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Rollie Hemsley played 19 major-league seasons (1928-1947) as a C (1,482), OF (7), 1B (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 21 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 21 | PIT | 50 | 133 | 14 | 36 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 10 | .271 | .623 | 68 |
| 1929 | 22 | PIT | 88 | 235 | 31 | 68 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 11 | 22 | .289 | .725 | 85 |
| 1930 | 23 | PIT | 104 | 324 | 45 | 82 | 2 | 45 | 3 | 22 | 21 | .253 | .668 | 65 |
| 1931 | 24 | PIT|CHN | 76 | 239 | 31 | 69 | 3 | 32 | 4 | 20 | 33 | .289 | .787 | 118 |
| 1932 | 25 | CHN | 60 | 151 | 27 | 36 | 4 | 20 | 2 | 10 | 16 | .238 | .710 | 94 |
| 1933 | 26 | SLA | 32 | 95 | 7 | 23 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 12 | .242 | .637 | 75 |
| 1933 | 26 | CIN | 49 | 116 | 9 | 22 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 8 | .190 | .488 | 44 |
| 1934 | 27 | SLA | 123 | 431 | 47 | 133 | 2 | 52 | 6 | 29 | 37 | .309 | .782 | 108 |
| 1935 | 28 | SLA | 144 | 504 | 57 | 146 | 0 | 48 | 3 | 44 | 41 | .290 | .730 | 94 |
| 1936 | 29 | SLA | 116 | 377 | 43 | 99 | 2 | 39 | 2 | 46 | 30 | .263 | .696 | 78 |
| 1937 | 30 | SLA | 100 | 334 | 30 | 74 | 3 | 28 | 0 | 25 | 29 | .222 | .578 | 51 |
| 1938 | 31 | CLE | 66 | 203 | 27 | 60 | 2 | 28 | 1 | 23 | 14 | .296 | .776 | 101 |
| 1939 | 32 | CLE | 107 | 395 | 58 | 104 | 2 | 36 | 2 | 26 | 26 | .263 | .651 | 72 |
| 1940 | 33 | CLE | 119 | 416 | 46 | 111 | 4 | 42 | 1 | 22 | 25 | .267 | .671 | 79 |
| 1941 | 34 | CLE | 98 | 288 | 29 | 69 | 2 | 24 | 2 | 18 | 19 | .240 | .614 | 68 |
| 1942 | 35 | NYA | 31 | 85 | 12 | 25 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | .294 | .686 | 100 |
| 1942 | 35 | CIN | 36 | 115 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 11 | .113 | .299 | -9 |
| 1943 | 36 | NYA | 62 | 180 | 12 | 43 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 13 | 9 | .239 | .629 | 90 |
| 1944 | 37 | NYA | 81 | 284 | 23 | 76 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 9 | 13 | .268 | .656 | 93 |
| 1946 | 39 | PHI | 49 | 139 | 7 | 31 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 9 | 10 | .223 | .536 | 57 |
| 1947 | 40 | PHI | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .667 | 84 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | C | 49 | 0 | 127 | 24 | 6 | 4 |
| 1929 | C | 80 | 0 | 240 | 48 | 14 | 7 |
| 1930 | C | 98 | 0 | 325 | 50 | 8 | 11 |
| 1931 | C | 62 | 0 | 271 | 45 | 7 | 5 |
| 1932 | C | 47 | 0 | 173 | 17 | 5 | 3 |
| 1932 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933 | C | 68 | 0 | 207 | 35 | 8 | 3 |
| 1934 | C | 114 | 0 | 487 | 92 | 16 | 15 |
| 1934 | OF | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935 | C | 141 | 0 | 510 | 105 | 13 | 10 |
| 1936 | C | 114 | 0 | 340 | 68 | 13 | 16 |
| 1937 | C | 94 | 0 | 332 | 70 | 13 | 13 |
| 1937 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938 | C | 58 | 0 | 358 | 38 | 8 | 5 |
| 1939 | C | 106 | 0 | 499 | 58 | 9 | 7 |
| 1940 | C | 117 | 0 | 591 | 65 | 4 | 8 |
| 1941 | C | 96 | 0 | 401 | 42 | 9 | 8 |
| 1942 | C | 63 | 0 | 302 | 26 | 5 | 6 |
| 1943 | C | 52 | 0 | 234 | 31 | 5 | 3 |
| 1944 | C | 76 | 0 | 298 | 41 | 6 | 7 |
| 1946 | C | 45 | 0 | 170 | 42 | 5 | 10 |
| 1947 | C | 2 | 0 | 3 | 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.
Rollie Hemsley won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1938 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1944, 1940, 1935.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 9 | 16 / 80 | 0 |
| 1940 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 27 | 2 / 336 | 0 |
| 1944 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 26 | 4 / 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.