MLB / Players

Les Bell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornDecember 14, 1901 · Harrisburg, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1923

Final gameSeptember 27, 1931

Seasons9 (1923–1931)

St. Louis Cardinals 1923–1927; Boston Braves 1928–1929; Chicago Cubs 1930–1931

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

139

61.6

553

57.3

483

56.1

34.1

144

58.5

47.6

37.2

68.3

RBI

64.6

67.7

18.3

20.7

34.8

.298

41.5

OBP

.364

41.5

SLG

.422

40.9

OPS

.786

41.5

wRC+

97.0

38.4

OPS+

96.5

wOBA

.359

39.6

sWAR

1.7

49.4

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.3

42.2

OPS+

102.1

45.8

sWAR

13.6

90.1

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
1923	15	60	51	5	19	2	1	0	9	9	7	1	0	.373	.467	.451	.918	151.0	144.8	.432	0.7
1924	17	62	57	5	14	3	2	1	5	3	7	0	0	.246	.295	.421	.716	88.0	91.7	.324	0.2
1925	153	639	586	80	167	29	9	11	88	43	47	4	5	.285	.334	.422	.755	88.0	89.7	.342	1.4
1926	155	666	581	85	189	33	14	17	100	54	62	9	0	.325	.383	.518	.901	136.9	137.6	.409	5.4
1927	115	438	390	48	101	26	6	9	65	34	63	5	0	.259	.320	.426	.746	94.5	96.9	.342	1.4
1928	153	656	591	58	164	36	7	10	91	40	45	1	0	.277	.323	.413	.736	90.6	93.6	.336	1.6
1929	139	553	483	58	144	23	5	9	72	50	42	4	0	.298	.364	.422	.786	97.0	96.5	.359	1.7
1930	74	281	248	35	69	15	4	5	47	24	27	1	0	.278	.342	.431	.773	84.8	85.1	.344	0.4
1931	75	272	252	30	71	17	1	4	32	19	22	0	0	.282	.332	.405	.737	94.9	96.2	.338	0.8

Career totals

896

3,627

3,239

404

938

184

RBI

509

276

322

.2896

419th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3457

SLG

.4378

OPS

.7835

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
1928-06-02	CIN @ ATL Gameday	5	4	4	0	1	3	6	15
1925-04-18	STL @ CHC Gameday	6	4	5	2	0	2	6	13
1926-09-22	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	3	4	1	3	0	2	11
1926-07-25	SF @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	1	9
1925-07-04	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-17	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-18	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-19	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-20	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-21	STL @ CHC 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.