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Old 07-04-2013, 11:18 PM   #101
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Old 07-05-2013, 01:54 AM   #102
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1952 World Series

Game 1 was a tight affair at Yankee Stadium, where Monte Irvin played hero once more as he broke a 2-2 tie in the ninth inning with a homer. Blake closed it out and we won 3-2.

They rebounded in game two as Howie Pollet out pitched Cal Hogue, throwing a complete game and knocking in 2 runs as they evened the series with a 5-1 win.

Game 3 was a brutal loss. We carried a 3-2 lead into the eighth inning but Lasorda & Blake blew it, each allowing a run in their inning of work as they won 4-3 to take a 2-1 lead in the series.

Joe Dobson bested Bill Purkey in game four as they won 4-1 and pushed us to the brink. Joe Cunnigham collected two hits for the Yankees.

Game five was about as wild an affair as you'll ever see. Cruising 5-0 after seven, we decided to pull Burdette in case we need him for game seven. Welp. Herriage did fine in the eighth but struggled to start the ninth and loaded the bases with nobody out. We brought Blake in and he promptly gave up 6 runs, giving them a 6-5 lead headed to the bottom of the ninth. With two outs and Roy McMillan on first, Greengrass and Campanella delivered back to back singles to plate the tying run. In the bottom of the 10th, Irvin doubled to lead off and McMillan shot one in the gap to score him and give us a 7-6 win and send the series back to New York. My lord. Andy Seminick tore his knee up and will miss the rest of the series. Bleh.

Cal Hogue was brilliant in game 6, matching Howie Pollet 1-1 through seven innings. In the eighth we broke through on a Greengrass RBI double and a 2 run Clem Koshorek single to give us a 5-1 lead. Hogue finished it up and we've come back from 3-1 down to force a game seven with Simmons starting and Burdette ready to go if needed.

Game seven matched up Joe Dobson for the Yankees and Curt Simmons for the Phils. We scored first in the top of the first on a run scoring ground out from Vic Wertz. The Yankees jumped ahead when Ralph Kiner blasted a 2 run homer in the bottom of the first to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead. In the bottom of the fourth Joe Cunningham and Jerry Coleman each had RBI singles to push the lead to 4-1. An RBI groundout by Vern Morgan in the fifth got us to within 4-2.

Bob Purkey came in in the fifth for us and promptly allowed a Bill Rodgers homer as the fifth inning ended with them up 5-2. In the top of the sixth inning, with 2 outs and 2 on, Campanella & Koshorek delivered back to back RBI singles and Del Ennis doubled in two more to complete the comeback and put us up 6-5.

Purkey pitched into the seventh before yielding to Tommy Lasorda who came in with 2 out and 2 on and got Yogi Berra to ground out. Ed Blake tossed a scoreless eighth and we scored 3 more times in the top of the ninth to go up 9-5. Burdette came on and tossed a 1,2,3 ninth and clinch the series for us. Nice.

We come back from being down 3 games to 1 and from being down 4-1 in game seven.

Burdette had a 1.29 ERA over 14 innings, Hogue had a 1.06 ERA over 17 innings. Wertz hit .464 with 2 homers and Irvin collected 10 hits in the series.
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Old 07-05-2013, 08:34 AM   #103
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1952)
                        W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
New York              93  61  .604    --  .276    72    68  3.54
Chicago               87  67  .565   6.0  .290   100    58  3.77
Boston                87  67  .565   6.0  .290    82    39  4.31
St. Louis             79  75  .513  14.0  .273   126    44  4.36
Cleveland             77  77  .500  16.0  .266   103    51  4.20
Detroit               75  79  .487  18.0  .281   116    49  4.06
Philadelphia          67  87  .435  26.0  .280    58    44  4.52
Washington            51 103  .331  42.0  .248    74    48  4.65

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1952)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Philadelphia          89  65  .578    --  .259   127    49  3.24
New York              82  72  .532   7.0  .247   110    51  3.42
Cincinnati            81  73  .526   8.0  .258   118    54  3.50
Brooklyn              79  75  .513  10.0  .262    91    63  3.56
Chicago               78  76  .506  11.0  .249   105    58  3.28
Boston                74  80  .481  15.0  .259    83    79  3.54
St. Louis             72  82  .468  17.0  .258    85    36  3.56 
Pittsburgh            61  93  .396  28.0  .251    81    57  4.25

WORLD SERIES
Phillies defeat Yankees, 4-3


1952 MLB AWARDS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1952)
Cy Young                  Robin Roberts (PHA)
Player of the Year:       Roy Sievers (CHW)
Rookie Of The Year:       Bill Wilson (DET)

Gold Glove (P):           Mel Parnell (CLE)
Gold Glove (C):           Sherm Lollar (CLE)
Gold Glove (1B):          Phil Cavarretta (BOS)
Gold Glove (2B):          Jerry Coleman (NYY)
Gold Glove (3B):          Hank Thompson (SLB)
Gold Glove (SS):          Johnny Pesky (BOS)
Gold Glove (LF):          Stan Musial (DET)
Gold Glove (CF):          Sam Mele (BOS)
Gold Glove (RF):          Dave Pope (CLE)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1952)
Cy Young                  Larry Jansen (NYG)
Player of the Year:       Vic Wertz (PHI)
Rookie Of The Year:       Troy Herriage (PHI)

Gold Glove (P):           Johnny Schmitz (CHC)
Gold Glove (C):           Wes Westrum (NYG)
Gold Glove (1B):          George Crowe (BSN)
Gold Glove (2B):          Roy McMillan (PHI)
Gold Glove (3B):          Eddie Bockman (CHC)
Gold Glove (SS):          Alvin Dark (BSN)
Gold Glove (LF):          Monte Irvin (PHI)
Gold Glove (CF):          Elmer Valo (BSN)
Gold Glove (RF):          Ben Guintini (PIT)
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Old 07-05-2013, 08:40 AM   #104
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1953 Offseason

Here's the deal, we need to increase our operating budget but it will put us way back into debt, we're set up nicely for the next few seasons so I'm going out and spending, we will lose a ton of green the next few years but screw it. To that end we bring back Josh Gibson & resign Ed Blake. Only Fowler next year and Campanella the year after have expiring contracts, so we're settled in for 3 seasons of massive money losses to put it mildly.

We're able to sign Burdett and Simmons to decent long term extensions that don't break our bank. Despite his loyalty and long term contributions to our team, coming off a knee injury we just can't pay Andy Seminick what he wants so we let him walk. Jim Greengrass and Cal Hogue get really nice raises in arbitration.

We extend Monte Irvin, Jim Greengrass, Cal Hogue, Tommy Lasorda and Clem Koshorek. we sign a LH reliever by the name of Fred Waters who has very good stuff. We add 24 year old 1B Joe Adcock in a deal with Cincy that sends them some young arms, this allows us to move Campanella back to catcher. We make a deal with the A's to get young catcher Rube Walker to be our backup.

We also make a deal where the essential pieces are LH reliever going to the White Sox for RH Tom Poholsky as we enough lefties in the pen with Waters & Lasorda.

We're almost $400,000 over budget, heh.

Edit: The Braves have not moved. I've got my own expansion/relocation scheme.
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Old 07-05-2013, 04:38 PM   #105
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April- We went 14-12, 2 games behind the Reds, not the start I was hoping for. I can't even pinpoint an issue as everyone played pretty well. Joe Adcock missed 3 weeks with an ankle issue.

May- We end May 31-23 and 5 games back of the Cubs. The one injury we couldn't afford, Monte Irvin, who has been on fire, is out a month with a broken wrist. Youngster Gale Wade is called up to play centerfield. Everyone is playing well, it just seems we're losing close games. Our starting pitching has been quite tremendous save for Bob Purkey.

June- We struggled most of the month till Irvin returned and finished 46-36 and 12.5 games behind the Cubs. My grand scheme is falling apart here. Thing is, I still can't put my finger on why. We're individually having superb seasons.

Jim Greengrass is leading the league in both homers and RBI. Cal Hogue tweaked his neck and will miss a few weeks, not what we needed, he's been pitching so well. Rookie Bud Black will move from the pen to the rotation. SS Clem Koshorek tweaked his knee and missed a few weeks. We're not winning and losing a ton of money doing it, oy.

In the draft Bob Gibson went #1 overall to the Senators. Sandy Koufax went 7th to Cleveland. Frank Robinson went to the White Sox.

July- We end the month 60-47, 14.5 games behind the Cubs. When Hogue came off the DL we moved Bob Purkey, who's been putrid, to AAA and kept Bud Black in the rotation, then just a couple of days later Curt Simmons injured his non throwing shoulder and went down for 3-4 weeks. 2B Roy McMillan had a heel issue and missed 3 weeks, great. SS Clem Koshorek had an eye problem and went down for awhile, jesus we're the walking wounded. Jim Greengrass went out and broke his arm in the middle of a great season, yay.

Vic Wertz has been slumping since the end of May. I decided it was time to be sellers and we were able to send Ed Blake & Fred Waters along with a couple of middling prospects to the Red Sox for young reliever Phil Clark. Spending almost $80,000 on two relievers might have been a real dumb decision but I honestly thought it would push me over the top, it only pushed me off the cliff.

