Was Dick Seay a pitcher?

No. Dick Seay was a position player (Second Baseman).

How many home runs did Dick Seay hit?

Dick Seay hit 12 career home runs with 423 hits.

What was Dick Seay's career batting average?

Dick Seay batted .217 over his career, with 423 hits in 1,952 at bats.

How many RBI did Dick Seay have?

Dick Seay drove in 181 runs in his career.

Is Dick Seay in the Hall of Fame?

No. Dick Seay has not been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

What teams did Dick Seay play for?

Dick Seay played for the Newark Stars, the Baltimore Black Sox, the Brooklyn Royal Giants, the Baltimore Sox, the Philadelphia Stars, and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, among 8 clubs in all.

Dick Seay

Second Baseman · Career Stats, Bio & Records

Dick Seay was a second baseman who played in Major League Baseball for 8 teams, including the Newark Stars. In 550 career games, he hit .217 with 423 hits, 12 home runs, and 181 RBI. Dick Seay was a 3-time All-Star. His totals include Negro Leagues seasons, which MLB recognized as major league in 2020.

AVG (Batting Average):: Hits divided by at bats. .300 is the traditional mark of an excellent hitter.
HR (Home Runs):: Hits on which the batter circled the bases and scored, almost always by clearing the outfield fence.
RBI (Runs Batted In):: Runs that scored as a direct result of a batter's plate appearance.
OPS (On-Base Plus Slugging):: On-base percentage plus slugging percentage, the quickest single summary of offensive value. .900 or better is star-level.

Data updated October 12, 2026

AVG .217

HR 12

RBI 181

H 423

OPS .565

PIV -6,395

Position: Second Baseman
Bats / Throws: R / R
Height / Weight: 5'7" / 162 lb
Born: 11/30/1904 in West New York, NJ, USA
Died: 4/6/1981 in Jersey City, NJ, USA
Awards: 3× All-Star

Full name: Richard William Seay

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Negro Leagues Career Statistics

Batting

Dick Seay — Batting
PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1412.0	1264.0	175.0	276.0	25.0	5.0	8.0	64.0	100.0	5.0	20.0	.218	.284	.265	.549

Negro Leagues (season totals). Additive Retrosheet-digitized totals for seasons not already in the logs above; they are not summed into the career line. No team/league breakdown is available, and coverage may be partial.

Negro Leagues Season-by-Season Batting

Dick Seay — Negro Leagues Season-by-Season Batting
Season	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1930	14.0	10.0	3.0	3.0	0	0	0	0	3.0	0	2.0	.300	.500	.300	.800
Listed seasons · 1	14	10	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	.300	—	—	—

Career Batting Statistics

Dick Seay — Career Batting Statistics
G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	PIV
550	1,952	262	423	44	19	12	181	29	169	12	.217	.288	.277	.565	-6,395

Career AVG .217 vs. league average .271 across their career seasons — 20.1% below league average.

Career OBP .288 vs. league average .338 across their career seasons — 14.7% below league average.

Career SLG .277 vs. league average .383 across their career seasons — 27.7% below league average.

Career OPS .565 vs. league average .721 across their career seasons — 21.6% below league average.

