Dick Cole

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-2, 175lb (188cm, 79kg)

Born: May 6, 1926 in Long Beach, CA us

Died: October 18, 2018 in Costa Mesa, CA

High School: Woodrow Wilson HS (Long Beach, CA)

Debut: April 27, 1951 (Age 24-356d, 10,799th in major league history)
vs. CHC 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: July 21, 1957 (Age 31-076d)
vs. NYG 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1951 season

Full Name: Richard Roy Cole

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

-0.7

1215

303

.249

106

RBI

107

OBP

.322

SLG

.312

OPS

.634

OPS+

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1953 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1953 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 14	PIT	@	BRO	L,5-8	CG	37	8.0	3	3	0	6	0	SS
2	2	Apr 15	PIT	@	BRO	L,2-4	CG	40	8.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
3	3	Apr 16	PIT		PHI	W,14-12	CG	49	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
4	4	Apr 19	PIT		BRO	L,4-12	CG	49	9.0	3	2	0	5	1	SS
5	5	Apr 21	PIT		NYG	W,5-4	CG	37	9.0	1	9	0	10	2	SS
6	6	Apr 22	PIT		NYG	L,2-4	CG	35	9.0	1	4	0	5	1	SS
7	7	Apr 23	PIT		NYG	W,6-5	CG	40	9.0	5	2	0	7	1	SS
8	8	Apr 24	PIT	@	PHI	L,3-5	CG	34	8.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
9	9	Apr 25	PIT	@	PHI	L,6-7	CG	35	8.0	1	1	1	3	0	SS
10	10	Apr 26 (1)	PIT	@	PHI	L,5-7	CG	40	8.0	3	3	0	6	1	SS
11	11	Apr 26 (2)	PIT	@	PHI	L,1-8	CG	37	8.0	0	0	0	0	0	SS
12	12	Apr 28	PIT		CHC	L,3-5	CG	0	9.0	2	4	0	6	1
13	13	Apr 29	PIT		CHC	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
14	14	Apr 30	PIT		CHC	W,4-2	GS	30	8.0	2	5	1	8	2	SS
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
15	15	May 1	PIT		CIN	W,8-3	CG	40	9.0	3	2	0	5	1	SS
16	16	May 2	PIT		CIN	W,12-4	CG	40	9.0	0	5	0	5	1	SS
17	17	May 3	PIT		STL	W,8-2	CG	0	9.0	2	4	0	6	0
18	18	May 4	PIT		STL	L,0-5	CG	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	1
19	19	May 9 (1)	PIT	@	NYG	W,2-0	CG	34	9.0	0	1	0	1	0	SS
20	20	May 9 (2)	PIT	@	NYG	L,4-6	CG	39	8.0	5	2	0	7	0	SS
21	21	May 10 (1)	PIT	@	NYG	L,0-4	CG	35	8.0	5	5	1	11	2	SS
22	22	May 10 (2)	PIT	@	NYG	L,2-3	GS	28	7.0	1	7	1	9	0	SS
23	23	May 14	PIT	@	MLN	L,2-3	CG	34	8.0	2	3	0	5	0	SS
24	24	May 15	PIT	@	MLN	L,3-4	CG	34	8.0	5	6	0	11	2	SS
25	25	May 16	PIT	@	CHC	W,3-2	CG	0	9.0	1	3	0	4	2
26	26	May 17 (1)	PIT	@	CHC	L,2-6	CG	39	8.0	1	1	0	2	1	SS
27	27	May 17 (2)	PIT	@	CHC	L,3-7	CG	29	6.0	2	3	0	5	0
28	28	May 19	PIT	@	STL	L,1-2	CG	33	8.0	1	0	0	1	0	SS
29	29	May 20	PIT	@	STL	L,6-11	CG	44	8.0	1	3	0	4	2
30	30	May 21	PIT		PHI	W,7-2	CG	34	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
31	31	May 23	PIT		NYG	W,8-4	CG	38	9.0	1	3	0	4	0	SS
32	32	May 24	PIT		NYG	L,3-11	CG	50	9.0	1	5	0	6	1	SS
33	33	May 25	PIT		NYG	L,3-6	CG	43	9.0	1	3	1	5	0	SS
34	34	May 27 (1)	PIT		PHI	L,2-14	GS	15	2.0	0	1	0	1	0	SS
35	35	May 27 (2)	PIT		PHI	W,8-6	GF	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
36	36	May 28	PIT		PHI	L,8-9	CG	42	9.0	4	3	0	7	1
37	37	May 29	PIT		BRO	L,4-7	CG	42	9.0	2	4	0	6	1	SS
38	38	May 30 (1)	PIT		BRO	L,4-7	CG	38	9.0	4	3	0	7	0	SS
39	39	May 30 (2)	PIT		BRO	L,1-4	CG	38	9.0	0	2	0	2	0	SS
