MLB / Players

Vern Bickford

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 17, 1920 · Hellier, KY, USA

MLB debutApril 24, 1948

Final gameApril 24, 1954

Seasons7 (1948–1954)

Boston Braves 1948–1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified pitchers

16.7

38.3

11.7

SHO

165

78.3

93.3

161.3

11.7

ERA

3.74

38.3

WHIP

1.419

K/9

3.46

11.7

FIP

3.44

56.7

FIP-

96.7

36.7

ERA+

95.2

sWAR

1.2

23.3

of 61 qualified 1952 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

102.3

sWAR

10.9

87.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1948	33	57	49	3	10	2	7	2	12	.204	.235	.245	.480	23.8	31.8	.225	2.5
1949	37	93	81	7	15	0	8	2	20	.185	.205	.185	.390	-0.4	8.5	.184	1.0
1950	40	128	116	9	16	0	6	3	24	.138	.160	.138	.298	-30.3	-18.5	.141	4.2
1951	25	60	52	1	6	1	4	2	12	.115	.148	.135	.283	-32.9	-20.9	.136	2.5
1952	26	56	51	2	9	1	3	0	9	.176	.176	.196	.373	-10.0	5.6	.170	1.2
1953	20	17	15	1	1	0	0	1	7	.067	.125	.067	.192	-52.4	-46.4	.102	-0.3
1954	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-137.4	-100.0	.000	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1948	33	22	11	5	1	10	1	125	53	63	60	9	146.0	3.27	1.288	3.70	3.90	101.2	118.0	2.5
1949	37	36	16	11	0	15	2	246	109	106	101	20	230.7	4.25	1.526	3.94	4.24	111.4	89.5	1.0
1950	40	39	19	14	0	27	2	293	120	122	126	25	311.7	3.47	1.332	3.64	3.92	100.5	112.6	4.2
1951	25	20	11	9	0	12	3	146	57	76	76	7	164.7	3.12	1.348	4.15	3.50	94.4	119.1	2.5
1952	26	22	7	12	0	7	1	165	67	64	62	7	161.3	3.74	1.419	3.46	3.44	96.7	95.2	1.2
1953	20	9	2	5	1	2	0	60	34	35	25	8	58.0	5.28	1.638	3.88	5.46	136.7	75.7	-0.3
1954	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	4	1	0	0	4.0	9.00	1.500	0.00	3.13	85.4	40.7	-0.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

182

412

365

RBI

.1562

OBP

.1787

SLG

.1671

OPS

.3458

Pitching

G (P)

182

149

SHO

1,076

SO (P)

450

BB allowed

467

ERA

3.713

WHIP

1.4001

K/9

3.76

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	RBI	TB
1951-04-21	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	3
1949-04-19	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2
1949-08-17	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	1	2	0	2	2
1950-09-29	ATL @ LAD Gameday	3	0	2	0	2	2
1948-09-12	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1949-07-01	PHI @ ATL Gameday	12.0	9	1	1	2	9	0
1950-06-21	CHC @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	0	9	1
1951-05-09	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	9	0
1949-04-28	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	3	1	0	2	8	0
1950-09-07	ATL @ SF Gameday	9.0	7	4	3	2	7	1

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.