Career Statistics
In a twelve-year major league career, O'Dea played in 832 games, accumulating 560 hits in 2,195 at bats for a .255 career batting average, along with 40 home runs, 323 runs batted in and an on base percentage of .338. He ended his career with a .983 fielding percentage, which was 4 points higher than the league average during his playing career. O'Dea appeared in five World Series; (1935, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1944), batting .462 (6-for-13) with one home run in post-season play. He was also valuable as a left-handed pinch hitter, leading the National League with 42 pinch-hitting appearances in 1942. Over the span of five World Series appearances, he set a since-broken record of three pinch hits in series competitions.
O'Dea died on December 17, 1985, at the age of 72 in his hometown of Lima, New York.
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