Sid Gordon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornAugust 13, 1917 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1941

Final gameSeptember 20, 1955

Seasons13 (1941–1955)

New York Giants 1941–1943; New York Giants 1946–1949; Boston Braves 1950–1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1954; New York Giants 1955; Pittsburgh Pirates 1955

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified batters

140

32.1

541

17.9

464

13.1

27.4

127

13.1

23.8

65.5

RBI

53.6

72.6

60.7

7.1

78.6

.274

33.3

OBP

.372

63.1

SLG

.461

65.5

OPS

.834

67.9

wRC+

124.3

71.4

OPS+

123.5

71.4

wOBA

.372

66.7

sWAR

2.8

54.8

of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

130.5

90.9

OPS+

129.1

89.8

sWAR

36.4

97.5

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
1941	9	37	31	4	8	1	1	0	4	6	1	0	0	.258	.378	.355	.733	112.2	105.4	.357	0.2
1942	6	22	19	4	6	0	1	0	2	3	2	0	0	.316	.409	.421	.830	149.9	143.3	.398	0.2
1943	131	528	474	50	119	9	11	9	63	43	32	2	0	.251	.315	.373	.688	93.8	96.1	.328	0.9
1946	135	520	450	64	132	15	4	5	45	60	27	1	0	.293	.380	.378	.758	118.7	113.8	.366	2.4
1947	130	490	437	57	119	19	8	13	57	50	21	2	0	.272	.347	.442	.789	105.5	106.5	.360	1.3
1948	142	605	521	100	156	26	4	30	107	74	39	8	0	.299	.390	.537	.927	147.8	147.4	.416	5.6
1949	141	588	489	87	139	26	2	26	90	95	37	1	0	.284	.404	.505	.909	145.2	142.8	.412	5.4
1950	134	562	481	78	146	33	4	27	103	78	31	2	0	.304	.403	.557	.960	156.3	157.1	.423	5.2
1951	150	641	550	96	158	28	1	29	109	80	32	2	0	.287	.383	.500	.883	143.4	143.2	.396	4.9
1952	144	606	522	69	151	22	2	25	75	77	49	0	4	.289	.384	.483	.866	146.1	144.5	.394	4.7
1953	140	541	464	67	127	22	4	19	75	71	40	1	1	.274	.372	.461	.834	124.3	123.5	.372	2.8
1954	131	447	363	38	111	12	0	12	49	67	24	0	0	.306	.405	.438	.843	124.5	119.6	.383	2.5
1955	82	224	191	21	43	7	1	7	26	27	21	0	0	.225	.317	.382	.699	85.8	87.2	.314	0.3

Career totals

1,475

5,811

4,992

735

1,415

220

202

375th-most career HR

RBI

805

731

342nd-most career BB

356

.2835

OBP

.3766

218th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4661

321st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8427

231st-highest career OPS

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
1949-04-29	SF @ ATL Gameday	6	2	4	1	2	4	0	11
1948-06-19	STL @ SF Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	3	1	10
1950-08-27	ATL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	2	1	10
1950-07-30	CIN @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	3	0	9
1948-09-03	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	4	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-04-15	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-16	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-17	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-18	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-19	PHI @ SF 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.