Larry Doby

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 13, 1923 · Camden, SC, USA

MLB debutJuly 5, 1947

Final gameJuly 26, 1959

Seasons17 (1942–1959)

Newark Eagles 1942–1944; Newark Eagles 1946; Cleveland Indians 1947; Newark Eagles 1947; Cleveland Indians 1948–1955; Chicago White Sox 1956–1957; Cleveland Indians 1958; Chicago White Sox 1959; Detroit Tigers 1959

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified batters

140

31.7

619

57.3

504

31.7

69.5

135

30.5

41.5

25.6

67.1

RBI

102

90.2

102

96.3

105

2.4

73.2

.268

36.6

OBP

.392

86.6

SLG

.466

59.8

OPS

.858

wRC+

129.4

74.4

OPS+

127.6

73.2

wOBA

.393

80.5

sWAR

4.5

79.3

of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

141.4

96.7

OPS+

142.5

96.4

sWAR

60.0

99.4

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
1942	23	88	79	18	25	4	2	1	8	7	1	3	0	.316	.372	.456	.828	128.2	135.4	.390	0.7
1943	28	127	103	18	31	8	3	4	22	20	0	5	0	.301	.419	.553	.973	145.4	158.9	.452	1.2
1944	1	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.200	.333	.200	.533	63.3	45.1	.285	0.0
1946	59	265	234	59	85	12	10	7	52	29	0	6	0	.363	.436	.590	1.025	169.8	185.0	.474	3.5
1947	59	165	146	28	45	11	5	8	43	18	11	3	0	.308	.384	.616	1.001	161.2	174.9	.451	1.9
1948	121	500	439	83	132	23	9	14	66	54	77	9	9	.301	.384	.490	.873	134.5	136.9	.405	3.6
1949	147	650	547	106	153	25	3	24	85	91	90	10	9	.280	.389	.468	.857	130.6	131.4	.404	4.6
1950	142	609	503	110	164	25	5	25	102	98	71	8	6	.326	.442	.545	.986	157.6	158.3	.450	6.6
1951	134	551	447	84	132	27	5	20	69	101	81	4	1	.295	.428	.512	.941	162.7	162.3	.435	6.3
1952	140	611	519	104	143	26	8	32	104	90	111	5	2	.276	.383	.541	.924	162.5	164.7	.420	6.9
1953	149	617	513	92	135	18	5	29	102	96	121	3	2	.263	.385	.487	.873	140.9	139.9	.400	5.4
1954	153	675	577	94	157	18	4	32	126	85	94	3	1	.272	.364	.484	.847	132.6	132.7	.386	5.2
1955	131	560	491	91	143	17	5	26	75	61	100	2	0	.291	.369	.505	.874	131.4	133.9	.393	4.2
1956	140	619	504	89	135	22	3	24	102	102	105	0	1	.268	.392	.466	.858	129.4	127.6	.393	4.5
1957	119	477	416	57	120	27	2	14	79	56	79	2	3	.288	.373	.464	.837	132.5	129.3	.381	3.7
1958	89	276	247	41	70	10	1	13	45	26	49	0	2	.283	.348	.490	.838	130.0	130.7	.371	2.0
1959	39	124	113	6	26	4	2	0	13	10	22	1	0	.230	.290	.301	.591	62.0	62.3	.277	-0.3

Career totals

1,674

6,920

481st-most career PA

5,883

1,080

286th-most career R

1,697

487th-most career H

277

362nd-most career 3B

273

214th-most career HR

RBI

1,093

227th-most career RBI

945

152nd-most career BB

1,012

384th-most career SO

.2885

451st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3891

121st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4992

129th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8883

86th-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	BB	TB
1950-08-02	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	4	3	0	0	3	5	1	12
1953-06-25	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	5	1	11
1955-07-07	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	3	0	11
1952-06-04	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	6	0	10
1947-05-23	NE @ BEG Gameday	4	2	4	3	0	1	2	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-05-03	HOM @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-05-05	NE @ NYC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-05-06	NE @ NYC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-05-10	NYC @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-05-10	NYC @ NE 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, 1998 (Veterans)

8× 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.