Murry Dickson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 157 lb

BornAugust 21, 1916 · Tracy, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 30, 1939

Final gameSeptember 14, 1959

Seasons18 (1939–1959)

St. Louis Cardinals 1939–1940; St. Louis Cardinals 1942–1943; St. Louis Cardinals 1946–1948; Pittsburgh Pirates 1949–1953; Philadelphia Phillies 1954–1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956–1957; Kansas City Athletics 1958; New York Yankees 1958; Kansas City Athletics 1959

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified pitchers

3.8

39.6

41.5

39.6

52.8

SHO

195

54.7

60.4

110

45.3

49.1

219.3

54.7

ERA

3.28

73.6

WHIP

1.204

79.2

K/9

4.51

45.3

FIP

3.43

73.6

FIP-

90.9

52.8

ERA+

115.1

sWAR

3.9

69.8

of 54 qualified 1956 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.1

70.2

sWAR

44.7

98.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1939	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.7	-100.0	.000	0.2
1940	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1942	37	43	42	6	8	2	0	0	1	0	3	.190	.190	.238	.429	4.1	22.8	.199	2.0
1943	31	37	34	1	9	2	0	0	6	0	1	.265	.265	.324	.588	57.9	69.2	.275	1.0
1946	47	67	65	8	18	5	1	0	6	1	6	.277	.288	.385	.672	79.3	88.4	.311	3.7
1947	47	83	80	4	17	2	0	0	9	1	5	.213	.222	.238	.460	8.1	20.8	.212	5.2
1948	43	101	96	7	27	2	0	0	11	1	1	.281	.289	.302	.591	49.5	57.6	.272	2.8
1949	44	85	84	5	17	4	1	0	4	0	6	.202	.202	.274	.476	10.0	24.7	.213	4.5
1950	52	83	82	5	21	4	0	0	7	1	9	.256	.265	.305	.570	35.5	45.8	.257	3.9
1951	46	115	110	16	30	2	1	1	8	1	5	.273	.279	.336	.616	51.1	60.4	.277	3.9
1952	47	110	107	4	24	4	0	0	6	1	10	.224	.231	.262	.493	18.6	32.9	.225	4.3
1953	45	67	61	0	7	0	0	0	2	2	11	.115	.143	.115	.258	-47.7	-32.6	.123	1.4
1954	40	85	79	4	15	2	0	0	5	2	9	.190	.210	.215	.425	-1.3	12.4	.195	2.8
1955	36	85	82	6	18	2	0	1	3	0	9	.220	.220	.280	.500	25.6	33.1	.222	3.3
1956	35	89	86	8	22	2	2	0	6	1	11	.256	.264	.326	.590	53.3	57.9	.264	3.9
1957	14	28	27	4	6	1	0	0	4	0	6	.222	.250	.259	.509	30.9	36.6	.234	0.6
1958	34	46	42	2	11	0	0	1	2	1	7	.262	.295	.333	.629	69.4	71.9	.289	1.6
1959	38	17	17	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	5	.176	.176	.176	.353	-17.5	-3.9	.162	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1939	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	3.7	0.00	.545	4.91	2.54	61.7	—	0.2
1940	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	1	0	0	1.7	16.20	3.600	0.00	4.55	114.0	24.6	-0.2
1942	36	7	6	3	2	2	0	91	39	61	66	1	120.7	2.91	1.260	4.92	2.84	82.7	118.1	2.0
1943	31	7	8	2	0	2	0	119	46	49	44	4	115.7	3.58	1.452	3.42	3.46	102.4	94.4	1.0
1946	47	19	15	6	1	12	2	160	59	56	82	8	184.3	2.88	1.172	4.00	2.97	85.7	120.4	3.7
1947	47	25	13	16	3	11	4	211	79	88	111	16	231.7	3.07	1.291	4.31	3.67	88.4	135.4	5.2
1948	42	29	12	16	1	11	1	257	116	85	113	39	252.3	4.14	1.355	4.03	4.69	114.9	98.6	2.8
1949	44	20	12	14	0	11	2	216	82	80	89	17	224.3	3.29	1.319	3.57	3.87	93.1	126.4	4.5
1950	51	22	10	15	3	8	0	227	95	83	76	20	225.0	3.80	1.378	3.04	4.07	93.5	114.5	3.9
1951	45	35	20	16	2	19	3	294	129	101	112	32	288.7	4.02	1.368	3.49	4.16	99.5	103.9	3.9
1952	43	34	14	21	2	21	2	278	110	76	112	26	277.7	3.57	1.275	3.63	3.66	93.0	110.4	4.3
1953	45	26	10	19	4	10	1	240	101	58	88	27	200.7	4.53	1.485	3.95	4.40	100.3	96.8	1.4
1954	40	31	10	20	3	12	4	256	95	73	64	31	226.3	3.78	1.454	2.54	4.63	115.3	106.2	2.8
1955	36	28	12	11	0	12	4	190	84	82	92	27	216.0	3.50	1.259	3.83	4.27	107.7	113.4	3.3
1956	31	30	13	11	0	12	3	195	80	69	110	21	219.3	3.28	1.204	4.51	3.43	90.9	115.1	3.9
1957	14	13	5	3	0	3	1	87	34	25	29	8	74.0	4.14	1.514	3.53	4.19	106.2	95.3	0.6
1958	33	11	10	7	2	3	0	117	49	43	55	16	119.3	3.70	1.341	4.15	4.42	116.1	103.7	1.6
1959	38	0	2	1	0	0	0	85	39	27	36	9	71.0	4.94	1.577	4.56	4.24	106.5	80.5	-0.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

638

1,142

1,095

253

RBI

105

.2311

OBP

.2408

SLG

.2795

OPS

.5203

Pitching

G (P)

625

203rd-most career G (P)

338

242nd-most career GS

172

186th-most career W

181

71st-most career L

149

230th-most career CG

SHO

148th-most career SHO

3,052

131st-most career IP

SO (P)

1,281

338th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,058

96th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.656

WHIP

1.3390

K/9

3.78

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
1946-08-04	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	3	5
1956-08-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	0	3	0	1	0	2	5
1951-04-17	STL @ PIT Gameday	2	2	2	0	0	1	1	5
1946-08-22	PHI @ STL Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	0	0	4
1949-07-10	CHC @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	0	3	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-08-27	PHI @ CHC Gameday	11.2	8	4	2	3	10	1
1956-06-08	PIT @ STL Gameday	11.0	11	2	2	1	8	0
1947-09-25	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	3	2	8	8	0
1951-09-29	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	11	4	4	0	8	1
1955-04-23	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	8	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× 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.