August- 78-57, 16 games back. Wertz and Koshorek both spent time on the DL. This season can't end quick enough.

September- We finish the season 86-68, a very good record, but dwarfed by the 110-44 Cubs. I can't even point to a scapegoat other than to say the Cubs were just that frigging good.

Greengrass & Adcock had 25 dingers, Wertz had 24. Irvin hit .343, he's just a machine. Campy hit .293. Even Roy McMillan had a solid year with the bat.

On the mound Burdette was stellar, his 2.45 ERA and 21 wins both placed him in the top 10 in baseball and Troy Herriage developed nicely, posting a 2.78 ERA to put him in the top 10. It just wasn't our year. To top it off we ended the year $95,000 in debt.

The Cubs, led by Hank Bauer and Hal Jeffcoat at the dish and Bob Rush & Rene Valdez who combined for 45 wins on the mound, will take on the Richie Ashburn, Roy Sievers & Joe Smaza led White Sox in the World Series. Sievers led all of baseball with 48 long balls.
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Old 07-05-2013, 04:40 PM   #106
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1953 Phillies Hitting Stats
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1953 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Irvin, Monte              PHI  125  .343   481  165  34  11  19   88   75   12   3  107   44  .578  .445
Morgan, Vern              PHI  148  .264   526  139  23   1   0   39  107    4   0   52   42  .312  .317
Adcock, Joe               PHI  122  .294   470  138  34   1  25   46   81    2   2   59   83  .530  .357
McMillan, Roy             PHI  120  .284   468  133  28   4   4   42   67    2   4   71   72  .387  .342
Campanella, Roy           PHI  121  .293   440  129  18   4  12   45   78    1   0   48   60  .434  .366
Wertz, Vic                PHI  128  .252   480  121  17   3  24   62   83    0   2   83   66  .450  .338
Greengrass, Jim           PHI   98  .318   358  114  20   4  25   46   41    0   1   55   95  .606  .395
Koshorek, Clem            PHI   88  .245   335   82  17   3   1   15   65    6   3   34   33  .322  .279
Hicks, Buddy              PHI   55  .264   212   56   9   2   0    6   47    4   2   19   17  .325  .288
Gibson, Josh              PHI   72  .243   230   56  10   0  16   16   42    0   0   31   39  .496  .300
Ennis, Del                PHI   69  .244   217   53  11   0   1   12   26    2   0   16   16  .309  .287
Avila, Bobby              PHI   40  .289   149   43  11   2   3    7   22    1   0   21   20  .450  .318
Wade, Gale                PHI   33  .280   118   33   5   2   1   21   20    2   1   21    8  .381  .393
Hemus, Solly              PHI   38  .185    92   17   5   0   1    8    9    0   1    9    7  .272  .272
Walker, Rube              PHI   28  .200    85   17   4   0   0    5   12    0   0    6    5  .247  .244
Burdette, Lew             PHI   31  .200    85   17   3   0   0    3   18    0   0    9    8  .235  .253
Drescher, Bill            PHI   39  .195    82   16   1   1   0    5   20    2   0   10    4  .232  .241
Herriage, Troy            PHI   31  .190    84   16   6   0   0    4   26    0   0    8    9  .262  .227
Hogue, Cal                PHI   27  .197    71   14   5   0   0    6   26    0   0    5    6  .268  .256
Simmons, Curt             PHI   26  .191    68   13   1   0   0    4   21    0   0    2    1  .206  .236
Rhodes, Dusty             PHI   22  .217    46   10   2   0   0    2   10    0   0    6    7  .261  .260
Schofield, Dick           PHI   33  .179    39    7   0   0   2    2   11    0   0    9    4  .333  .220
Purkey, Bob               PHI   18  .140    43    6   1   0   0    0   19    0   0    2    3  .163  .140
Black, Bud                PHI   16  .143    35    5   2   0   0    0   12    0   0    3    3  .200  .143
Hale, Bob                 PHI    3  .231    13    3   0   0   0    1    2    0   0    2    2  .231  .286
Poholsky, Tom             PHI   44  .375     8    3   1   0   0    0    2    0   0    0    1  .500  .375
Fowler, Dick              PHI    7  .286     7    2   0   0   0    1    0    1   0    2    1  .286  .375
Lasorda, Tommy            PHI    9  .333     3    1   1   0   0    0    1    0   0    1    1  .667  .333
Clark, Phil               PHI   19  .200     5    1   1   0   0    0    2    0   0    1    0  .400  .200
Rogovin, Saul             PHI    1  .000     3    0   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Besana, Fred              PHI    1  .000     1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    0  .000  .000

1953 Phillies Pitching Stats
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1953 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Burdette, Lew             PHI  257.1  2.45   31  31  21   4   0  114   25  8.81
Herriage, Troy            PHI  252.2  2.78   31  31  17   9   0  163   76 10.29
Hogue, Cal                PHI  213.0  2.79   27  27  15   7   0  127   65 10.73
Simmons, Curt             PHI  210.2  3.50   26  26  13  12   0  109   51 10.64
Purkey, Bob               PHI  127.2  5.50   18  18   5  11   0   38   46 15.09
Black, Bud                PHI  110.2  3.01   16  14   7   7   1   87   31 10.33
Poholsky, Tom             PHI   76.1  2.48   44   0   1   4   7   30   16  9.08
Fowler, Dick              PHI   30.2  3.52    7   3   2   1   1    9   13 11.45
Clark, Phil               PHI   29.1  6.14   19   0   0   0   2   20   17 15.65
Lasorda, Tommy            PHI   13.1  5.40    9   0   1   2   0   11    6 14.18
Rogovin, Saul             PHI    7.0  7.71    1   1   0   1   0    2    2 14.14
Besana, Fred              PHI    3.0 33.00    1   1   0   1   0    1    7 39.00
Savage, Bob               PHI    1.0  0.00    1   0   0   0   0    0    0  0.00
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Old 07-05-2013, 04:41 PM   #107
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1953 World Series

In a seven game thriller, the Cubs came from 3-2 down to win games six and seven at Wrigley Field and claim the world title in a cross town showdown with the White Sox.
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In a seven game thriller, the Cubs came from 3-2 down to win games six and seven at Wrigley Field and claim the world title in a cross town showdown with the White Sox.

And now you've ruined history. At least you've kept Boston losing

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1953 MLB STANDINGS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1953)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Chicago               98  56  .636    --  .294   123    63  3.73
New York              86  68  .558  12.0  .277   119    63  3.98
Detroit               77  77  .500  21.0  .276   149    34  3.98
Philadelphia          77  77  .500  21.0  .282    77    42  4.50
Boston                72  82  .468  26.0  .279   101    54  4.67
Cleveland             72  82  .468  26.0  .264   106    34  4.11
Washington            70  84  .455  28.0  .266    78    53  4.08
St. Louis             64  90  .416  34.0  .257   107    44  4.50

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1953)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Chicago              110  44  .714    --  .270   152    59  2.78
Philadelphia          86  68  .558  24.0  .269   132    39  3.28
Cincinnati            80  74  .519  30.0  .262    91    71  3.68 
New York              79  75  .513  31.0  .253   117    42  3.93
Brooklyn              75  79  .487  35.0  .251   140    54  3.71
Boston                67  87  .435  43.0  .251   103    45  3.69
St. Louis             62  92  .403  48.0  .232    68    39  3.43
Pittsburgh            57  97  .370  53.0  .244   101    50  4.40

WORLD SERIES
Cubs defeat White Sox, 4-3


1953 MLB AWARDS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1953)
Cy Young                  Ewell Blackwell (NYY)
Player of the Year:       Roy Sievers (CHW)
Rookie Of The Year:       Sandy Koufax (CLE)

Gold Glove (P):           Larry Jackson (DET)
Gold Glove (C):           Yogi Berra (NYY)
Gold Glove (1B):          Ted Kluszewski (NYY)
Gold Glove (2B):          Jerry Coleman (NYY)
Gold Glove (3B):          George Kell (PHA)
Gold Glove (SS):          Tod Davis (PHA)
Gold Glove (LF):          Stan Musial (DET)
Gold Glove (CF):          Junior Wooten (WSH)
Gold Glove (RF):          Sam Mele (BOS)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1953)
Cy Young                  Bob Rush (CHC)
Player of the Year:       Willie Jones (CIN)
Rookie Of The Year:       Grant Dunlap (STL)

Gold Glove (P):           Jim Bunning (STL)
Gold Glove (C):           Roy Campanella (PHI)
Gold Glove (1B):          Joe Adcock (PHI)
Gold Glove (2B):          Pete Runnels (BNL)
Gold Glove (3B):          Grady Hatton (BNL)
Gold Glove (SS):          Wally Flager (CIN)
Gold Glove (LF):          Monte Irvin (PHI)
Gold Glove (CF):          Bob Addis (BNL)
Gold Glove (RF):          Ron Northey (NYG)
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Old 07-06-2013, 03:41 AM   #112
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1954 Off Season

Not much to the off season this year. Josh Gibson retired at the age of 41.

Bob Purkey was shipped off to St. Louis for a scrub just to save the $4K he was owed this year.

We traded away a few middling pitchers who were making some salary to save some cash, nothing more than AAA depth.

I still think this team can compete if our bullpen can hold up.


