Ray Boone

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 172 lb

BornJuly 27, 1923 · San Diego, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1948

Final gameAugust 11, 1960

Seasons13 (1948–1960)

Cleveland Indians 1948–1953; Detroit Tigers 1953–1957; Chicago White Sox 1958; Detroit Tigers 1958; Chicago White Sox 1959; Kansas City Athletics 1959; Milwaukee Braves 1959; Boston Red Sox 1960; Milwaukee Braves 1960

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified batters

129

9.5

531

21.6

462

20.3

5.4

126

28.4

47.3

21.6

43.2

RBI

54.1

55.4

70.3

6.8

68.9

.273

43.2

OBP

.353

60.8

SLG

.418

48.6

OPS

.771

54.1

wRC+

109.9

52.7

OPS+

109.3

51.4

wOBA

.351

55.4

sWAR

1.4

24.3

of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.3

72.3

OPS+

114.7

71.4

sWAR

28.1

96.1

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
1948	6	5	5	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.400	.400	.600	1.000	165.8	170.3	.454	0.1
1949	86	307	258	39	65	4	4	4	26	38	17	0	2	.252	.352	.345	.697	90.6	89.0	.341	1.0
1950	109	425	365	53	110	14	6	7	58	56	27	4	3	.301	.397	.430	.827	119.3	117.6	.388	2.9
1951	151	603	544	65	127	14	1	12	51	48	36	5	3	.233	.302	.329	.631	74.4	76.3	.299	0.9
1952	103	375	316	57	83	8	2	7	45	53	33	0	1	.263	.372	.367	.739	118.1	113.8	.356	2.6
1953	135	582	497	94	147	17	8	26	114	72	68	3	3	.296	.390	.519	.909	145.0	143.4	.412	5.4
1954	148	622	543	76	160	19	7	20	85	71	53	4	2	.295	.376	.466	.842	132.9	130.8	.387	4.8
1955	135	560	500	61	142	22	7	20	116	50	49	1	1	.284	.346	.476	.822	120.2	122.5	.373	3.5
1956	131	568	481	77	148	14	6	25	81	77	46	0	0	.308	.403	.518	.920	142.5	143.4	.413	5.0
1957	129	531	462	48	126	25	3	12	65	57	47	1	1	.273	.353	.418	.771	109.9	109.3	.351	1.4
1958	116	401	360	41	87	16	2	13	61	32	46	1	3	.242	.304	.406	.710	92.0	94.4	.319	0.1
1959	83	211	168	25	44	6	0	4	19	38	24	2	0	.262	.394	.369	.763	116.9	110.0	.359	0.7
1960	41	107	90	9	19	2	0	1	15	16	16	0	0	.211	.327	.267	.594	68.0	62.9	.292	-0.3

Career totals

1,373

5,297

4,589

645

1,260

162

151

RBI

737

608

463

.2746

OBP

.3608

454th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4286

OPS

.7894

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1956-09-24	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	2	5	0	2	3	0	11
1953-08-02	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	4	0	9
1954-06-11	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	6	0	9
1955-07-22	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	4	1	9
1949-06-15	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	3	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1948-04-20	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-23	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-24	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-25	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-26	CLE @ CWS 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

2× 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.