MLB / Players

Jackie Robinson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 195 lb

BornJanuary 31, 1919 · Cairo, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1947

Final gameSeptember 30, 1956

Seasons11 (1945–1956)

Kansas City Monarchs 1945; Brooklyn Dodgers 1947–1956

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified batters

136

21.4

574

33.3

484

22.6

109

90.5

159

58.3

86.9

65.5

RBI

72.6

78.6

85.7

92.9

26.2

.329

89.3

OBP

.425

97.6

SLG

.502

79.8

OPS

.927

89.3

wRC+

143.3

86.9

OPS+

139.2

82.1

wOBA

.413

89.3

sWAR

4.6

84.5

of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

139.3

95.9

OPS+

135.3

93.6

sWAR

47.6

98.7

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
1945	36	146	129	27	50	14	1	4	30	16	0	6	0	.388	.455	.605	1.060	190.8	208.6	.487	2.3
1947	151	701	590	125	175	31	5	12	48	74	36	29	0	.297	.383	.427	.810	115.2	112.6	.376	2.3
1948	147	646	574	108	170	38	8	12	85	57	37	22	0	.296	.367	.453	.820	119.2	118.7	.375	3.6
1949	156	704	593	122	203	38	12	16	124	86	27	37	0	.342	.432	.528	.960	157.3	153.3	.434	7.4
1950	144	613	518	99	170	39	4	14	81	80	24	12	0	.328	.423	.500	.923	144.8	140.6	.415	5.6
1951	153	642	548	106	185	33	7	19	88	79	27	25	8	.338	.429	.527	.957	159.4	154.9	.430	7.1
1952	149	636	510	104	157	17	3	19	75	106	40	24	7	.308	.440	.465	.904	159.6	151.1	.420	7.1
1953	136	574	484	109	159	34	7	12	95	74	30	17	4	.329	.425	.502	.927	143.3	139.2	.413	4.6
1954	124	465	386	62	120	22	4	15	59	63	20	7	3	.311	.413	.505	.918	141.9	136.5	.410	3.7
1955	105	390	317	51	81	6	2	8	36	61	18	12	3	.256	.378	.363	.740	102.4	96.9	.343	1.5
1956	117	431	357	61	98	15	2	10	43	60	32	12	5	.275	.382	.412	.793	116.8	109.3	.362	2.4

Career totals

1,418

5,948

5,006

974

387th-most career R

1,568

287

141

RBI

764

756

316th-most career BB

291

203

357th-most career SB

.3132

89th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4101

40th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4770

243rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8871

89th-highest career OPS

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	TB
1954-06-17	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	2	2	12
1950-07-23	LAD @ PIT Gameday	6	3	5	2	0	1	4	10
1948-08-29	LAD @ STL Gameday	6	3	4	1	1	1	2	10
1950-06-29	SF @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	2	10
1949-05-24	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-04-08	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-22	KCM @ IC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-05-04	KCM @ IC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-05-06	CAG @ KCM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-05-08	CAG @ KCM 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

Hall of Fame, 1962 (BBWAA)

1× Rookie of the Year1× Most Valuable Player7× 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.