Dixie Walker

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornSeptember 24, 1910 · Villa Rica, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 28, 1931

Final gameSeptember 22, 1949

Seasons18 (1931–1949)

New York Yankees 1931; New York Yankees 1933–1935; Chicago White Sox 1936; New York Yankees 1936; Chicago White Sox 1937; Detroit Tigers 1938; Brooklyn Dodgers 1939; Detroit Tigers 1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940–1947; Pittsburgh Pirates 1948–1949

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

148

70.9

637

81.6

529

59.2

162

81.6

89.3

13.6

56.3

RBI

87.4

92.2

71.8

63.1

37.9

.306

76.7

OBP

.415

94.2

SLG

.427

OPS

.842

79.6

wRC+

127.4

73.8

OPS+

121.5

71.8

wOBA

.394

78.6

sWAR

3.5

78.6

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.9

83.4

OPS+

122.0

82.1

sWAR

40.3

97.9

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
1931	2	10	10	1	3	2	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	.300	.300	.500	.800	105.2	112.6	.354	0.0
1933	98	359	328	68	90	15	7	15	51	26	28	2	2	.274	.330	.500	.830	118.4	124.4	.372	2.0
1934	17	19	17	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.118	.167	.118	.284	-22.7	-22.8	.146	-0.2
1935	8	13	13	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.154	.154	.231	.385	-9.3	1.9	.172	-0.1
1936	32	106	90	15	26	2	2	1	16	15	9	2	1	.289	.396	.389	.785	98.8	92.4	.373	0.3
1937	154	688	593	105	179	28	16	9	95	78	26	1	2	.302	.383	.449	.832	110.6	109.9	.381	2.4
1938	127	526	454	84	140	27	6	6	43	65	32	5	4	.308	.396	.434	.830	104.7	102.7	.385	1.6
1939	104	429	379	57	110	10	9	6	57	35	18	5	1	.290	.350	.412	.762	96.1	96.5	.351	1.1
1940	143	605	556	75	171	37	8	6	66	42	21	3	0	.308	.357	.435	.793	114.1	113.9	.362	3.1
1941	148	606	531	88	165	32	8	9	71	70	18	4	0	.311	.391	.452	.843	137.7	135.1	.394	4.1
1942	118	451	393	57	114	28	1	6	54	47	15	1	0	.290	.367	.412	.780	130.1	127.6	.371	2.5
1943	138	596	540	83	163	32	6	5	71	49	24	3	0	.302	.363	.411	.774	123.5	122.0	.368	2.9
1944	147	611	535	77	191	37	8	13	91	72	27	6	0	.357	.434	.529	.963	173.4	169.6	.443	6.7
1945	154	688	607	102	182	42	9	8	124	75	16	6	0	.300	.381	.438	.820	128.4	127.3	.387	3.9
1946	150	646	576	80	184	29	9	9	116	67	28	14	0	.319	.391	.448	.839	141.4	137.6	.396	4.5
1947	148	637	529	77	162	31	3	9	94	97	26	6	0	.306	.415	.427	.842	127.4	121.5	.394	3.5
1948	129	465	408	39	129	19	3	2	54	52	18	1	0	.316	.393	.392	.786	114.5	110.3	.369	1.8
1949	88	211	181	26	51	4	1	1	18	26	11	0	0	.282	.372	.331	.703	91.9	87.3	.336	0.3

Career totals

1,905

325th-most career G

7,666

342nd-most career PA

6,740

353rd-most career AB

1,037

322nd-most career R

2,064

260th-most career H

376

256th-most career 2B

177th-most career 3B

105

RBI

1,023

282nd-most career RBI

817

254th-most career BB

325

.3062

155th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3825

170th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4372

OPS

.8197

354th-highest career OPS

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	TB
1943-06-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	2	3	11
1944-09-02	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	1	4	10
1940-08-07	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	4	9
1942-09-05	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	4	9
1937-07-09	BAL @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	4	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-04-14	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-15	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-16	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-18	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-19	ATH @ NYY 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

5× 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.