Marty Marion

Position: Shortstop

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-2, 170lb (188cm, 77kg)

Born: December 1, 1916 in Richburg, SC us

Died: March 15, 2011 in Ladue, MO

Buried: Valhalla Cemetery, St. Louis, MO

High School: Tech HS (Atlanta, GA)

School: Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)

Debut: April 16, 1940 (Age 23-137d, 8,853rd in major league history)
vs. PIT 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: July 6, 1953 (Age 36-217d)
vs. DET 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1940 season

Full Name: Martin Whiteford Marion

Nicknames: Slats, The Octopus or Mr. Shortstop

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Relatives: Brother of Red Marion

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

31.8

5506

1448

.263

602

RBI

624

OBP

.323

SLG

.345

OPS

.668

OPS+

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

1952 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1952 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 15	SLB	@	DET	W,3-0	CG	33	9.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
2	2	Apr 16	SLB	@	DET	W,5-4	CG	35	9.0	3	4	0	7	1	SS
3	3	Apr 17	SLB	@	DET	W,3-1	CG	35	9.0	2	3	0	5	1	SS
4	4	Apr 18	SLB		CHW	W,7-1	CG	33	9.0	1	6	0	7	0	SS
5	5	Apr 19	SLB		CHW	L,3-8	GS	10	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	SS
6	6	Apr 20 (1)	SLB		CHW	W,8-0	CG	30	9.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
7	8 (1)	Apr 22	SLB		CLE	W,8-3	CG	35	9.0	2	2	0	4	1	SS
8	9	Apr 23	SLB		CLE	W,1-0	CG	28	9.0	1	3	0	4	2	SS
9	10	Apr 26	SLB	@	CHW	L,0-5	CG	35	8.0	2	3	0	5	0	SS
10	11	Apr 27 (1)	SLB	@	CHW	L,6-7	GS	42	9.0	2	2	0	4	1	SS
11	13 (1)	Apr 30 (1)	SLB	@	NYY	W,9-4	CG	40	9.0	3	5	0	8	2	SS
12	14	Apr 30 (2)	SLB	@	NYY	L,1-4	GF	10	2.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
13	15	May 1	SLB	@	BOS	W,6-1	CG	36	9.0	3	7	0	10	0	SS
14	16	May 2	SLB	@	BOS	L,6-13	GS	18	5.0	0	2	1	3	1	SS
15	17	May 3	SLB	@	BOS	L,2-5	CG	36	8.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
16	18	May 4 (1)	SLB	@	WSH	L,1-2	CG	34	8.0	2	2	0	4	0	SS
17	20 (1)	May 5	SLB	@	WSH	L,1-13	GS	16	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	SS
18	21	May 6	SLB	@	PHA	W,5-1	CG	36	9.0	2	3	0	5	1	SS
19	22	May 7	SLB	@	PHA	L,0-1	CG	30	8.0	5	4	0	9	2	SS
20	23	May 8	SLB	@	PHA	W,9-8	CG	42	9.0	0	3	0	3	1	SS
21	25 (1)	May 11 (1)	SLB	@	CLE	L,0-1	CG	32	8.2	3	3	0	6	1	SS
22	27 (1)	May 13	SLB		PHA	L,1-5	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
23	28	May 14	SLB		PHA	W,12-7	CG	44	9.0	1	4	1	6	3	SS
24	29	May 15	SLB		PHA	L,0-6	CG	0	9.0	0	3	0	3	1
25	30	May 16	SLB		BOS	W,2-1	CG	37	10.0	3	3	0	6	0	SS