St. Louis does not move to Baltimore.
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Old 07-06-2013, 03:43 AM   #113
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1954 Season

April- We went 14-12 in April, 4 games back of the Reds. Herriage & Burdette both missed a couple of weeks.

May- We ended May 26-27, 6 games behind the Reds. Greengrass missed 3 weeks with a balky knee, Herriage also missed a couple of weeks with a bad knee, we just can't stay healthy.

June- June sees us at 42-39, 4 games behind the Cubs. Campanella & Morgan are the latest regulars to go down.

Monte Irvin is having another amazing season, his career has been the coolest thing about this dynasty. But the big 3, Adcock, Greengrass and Wertz are all having subpar years. Our pitching has been magnificent and has really kept us as close as we are, if it weren't for them we'd be god awfull right now.

In the draft, Don Drysdale went 1st overall to Pittsburgh. Harmon Killebrew went to Brooklyn with the 4th pick.

July- Despite Vic Wertz breaking his wrist in early July and missing most of the month, and Campanella and Morgan missing extended time, we still managed to sit at 55-50 and 4 games behind the Cubs in a tight, if underwhelming NL race. Our bats are starting to come around.

August- We got Wertz back in early August and we're looking like we might get hot when Troy Herriage broke his damn finger and missed 3 weeks.

And then on August 28th, down 3 games in the standings, Monte Irvin blew out his knee. Christ. He'll miss almost a year. Damnit. We end the month 73-62 and 6 games out.

September- We end the year 82-72, 10 games behind the pennant winning Cubs. I really think we would have won the pennant if Irvin hadn't gotten hurt.

Adcock had a huge 2nd half for us and Wertz played a lot better too. I guess it just wasn't meant to be.

Irvin had an astounding year, hitting .375 and hitting 28 homers and scoring 107 runs despite missing the final month. Adcock hit 36 homers and drove in 111, placing in the top 10 in both categories. Bud Black led all of baseball in ERA at 2.23 and Burdette was 5th at 2.53

We made enough money this year to get out of debt, so that's something. Still, I need to stop this deal of killing our operating budget every other year, it's really gonna mess up our farm system.

The Cubs and White Sox will rematch in the World Series. The Cubs finished 92-62, while the White Sox finished 101-53.
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1954 Phillies Hitting Stats
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1954 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Irvin, Monte              PHI  125  .375   461  173  40   6  28   74   67   16   3  107   67  .670  .462
Adcock, Joe               PHI  141  .271   579  157  27   5  36   45   94    0   0   85  111  .522  .324
McMillan, Roy             PHI  151  .263   556  146  24   4   8   58   61    8   4   86   51  .363  .338
Koshorek, Clem            PHI  141  .251   517  130  28   1   1   27   85    9   8   46   30  .315  .291
Greengrass, Jim           PHI  133  .246   520  128  25   4  24   50   68    1   1   68   66  .448  .314
Wertz, Vic                PHI  123  .273   465  127  21   4  25   49   77    0   1   60   97  .497  .346
Morgan, Vern              PHI  128  .269   464  125  17   3   3   28   82    3   1   44   45  .338  .311
Campanella, Roy           PHI  105  .241   395   95  14   2   7   31   67    1   0   42   34  .339  .303
Wade, Gale                PHI   75  .252   238   60  13   1   3   14   41    7   2   34   21  .353  .302
Ennis, Del                PHI   62  .185   178   33   2   0   3    7   18    0   2   11   15  .247  .220
Phillips, Bubba           PHI   34  .289    90   26   5   0   4    3   11    0   0    8   10  .478  .319
Walker, Rube              PHI   30  .209   110   23   2   1   2    3   11    1   0    9   12  .300  .228
Linden, Walt              PHI   22  .259    81   21   4   0   0    4   11    0   1    6    7  .309  .291
Hicks, Buddy              PHI   37  .217    92   20   1   0   0    5   21    2   1    5    9  .228  .255
Rhodes, Dusty             PHI   46  .237    59   14   2   0   2   10   13    0   0    6   11  .373  .343
Hogue, Cal                PHI   29  .210    62   13   2   0   0    6   20    0   0    4    3  .242  .279
Burdette, Lew             PHI   28  .151    73   11   3   0   1    4   27    0   0    9    9  .233  .222
Simmons, Curt             PHI   31  .151    73   11   4   0   0    2   19    1   0    2    5  .205  .171
Black, Bud                PHI   31  .133    83   11   4   0   0    6   17    0   0    3    3  .181  .191
Herriage, Troy            PHI   19  .167    48    8   1   0   0    1   14    0   0    3    3  .188  .184
O'Brien, Johnny           PHI   25  .179    39    7   2   0   0    1    5    0   0    3    1  .231  .200
Archer, Jim               PHI    7  .313    16    5   3   0   0    0    5    0   0    0    2  .500  .313
Tappe, Ted                PHI   10  .154    13    2   0   0   0    0    3    0   0    0    0  .154  .154
Besana, Fred              PHI    3  .500     4    2   1   0   0    0    1    0   0    1    1  .750  .500
Savage, Bob               PHI    6  .118    17    2   0   0   0    0    4    0   0    2    0  .118  .118
Poholsky, Tom             PHI   74  .091    11    1   1   0   0    0    4    0   0    1    0  .182  .091
Clark, Phil               PHI   28  .250     4    1   0   0   0    1    0    0   0    1    0  .250  .400
Aaron, Hank               PHI    1  .000     1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    0  .000  .000


1954 Phillies Pitching Stats
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1954 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Black, Bud                PHI  250.2  2.23   31  31  15   6   0  161   58  9.26
Simmons, Curt             PHI  244.0  3.43   31  31   9  14   0  115   71 11.03
Burdette, Lew             PHI  234.2  2.53   28  28  17   7   0  102   22  8.02
Hogue, Cal                PHI  209.1  4.30   29  29  11  15   0  123   80 12.34
Herriage, Troy            PHI  148.2  3.33   19  19  10   5   0   93   47 10.84
Poholsky, Tom             PHI  111.0  3.73   74   0  12   8  13   30   31 11.11
Archer, Jim               PHI   46.0  8.02    7   7   0   6   0   16   31 19.17
Savage, Bob               PHI   45.1  4.37    6   6   2   3   0   15   35 15.68
Clark, Phil               PHI   43.0  2.72   28   0   4   6   4   23   22 12.98
Besana, Fred              PHI   22.2  5.56    3   3   0   2   0   12   12 13.10
Lasorda, Tommy            PHI   19.0  1.42   13   0   1   0   5   12    7 10.42
Mrozinski, Ron            PHI   16.0  1.69   14   0   1   0   1   10    7 10.69
Marshall, Cuddles         PHI    3.1  0.00    3   0   0   0   0    1    1 10.80
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1954 World Series

In a rematch of the 53' series, The Cubs again found themselves down to the powerful White Sox, led by Roy Sievers, Johnny Temple and Richie Ashburn. The White Sox took a 2-0 lead before the Cubs stormed back to win 3 in a row but the Sox won game 6 at home to force a game 7 for a 2nd straight year, this time at Comiskey. The location may have changed, but the result was the same as the Cubs dispatched of the favored White Sox to win their 2nd straight World Series title.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1954)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Chicago              101  53  .656    --  .295   119    73  3.47
Detroit               88  66  .571  13.0  .265   116    36  3.80
Cleveland             81  73  .526  20.0  .274    96    45  3.94
Philadelphia          80  74  .519  21.0  .278    98    49  3.61
New York              75  79  .487  26.0  .268   120    37  4.23
Boston                68  86  .442  33.0  .274    75    48  4.99
St. Louis             67  87  .435  34.0  .262    88    45  4.48
Washington            56  98  .364  45.0  .258    87    41  4.65

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1954)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Chicago               92  62  .597    --  .266   135    47  3.22
Cincinnati            86  68  .558   6.0  .263   123    75  3.51
Brooklyn              85  69  .552   7.0  .261   116    67  3.59
Philadelphia          82  72  .532  10.0  .258   147    49  3.35
St. Louis             78  76  .506  14.0  .249    83    64  3.50
New York              69  85  .448  23.0  .247   117    56  4.09
Boston                68  86  .442  24.0  .257    74    78  3.85
Pittsburgh            56  98  .364  36.0  .254    76    59  4.13

WORLD SERIES
Cubs defeat White Sox, 4-3

1954 MLB AWARDS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1954)
Cy Young                  Robin Roberts (PHA)
Player of the Year:       Roy Sievers (CHW)
Rookie Of The Year:       Camilo Pascual (SLB)

Gold Glove (P):           Larry Jackson (DET)
Gold Glove (C):           Yogi Berra (NYY)
Gold Glove (1B):          Roy Sievers (CHW)
Gold Glove (2B):          Nellie Fox (PHA)
Gold Glove (3B):          Leo Thomas (SLB)
Gold Glove (SS):          Tod Davis (PHA)
Gold Glove (LF):          Stan Musial (DET)
Gold Glove (CF):          Peanuts Lowrey (CLE)
Gold Glove (RF):          Richie Ashburn (CHW)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1954)
Cy Young                  Jim Bunning (STL)
Player of the Year:       Willie Jones (CIN)
Rookie Of The Year:       Don Drysdale (PIT)

Gold Glove (P):           Vern Law (CIN)
Gold Glove (C):           Smoky Burgess (CIN)
Gold Glove (1B):          Joe Adcock (PHI)
Gold Glove (2B):          Pete Runnels (BNL)
Gold Glove (3B):          Grady Hatton (BNL)
Gold Glove (SS):          Gene Verble (NYG)
Gold Glove (LF):          Bob Addis (BNL)
Gold Glove (CF):          Johnny Lindell (STL)
Gold Glove (RF):          Monte Irvin (PHI)
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Looking back on the trade in 51 that sent Willie Jones to the Reds. He's gone on to win 2 MVP Awards but we got Greengrass and McMillan out of it. I'd say we came up on the short end but not horribly so.
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We extended 1B Joe Adcock & 3B Vern Morgan for 6 years, C Roy Campanella for 4 years and 2B Roy McMillan for 7 years, all to very reasonable deals. Closer Tom Poholsky got a nice raise in arbitration and then we extend him 5 years at a decent price.

