Tom Carey
1935–1946 · bats R / throws R · Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns
466G
.275AVG
.308OBP
.348SLG
More career statistics
418H
2HR
169RBI
3SB
Career summary: MLB’s official regular-season totals. Season lines, splits and historical game logs below are reconstructed from the covered Retrosheet records and can differ in coverage or scorer revisions. Compare sources and coverage.
Why official totals and the game-record sums differ
The sources can disagree on historical scorer decisions, appearances, and which games belong to a major-league record. The career summary uses the official total; the source game rows retain their recorded values.
| Statistic | MLB official | Recorded game sum |
|---|---|---|
| Batting · Stolen bases | 3 | 4 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 466 | 1,608 | 1,521 | 169 | 418 | 79 | 13 | 2 | 169 | 66 | 75 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 529 | .275 | .308 | .348 | .656 |
Streaks
16longest hitting streak · 1936-09-22 to 1937-05-16
16longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 3 doubles | 1937-09-14 | 1 in 2,195 player-games | box score ↗ |
| 14 | 3 walks | 1936-07-05 | 1 in 192 player-games | box score ↗ |
| 12 | 4 hits | 1935-08-11 | 1 in 138 player-games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 229 | 772 | 207 | 1 | 88 | 35 | 33 | .287 | .313 | .349 |
| Away | 237 | 836 | 211 | 1 | 81 | 31 | 42 | .264 | .289 | .347 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 22 | 79 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | .260 | .291 | .315 |
| May | 57 | 201 | 51 | 0 | 22 | 13 | 11 | .274 | .318 | .344 |
| June | 76 | 295 | 88 | 1 | 30 | 6 | 11 | .308 | .319 | .395 |
| July | 90 | 305 | 77 | 0 | 29 | 20 | 18 | .277 | .318 | .349 |
| August | 93 | 292 | 77 | 1 | 40 | 13 | 11 | .278 | .308 | .361 |
| September | 124 | 418 | 101 | 0 | 44 | 10 | 15 | .251 | .266 | .313 |
| October | 4 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .278 | .278 | .333 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| new-york-yankees | 70 | 244 | 62 | 0 | 18 | 14 | 16 | .273 | .311 | .326 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 70 | 215 | 53 | 2 | 22 | 3 | 13 | .251 | .260 | .355 |
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 66 | 221 | 63 | 0 | 24 | 6 | 10 | .301 | .312 | .397 |
| detroit-tigers | 65 | 219 | 58 | 0 | 29 | 9 | 16 | .278 | .306 | .344 |
| cleveland-guardians | 62 | 228 | 54 | 0 | 21 | 9 | 8 | .250 | .276 | .292 |
| chicago-white-sox | 61 | 233 | 54 | 0 | 22 | 13 | 6 | .249 | .288 | .313 |
| boston-red-sox | 52 | 199 | 57 | 0 | 28 | 11 | 6 | .305 | .342 | .401 |
| st-louis-browns | 20 | 49 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .378 | .367 | .422 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 |  St. Louis Browns | 76 | 296 | 86 | – | 44 | – | .291 | – | – |
| 1936 | St. Louis Browns | 134 | 488 | 133 | 1 | 57 | 2 | .273 | – | – |
| 1937 | St. Louis Browns | 130 | 487 | 134 | 1 | 39 | 1 | .275 | – | – |
| 1939 |  Boston Red Sox | 54 | 161 | 39 | – | 20 | – | .242 | – | – |
| 1940 | Boston Red Sox | 43 | 62 | 20 | – | 6 | 1 | .323 | – | – |
| 1941 | Boston Red Sox | 25 | 21 | 4 | – | 2 | – | .190 | – | – |
| 1942 | Boston Red Sox | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1.000 | – | – |
| 1946 | Boston Red Sox | 3 | 5 | 1 | – | – | – | .200 | – | – |