26	32 (1)	May 18 (1)	SLB		NYY	W,4-3	CG	35	9.0	4	6	0	10	2	SS
27	34 (1)	May 20	SLB		WSH	L,0-2	CG	35	9.0	2	3	0	5	3	SS
28	35	May 21	SLB		WSH	W,2-1	GS	35	9.0	2	3	0	5	2	SS
29	37 (1)	May 23	SLB		CLE	L,3-6	GS	36	8.0	0	0	0	0	0	SS
30	38	May 24	SLB		CLE	L,3-5	CG	39	9.0	3	1	0	4	0	SS
31	39	May 25 (1)	SLB		CLE	W,7-5	CG	41	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	SS
32	41 (1)	May 26	SLB		CHW	L,2-6	CG	40	9.0	1	3	0	4	1	SS
33	42	May 27	SLB		CHW	L,0-3	CG	36	9.0	4	1	0	5	1	SS
34	43	May 28	SLB		CHW	W,3-1	CG	35	9.0	3	2	0	5	0	SS
35	44	May 30 (1)	SLB		DET	W,3-2	GS	8	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	SS
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
36	46 (1)	Jun 2	SLB	@	PHA	L,1-2	GS	24	6.0	0	2	0	2	0	SS
37	47	Jun 3	SLB	@	WSH	W,3-2	GS	24	6.0	2	2	0	4	0	SS
38	48	Jun 6	SLB	@	NYY	W,9-3	GS	11	2.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
39	49	Jun 7	SLB	@	NYY	L,1-2	GF	4	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	SS
40	56 (6)	Jun 15 (1)	SLB		PHA	W,6-3	CG	39	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
41	58 (1)	Jun 17	SLB		BOS	W,3-1	CG	0	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
42	59	Jun 18	SLB		BOS	W,4-3	CG	39	9.0	2	4	0	6	2	SS
43	60	Jun 19	SLB		BOS	L,0-2	GS	27	7.0	3	3	0	6	3	SS
44	61	Jun 20	SLB		WSH	T,5-5	GS	37	9.0	1	7	0	8	2	SS
45	63 (1)	Jun 22 (1)	SLB		WSH	L,5-8	GF	11	2.0	1	1	1	3	1	SS
46	66 (2)	Jun 24	SLB		NYY	L,3-8	GS	33	6.0	1	3	0	4	0
47	67	Jun 25	SLB		NYY	W,10-9	GS	21	3.0	0	1	0	1	0
48	68	Jun 26	SLB		DET	L,0-6	GS	0	8.0	2	2	0	4	1
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
49	74 (5)	Jul 3	SLB	@	CHW	L,3-12	GS	26	4.0	1	0	0	1	0	SS
50	75	Jul 4 (1)	SLB	@	CHW	L,1-3	CG	38	8.0	2	2	1	5	1	SS
51	77 (1)	Jul 5	SLB	@	DET	L,0-5	GS	0	3.0	2	0	0	2	0
52	81 (3)	Jul 12	SLB	@	NYY	L,4-5	CG	45	10.2	5	1	0	6	1
53	82	Jul 13 (1)	SLB	@	BOS	L,5-8	CG	44	9.2	0	2	0	2	1	SS
54	84 (1)	Jul 14	SLB	@	BOS	W,7-5	CG	37	9.0	2	2	0	4	1	SS
55	87 (2)	Jul 17 (1)	SLB	@	PHA	W,9-5	CG	0	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
56	89 (1)	Jul 18	SLB	@	WSH	L,5-6	GS	38	7.0	3	1	0	4	0	SS
57	91 (1)	Jul 20 (1)	SLB	@	WSH	L,6-7	GS	19	4.0	0	2	0	2	0	SS
58	94 (2)	Jul 23	SLB		PHA	L,2-3	GS	28	7.0	3	2	0	5	0	SS
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
59	104 (9)	Aug 1	SLB		NYY	W,2-1	CG	34	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
60	105	Aug 2	SLB		NYY	W,11-6	CG	0	9.0	3	2	0	5	1
61	107 (1)	Aug 3 (2)	SLB		NYY	L,4-6	GS	30	7.0	0	3	0	3	0
62	117 (9)	Aug 15	SLB	@	CLE	L,6-7	GF	3	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	SS
63	122 (4)	Aug 21 (1)	SLB	@	WSH	L,2-3	GS	14	3.0	1	0	1	2	0	SS
							63gm		455.1	105	138	5	248	41