Dick Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornMay 7, 1929 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutJune 10, 1951

Final gameOctober 1, 1964

Seasons13 (1951–1964)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1951–1954; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Brooklyn Dodgers 1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957; Cleveland Indians 1957; Baltimore Orioles 1958; Kansas City Athletics 1959–1960; Baltimore Orioles 1961–1962; Boston Red Sox 1963–1964

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified batters

130

538

24.6

488

40.6

130

21.7

84.1

7.2

53.6

RBI

63.8

2.9

52.2

37.7

76.8

.266

31.9

OBP

.309

7.2

SLG

.436

49.3

OPS

.746

34.8

wRC+

97.5

27.5

OPS+

100.0

33.3

wOBA

.332

27.5

sWAR

1.4

21.7

of 70 qualified 1959 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

90.0

OPS+

92.1

26.4

sWAR

4.1

77.2

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
1951	23	64	60	5	12	3	1	1	5	4	10	0	0	.200	.250	.333	.583	47.4	54.9	.265	-0.3
1952	36	71	68	13	21	4	1	0	11	2	10	0	0	.309	.329	.397	.726	97.1	100.4	.330	0.1
1953	30	60	55	4	12	2	0	2	5	3	10	0	0	.218	.271	.364	.635	57.8	62.7	.283	-0.2
1954	16	37	34	5	5	0	0	1	2	2	7	0	0	.147	.189	.235	.424	-6.8	9.2	.193	-0.4
1956	94	397	360	45	103	18	4	11	37	30	41	5	5	.286	.341	.450	.791	113.7	115.2	.360	1.9
1957	114	404	372	49	97	17	2	7	34	26	40	3	5	.261	.310	.374	.684	87.4	89.8	.312	0.6
1958	128	462	409	36	113	17	0	4	32	37	47	0	6	.276	.336	.347	.683	94.3	94.9	.314	0.9
1959	130	538	488	72	130	33	1	16	75	28	60	4	1	.266	.309	.436	.746	97.5	100.0	.332	1.4
1960	127	466	420	47	121	31	0	12	65	39	68	0	0	.288	.346	.448	.794	110.3	111.0	.356	1.8
1961	103	340	310	37	64	15	2	8	24	20	38	0	4	.206	.251	.345	.596	57.0	61.9	.267	-1.2
1962	82	197	178	20	44	7	1	1	18	14	26	0	0	.247	.303	.315	.617	72.9	72.6	.286	-0.3
1963	79	152	136	15	35	8	0	2	12	15	25	0	0	.257	.329	.360	.689	93.1	90.1	.317	0.3
1964	61	77	69	10	11	2	0	5	11	7	10	0	0	.159	.247	.406	.653	70.6	73.1	.291	-0.2

Career totals

1,023

3,265

2,959

358

768

157

RBI

331

227

392

.2595

OBP

.3124

SLG

.3917

OPS

.7041

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1964-06-07	BOS @ ATH Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	2	1	8
1960-08-08	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	0	5	2	0	3	0	7
1960-09-13	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	6	0	7
1960-09-23	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	2	0	7
1956-07-15	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1957-09-25	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-09-26	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959-06-03	BOS @ 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

Hall of Fame, 2008 (Veterans - Managers and Umpires)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.