What is gonna kill us is Irvins salary hanging over our head. It really limits anything we can do, and since he has a no trade clause we're kind of effed.

We move LF Del Ennis and RP Marshall Cuddles to the White Sox for a couple of Pitchers, that saves us $13K.

I'm trying desperately to move Cal Hogue and his $30K salary. The Braves agree to send us young prospect Bob Conley in exchange for Hogue and Al Jackson. The only problem is, Conley is still only 20 and should spend more time in the minors, but we'll likely have to put him in our rotation right away.

Monte Irvin is actually rehabbing quicker than anticipated. My goodness he's good at everything, even being injured.

Heading into the season our pitching still looks solid, save for Bill Miller as our 5th starter. Our pen returns the same solid core. Our lineup is solid enough as well but we need Greengrass and Wertz to both produce in the middle, and to stay healthy. Gale Wade will patrol CF until Irvin is healthy which we now think could come as soon as early May. 2B Roy McMillan
has blossomed into a really good ballplayer and he'll hit leadoff until Irvin returns.

The Athletics do not go to Kansas City.
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April- 11-15, 6.5 games behind the Dodgers, in 7th place. Oy. Gale Wade not doing so well replacing Irvin, luckily he's back within the week. Campanella is really struggling as well but our heart of the order is hitting well. Lew Burdette missed two weeks with a broken finger. Troy Herriage has a 9 ERA over 34 innings, for the love of Lola. Our pen has been very good.

May- 25-28, 11.5 games back of the Cubs in 3rd place. Irvin came back and it didn't spark us as I'd hoped, then he retweaked the knee and will miss 3-4 weeks. Bleh.

June- 38-43, 17.5 games back. We traded SP Kent Peterson to the A's for a couple of guys, they offered and it saved us $4,000 so what the hell. Troy Herriage had an ERA over 7 in the middle of June, we had to demote him, not that his replacement is any good.

In the draft, Juan Marichal went 2nd overall to Washington. We took 3B Brooks Robinson with our 1st round pick.

July- 53-54, 17.5 games behind the Cubs. SS Clem Koshorek tore his quad and missed the month. Bud Black missed a couple of weeks with a broken finger. Our depth at starter can't sustain injuries.

Unable to find any suitable deal for younger talent, we work out a 3 way deal with the Reds and Yankees. Campanella and a few minor leaguers to the Yankees, C Yogi Berra to the Reds and C Smoky Burgess to us. The deal saves us about $25K and Burgess is not a bad little player.

I put some feelers out to see what we could get for Burdette and Wertz and I just couldn't pull the trigger. I really came close to just gutting the team. It'd be one thing if we were putting up bad numbers, but outside of McMillan our lineup is really producing and our pitching is decent. Our starters are solid but I have a feeling that in order to win I'm gonna need more than a few top notch aces.

August- We had an insanely good August and are 73-62, 14 games back. Just when I think it's time to blow things up I'm teased with the idea that a full year with a healthy Irvin and 1 more stud pitcher we could be contenders again.

September- Closer Tom Poholsky missed most of the month which did us no favors and we finished 79-75 and 23 games behind the Cubs who are building their own dynasty.

Greengrass with 33 and Adcock with 31 placed in the top 10 in homers, Adcocks 180 hits were good for 9th in baseball and his 106 RBI were good for 8th. Black at 2.72 and Burdette at 2.93 both were top 10 in ERA. Monte Irvin had a solid comeback year, going .296 with 21 homers. 2B Roy McMillan really struggled and that no doubt hurt us. Our top 3 reliever, Poholsky, Lasorda and Clark all had really good years. I think it just comes down to our 3rd, 4th and 5th starters need to be better.

We lost money on the year but still stayed above water with a decent operating budget so that's good. It may be time next year to try and move a bat for an arm, especially with Hank Aaron looming in the farm system.

The Cubs and White Sox will meet in a 3rd straight World Series.
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1955 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Adcock, Joe               PHI  146  .305   591  180  36   6  31   39   96    1   3   98  106  .543  .347
Greengrass, Jim           PHI  138  .325   504  164  25   3  33   73   65    5   1   76   77  .583  .414
Wertz, Vic                PHI  138  .277   524  145  23   3  26   55   73    2   1   66   89  .481  .344
McMillan, Roy             PHI  153  .240   597  143  31   3   8   67   58    3   7   84   55  .342  .320
Burgess, Smoky            PHI  122  .278   446  124  17   5  10   45   25    3   0   50   47  .406  .346
Irvin, Monte              PHI  101  .296   412  122  17   6  21   48   88    7   2   74   51  .519  .372
Koshorek, Clem            PHI  115  .266   428  114  26   3   2   12   89    9   2   48   34  .355  .286
Morgan, Vern              PHI  102  .258   380   98  20   1   3   21   76    0   2   30   27  .339  .296
Wade, Gale                PHI   75  .272   224   61   8   3   6   26   39    5   1   32   21  .415  .353
Phillips, Bubba           PHI   60  .274   190   52  11   0   3   15   18    1   0   12   26  .379  .335
Hicks, Buddy              PHI   29  .243   107   26   3   1   1    5   27    1   1    9   11  .318  .277
Tappe, Ted                PHI   33  .247    93   23   3   0   1   11   13    1   0   10   15  .312  .318
Avila, Bobby              PHI   57  .237    76   18   3   0   0    6    9    1   0    8    6  .276  .286
Black, Bud                PHI   29  .188    80   15   3   0   0    6   27    0   0    8    5  .225  .241
Burdette, Lew             PHI   28  .179    78   14   4   0   0    0   28    0   0    5    5  .231  .177
O'Brien, Johnny           PHI   28  .236    55   13   2   1   0    1    3    0   0    7    2  .309  .263
Tappe, El                 PHI   16  .177    62   11   2   0   0    6    8    0   0    2    6  .210  .250
Simmons, Curt             PHI   30  .130    77   10   0   0   0    2   16    0   0    4    4  .130  .152
Rhodes, Dusty             PHI   19  .188    48    9   0   0   3    2   10    0   0    5   10  .375  .220
Miller, Bill              PHI   20  .182    44    8   4   0   0    2    9    0   0    2    3  .273  .217
Herriage, Troy            PHI   16  .189    37    7   3   0   0    0   10    0   0    4    4  .270  .189
Archer, Jim               PHI   15  .086    35    3   2   0   0    1   12    0   0    4    2  .143  .111
Robinson, Brooks          PHI    6  .091    22    2   0   0   0    0   10    0   0    0    1  .091  .091
Poholsky, Tom             PHI   58  .182    11    2   0   1   0    0    4    0   0    1    0  .364  .182
Kelly, Bob                PHI   12  .667     3    2   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    1  .667  .667
Aaron, Hank               PHI    2  .500     2    1   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    1  .500  .500
Clark, Phil               PHI   40  .000    10    0   0   0   0    1    2    0   0    0    0  .000  .091
Scheib, Carl              PHI    2  .000     5    0   0   0   0    1    1    0   0    0    0  .000  .167
Besana, Fred              PHI    1  .000     2    0   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    0    0  .000  .000

1955 Phillies Pitching Stats
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1955 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Black, Bud                PHI  238.0  2.72   29  29  16   8   0  168   69  9.64
Simmons, Curt             PHI  235.2  4.12   30  30  13  13   0  111   77 12.11
Burdette, Lew             PHI  230.2  2.93   28  28  12  13   0   88   30  9.56
Miller, Bill              PHI  143.1  4.52   20  20   8  10   0   74   68 14.00
Archer, Jim               PHI  110.1  4.00   15  15   5   7   0   38   47 14.52
Herriage, Troy            PHI  109.0  6.94   16  16   5   9   0   80   55 15.69
Poholsky, Tom             PHI   91.0  2.37   58   0  10   2  15   38   22  9.00
Clark, Phil               PHI   65.2  2.74   40   0   3   4   4   43   21 10.55
Lasorda, Tommy            PHI   25.1  2.84   20   0   1   3   6   13   12 10.30
Kelly, Bob                PHI   17.0  2.12   12   0   0   1   2    7    4  9.53
Scheib, Carl              PHI   15.1  7.63    2   2   0   2   0    9    5 13.50
Mrozinski, Ron            PHI    6.2  1.35    6   0   1   0   0    3    1 10.80
Besana, Fred              PHI    4.0 20.25    1   1   0   1   0    3    3 31.50
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1955 World Series

