Ed Bailey

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornApril 15, 1931 · Strawberry Plains, TN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1953

Final gameApril 26, 1966

Seasons14 (1953–1966)

Cincinnati Reds 1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960–1961; San Francisco Giants 1961–1963; Milwaukee Braves 1964; Chicago Cubs 1965; San Francisco Giants 1965; California Angels 1966

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified batters

133

510

14.8

441

8.6

9.9

115

9.9

23.5

28.4

45.7

RBI

53.1

64.2

7.4

85.2

.261

30.9

OBP

.346

51.9

SLG

.406

45.7

OPS

.752

39.5

wRC+

103.4

38.3

OPS+

104.0

40.7

wOBA

.336

35.8

sWAR

3.0

of 82 qualified 1960 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.0

61.4

OPS+

110.0

sWAR

28.6

96.2

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
1953	2	9	8	1	3	1	0	0	1	1	3	0	0	.375	.444	.500	.944	148.9	143.8	.423	0.1
1954	73	222	183	21	36	2	3	9	20	35	34	1	0	.197	.324	.388	.712	84.0	82.7	.326	0.8
1955	21	46	39	3	8	1	1	1	4	4	10	0	0	.205	.326	.359	.685	84.0	78.4	.319	0.2
1956	118	446	383	59	115	8	2	28	75	52	50	2	0	.300	.385	.551	.936	143.0	142.3	.401	4.7
1957	122	472	391	54	102	15	2	20	48	73	69	5	3	.261	.377	.463	.840	121.0	119.1	.370	3.7
1958	112	414	360	39	90	23	1	11	59	47	61	2	2	.250	.337	.411	.748	88.9	92.4	.329	1.7
1959	121	447	379	43	100	13	0	12	40	62	53	2	0	.264	.370	.393	.763	105.8	101.5	.349	2.8
1960	133	510	441	52	115	19	3	13	67	59	70	1	0	.261	.346	.406	.752	103.4	104.0	.336	3.0
1961	119	439	383	43	94	13	1	13	53	45	46	1	5	.245	.326	.386	.713	90.7	92.2	.317	1.9
1962	96	305	254	32	59	9	1	17	45	42	42	1	1	.232	.351	.476	.827	120.7	122.5	.366	2.5
1963	105	361	308	41	81	8	0	21	68	50	64	0	6	.263	.366	.494	.859	146.1	147.6	.377	4.0
1964	95	309	271	30	71	10	1	5	34	34	39	2	0	.262	.343	.362	.705	102.5	98.8	.325	1.9
1965	90	224	178	14	41	6	0	5	26	40	35	0	1	.230	.363	.348	.712	99.3	98.6	.325	1.3
1966	5	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	7.1	-19.6	.184	0.0

Career totals

1,212

4,208

3,581

432

915

128

155

RBI

540

545

577

.2555

OBP

.3546

SLG

.4295

OPS

.7841

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	HR	RBI	TB
1956-06-24	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	3	3	3	6	12
1965-07-22	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	2	4	2	8	10
1961-06-14	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	2	3	10
1963-05-04	SF @ NYM Gameday	4	3	4	2	3	10
1961-07-23	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	2	3	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1964-04-28	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-05-08	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-07-09	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-09-22	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-09-23	ATL @ 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

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.