40	40	May 31 (1)	PIT	@	BRO	L,3-4	GS	28	7.0	0	4	0	4	1	SS
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
41	42 (1)	Jun 2	PIT		CHC	W,4-3	GS	0	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
42	43	Jun 3	PIT		CHC	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	2	2	1	5	0
43	44	Jun 4	PIT		CHC	W,6-1	CG	36	9.0	0	1	2	3	0	SS
44	45	Jun 5	PIT		CIN	L,4-7	CG	40	9.0	3	5	0	8	1	SS
45	46	Jun 6	PIT		CIN	L,7-15	CG	44	9.0	6	4	0	10	2	SS
46	48 (1)	Jun 7 (2)	PIT		CIN	L,6-11	CG	46	9.0	4	2	0	6	1	SS
47	49	Jun 8	PIT		STL	L,3-5	GF	0	6.0	1	2	0	3	0
48	50	Jun 9	PIT		STL	W,7-4	GF	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	SS
49	51	Jun 10	PIT		STL	L,1-5	GS	29	7.0	1	3	0	4	1
50	52	Jun 11	PIT		STL	L,3-5	CG	38	9.0	1	1	1	3	1	SS
51	56 (3)	Jun 14 (1)	PIT		MLN	L,3-7	CG	0	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
52	57	Jun 14 (2)	PIT		MLN	L,0-8	CG	0	9.0	2	4	0	6	2
53	58	Jun 15	PIT		MLN	W,3-2	GF	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
54	62 (3)	Jun 18	PIT	@	CHC	L,4-8	GF	5	1.1	0	1	0	1	0	2B
55	63	Jun 19	PIT	@	STL	L,2-10	CG	0	8.0	2	3	0	5	1
56	67 (3)	Jun 23	PIT	@	MLN	W,1-0	GF	7	2.0	0	1	0	1	0
57	69 (1)	Jun 25	PIT	@	MLN	W,6-4	GF	14	4.0	1	1	0	2	0	PH SS
58	71 (1)	Jun 26 (2)	PIT	@	CIN	L,1-4	CG	29	8.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
59	74 (2)	Jun 28 (2)	PIT	@	CIN	L,2-9	CG	41	8.0	4	4	0	8	0	2B
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
60	77 (2)	Jul 4 (1)	PIT	@	BRO	L,5-6	GF	3	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	2B
61	79 (1)	Jul 5 (1)	PIT		PHI	L,0-2	GF	7	1.0	1	1	0	2	0
62	89 (9)	Jul 12 (2)	PIT	@	PHI	L,5-6	GS	33	7.0	5	2	1	8	0	SS
63	102 (12)	Jul 26 (2)	PIT		CHC	L,3-7	CG	0	9.0	4	2	0	6	1
64	103	Jul 28	PIT	@	STL	L,4-6	CG	37	8.0	4	2	0	6	1
65	104	Jul 29	PIT	@	STL	L,2-8	CG	0	8.0	0	2	0	2	0
66	105	Jul 30	PIT	@	STL	L,4-10	CG	39	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
67	106	Jul 31	PIT	@	CHC	W,4-0	CG	38	9.0	1	0	0	1	0	SS
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
68	107	Aug 1	PIT	@	CHC	W,10-3	CG	42	9.0	1	4	0	5	2
69	108	Aug 2	PIT	@	CHC	L,6-7	CG	50	10.2	4	4	0	8	1
70	109	Aug 3	PIT	@	CIN	L,0-5	CG	33	8.0	3	2	0	5	1	2B
71	110	Aug 4	PIT	@	CIN	W,2-1	GF	7	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	PH SS
72	116 (5)	Aug 9 (2)	PIT	@	MLN	L,3-10	GF	12	3.0	1	1	0	2	0
73	120 (3)	Aug 15	PIT	@	BRO	L,6-14	GF	30	6.0	3	1	0	4	1	SS
74	121	Aug 16 (1)	PIT	@	BRO	L,1-3	CG	31	8.0	1	3	0	4	0	SS
75	122	Aug 16 (2)	PIT	@	BRO	L,5-9	CG	42	8.0	3	1	1	5	1	SS
76	123	Aug 17	PIT	@	BRO	L,2-5	CG	41	10.0	3	1	0	4	0	SS
77	124	Aug 18	PIT	@	PHI	L,0-1	GS	29	7.0	2	1	0	3	0	SS
78	130 (5)	Aug 23 (2)	PIT		BRO	L,7-9	GF	8	2.0	1	0	0	1	0	2B
79	134 (3)	Aug 29	PIT		STL	L,4-5	GF	0	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
80	138 (3)	Sep 6	PIT		PHI	L,2-7	CG	39	9.0	2	1	0	3	1
81	139	Sep 7 (1)	PIT	@	NYG	W,9-7	CG	38	9.0	1	4	0	5	0	SS
82	140	Sep 7 (2)	PIT	@	NYG	W,5-3	CG	39	9.0	2	3	1	6	0	SS
83	141	Sep 9	PIT	@	CHC	L,7-8	CG	40	8.0	2	4	0	6	0	SS
84	143 (1)	Sep 12	PIT	@	STL	W,8-7	GF	0	4.0	0	2	0	2	0
85	149 (5)	Sep 19 (2)	PIT	@	NYG	W,6-5	GF	8	2.0	0	1	0	1	0	SS
							85gm		618.0	156	203	12	371	42