Led by Roy Sievers and Bill Ramsays 15 RBI, the White Sox avenged two straight series loses at the hands of the Cubs to defeat them in six games. Ramsay cracked 3 homers in the series Ralph Mauriello tossed 17 innings of 1.06 ERA ball for the ChiSox.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1955)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Chicago              112  42  .727    --  .295   127    52  3.12
Philadelphia          86  68  .558  26.0  .278    85    38  3.89
Boston                80  74  .519  32.0  .286   106    44  4.05
Detroit               79  75  .513  33.0  .285    81    54  4.04
New York              73  81  .474  39.0  .270   103    32  4.75 
Cleveland             71  83  .461  41.0  .261    82    51  3.85
Washington            66  88  .429  46.0  .256    80    45  4.51
St. Louis             49 105  .318  63.0  .246    92    54  4.89

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1955)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Chicago              102  52  .662    --  .279   171    34  3.21
Brooklyn              92  62  .597  10.0  .258   130    66  3.48
Boston                83  71  .539  19.0  .278   119    71  3.91
Philadelphia          79  75  .513  23.0  .260   150    39  3.82
Cincinnati            70  84  .455  32.0  .260   120    38  3.96
St. Louis             66  88  .429  36.0  .257    92    47  3.90
Pittsburgh            65  89  .422  37.0  .269    86    54  4.44
New York              59  95  .383  43.0  .254   121    35  4.43

WORLD SERIES
White Sox defeat Cubs, 4-2


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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1955)
Cy Young                  Ralph Mauriello (CHW)
Player of the Year:       Roy Sievers (CHW)
Rookie Of The Year:       Juan Marichal (WSH)

Gold Glove (P):           Robin Roberts (PHA)
Gold Glove (C):           Billy Shantz (WSH)
Gold Glove (1B):          Phil Cavarretta (BOS)
Gold Glove (2B):          Red Schoendienst (DET)
Gold Glove (3B):          Ray Boone (CLE)
Gold Glove (SS):          Tod Davis (PHA)
Gold Glove (LF):          Stan Musial (DET)
Gold Glove (CF):          Sam Mele (BOS)
Gold Glove (RF):          Mel Clark (CLE)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1955)
Cy Young                  Paul Penson (CHC)
Player of the Year:       Joe Collins (BRO)
Rookie Of The Year:       Chuck Tanner (NYG)

Gold Glove (P):           Johnny Schmitz (CHC)
Gold Glove (C):           Yogi Berra (CIN)
Gold Glove (1B):          Joe Adcock (PHI)
Gold Glove (2B):          Roy McMillan (PHI)
Gold Glove (3B):          Hank Thompson (CHC)
Gold Glove (SS):          Alvin Dark (BNL)
Gold Glove (LF):          Wally Post (CIN)
Gold Glove (CF):          Jim Delsing (PIT)
Gold Glove (RF):          Dave Pope (CHC)
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Bud Black gets a big raise in arbitration to over $50K but we make a long term deal with him for about $43K per. Maybe playing with fire given how bad he was last year but Troy Herriage still looks like a solid pitcher to me so I give him a long term deal.

We make a deal with the Cubs that sends them Vic Wertz, starting 3B Vern Morgan and decent prospect LF Stan Palys in return for 22 year old stud SP Joe McClain. The deal saves us a little more than $20 grand and gives us that 3rd ace. Interesting trade between rivals but they have a real good starting staff.

So we enter the year with a bit of a different look. Gale Wade takes over CF and Irvin moves to RF for the time being. 24 year old Andy Carey is our new 3B, he's decent. Our staff is really strong 1 through 3 and Simmons is a solid 4th but Herriage is a wild card and we've got little depth.

Hank Aaron is developing ok and probably has at least another year in the minors. Dunno if we've got enough to overtake the Cubs but we'll see.
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April- That didn't last long, Bud Black went down for a couple of weeks with a shoulder issue just two starts into the season, then Monte Irvin broke his wrist and will miss some time. We lost 3B Andy Carey and SP Joe McClain to groin issues.

Through all that we went 12-13 and are 4 games back, so all is not lost but all is not looking well either.

May- We got off to a 3-0 start in May and Irvin tweaked his knee again and will miss a month. Jesus. When Andy Carey returns he doesn't get his 3B job back as Bubba Phillips, a comparable young player, has been hitting very well since taking over.

Joe McClain came back for a few starts and then broke his wrist. Yay. This effing sucks big ones.

Well hey, Joe Adcock broke his collar bone and will miss 3-4 weeks. Sure, why the hell not. We finish the month 25-27, 9 games back, and unless a miracle occurs in June, we're probably already out of it.

We aren't hitting great but it's ok, Troy Herriage is having another shitty year so we'll probably be looking to get out from under that contract at some point, good job me. Burdette & Black have been subpar. Simmons & McClain have pitched great but McClain can't stay on the effing mound.

June- What a shitty, shitty month. We end it 36-43, 16 games back. The Reds and Cubs are in a tight race. When Irvin comes back we hit him 3rd to try and stretch our depleted lineup out. Hey, Lew Burdette has an inflamed rotator cuff and will miss a month, couldn't have expected another injury.

July- We had a decent July even though Curt Simmons tweaked his knee and Bud Black hurt his achilles. We went 14-11 and ended the month 50-54 and 18 games behind the Reds and Cubs who are tied for 1st.

We put SS Clem Koshorek on the market, just because he's the only guy making a decent salary that I don't mind not having long term. The Cubs offer us a bunch of pieces including veteran IF's Dick Cole and Wayne Terwilliger. We make the deal. We have Luis Aparicio in the minors anyway. The deal saves us about $8 grand.

August- 61-74, 25 games back. The Reds have a 2 game lead on the Cubs.

September- 70-84, 27 games back of the Cubs who won the league by 3 games over the Reds. They'll meet the A's in the world series as our cross town rivals took the AL by seven games over Detroit with a 92-62 record.

What a shitty year it was. Nobody placed top 10 in any of the major offensive categories. Irvin .282/16/40, Adcock .290/22/85 & Greengrass .276/19/87 were our best hitters. Burdette & Black had awful years on the mound. McClain was very good when healthy and Simmons was decent and Herriage bounced back to have a quality year, thank heaven. Our pen was solid enough but not great. Yuck.

We lost a bit of money but not enough to push us in debt, still, we're at the brink where we can't really add salary because our operating budget is still pretty low so we're in a tough spot here going forward.
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1956 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
McMillan, Roy             PHI  146  .288   560  161  37   3   7   70   51    6   5   79   53  .402  .365
Wade, Gale                PHI  144  .272   569  155  36   3   7   53  106   10   6   65   69  .383  .336
Adcock, Joe               PHI  132  .290   534  155  26   1  22   47   74    1   1   82   85  .466  .347
Greengrass, Jim           PHI  133  .276   511  141  23   5  19   66   69    0   1   64   87  .452  .356
Phillips, Bubba           PHI  136  .259   509  132  23   3   5   19   45    0   1   40   44  .346  .288
Burgess, Smoky            PHI  128  .248   487  121  22   3  10   47   42    0   0   53   49  .368  .315
Irvin, Monte              PHI   94  .282   419  118  19   4  16   25   73    7   2   64   40  .461  .322
Cole, Dick                PHI   93  .214   290   62   8   2   0   24   27    3   0   25   29  .255  .274
Tappe, Ted                PHI   51  .247   158   39   7   0   4   14   32    3   0   21   19  .367  .318
Terwilliger, Wayne        PHI   38  .318   107   34   6   0   1    5   12    1   1   11   10  .402  .342
Rhodes, Dusty             PHI   72  .200   155   31   6   0   6   13   38    0   0   16   20  .355  .260
Hofman, Bobby             PHI   46  .250    92   23   5   1   0    5   16    1   0   12    5  .326  .293
Herriage, Troy            PHI   30  .215    79   17   4   0   0    1   26    0   0    3    6  .266  .225
Hale, Bob                 PHI   19  .254    63   16   4   0   1    5    3    0   0    7    5  .365  .329
Carreon, Cam              PHI   17  .246    65   16   1   0   0    2    8    0   0    8    5  .262  .269
Burdette, Lew             PHI   26  .225    71   16   0   0   0    2   17    0   0    6    7  .225  .240
Lopez, Hector             PHI   26  .227    66   15   2   1   2    5   10    0   1    9    6  .379  .292
Carey, Andy               PHI   37  .152    92   14   4   2   2    9   13    0   1    8   13  .304  .248
Black, Bud                PHI   24  .233    60   14   2   0   0    3   17    0   0    4    3  .267  .270
O'Brien, Johnny           PHI   24  .226    53   12   5   0   0    5    5    1   1    4    5  .321  .288
Aaron, Hank               PHI   10  .300    30    9   4   2   0    2    4    0   0    2    3  .567  .344
Simmons, Curt             PHI   24  .134    67    9   0   0   0    2   17    0   0    2    2  .134  .157
Oldis, Bob                PHI   15  .145    55    8   1   0   0    2   16    0   0    2    2  .164  .190
McClain, Joe              PHI   24  .131    61    8   3   0   0    2   17    0   0    3    4  .180  .159
Hacker, Warren            PHI   15  .229    35    8   1   0   0    0    8    0   1    3    3  .257  .229
Poholsky, Tom             PHI   69  .429     7    3   1   0   0    0    1    0   0    1    3  .571  .429
Mrozinski, Ron            PHI   14 1.000     2    2   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    0 1.000 1.000
Aparicio, Luis            PHI    2  .167     6    1   0   0   0    0    2    0   0    0    0  .167  .167
Clark, Phil               PHI   44  .200     5    1   0   0   0    0    2    0   0    1    0  .200  .200
Besana, Fred              PHI    5  .100    10    1   0   0   0    0    2    0   0    0    0  .100  .100
Willis, Jim               PHI    2  .500     2    1   0   0   0    1    0    0   0    0    0  .500  .667
Lasorda, Tommy            PHI   26  .000     1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Miller, Bill              PHI    8  .000     5    0   0   0   0    0    3    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Kelly, Bob                PHI   11  .000     6    0   0   0   0    0    2    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Moeller, Ron              PHI    4  .000     1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    0  .000  .000

