Don Blasingame

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornMarch 16, 1932 · Corinth, MS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 20, 1955

Final gameAugust 27, 1966

Seasons12 (1955–1966)

St. Louis Cardinals 1955–1959; San Francisco Giants 1960; Cincinnati Reds 1961; San Francisco Giants 1961; Cincinnati Reds 1962–1963; Washington Senators 1963–1965; Kansas City Athletics 1966; Washington Senators 1966

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified batters

143

20.2

556

19.1

506

25.5

12.8

135

27.7

20.2

8.5

1.1

RBI

4.3

28.7

90.4

23.4

.267

42.6

OBP

.320

31.9

SLG

.314

5.3

OPS

.634

8.5

wRC+

77.4

10.6

OPS+

76.6

8.5

wOBA

.294

10.6

sWAR

0.6

9.6

of 95 qualified 1964 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.7

12.2

OPS+

78.4

7.8

sWAR

8.9

85.6

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
1955	5	23	16	4	6	1	0	0	0	6	0	1	1	.375	.545	.438	.983	176.4	164.7	.453	0.3
1956	150	665	587	94	153	22	7	0	27	72	52	8	8	.261	.344	.322	.666	87.0	80.8	.313	1.6
1957	154	728	650	108	176	25	7	8	58	71	49	21	9	.271	.343	.368	.711	93.1	90.2	.324	2.0
1958	143	608	547	71	150	19	10	2	36	57	47	20	5	.274	.343	.356	.700	86.1	83.3	.322	1.2
1959	150	691	615	90	178	26	7	1	24	67	42	15	15	.289	.361	.359	.720	93.4	88.6	.334	2.0
1960	136	583	523	72	123	12	8	2	31	49	53	14	2	.235	.302	.300	.602	73.7	71.2	.283	0.3
1961	126	505	451	60	100	18	4	1	21	41	39	4	3	.222	.288	.286	.574	55.1	53.0	.269	-1.0
1962	141	570	494	77	139	9	7	2	35	63	44	4	3	.281	.364	.340	.704	94.6	89.3	.331	1.7
1963	87	316	285	33	70	12	2	2	12	31	23	3	3	.246	.320	.323	.642	83.3	80.4	.299	0.6
1964	143	556	506	56	135	17	2	1	34	40	44	8	5	.267	.320	.314	.634	77.4	76.6	.294	0.6
1965	129	450	403	47	90	8	8	1	18	35	45	5	4	.223	.287	.290	.577	64.8	65.0	.271	-0.2
1966	80	243	219	19	46	9	0	1	12	20	24	2	2	.210	.276	.265	.541	57.8	57.0	.257	-0.3

Career totals

1,444

5,938

5,296

731

1,366

178

RBI

308

552

462

105

.2579

OBP

.3290

SLG

.3269

OPS

.6559

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	RBI	TB
1962-05-24	CIN @ HOU Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	1	7
1957-05-30	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	3	6
1956-07-13	SF @ STL Gameday	4	4	4	0	1	0	6
1963-08-20	TEX @ ATH Gameday	7	0	3	1	1	2	6
1958-04-20	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-04-17	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-04-17	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-05-01	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-05-01	STL @ 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.

Honors

1× 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.