MLB / Players

Pee Wee Reese

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornJuly 23, 1918 · Ekron, KY, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1940

Final gameSeptember 26, 1958

Seasons16 (1940–1958)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1940–1942; Brooklyn Dodgers 1946–1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified batters

147

52.4

648

73.2

572

75.6

147

53.7

25.6

7.3

RBI

9.8

52.4

34.1

91.5

30.5

.257

20.7

OBP

.322

SLG

.344

14.6

OPS

.667

14.6

wRC+

77.9

13.4

OPS+

76.0

wOBA

.306

12.2

sWAR

1.1

19.5

of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.3

50.7

OPS+

100.2

42.2

sWAR

46.4

98.6

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	84	361	312	58	85	8	4	5	28	45	42	15	0	.272	.366	.372	.738	104.5	100.4	.348	1.8
1941	152	674	595	76	136	23	5	2	46	68	56	10	0	.229	.311	.294	.605	70.4	69.6	.295	0.6
1942	151	655	564	87	144	24	5	3	53	82	55	15	0	.255	.350	.332	.681	103.7	99.6	.334	3.3
1946	152	644	542	79	154	16	10	5	60	87	71	10	0	.284	.384	.378	.762	122.5	116.5	.369	4.7
1947	142	590	476	81	135	24	4	12	73	104	67	7	0	.284	.414	.426	.841	127.8	121.2	.395	4.7
1948	151	654	566	96	155	31	4	9	75	79	63	25	0	.274	.363	.390	.753	104.4	102.0	.353	3.3
1949	155	743	617	132	172	27	3	16	73	116	59	26	0	.279	.396	.410	.806	119.8	114.1	.377	5.0
1950	141	633	531	97	138	21	5	11	52	91	62	17	0	.260	.369	.380	.750	100.7	96.7	.349	2.8
1951	154	711	616	94	176	20	8	10	84	81	57	20	14	.286	.371	.393	.763	107.7	104.7	.354	3.8
1952	149	660	559	94	152	18	8	6	58	86	59	30	5	.272	.369	.365	.734	108.8	104.3	.347	3.7
1953	140	625	524	108	142	25	7	13	61	82	61	22	6	.271	.374	.420	.794	108.5	105.3	.360	3.3
1954	141	661	554	98	171	35	8	10	69	90	62	8	5	.309	.404	.455	.859	127.7	122.2	.389	5.1
1955	145	652	553	99	156	29	4	10	61	78	60	8	7	.282	.371	.403	.774	110.0	104.5	.354	3.7
1956	147	648	572	85	147	19	2	9	46	56	69	13	4	.257	.322	.344	.667	77.9	76.0	.306	1.1
1957	103	378	330	33	74	3	1	1	29	39	32	5	2	.224	.306	.248	.555	49.0	47.9	.266	-0.9
1958	59	181	147	21	33	7	2	4	17	26	15	1	2	.224	.337	.381	.718	89.5	85.2	.330	0.5

Career totals

2,166

162nd-most career G

9,470

123rd-most career PA

8,058

148th-most career AB

1,338

114th-most career R

2,170

200th-most career H

330

377th-most career 2B

284th-most career 3B

126

RBI

885

419th-most career RBI

1,210

61st-most career BB

890

232

282nd-most career SB

.2693

OBP

.3657

363rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3770

OPS

.7427

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	BB	TB
1941-04-19	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	3	1	8
1949-05-21	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	5	4	1	1	3	1	8
1952-06-21	PIT @ LAD Gameday	6	2	4	1	1	3	0	8
1949-07-02	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	3	2	0	2	4	1	8
1953-08-28	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	4	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-19	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-23	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-24	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-25	LAD @ PHI 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, 1984 (Veterans)

10× 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.