1956 Phillies Pitching Stats
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1956 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Herriage, Troy            PHI  233.1  3.59   30  30  10  13   0  135   74 10.99
Burdette, Lew             PHI  202.1  4.85   26  26   9  10   0   84   27 11.52
McClain, Joe              PHI  193.1  2.79   24  24   9   4   0   81   30  9.59
Simmons, Curt             PHI  192.2  3.64   24  24  11   9   0   86   76 12.71
Black, Bud                PHI  179.2  4.31   24  24  11   8   0  107   56 11.97
Hacker, Warren            PHI  103.1  5.66   15  15   4   7   0   37   34 14.72
Poholsky, Tom             PHI   98.2  3.56   69   0   7  10  13   34   27 11.77
Clark, Phil               PHI   56.2  3.34   44   0   3   8   0   30   30 12.23
Besana, Fred              PHI   36.0  6.00    5   5   0   3   0   29   14 13.00
Lasorda, Tommy            PHI   33.1  3.51   26   0   4   4   6   16   10  9.45
Kelly, Bob                PHI   31.2  5.12   11   4   1   5   0   11   14 14.49
Mrozinski, Ron            PHI   22.0  1.64   14   0   1   1   1   13    7  8.59
Miller, Bill              PHI   18.0  8.50    8   0   0   1   0    9   14 17.50
Willis, Jim               PHI    8.2  7.27    2   2   0   1   0    4    6 15.58
Moeller, Ron              PHI    8.2  4.15    4   1   0   1   0    2    3 13.50
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1956 World Series

Led by 2B Nellie Fox and SP Robin Roberts, the A's took out the Cubs in 6 games to win the world series. Roberts threw 2 complete games and allowed just 1 earned run. Former Phillies catcher Andy Seminick had an insane series, belting 3 homers and driving in 10 runs. At least somebody from Philly is beating up on the Cubs.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1956)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Philadelphia          92  62  .597    --  .283    89    52  3.46
Detroit               85  69  .552   7.0  .273   108    51  3.91
Chicago               82  72  .532  10.0  .270   135    49  3.79
Washington            81  73  .526  11.0  .262    83    61  3.93
Boston                80  74  .519  12.0  .283   124    36  4.05
St. Louis             71  83  .461  21.0  .262    95    58  3.72
Cleveland             66  88  .429  26.0  .249    78    52  4.41
New York              59  95  .383  33.0  .265    94    46  4.55

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1956)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Chicago               97  57  .630    --  .285   168    25  3.52
Cincinnati            94  60  .610   3.0  .278   158    50  3.53
St. Louis             86  68  .558  11.0  .267    66    63  3.61
Brooklyn              83  71  .539  14.0  .260   117    67  3.59
Philadelphia          70  84  .455  27.0  .257   103    37  4.05
New York              67  87  .435  30.0  .260   110    30  4.19
Boston                63  91  .409  34.0  .263    94    56  4.15
Pittsburgh            56  98  .364  41.0  .244    85    56  4.20

WORLD SERIES
Athletics defeat Cubs, 4-2


1956 MLB AWARDS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1956)
Cy Young                  Larry Jackson (DET)
Player of the Year:       Roy Sievers (CHW)
Rookie Of The Year:       Gaylord Perry (SLB)

Gold Glove (P):           Larry Jackson (DET)
Gold Glove (C):           Billy Shantz (WSH)
Gold Glove (1B):          Tom Burgess (WSH)
Gold Glove (2B):          Jack Merson (WSH)
Gold Glove (3B):          Grady Hatton (PHA)
Gold Glove (SS):          Johnny Lipon (DET)
Gold Glove (LF):          Stan Musial (DET)
Gold Glove (CF):          Erv Dusak (PHA)
Gold Glove (RF):          Milt Nielsen (DET)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1956)
Cy Young                  Jim Bunning (STL)
Player of the Year:       Bob Marquis (CIN)
Gold Glove (P):           Bob Rush (CHC)
Gold Glove (C):           Danny Kravitz (PIT)
Gold Glove (1B):          Joe Adcock (PHI)
Gold Glove (2B):          Pete Runnels (BNL)
Gold Glove (3B):          Hank Thompson (CHC)
Gold Glove (SS):          Gene Verble (NYG)
Gold Glove (LF):          Gino Cimoli (BRO)
Gold Glove (CF):          Frank Baumholtz (CIN)
Gold Glove (RF):          Gus Bell (NYG)
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1957 Off Season

Joe McClain got a nice arbitration bump, $42K. Relievers Phil Clark and Ron Mrozinski got decent little raises too.

We extend McClain for 7 years at $40K. We're going to blow this thing up and build around he and Bud Black.

Time to dump some salary and truly enter a rebuilding phase, the current way aint working. We have a couple of decent starting arms in the minors so we're going to look to move Burdette & Simmons, Greengrass too.

The Yankees offer us $46,000 for Simmoms & minor league pitcher Fritz Ackley, we take it.

We move Greengrass to the Indians for a 6 player package that includes two decent SP prospects, Wynn Hawkins & Gordon Seyfried and a semi decent C prospect Earl Averill. Nothing studly but we've got to start rebuilding the system and it knocks Greengrasses salary off the books.

Burdette goes to the Giants for 19 year old SP prospect Jim O'Toole. He's a very good prospect but a long ways off.

C Smoky Burgess wants an extension far beyond what I think he deserves so since he's in the last year of his contract I move him to the Red Sox for decent 2B prospect Chuck Schilling.

We add C Clint Courtney from the Browns in a minor deal since we're gonna need one of those.

We deal a couple of minor league pitchers for Reds LF Rip Repulski who actually looks decent, much better than what we're giving up.

We sign Gale Wade to a 5 year extension, we extend Monte Irvin for 3 years at $51K, cutting his salary by $30K which will be a bargain if he stays healthy.

Once we're done we have a lot of money to put into our scouting/farm system/medical, and should continue for a couple of years.

Aaron & 1B Willie McCovey are probably our best prospects and we have a pretty deep system at the lower levels so we're hunkered in for a years of low expectations.

Our staff is Black, McClain, Herriage, rookie Bob Conley and veteran Bill Miller, it could honestly go either way, health will be a big key. Our pen should be solid.

Our lineup is a far cry from the good old days. Outside of Irvin & Adcock we really have very little pop or talent for that matter.

We'll have to look at moving Irvin & Adcock at some point in the next couple of years but I don't want to completely kill my lineup just yet and I've pared enough salary for now.
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April- We went 8-18. Herriage, Conley and Adcock all had stints on the DL, it's almost laughable at this point.

May- We're 16-37, 19.5 games out, in last place. Monte Irvin missed 3 weeks due do a sprained ankle. Bud Black tore his knee and will miss about 5 weeks.

June- 21-59, 15 games out SEVENTH PLACE. I can't really say anything nice about this team. Joe Adcock is hitting over .300. Our starters have been awful, even Black and McClain, the two guys I'm trying to build around, have not been anything close to cornerstones.

July- 30-76, sweet pete. Hey! Joe McClain got hurt again, awesome!

August- 38-97. I didn't fathom we'd be this bad at all.

September- We finish the season 43-111, 56 games back of the Cubs who won the league by 12 games. They'll play an A's team that finished 88-66 and won A hotly contested AL race by 3 games over Boston & Detroit, in the World Series, in a rematch of last year.

Can't say much about our putrid offense. Irvin is finaly showing his mortality, hitting only .254 and more than that, getting on base at a mere .297 clip. Roy McMillan was so bad that he lost his 2B job to journeyman Wayne Terilliger. Joe Adcock was a bright spot as he hit .314 and hit 21 homers and knocked in a team high 77. LF Dusty Rhodes hit 18 homers, that's something. Gale Wade hit .284 and played pretty well in CF.

Pitching wise it's even more disappointing as Bud Blacks 3.83 ERA led the team. He and McClain, our "aces", combined to go 8-27. Our pen was decent enough I suppose.