Season-by-Season Batting

Career Arc

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Dick Seay Stats, Bio & Career Records
Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	Lg AVG	Lg OBP	Lg SLG	Lg OPS	PIV
1926	NS	ECL	7	28	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	1	2	.143	—	—	—	—	0.0
1926	BBS	ECL	20	59	2	6	0	1	0	1	0	6	4	.102	.279 (-64%)	.345 (-43%)	.390 (-65%)	.735 (-55%)	0.0
1927	BRG	ECL	17	65	6	11	1	0	0	4	0	4	0	.169	.282 (-40%)	.344 (-27%)	.392 (-53%)	.736 (-41%)	-418.0
1932	BBS	EWL	59	219	35	63	8	3	1	21	2	19	0	.288	.275 (+5%)	.335 (+8%)	.391 (-7%)	.726 (avg)	65.8
1933	SOX	NN2	34	142	25	30	4	3	0	11	5	8	0	.211	.270 (-22%)	.329 (-17%)	.377 (-25%)	.707 (-22%)	-482.4
1934	PS	NN2	68	231	21	43	6	1	0	15	4	20	2	.186	.278 (-33%)	.340 (-25%)	.392 (-44%)	.733 (-35%)	-1300.5
1935	PS	NN2	56	191	33	49	5	6	4	28	7	21	0	.257	.279 (-8%)	.342 (-3%)	.399 (+2%)	.742 (avg)	-18.6
1936	PC	NN2	55	179	19	41	5	1	0	23	1	18	0	.229	.283 (-19%)	.349 (-13%)	.404 (-34%)	.753 (-24%)	-692.0
1936	NBY	NN2	1	6	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	—	—	—	—	-692.0
1937	NE	NN2	28	110	20	18	1	1	0	7	1	8	0	.164	.276 (-41%)	.342 (-32%)	.398 (-52%)	.740 (-43%)	-759.6
1938	NE	NN2	28	104	13	20	0	1	0	4	0	8	0	.192	.272 (-30%)	.341 (-25%)	.392 (-46%)	.734 (-36%)	-600.5
1939	NE	NN2	37	138	22	30	4	1	2	12	3	19	1	.217	.274 (-21%)	.342 (-9%)	.393 (-23%)	.735 (-16%)	-338.2
1940	NE	NN2	28	106	20	30	4	1	3	18	2	9	0	.283	.267 (+6%)	.335 (+1%)	.387 (+9%)	.722 (+6%)	90.7
1940	NBY	NN2	6	23	3	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.174	—	—	—	—	90.7
1941	NBY	NN2	32	118	12	19	3	0	1	13	0	9	0	.161	.262 (-39%)	.332 (-27%)	.373 (-43%)	.705 (-35%)	-639.0
1942	NBY	NN2	21	78	6	20	3	0	0	7	2	7	2	.256	.253 (+1%)	.323 (+1%)	.349 (-16%)	.672 (-8%)	-75.1
1945	NBY	NN2	8	31	6	8	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	.258	—	—	—	—	0.0
1946	NBY	NN2	19	55	7	12	0	0	0	4	0	4	1	.218	.256 (-15%)	.328 (-18%)	.358 (-39%)	.687 (-29%)	-234.7
1947	NBY	NN2	26	69	8	12	0	0	0	6	1	4	0	.174	.262 (-34%)	.336 (-32%)	.376 (-54%)	.712 (-43%)	-465.7
Career · 19 seasons			550	1,952	262	423	44	19	12	181	29	169	12	.217	—	—	—	—	-6,469

Lg columns show the league average for that season, with the player's figure as a percentage above or below it. Career totals the seasons listed above.

Postseason Statistics

Playoff Career Batting

Dick Seay — Playoff Career Batting
G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
9	29	2	5	1	0	0	2	4	0	.172

Playoff Batting by Year

Dick Seay — Playoff Batting by Year
Year	Round	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
1939	NLP1	NE	4	12	2	4	1	0	0	1	4	0	.333
1934	NLC	PS	5	17	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.059

Game Log & Splits

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Per-game data from Retrosheet (regular season, through 2025).

Batting — Home / Away

Dick Seay — Batting — Home / Away
Split	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Home	160	576	91	134	6	23	.233
Away	171	615	76	125	5	41	.203

Last 10 Games — Batting

Dick Seay — Last 10 Games — Batting
Date	Tm	Opp	Res	AB	R	H	RBI	BB
1947-08-29	NY5	BLG	L	0	0	0	0	0
1947-08-19	NY5	NY6	L	2	0	0	0	0
1947-08-19	NY5	NY6	L	3	0	0	0	0
1947-07-21	NY5	BLG	L	2	0	0	0	0
1947-06-27	NY5	BLG	W	4	1	3	1	0
1947-06-24	NY5	BLG	L	2	1	1	0	1
1947-06-24	NY5	BLG	L	3	1	0	0	1
1947-06-23	NY5	HOM	L	3	0	0	0	0
1947-06-22	NY5	NW2	L	3	0	0	0	0
1947-06-21	NY5	PH5	L	4	0	0	0	0

