Dixie Howell
Pittsburgh Pirates 1947; Cincinnati Reds 1949–1952; Brooklyn Dodgers 1953; Brooklyn Dodgers 1955–1956
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 76 | 245 | 214 | 23 | 59 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 25 | 27 | 34 | 1 | 0 | .276 | .357 | .383 | .740 | 94.5 | 93.2 | .346 | 1.3 |
| 1949 | 64 | 183 | 172 | 17 | 42 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .244 | .286 | .326 | .611 | 57.4 | 62.4 | .282 | 0.1 |
| 1950 | 82 | 261 | 224 | 30 | 50 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 32 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .223 | .326 | .299 | .625 | 67.6 | 65.1 | .298 | 0.5 |
| 1951 | 77 | 222 | 207 | 22 | 52 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 34 | 0 | 2 | .251 | .302 | .319 | .621 | 62.3 | 65.9 | .288 | 0.3 |
| 1952 | 17 | 40 | 37 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .189 | .250 | .432 | .682 | 78.2 | 85.7 | .303 | 0.1 |
| 1953 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 16 | 45 | 42 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .262 | .273 | .357 | .630 | 59.3 | 64.7 | .278 | 0.0 |
| 1956 | 7 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .267 | .385 | .651 | 38.1 | 69.0 | .248 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-08-13 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 1951-07-05 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1951-07-29 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1947-06-22 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 1949-07-19 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-15 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-17 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-18 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-19 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-20 | CIN @ 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.