I don't think I'll have any choice but to continue to eliminate salary in the off season. If we're gonna suck this hard, might as well do it on the cheapest of cheaps.
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1957 Phillies Hitting Stats
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1957 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Adcock, Joe               PHI  139  .314   560  176  39   6  21   45   78    0   4   77   76  .518  .364
Aparicio, Luis            PHI  150  .252   535  135  24   4   7   28   47   21   7   57   55  .351  .288
Phillips, Bubba           PHI  141  .240   537  129  25   3   4   25   51    0   2   44   53  .320  .279
Wade, Gale                PHI  118  .284   415  118  22   1   2   44   83   12   0   54   39  .357  .354
Irvin, Monte              PHI  102  .254   437  111  18   5  15   24   71    4   2   56   47  .421  .297
Courtney, Clint           PHI  102  .251   383   96  25   5   3   31   18    0   2   29   40  .366  .309
McMillan, Roy             PHI  115  .227   406   92  16   1   4   37   48    2   4   60   30  .300  .293
Rhodes, Dusty             PHI  108  .248   371   92  17   2  18   47   57    0   1   57   64  .450  .329
Repulski, Rip             PHI   68  .273   256   70  11   1   8   17   37    1   0   33   38  .418  .331
Terwilliger, Wayne        PHI   87  .263   251   66  20   0   6   27   32    2   2   40   30  .414  .339
Evers, Hoot               PHI   78  .232   276   64  13   2   4   20   39    1   4   24   20  .337  .292
Oldis, Bob                PHI   51  .232   181   42   5   0   0   13   36    0   0   17   15  .260  .275
Carey, Andy               PHI   55  .252   107   27   5   0   2    9   10    0   0    9   19  .355  .316
Averill, Earl             PHI  101  .119   101   12   1   0   3   18   26    0   0   16    9  .218  .264
Conley, Bob               PHI   27  .203    59   12   1   0   0    1   15    0   0    1    2  .220  .217
Hacker, Warren            PHI   28  .159    69   11   1   0   1    3   15    0   0    5    7  .217  .192
Herriage, Troy            PHI   29  .186    59   11   3   0   0    9   17    0   0    5    5  .237  .294
McClain, Joe              PHI   23  .172    58   10   3   0   0    0   14    0   0    2    4  .224  .172
Hardy, Carroll            PHI   16  .191    47    9   2   1   0    1    7    0   0    3    3  .277  .224
Black, Bud                PHI   24  .158    57    9   3   0   0    4   14    0   0    3    3  .211  .213
Miller, Bill              PHI   15  .143    35    5   1   0   0    1   14    0   0    3    2  .171  .167
Aaron, Hank               PHI    8  .200    20    4   1   0   0    1    1    0   0    3    3  .250  .238
Clark, Phil               PHI   53  .250    12    3   0   0   0    1    4    0   0    1    1  .250  .308
Poholsky, Tom             PHI   74  .500     4    2   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    1    2  .500  .500
Kelly, Bob                PHI    5  .333     6    2   1   0   0    0    2    0   0    1    0  .500  .333
Mrozinski, Ron            PHI   15 1.000     1    1   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    0 1.000 1.000
Bessent, Don              PHI   19  .111     9    1   1   0   0    0    3    0   0    0    0  .222  .111
Willis, Jim               PHI    3  .333     3    1   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    1    1  .333  .333
Javier, Julian            PHI    4  .000     4    0   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Lasorda, Tommy            PHI   24  .000     3    0   0   0   0    0    2    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Besana, Fred              PHI    1  .000     1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Scheib, Carl              PHI    1  .000     1    0   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
McDaniel, Von             PHI   17  .000    26    0   0   0   0    0   10    0   0    0    0  .000  .000

1957 Phillies Pitching Stats
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1957 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Hacker, Warren            PHI  213.2  4.46   28  28   6  16   0   79   43 11.75
Herriage, Troy            PHI  202.1  4.67   29  29   6  14   0  113  100 14.50
Conley, Bob               PHI  190.2  5.15   27  27   8  12   0   80   95 13.88
Black, Bud                PHI  185.2  3.83   24  24   4  13   0  134   59 11.59
McClain, Joe              PHI  174.2  4.28   23  23   4  14   0   64   40 12.42
Miller, Bill              PHI  102.0  5.91   15  15   4   8   0   58   60 16.15
Poholsky, Tom             PHI   99.0  3.91   74   0   5  12   7   32   26 11.82
McDaniel, Von             PHI   86.2  3.22   17  13   7   5   0   45   31 10.59
Clark, Phil               PHI   76.1  5.54   53   0   2   7   2   52   38 15.33
Bessent, Don              PHI   38.0  7.34   19   0   0   1   0   21   31 18.24
Lasorda, Tommy            PHI   30.1  3.56   24   0   4   5   0   20   12 10.68
Kelly, Bob                PHI   24.2  9.49    5   4   0   4   0    7   13 18.24
Mrozinski, Ron            PHI   19.2  3.66   15   0   0   3   1   17    6 14.64
Willis, Jim               PHI   12.2  8.53    3   3   0   2   0    4    8 16.34
Scheib, Carl              PHI    6.0  7.50    1   1   0   0   0    3    2 19.50
Besana, Fred              PHI    3.1  0.00    1   0   0   0   0    3    1  2.70
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1957 World Series

The underdog A's came from 3-1 down to shock the Cubs and claim their 2nd straight world series crown. Robin Roberts hurled a complete game shutout in game 7, striking out 10 in the process.
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1957 MLB STANDINGS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1957)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Philadelphia          88  66  .571    --  .274    76    48  3.93
Boston                85  69  .552   3.0  .277   116    44  3.70
Detroit               85  69  .552   3.0  .272   108    60  3.59
Washington            79  75  .513   9.0  .271    91    54  3.94
Chicago               78  76  .506  10.0  .276   119    76  3.81
Cleveland             71  83  .461  17.0  .264   119    57  4.50
New York              67  87  .435  21.0  .256    73    38  4.41
St. Louis             63  91  .409  25.0  .253    82    54  4.05

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1957)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Chicago               99  55  .643    --  .284   151    33  3.29
Cincinnati            87  67  .565  12.0  .268   118    45  3.43
New York              83  71  .539  16.0  .261    84    43  3.84
St. Louis             83  71  .539  16.0  .256    83    56  3.55
Boston                80  74  .519  19.0  .264    95    50  3.66
Brooklyn              72  82  .468  27.0  .263    99    47  4.18
Pittsburgh            69  85  .448  30.0  .262    82    50  4.14
Philadelphia          43 111  .279  56.0  .249    98    43  4.78


WORLD SERIES
Athletics defeat Cubs, 4-3

1957 MLB AWARDS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1957)
Cy Young                  Robin Roberts (PHA)
Player of the Year:       Robin Roberts (PHA)
Rookie Of The Year:       Chuck Hinton (DET)

Gold Glove (P):           Larry Jackson (DET)
Gold Glove (C):           Billy Shantz (WSH)
Gold Glove (1B):          Tom Burgess (WSH)
Gold Glove (2B):          Nellie Fox (PHA)
Gold Glove (3B):          Grady Hatton (PHA)
Gold Glove (SS):          Tod Davis (PHA)
Gold Glove (LF):          Stan Musial (DET)
Gold Glove (CF):          Clint Conatser (PHA)
Gold Glove (RF):          Sam Mele (BOS)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1957)
Cy Young                  Dick Donovan (BNL)
Player of the Year:       Willie Jones (CIN)
Rookie Of The Year:       Jim King (NYG)

Gold Glove (P):           Vinegar Bend Mizell (BRO)
Gold Glove (C):           Yogi Berra (CIN)
Gold Glove (1B):          Joe Cunningham (STL)
Gold Glove (2B):          Pete Runnels (BNL)
Gold Glove (3B):          Fred Hatfield (BRO)
Gold Glove (SS):          Johnny Logan (BNL)
Gold Glove (LF):          Frank Baumholtz (CIN)
Gold Glove (CF):          Bob Addis (BNL)
Gold Glove (RF):          Gino Cimoli (BRO)
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New York Times, December 21st 1957
Baseball Says "No" To Proposed Relocation Of Giants, Dodgers

In a ruling handed down earlier today by Commisioner Ford Frick, New York sports fans got an early Christmas present when Major League Baseball denied the proposed relocation of the Giants and Dodgers to the west coast. In the ruling, Frick said that that the move was not in the best interest of baseball and he could not, in good conscience, agree to allow the move to take place.

Giants owner Horace Stoneham & Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley have both hinted at a class action suit if baseball failed to approve the moves but Frick was unwavering. Both the Giants and Dodgers will remain in New York for the 1958 season but one must assume that this case is definately not closed.
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1958 Off Season

With our state the way it is, we decide to release 2B Wayne Terwilliger and relievers Phil Clark & Bob Kelly rather than go to arbitration with them. Pitcher Jim Willis retired.

We put Joe Adcock on the market and I don't much like the look of any of the offers we get as far as prospects go, but Detroit offers us $69,000 for him. That looks good to me. He gone.

We deal C Clint Courtney to the Braves for a low level pitcher.

RP Tommy Lasorda is making $15K, why I need a reliever on a shitty team making that much is beyond me so we sell him to the White Sox for $2,000.

We ship out Closer Tom Poholsky to the Reds for a couple of minor leaguers.

I'm gonna keep Irvin on the team, I can't get anything for him in a deal and it'd be nice to have one of the original 13 spend their whole career here.

