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Ray Boone played 13 major-league seasons (1948-1960) as a 3B (510), SS (464), 1B (285), 2B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 15 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 25 | CLE | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .400 | 1.000 | 172 |
| 1949 | 26 | CLE | 86 | 258 | 39 | 65 | 4 | 26 | 0 | 38 | 17 | .252 | .697 | 91 |
| 1950 | 27 | CLE | 109 | 365 | 53 | 110 | 7 | 58 | 4 | 56 | 27 | .301 | .827 | 118 |
| 1951 | 28 | CLE | 151 | 544 | 65 | 127 | 12 | 51 | 5 | 48 | 36 | .233 | .631 | 75 |
| 1952 | 29 | CLE | 103 | 316 | 57 | 83 | 7 | 45 | 0 | 53 | 33 | .263 | .739 | 113 |
| 1953 | 30 | CLE|DET | 135 | 497 | 94 | 147 | 26 | 114 | 3 | 72 | 68 | .296 | .909 | 151 |
| 1954 | 31 | DET | 148 | 543 | 76 | 160 | 20 | 85 | 4 | 71 | 53 | .295 | .842 | 137 |
| 1955 | 32 | DET | 135 | 500 | 61 | 142 | 20 | 116 | 1 | 50 | 49 | .284 | .822 | 127 |
| 1956 | 33 | DET | 131 | 481 | 77 | 148 | 25 | 81 | 0 | 77 | 46 | .308 | .920 | 149 |
| 1957 | 34 | DET | 129 | 462 | 48 | 126 | 12 | 65 | 1 | 57 | 47 | .273 | .771 | 117 |
| 1958 | 35 | DET|CHA | 116 | 360 | 41 | 87 | 13 | 61 | 1 | 32 | 46 | .242 | .710 | 100 |
| 1959 | 36 | CHA|KC1 | 70 | 153 | 22 | 41 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 34 | 22 | .268 | .763 | 117 |
| 1959 | 36 | ML1 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | .200 | .768 | 113 |
| 1960 | 37 | BOS | 34 | 78 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 15 | .205 | .556 | 57 |
| 1960 | 37 | ML1 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | .250 | .804 | 132 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | SS | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 1949 | SS | 76 | 0 | 162 | 210 | 21 | 58 |
| 1950 | SS | 102 | 0 | 178 | 267 | 26 | 64 |
| 1951 | SS | 151 | 0 | 311 | 425 | 33 | 108 |
| 1952 | SS | 96 | 0 | 177 | 251 | 27 | 55 |
| 1952 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1952 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953 | 3B | 97 | 0 | 111 | 211 | 14 | 32 |
| 1953 | SS | 34 | 0 | 68 | 102 | 9 | 26 |
| 1954 | 3B | 148 | 148 | 170 | 332 | 19 | 22 |
| 1954 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | 3B | 126 | 126 | 135 | 252 | 19 | 33 |
| 1956 | 3B | 130 | 130 | 151 | 243 | 17 | 23 |
| 1957 | 1B | 117 | 117 | 972 | 45 | 10 | 103 |
| 1957 | 3B | 4 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 0 |
| 1958 | 1B | 95 | 92 | 747 | 49 | 11 | 71 |
| 1959 | 1B | 47 | 38 | 331 | 29 | 7 | 26 |
| 1959 | 3B | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960 | 1B | 26 | 23 | 199 | 14 | 1 | 22 |
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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1955, 1954, 1953.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 8 | 59 / 336 | 0 |
| 1954 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 27 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1955 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 16 | 16 / 336 | 0 |
Ray Boone ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #132 | third basemen | 1953 | 151 OPS+ |
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.