MLB / Players

Norm Larker

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 27, 1930 · Beaver Meadows, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1958

Final gameSeptember 28, 1963

Seasons6 (1958–1963)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1961; Houston Colt .45's 1962; Milwaukee Braves 1963; San Francisco Giants 1963

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified batters

147

590

31.1

506

25.2

12.6

133

21.4

19.4

41.7

20.4

RBI

75.7

84.5

7.8

70.9

.263

26.2

OBP

.358

SLG

.374

21.4

OPS

.732

31.1

wRC+

105.4

47.6

OPS+

103.0

42.7

wOBA

.337

38.8

sWAR

1.2

14.6

of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.6

72.5

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
1958	99	291	253	32	70	16	5	4	29	29	21	1	1	.277	.352	.427	.779	102.9	100.0	.350	0.7
1959	108	351	311	37	90	14	1	8	49	26	25	0	1	.289	.344	.418	.762	98.6	97.1	.342	0.5
1960	133	493	440	56	142	26	3	5	78	36	24	1	0	.323	.368	.430	.798	116.7	114.2	.359	1.6
1961	97	312	282	29	76	16	1	5	38	24	22	0	0	.270	.326	.387	.712	83.5	88.0	.313	-0.4
1962	147	590	506	58	133	19	5	9	63	70	47	1	1	.263	.358	.374	.732	105.4	103.0	.337	1.2
1963	83	192	161	15	27	6	0	1	14	26	26	0	2	.168	.288	.224	.512	54.1	50.9	.252	-0.9

Career totals

667

2,229

1,953

227

538

RBI

271

211

165

.2755

OBP

.3468

SLG

.3897

OPS

.7365

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	HR	RBI	TB
1958-07-01	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	4	10
1962-05-05	HOU @ ATL Gameday	6	3	4	2	1	1	9
1960-08-26	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	5	8
1960-06-21	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	2	7
1958-07-03	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1963-06-07	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1963-06-19	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1963-08-07	ATL @ PIT 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× 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.