Ughh, this team is depressing at this point. Irvin will move to left field to make room for Hank Aaron who does not quite resemble the Hank Aaron of the real world. Dusty Rhodes moves to 1st. Black & McClain have pretty much been done in by injury and our bullpen is a hodgepodge of career minor leaguers and cast offs. Our system is slowly stocking but honestly I'm not blown away by any of our prospects so it's not like we have help on the way either. We're gonna suck so hard.
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New York Times, June 8th 1958
Stoneham, O'Malley, File Suit To Leave

In a much expected move yesterday, The respected owners of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers filed papers in NY District Court to stop Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick from blocking their move to the west coast. O'Malley & Stoneham claim that baseball has superseded it's powers by barring the relocation of the struggling franchises and has sought a federal ruling allowing them to move.
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1958 Season

We stayed relatively injury free and McClain had a nice bounce back year as we shocked the world and won 50 games!

We finished 49 games behind the 1st place Reds who won an amazing race by 1 game over the Cubs. They'll face the White Sox in the world series. The Sox edged out the Senators by a game and the A's by 3 games to win the AL. Sounds like an amazing season in both leagues.

In the amateur draft we took SP Mickey Lolich 1st overall, passing on Ron Santo, Joe Torre and Luis Tiant.

Our lineup was pretty putrid with a few exceptions. Catcher Earl Averill hit 31 bombs in only 394 AB's. Joe McClains 2.86 ERA put him 5th in baseball. Irvin went .277/11/50 in a decent year but obviously on the decline. Hank Aarons .249/15/70 is not the stuff legends are made of. The good news is that we do have some arms on the way, now if we could just do something about that lineup.
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1958 Phillies Hitting Stats
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1958 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
McMillan, Roy             PHI  153  .262   580  152  23   4   7   75   51    4   2   73   37  .352  .346
Aaron, Hank               PHI  154  .249   606  151  27   6  15   55   84    5   6   74   70  .388  .311
Irvin, Monte              PHI  124  .277   520  144  30   5  11   31   94    9   5   66   50  .417  .321
Phillips, Bubba           PHI  129  .262   477  125  21   1   6   25   56    1   0   37   55  .348  .309
Aparicio, Luis            PHI  150  .227   524  119  25   3   1   32   47   38   4   55   34  .292  .275
Wade, Gale                PHI  109  .266   376  100  13   3   7   43   51    5   2   41   35  .372  .347
Averill, Earl             PHI  107  .249   394   98  15   2  31   46   71    1   0   70   76  .533  .330
Rhodes, Dusty             PHI  118  .226   434   98  19   3  21   48   71    1   1   59   61  .429  .303
Evers, Hoot               PHI   61  .266   218   58  10   5   5    7   21    3   2   25   31  .427  .289
Oldis, Bob                PHI   57  .251   215   54  12   1   1   14   29    1   1   20   22  .330  .299
Carey, Andy               PHI   50  .178   118   21   7   0   3    8   20    0   0    9   14  .314  .228
Lindstrom, Chuck          PHI   28  .247    85   21   3   0   0   11   19    0   0    7    6  .282  .333
Pawloski, Stan            PHI   54  .216    74   16   3   0   0    2   18    1   0    8    4  .257  .237
Black, Bud                PHI   30  .219    73   16   4   0   0    6   11    0   0    3    7  .274  .275
McClain, Joe              PHI   26  .194    62   12   3   0   0    5   16    0   0    3    4  .242  .254
Hacker, Warren            PHI   21  .250    44   11   2   0   0    0   10    1   1    3    1  .295  .250
Conley, Bob               PHI   25  .161    62   10   2   0   0    1   14    0   0    5    5  .194  .172
Herriage, Troy            PHI   26  .172    58   10   1   0   0    3   20    0   0    4    6  .190  .213
Scheib, Carl              PHI   12  .242    33    8   1   2   0    1    6    0   0    3    6  .394  .257
Hardy, Carroll            PHI   12  .185    27    5   0   0   0    4    4    0   0    2    1  .185  .290
Monzant, Ramon            PHI   38  .308    13    4   0   0   0    1    1    0   0    0    2  .308  .333
Durnbaugh, Bobby          PHI    6  .167    18    3   0   1   0    1    6    0   0    0    3  .278  .211
Mrozinski, Ron            PHI   70  .400     5    2   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    0    2  .400  .400
Miller, Bill              PHI   15  .154    13    2   1   0   0    1    3    0   0    1    1  .231  .214
Besana, Fred              PHI   23  .167    12    2   0   0   0    0    3    0   0    0    0  .167  .167
Grba, Eli                 PHI   12  .105    19    2   0   0   1    0    3    0   0    1    3  .263  .105
Bessent, Don              PHI   36  .250     4    1   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    0    0  .250  .250
Clendenon, Donn           PHI    1  .000     1    0   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
McCovey, Willie           PHI   11  .000    18    0   0   0   0    2    1    0   0    1    2  .000  .095
Mayer, Ed                 PHI    7  .000     2    0   0   0   0    1    0    0   0    0    1  .000  .333

1958 Phillies Pitching Stats
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1958 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Black, Bud                PHI  218.1  4.00   30  30  10  17   0  150   76 12.33
McClain, Joe              PHI  204.2  2.86   26  26  13  11   0  100   38 10.47
Herriage, Troy            PHI  180.0  4.80   26  26   4  17   0  101   81 14.75
Conley, Bob               PHI  171.1  4.89   25  25   5  15   0   95   75 14.87
Hacker, Warren            PHI  138.0  6.20   21  21   1  13   0   54   43 15.52
Mrozinski, Ron            PHI   95.0  3.79   70   1   8  10  14   74   35 11.56
Scheib, Carl              PHI   80.0  6.75   12  12   3   6   0   31   39 16.65
Monzant, Ramon            PHI   72.1  4.73   38   1   0   3   1   31   37 15.06
Grba, Eli                 PHI   58.2  6.29   12   8   2   6   0   23   18 15.65
Besana, Fred              PHI   48.0  4.88   23   2   1   2   1   17   26 15.94
Miller, Bill              PHI   45.1  3.97   15   2   2   1   0   29   22 13.30
Bessent, Don              PHI   38.1  7.04   36   0   1   3   1   12   30 19.25
Mayer, Ed                 PHI    8.1  1.08    7   0   0   0   3    1    3 11.88
Donnelly, Ed              PHI    1.0  9.00    1   0   0   0   0    1    1 54.00
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1958 World Series

The Reds, led by 3 time MVP Willie Jones and SP Joe Nuxhall, rolled past the White Sox in 5 games to win the series. Jones went deep twice and CF Bob Marquis had 12 hits in the 5 games.
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1958 MLB HITTING
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1958 MLB STANDINGS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1958)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Chicago               87  67  .565    --  .271   141    78  3.77
Washington            86  68  .558   1.0  .278   108    60  3.73
Philadelphia          84  70  .545   3.0  .267    92    33  3.70
New York              80  74  .519   7.0  .266    91    46  3.76
St. Louis             73  81  .474  14.0  .261    91    46  4.14 
Boston                72  82  .468  15.0  .272   149    25  4.38
Detroit               71  83  .461  16.0  .252   151    44  3.56
Cleveland             63  91  .409  24.0  .259   139    41  4.70


NATIONAL LEAGUE (1958)
                       W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
Cincinnati            99  55  .643    --  .283   166    49  3.92
Chicago               98  56  .636   1.0  .305   189    35  3.75
St. Louis             80  74  .519  19.0  .263   101    46  3.92
Brooklyn              77  77  .500  22.0  .264    87    61  4.45
Boston                74  80  .481  25.0  .257   120    42  3.96
Pittsburgh            69  85  .448  30.0  .260   102    52  3.88
New York              69  85  .448  30.0  .259    72    52  3.93
Philadelphia          50 104  .325  49.0  .246   113    71  4.65

WORLD SERIES
Reds defeat White Sox, 4-1

1958 MLB AWARDS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1958)
Cy Young                  Robin Roberts (PHA)
Player of the Year:       Roy Sievers (CHW)
Rookie Of The Year:       Chuck Stobbs (DET)

Gold Glove (P):           Bob Friend (CHW)
Gold Glove (C):           Hardy Peterson (CHW)
Gold Glove (1B):          Frankie Pack (SLB)
Gold Glove (2B):          Nellie Fox (PHA)
Gold Glove (3B):          Grady Hatton (PHA)
Gold Glove (SS):          Maury Wills (CHW)
Gold Glove (LF):          Bobby Thomson (PHA)
Gold Glove (CF):          Irv Noren (BOS)
Gold Glove (RF):          Roger Maris (CLE)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1958)
Cy Young                  Bob Rush (CHC)
Player of the Year:       Willie Jones (CIN)
Rookie Of The Year:       Chuck Estrada (STL)

Gold Glove (P):           Dick Donovan (BNL)
Gold Glove (C):           Yogi Berra (CIN)
Gold Glove (1B):          Joe Cunningham (STL)
Gold Glove (2B):          Roy McMillan (PHI)
Gold Glove (3B):          Tommy Glaviano (STL)
Gold Glove (SS):          Gene Verble (NYG)
Gold Glove (LF):          Hank Aaron (PHI)
Gold Glove (CF):          Gus Bell (NYG)
Gold Glove (RF):          Clint Conatser (BNL)
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