MLB / Players

Nellie Fox

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 25, 1927 · St. Thomas, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 8, 1947

Final gameJuly 25, 1965

Seasons19 (1947–1965)

Philadelphia Athletics 1947–1949; Chicago White Sox 1950–1963; Houston Colt .45's 1964; Houston Astros 1965

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified batters

133

2.1

502

442

2.1

3.2

117

10.6

5.3

70.2

RBI

1.1

3.2

100

55.3

.265

39.4

OBP

.320

31.9

SLG

.319

7.4

OPS

.639

10.6

wRC+

89.4

23.4

OPS+

86.8

20.2

wOBA

.297

13.8

sWAR

1.2

21.3

of 95 qualified 1964 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.0

33.8

OPS+

95.4

sWAR

33.2

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
1947	7	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	-6.8	-27.6	.190	0.0
1948	3	14	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.154	.214	.154	.368	-7.7	-1.0	.189	-0.1
1949	88	296	247	42	63	6	2	0	21	32	9	2	2	.255	.354	.296	.650	78.6	74.9	.326	0.3
1950	130	504	457	45	113	12	7	0	30	35	17	4	3	.247	.304	.304	.608	55.8	58.2	.290	-1.0
1951	147	681	604	93	189	32	12	4	55	43	11	9	12	.313	.372	.425	.798	118.3	118.7	.372	3.9
1952	152	700	648	76	192	25	10	0	39	34	14	5	5	.296	.334	.366	.700	93.3	96.1	.328	2.0
1953	154	692	624	92	178	31	8	3	72	49	18	4	5	.285	.344	.375	.719	93.3	93.9	.336	2.0
1954	155	706	631	111	201	24	8	2	47	51	12	16	9	.319	.372	.391	.763	111.8	110.0	.358	3.6
1955	154	709	636	100	198	28	7	6	59	38	15	7	9	.311	.364	.406	.770	109.3	107.6	.360	3.4
1956	154	721	649	109	192	20	10	4	52	44	14	8	4	.296	.347	.376	.723	93.0	92.6	.337	2.0
1957	155	718	619	110	196	27	8	6	61	75	13	5	6	.317	.403	.415	.818	133.4	125.7	.382	5.6
1958	155	698	623	82	187	21	6	0	49	47	11	5	6	.300	.357	.353	.710	101.6	100.3	.328	2.7
1959	156	716	624	84	191	34	6	2	70	71	13	5	6	.306	.380	.389	.770	117.2	115.3	.353	4.1
1960	150	684	605	85	175	24	10	2	59	50	13	2	4	.289	.351	.372	.723	100.0	98.1	.334	2.5
1961	159	696	606	67	152	11	5	2	51	59	12	2	3	.251	.323	.295	.618	70.4	69.2	.291	0.0
1962	157	684	621	79	166	27	7	2	54	38	12	1	2	.267	.314	.343	.657	78.9	79.0	.302	0.7
1963	137	582	539	54	140	19	0	2	42	24	17	0	2	.260	.299	.306	.605	72.5	73.6	.278	0.3
1964	133	502	442	45	117	12	6	0	28	27	13	0	2	.265	.320	.319	.639	89.4	86.8	.297	1.2
1965	21	42	41	3	11	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.268	.286	.317	.603	72.7	74.1	.276	0.0

Career totals

2,367

99th-most career G

10,349

65th-most career PA

9,232

62nd-most career AB

1,279

141st-most career R

2,663

75th-most career H

355

305th-most career 2B

112

122nd-most career 3B

RBI

790

719

353rd-most career BB

216

.2885

451st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3475

SLG

.3625

OPS

.7100

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
1955-05-26	CWS @ CLE Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	4	11
1959-04-10	CWS @ DET Gameday	7	2	5	1	0	1	3	9
1952-07-13	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	5	3	0	0	1	8
1951-05-15	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	3	8
1956-08-23	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	1	5	0	1	0	4	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-15	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-17	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-18	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-19	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-20	NYY @ ATH 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, 1997 (Veterans)

3× Gold Glove1× Most Valuable Player12× 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.