Fielding Statistics

Career Fielding Totals by Position

Dick Seay — Career Fielding Totals by Position
Position	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
2B	480	476	1114	1443	107	194
3B	10	6	14	13	1	0
OF	4	4	4	2	0	0
SS	61	57	121	147	34	20

Season-by-Season Fielding

Dick Seay — Season-by-Season Fielding
Year	Team	Pos	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
1926	NS	SS	7	7	9	18	4	3
1926	BBS	SS	20	20	43	51	13	3
1927	BRG	2B	3	3	1	8	4	0
1927	BRG	SS	15	14	34	37	11	7
1932	BBS	2B	50	49	129	159	11	22
1932	BBS	SS	10	10	23	26	2	5
1933	SOX	2B	34	34	92	119	15	14
1934	PS	2B	67	66	132	197	10	16
1934	PS	3B	1	0	0	2	1	0
1934	PS	OF	2	2	2	2	0	0
1935	PS	2B	55	55	127	151	19	23
1936	PC	2B	55	55	128	160	11	28
1936	NBY	2B	1	1	5	5	0	1
1937	NE	2B	28	28	73	87	3	16
1938	NE	2B	28	28	68	83	10	18
1939	NE	2B	34	34	76	116	7	13
1939	NE	SS	3	3	6	5	0	0
1940	NE	2B	25	25	60	78	4	9
1940	NE	SS	3	3	6	8	3	2
1940	NBY	2B	4	4	8	10	0	2
1940	NBY	OF	2	2	2	0	0	0
1941	NBY	2B	32	32	61	90	5	8
1941	NBY	SS	3	0	0	2	1	0
1942	NBY	2B	21	21	53	64	4	9
1945	NBY	2B	8	8	31	24	2	1
1946	NBY	2B	19	19	44	57	1	7
1947	NBY	2B	16	14	26	35	1	7
1947	NBY	3B	9	6	14	11	0	0

Career Games by Position

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Dick Seay Stats, Bio & Career Records
Position	Games
Second Base	480
Third Base	10
Shortstop	61
Left Field	2
Right Field	2

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Dick Seay: the record in brief

The season rows for Dick Seay begin in 1926. The season rows list, in order, the Newark Stars (1926), the Baltimore Black Sox (1926 through 1932), the Brooklyn Royal Giants (1927), the Baltimore Sox (1933), the Philadelphia Stars (1934 to 1935), the Pittsburgh Crawfords (1936), the New York Black Yankees (1936 through 1947), and the Newark Eagles (1937 through 1940). Listed as a second baseman, Seay both batted and threw right-handed. Height and weight on file: 162 pounds on a 5-foot-7 frame. The birth record reads November 30, 1904, in West New York, NJ, USA. The bio records the death on April 6, 1981, in Jersey City, NJ, USA. Dick Seay was the playing name; the full given name is Richard William.

Across 550 games at the plate, Seay's career line reads 423 hits in 1,952 at bats for a .217 average; the totals also include 12 home runs, 181 RBI, and 29 stolen bases. On-base and slugging figures of .288 and .277 give Seay a career OPS of .565.

Frequently Asked Questions about Dick Seay

Was Dick Seay a pitcher?: No. Dick Seay was a position player (Second Baseman).
How many home runs did Dick Seay hit?: Dick Seay hit 12 career home runs with 423 hits.
What was Dick Seay's career batting average?: Dick Seay batted .217 over his career, with 423 hits in 1,952 at bats.
How many RBI did Dick Seay have?: Dick Seay drove in 181 runs in his career.
Is Dick Seay in the Hall of Fame?: No. Dick Seay has not been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
What teams did Dick Seay play for?: Dick Seay played for the Newark Stars, the Baltimore Black Sox, the Brooklyn Royal Giants, the Baltimore Sox, the Philadelphia Stars, and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, among 8 clubs in all.