9
1935	56	224	191	33	49	5	6	4	28	21	0	7	0	.257	.333	.408	.742	87.6	86.1	.339	0.4
1936	56	213	185	21	44	5	1	0	23	18	0	1	0	.238	.309	.276	.584	58.4	50.2	.283	-0.4
1937	28	121	110	20	18	1	1	0	7	8	0	1	0	.164	.233	.191	.424	24.4	10.7	.209	-0.8
1938	28	115	104	13	20	0	1	0	4	8	0	0	0	.192	.257	.212	.468	37.5	24.8	.230	-0.5
1939	37	163	138	22	30	4	1	2	12	19	1	3	1	.217	.312	.304	.616	72.4	64.1	.299	0.0
1940	34	146	129	23	34	4	1	3	19	10	0	2	0	.264	.317	.380	.696	81.4	81.0	.325	0.2
1941	32	133	118	12	19	3	0	1	13	9	0	0	0	.161	.244	.212	.456	40.4	28.7	.228	-0.5
1942	21	90	78	6	20	3	0	0	7	7	2	2	0	.256	.326	.295	.620	82.4	77.4	.306	0.1
1945	8	36	31	6	8	0	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	.258	.343	.258	.601	78.7	69.6	.304	0.0
1946	19	60	55	7	12	0	0	0	4	4	1	0	0	.218	.271	.218	.489	45.7	37.3	.246	-0.2
1947	26	77	69	8	12	0	0	0	6	4	0	1	0	.174	.230	.174	.404	19.1	11.3	.205	-0.5

Career totals

550

2,215

1,952

262

423

RBI

181

169

.2167

OBP

.2882

SLG

.2772

OPS

.5654

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
1940-06-29	NYC @ NE Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	1	8
1932-05-21	BBS @ WPI Gameday	6	3	5	0	1	0	2	0	7
1936-09-12	NE @ TIC Gameday	5	3	3	3	0	0	3	0	6
1939-08-12	NE @ PHS Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	1	1	6
1935-07-06	NE @ PHS Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-05-07	WPI @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-05-08	WPI @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-05-08	WPI @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-05-13	BBS @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-05-14	BBS @ HIL 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

3× 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.