MLB / Players

Frank Bolling

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 16, 1931 · Mobile, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1954

Final gameSeptember 15, 1966

Seasons12 (1954–1966)

Detroit Tigers 1954; Detroit Tigers 1956–1960; Milwaukee Braves 1961–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified batters

148

36.8

577

34.7

535

44.2

141

42.1

72.6

28.4

18.9

RBI

24.2

5.3

94.7

36.8

.264

45.3

OBP

.295

13.7

SLG

.363

22.1

OPS

.657

wRC+

80.9

13.7

OPS+

84.4

15.8

wOBA

.295

14.7

sWAR

0.8

13.7

of 96 qualified 1965 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.2

16.2

OPS+

85.7

16.8

sWAR

11.7

88.5

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
1954	117	413	368	46	87	15	2	6	38	36	51	3	5	.236	.302	.337	.639	72.4	75.9	.301	0.2
1956	102	422	366	53	103	21	7	7	45	42	51	6	2	.281	.354	.434	.789	108.8	108.9	.361	2.0
1957	146	644	576	72	149	27	6	15	40	57	64	4	9	.259	.327	.405	.732	98.9	98.3	.335	2.3
1958	154	681	610	91	164	25	4	14	75	54	54	6	4	.269	.328	.392	.720	91.9	92.1	.328	1.9
1959	127	520	459	56	122	18	3	13	55	45	37	2	2	.266	.339	.403	.742	100.3	99.1	.339	2.0
1960	139	584	536	64	136	20	4	9	59	40	48	7	4	.254	.308	.356	.664	76.7	78.1	.306	0.5
1961	148	658	585	86	153	16	4	15	56	57	62	7	3	.262	.329	.379	.708	96.4	93.6	.322	2.1
1962	122	452	406	45	110	17	4	9	43	35	45	2	2	.271	.333	.399	.732	99.3	99.3	.331	1.7
1963	142	606	542	73	132	18	2	5	43	41	47	2	1	.244	.299	.312	.611	77.3	77.6	.283	0.7
1964	120	387	352	35	70	11	1	5	34	21	44	0	1	.199	.245	.278	.524	41.8	47.2	.239	-1.2
1965	148	577	535	55	141	26	3	7	50	24	41	0	4	.264	.295	.363	.657	80.9	84.4	.295	0.8
1966	75	245	227	16	48	7	0	1	18	10	14	1	1	.211	.244	.256	.499	28.5	38.2	.224	-1.2

Career totals

1,540

6,189

5,562

692

1,415

221

106

RBI

556

462

558

.2544

OBP

.3130

SLG

.3657

OPS

.6787

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1956-09-23	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	9
1959-08-20	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	9
1964-04-17	ATL @ HOU Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	3	9
1957-05-30	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	9
1961-05-22	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-05-17	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-29	ATL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-10	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-07-01	CHC @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-09-30	PIT @ ATL 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× Gold Glove2× 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.