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Al Dark played 14 major-league seasons (1946-1960) as a SS (1,404), 3B (320), OF (43), 2B (29), 1B (15). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 14 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 24 | BSN | 15 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .231 | .692 | 100 |
| 1948 | 26 | BSN | 137 | 543 | 85 | 175 | 3 | 48 | 4 | 24 | 36 | .322 | .786 | 119 |
| 1949 | 27 | BSN | 130 | 529 | 74 | 146 | 3 | 53 | 5 | 31 | 43 | .276 | .673 | 86 |
| 1950 | 28 | NY1 | 154 | 587 | 79 | 164 | 16 | 67 | 9 | 39 | 60 | .279 | .770 | 108 |
| 1951 | 29 | NY1 | 156 | 646 | 114 | 196 | 14 | 69 | 12 | 42 | 39 | .303 | .805 | 122 |
| 1952 | 30 | NY1 | 151 | 589 | 92 | 177 | 14 | 73 | 6 | 47 | 39 | .301 | .788 | 126 |
| 1953 | 31 | NY1 | 155 | 647 | 126 | 194 | 23 | 88 | 7 | 28 | 34 | .300 | .823 | 119 |
| 1954 | 32 | NY1 | 154 | 644 | 98 | 189 | 20 | 70 | 5 | 27 | 40 | .293 | .770 | 105 |
| 1955 | 33 | NY1 | 115 | 475 | 77 | 134 | 9 | 45 | 2 | 22 | 32 | .282 | .713 | 93 |
| 1956 | 34 | NY1|SLN | 148 | 619 | 73 | 170 | 6 | 54 | 3 | 29 | 46 | .275 | .675 | 87 |
| 1957 | 35 | SLN | 140 | 583 | 80 | 169 | 4 | 64 | 3 | 29 | 56 | .290 | .707 | 96 |
| 1958 | 36 | SLN|CHN | 132 | 528 | 61 | 156 | 4 | 48 | 1 | 31 | 29 | .295 | .700 | 92 |
| 1959 | 37 | CHN | 136 | 477 | 60 | 126 | 6 | 45 | 1 | 55 | 50 | .264 | .728 | 101 |
| 1960 | 38 | PHI|ML1 | 105 | 339 | 45 | 90 | 4 | 32 | 1 | 26 | 27 | .265 | .672 | 90 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 31 | NY1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18.00 | 24 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | SS | 12 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 2 |
| 1946 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948 | SS | 133 | 0 | 253 | 393 | 25 | 66 |
| 1949 | SS | 125 | 0 | 232 | 387 | 25 | 76 |
| 1949 | 3B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 1950 | SS | 154 | 0 | 288 | 465 | 30 | 101 |
| 1951 | SS | 156 | 0 | 295 | 465 | 45 | 114 |
| 1952 | SS | 150 | 0 | 324 | 423 | 27 | 116 |
| 1953 | SS | 110 | 0 | 219 | 343 | 19 | 79 |
| 1953 | 2B | 26 | 0 | 68 | 72 | 2 | 17 |
| 1953 | OF | 17 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1953 | 3B | 8 | 0 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 5 |
| 1953 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | SS | 154 | 154 | 289 | 487 | 36 | 105 |
| 1955 | SS | 115 | 114 | 213 | 324 | 21 | 70 |
| 1956 | SS | 147 | 147 | 267 | 424 | 29 | 93 |
| 1957 | SS | 139 | 134 | 276 | 419 | 25 | 105 |
| 1957 | 3B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958 | 3B | 119 | 116 | 111 | 237 | 19 | 24 |
| 1958 | SS | 8 | 8 | 10 | 23 | 2 | 6 |
| 1959 | 3B | 131 | 121 | 111 | 255 | 20 | 20 |
| 1959 | 1B | 4 | 4 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 1959 | SS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960 | 3B | 57 | 49 | 59 | 86 | 7 | 7 |
| 1960 | OF | 25 | 25 | 46 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1960 | 1B | 11 | 4 | 41 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1960 | 2B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Al Dark won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1948 (NL), Rookie of the Year 1948 (ML), TSN All-Star 1954 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (7 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1957, 1954, 1952, 1951, 1949, 1948.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 3 | 174 / 336 | 1 |
| 1948 | Rookie of the Year (winner) | ML | 1 | 27 / 48 | 27 |
| 1949 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 25 | 3 / 336 | 0 |
| 1951 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 12 | 30 / 336 | 0 |
| 1952 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 12 | 24 / 336 | 0 |
| 1954 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 5 | 110 / 336 | 1 |
| 1957 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 17 | 12 / 336 | 0 |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.