Gus Bell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 15, 1928 · Louisville, KY, USA

MLB debutMay 30, 1950

Final gameMay 1, 1964

Seasons15 (1950–1964)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1950–1952; Cincinnati Reds 1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960–1961; Milwaukee Braves 1962; New York Mets 1962; Milwaukee Braves 1963–1964

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified batters

143

43.2

554

34.6

515

46.9

32.1

135

23.5

55.6

RBI

43.2

6.2

81.5

43.2

50.6

.262

32.1

OBP

.300

3.7

SLG

.388

30.9

OPS

.688

22.2

wRC+

83.7

17.3

OPS+

85.9

22.2

wOBA

.308

13.6

sWAR

0.0

6.2

of 82 qualified 1960 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.2

42.1

OPS+

101.4

44.5

sWAR

20.5

93.8

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
1950	111	456	422	62	119	22	11	8	53	28	46	4	0	.282	.333	.443	.776	94.6	97.1	.346	0.7
1951	149	647	600	80	167	27	12	16	89	42	41	1	4	.278	.330	.443	.773	98.2	100.5	.347	1.2
1952	131	510	468	53	117	21	5	16	59	36	72	1	4	.250	.306	.419	.725	90.4	93.9	.329	0.4
1953	151	665	610	102	183	37	5	30	105	48	72	0	2	.300	.354	.525	.879	122.4	123.5	.382	4.3
1954	153	684	619	104	185	38	7	17	101	48	58	5	3	.299	.349	.465	.814	106.9	107.8	.360	3.1
1955	154	672	610	88	188	30	6	27	104	54	57	4	4	.308	.361	.510	.871	125.9	123.8	.382	4.7
1956	150	666	603	82	176	31	4	29	84	50	66	6	2	.292	.347	.501	.848	122.5	119.6	.371	4.4
1957	121	555	510	65	149	20	3	13	61	30	54	0	1	.292	.332	.420	.751	94.0	95.7	.331	1.6
1958	112	433	385	42	97	16	2	10	46	36	40	2	3	.252	.314	.382	.696	74.0	79.1	.307	0.1
1959	148	620	580	59	170	27	2	19	115	29	44	2	3	.293	.325	.445	.770	99.9	100.4	.340	1.3
1960	143	554	515	65	135	19	5	12	62	29	40	4	3	.262	.300	.388	.688	83.7	85.9	.308	0.0
1961	103	262	235	27	60	10	1	3	33	18	21	1	1	.255	.298	.345	.642	64.7	69.9	.284	-0.7
1962	109	343	315	36	76	13	3	6	30	22	24	0	1	.241	.288	.359	.647	70.8	73.7	.292	-0.5
1963	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	93.7	94.3	.306	0.0
1964	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.5	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

1,741

470th-most career G

7,073

441st-most career PA

6,478

404th-most career AB

865

1,823

393rd-most career H

311

445th-most career 2B

450th-most career 3B

206

364th-most career HR

RBI

942

371st-most career RBI

470

636

.2814

OBP

.3301

SLG

.4452

OPS

.7753

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
1956-05-29	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	3	5	0	0	3	7	0	14
1955-07-21	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	3	0	12
1951-04-22	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	3	5	3	0	1	1	0	11
1956-09-15	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
1951-06-04	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	1	3	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1950-04-19	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-05-05	SF @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-05-06	SF @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-05-14	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-05-26	CHC @ 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

4× 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.