Frank Baumholtz

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 7, 1918 · Midvale, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1947

Final gameMay 26, 1957

Seasons10 (1947–1957)

Cincinnati Reds 1947–1948; Chicago Cubs 1949; Cincinnati Reds 1949; Chicago Cubs 1951–1955; Philadelphia Phillies 1956–1957

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified batters

133

13.1

567

28.6

520

40.5

159

58.3

91.7

65.5

9.5

RBI

21.4

67.9

38.1

47.6

.306

77.4

OBP

.359

53.6

SLG

.419

OPS

.778

42.9

wRC+

99.5

34.5

OPS+

99.3

32.1

wOBA

.349

38.1

sWAR

1.6

of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

93.1

28.4

OPS+

94.0

29.4

sWAR

6.7

82.5

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
1947	151	711	643	96	182	32	9	5	45	56	53	6	0	.283	.341	.384	.726	92.1	93.0	.336	1.0
1948	128	449	415	57	123	19	5	4	30	27	32	8	0	.296	.344	.395	.739	100.3	101.5	.341	1.1
1949	85	269	245	27	56	9	5	2	23	15	29	2	0	.229	.279	.331	.609	58.7	63.3	.281	-0.8
1951	146	615	560	62	159	28	10	2	50	49	36	5	4	.284	.346	.380	.726	93.2	93.2	.334	1.2
1952	103	446	409	59	133	17	4	4	35	27	27	5	7	.325	.371	.416	.787	117.2	115.9	.362	2.2
1953	133	567	520	75	159	36	7	3	25	42	36	3	3	.306	.359	.419	.778	99.5	99.3	.349	1.6
1954	90	327	303	38	90	12	6	4	28	20	15	1	3	.297	.340	.416	.756	93.4	94.7	.339	0.8
1955	105	309	280	23	81	12	5	1	27	16	24	0	1	.289	.325	.379	.703	83.1	85.2	.313	0.0
1956	76	112	100	13	27	0	0	0	9	6	6	0	2	.270	.309	.270	.579	58.9	59.4	.269	-0.3
1957	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.3	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,019

3,807

3,477

450

1,010

165

RBI

272

258

.2905

391st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3416

SLG

.3888

OPS

.7304

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
1951-05-16	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	0	1	0	8
1954-05-28	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	0	0	7
1947-04-26	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	1	1	1	7
1947-08-22	CIN @ LAD Gameday	6	1	3	0	2	0	0	0	7
1953-07-08	CHC @ ATL Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	0	0	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-15	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-17	STL @ CIN 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

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.