MLB / Players

Dom DiMaggio

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 168 lb

BornFebruary 12, 1917 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1940

Final gameMay 9, 1953

Seasons11 (1940–1953)

Boston Red Sox 1940–1942; Boston Red Sox 1946–1953

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified batters

128

9.3

549

26.7

486

25.3

143

30.7

21.3

RBI

1.3

49.3

34.7

.294

77.3

OBP

.371

70.7

SLG

.377

30.7

OPS

.747

42.7

wRC+

104.8

34.7

OPS+

102.2

wOBA

.356

49.3

sWAR

2.3

of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.3

68.4

OPS+

111.1

64.5

sWAR

34.0

97.1

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
1940	108	466	418	81	126	32	6	8	46	41	46	7	6	.301	.367	.464	.831	110.6	110.9	.374	2.0
1941	144	688	584	117	165	37	6	8	58	90	57	13	6	.283	.385	.408	.792	113.1	109.8	.373	3.6
1942	151	702	622	110	178	36	8	14	48	70	52	16	10	.286	.364	.437	.801	122.3	122.0	.377	4.5
1946	142	610	534	85	169	24	7	7	73	66	58	10	6	.316	.393	.427	.820	128.6	123.6	.385	4.4
1947	136	599	513	75	145	21	5	8	71	74	62	10	6	.283	.376	.390	.766	111.4	107.7	.367	3.0
1948	155	756	648	127	185	40	4	9	87	101	58	10	2	.285	.383	.401	.785	108.0	105.5	.376	3.5
1949	145	706	605	126	186	34	5	8	60	96	55	9	7	.307	.404	.420	.824	115.3	112.1	.395	3.9
1950	141	681	588	131	193	30	11	7	70	82	68	15	4	.328	.414	.452	.866	115.8	113.1	.404	3.8
1951	146	718	639	113	189	34	4	12	72	73	53	4	7	.296	.370	.418	.788	104.3	103.9	.369	3.0
1952	128	549	486	81	143	20	1	6	33	57	61	6	8	.294	.371	.377	.747	104.8	102.2	.356	2.3
1953	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	70.6	76.5	.309	0.0

Career totals

1,399

6,478

5,640

1,046

318th-most career R

1,680

308

455th-most career 2B

RBI

618

750

321st-most career BB

571

100

.2979

254th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3833

164th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4190

OPS

.8023

481st-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
1950-05-28	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	0	2	9
1941-09-09	DET @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	4	9
1948-08-24	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	2	9
1951-07-26	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	3	5	0	0	1	2	8
1951-06-10	BOS @ CLE Gameday	6	2	5	2	0	0	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-18	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-19	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-19	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-23	MIN @ BOS 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

7× 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.