MLB / Players

Marty Marion

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 1, 1916 · Richburg, SC, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1940

Final gameJuly 6, 1953

Seasons13 (1940–1953)

St. Louis Cardinals 1940–1950; St. Louis Browns 1952–1953

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified batters

134

22.7

571

515

22.7

140

37.3

81.3

10.7

25.3

RBI

49.3

14.7

49.3

.272

29.3

OBP

.323

14.7

SLG

.369

26.7

OPS

.692

13.3

wRC+

81.1

9.3

OPS+

83.3

9.3

wOBA

.319

sWAR

1.2

22.7

of 76 qualified 1949 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.6

OPS+

83.5

sWAR

14.6

90.7

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
1940	125	468	435	44	121	18	1	3	46	21	34	9	0	.278	.311	.345	.656	74.1	77.5	.303	0.7
1941	155	619	547	50	138	22	3	3	58	42	48	8	0	.252	.308	.320	.628	71.2	73.6	.300	0.7
1942	147	554	485	66	134	38	5	0	54	48	50	8	0	.276	.343	.375	.718	107.0	106.3	.343	3.0
1943	129	463	418	38	117	15	3	1	52	32	37	1	0	.280	.334	.337	.671	93.2	93.8	.324	1.8
1944	144	565	506	50	135	26	2	6	63	43	50	1	0	.267	.324	.362	.686	93.5	94.6	.323	2.1
1945	123	477	430	63	119	27	5	1	59	39	39	2	0	.277	.340	.370	.709	97.5	97.9	.338	2.0
1946	146	575	498	51	116	29	4	3	46	59	53	1	0	.233	.318	.325	.643	80.3	81.2	.313	1.3
1947	149	599	540	57	147	19	6	4	74	49	58	3	0	.272	.334	.352	.686	79.4	80.3	.321	1.2
1948	144	613	567	70	143	26	4	4	43	37	54	1	0	.252	.298	.333	.631	63.6	68.0	.293	0.0
1949	134	571	515	61	140	31	2	5	70	37	42	0	0	.272	.323	.369	.692	81.1	83.3	.319	1.2
1950	106	420	372	36	92	10	2	4	40	44	55	1	0	.247	.327	.317	.644	68.2	68.0	.303	0.2
1952	67	210	186	16	46	11	0	2	19	19	17	0	2	.247	.320	.339	.659	77.7	79.6	.314	0.5
1953	3	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.3	-100.0	.000	-0.2

Career totals

1,572

6,141

5,506

602

1,448

272

RBI

624

470

537

.2630

OBP

.3225

SLG

.3454

OPS

.6679

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
1944-10-01	STL @ SF Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1947-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	1	4	0	0	1	2	7
1949-09-04	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	4	7
1950-05-30	STL @ PIT Gameday	6	2	3	1	0	1	4	7
1943-09-01	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-19	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-20	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-21	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-22	STL @ CIN 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× Most Valuable Player8× 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.