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Don Larsen played 14 major-league seasons (1953-1967) as a P (412), OF (2). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 24 | SLA | 50 | 81 | 11 | 23 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 14 | .284 | .774 | 114 |
| 1954 | 25 | BAL | 44 | 88 | 6 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 15 | .250 | .699 | 97 |
| 1955 | 26 | NYA | 21 | 41 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 13 | .146 | .539 | 49 |
| 1956 | 27 | NYA | 45 | 79 | 10 | 19 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 17 | .241 | .674 | 82 |
| 1957 | 28 | NYA | 31 | 56 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 11 | .250 | .657 | 85 |
| 1958 | 29 | NYA | 28 | 49 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 9 | .306 | .935 | 161 |
| 1959 | 30 | NYA | 29 | 47 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 15 | .255 | .643 | 84 |
| 1960 | 31 | KC1 | 23 | 29 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | .207 | .448 | 25 |
| 1961 | 32 | KC1|CHA | 43 | 45 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .311 | .771 | 111 |
| 1962 | 33 | SFN | 52 | 25 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .200 | .480 | 32 |
| 1963 | 34 | SFN | 46 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .182 | .432 | 31 |
| 1964 | 35 | SFN|HOU | 37 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | .094 | .319 | -4 |
| 1965 | 36 | BAL | 27 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .273 | .636 | 86 |
| 1965 | 36 | HOU | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 24 | SLA | 38 | 22 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 192.2 | 96 | 64 | 4.16 | 96 |
| 1954 | 25 | BAL | 29 | 28 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 201.2 | 80 | 89 | 4.37 | 85 |
| 1955 | 26 | NYA | 19 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 97 | 44 | 51 | 3.06 | 129 |
| 1956 | 27 | NYA | 38 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 179.2 | 107 | 96 | 3.26 | 128 |
| 1957 | 28 | NYA | 27 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 139.2 | 81 | 87 | 3.74 | 101 |
| 1958 | 29 | NYA | 19 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 114.1 | 55 | 52 | 3.07 | 123 |
| 1959 | 30 | NYA | 25 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 124.2 | 69 | 76 | 4.33 | 89 |
| 1960 | 31 | KC1 | 22 | 15 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 83.2 | 43 | 42 | 5.38 | 72 |
| 1961 | 32 | KC1|CHA | 33 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 89.1 | 66 | 40 | 4.13 | 97 |
| 1962 | 33 | SFN | 49 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 86.1 | 58 | 47 | 4.38 | 90 |
| 1963 | 34 | SFN | 46 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 62 | 44 | 30 | 3.05 | 108 |
| 1964 | 35 | SFN|HOU | 36 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 113.2 | 64 | 26 | 2.45 | 144 |
| 1965 | 36 | BAL | 27 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 54 | 40 | 20 | 2.67 | 130 |
| 1965 | 36 | HOU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 1 | 3 | 5.06 | 70 |
| 1967 | 38 | CHN | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9.00 | 37 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | P | 38 | 0 | 8 | 29 | 2 | 1 |
| 1953 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | P | 29 | 28 | 14 | 34 | 1 | 3 |
| 1955 | P | 19 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 3 |
| 1956 | P | 38 | 20 | 13 | 23 | 3 | 3 |
| 1957 | P | 27 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 2 | 2 |
| 1958 | P | 19 | 19 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 2 |
| 1959 | P | 25 | 18 | 5 | 22 | 2 | 1 |
| 1960 | P | 22 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| 1961 | P | 33 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 1961 | OF | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962 | P | 49 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 3 |
| 1963 | P | 46 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 1964 | P | 36 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| 1965 | P | 28 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 1 |
| 1967 | P | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
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.
Don Larsen won: Babe Ruth Award 1956 (AL), World Series MVP 1956 (ML).
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.