1948 Indianapolis Clowns Statistics

National Arena League (NAL)
Team Record: 27-45
Finished 5th in the NAL
Ballpark: Victory Field I
Manager: Ramiro Ramírez (35-64)
Manager: Buster Haywood (10-14)

1948 Indianapolis Clowns Roster
1948 Indianapolis Clowns Results

The Indianapolis Clowns of the National Arena League ended the 1948 season with a record of 27 wins and 45 losses, finishing fifth in the NAL.

Ramiro Ramírez and Buster Haywood coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Luis Cabrera	2	2	.500	4.09	5	5	0	3	33.0	39	20	15	1	11	16	2	1	145
Jim Cohen	1	4	.200	3.83	7	6	1	5	49.3	47	29	21	1	15	17	0	1	211
Willie Cathey	1	4	.200	5.17	10	5	5	2	55.7	61	39	32	3	15	40	2	0	245
Johnny Williams	1	4	.200	6.25	7	4	2	4	40.3	44	35	28	2	16	11	5	0	191
Angel García	0	0		9.45	1	0	1	0	6.7	10	10	7	0	4	4	0	0	36
Jimmie Bennett	0	0		54.00	1	1	0	0	0.3	3	3	2	0	2	0	0	0	7
José Velásquez	0	1	.000	2.25	1	1	0	1	8.0	7	4	2	0	3	1	0	0	34
Ladd White	0	1	.000	3.97	2	2	0	1	11.3	18	10	5	0	5	3	0	0	55
Manuel Godínez	0	1	.000	8.64	3	1	2	0	8.3	15	10	8	2	0	2	0	0	39
Walter Gibbons	0	1	.000	9.00	3	2	1	1	13.0	27	15	13	1	6	5	0	0	72
Bill Blair	0	1	.000	20.25	2	1	1	0	2.7	8	8	6	0	4	2	0	0	19
Preacher Henry	0	1	.000	27.00	1	0	0	0	0.7	1	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	7
Andy Porter	0	3	.000	6.06	3	3	0	1	16.3	23	15	11	2	5	7	0	1	78
Totals	5	23	.179	5.57	46	31	13	18	245.7	303	200	152	12	90	108	9	3	1139

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
Sam Hairston	31	130	115	25	41	4	1	1	15	4	14	0	.357	.426	.435	.861	50	0	1
Ray Neil	25	106	98	13	32	6	1	2	15	0	6	0	.327	.365	.469	.835	46	0	2
Andrés Mesa	25	106	98	11	26	1	2	0	4	0	7	0	.265	.314	.316	.631	31	0	1
Reinaldo Drake	25	102	92	12	22	3	0	0	8	2	9	0	.239	.307	.272	.579	25	0	1
Goose Tatum	20	81	68	6	17	2	0	0	15	2	9	0	.250	.338	.279	.617	19	0	4
Coco Ferrer	22	97	90	12	16	2	1	0	3	1	5	2	.178	.221	.222	.443	20	0	2
Ted Strong	13	46	37	5	14	1	0	0	10	0	7	0	.378	.489	.405	.894	15	1	1
Henry Merchant	26	80	69	10	12	4	0	0	4	1	8	1	.174	.260	.232	.492	16	0	3
Leonard Pigg	25	69	57	5	11	1	1	0	7	0	10	0	.193	.333	.246	.579	14	2	0
Rafael Cabrera	13	52	47	7	10	1	1	1	4	2	4	1	.213	.275	.340	.615	16	0	1
Buster Haywood	14	30	29	4	7	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	.241	.267	.241	.508	7	0	0
Luis Pérez	11	31	30	3	7	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	.233	.233	.233	.467	7	0	1
Les Witherspoon	5	17	14	0	5	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	.357	.438	.500	.938	7	0	1
Chuck Wilson	8	21	21	0	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	.238	.238	.286	.524	6	0	0
Luis Cabrera	5	16	13	1	3	0	0	0	4	0	3	1	.231	.375	.231	.606	3	0	0
Jim Cohen	8	21	19	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	.158	.238	.158	.396	3	0	0
Koney Williams	9	26	22	3	3	2	0	0	1	1	4	1	.136	.269	.227	.497	5	0	0
Jim West	3	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0
Johnny Williams	13	24	21	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	2	.095	.208	.095	.304	2	0	0
Benny Felder	10	31	25	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.080	.233	.080	.313	2	0	1
Richard King	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0
Angel García	1	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0
Manuel Godínez	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0
Ladd White	2	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	1
Walter Gibbons	4	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0
Alex Colthirst	6	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	.125	.300	.125	.425	1	0	0
Willie Cathey	10	25	22	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.045	.125	.045	.170	1	0	1
Andy Porter	3	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0
José Velásquez	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Bill Blair	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Jimmie Bennett	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Preacher Henry	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Totals	348	1158	1029	125	247	30	7	4	105	15	105	8	.240	.312	.294	.607	303	3	21

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS%
Goose Tatum	1B	20	20	158.7	178	9	5	7	.974	1.607	9.350	0	0
Sam Hairston	1B	7	7	52.0	58	3	1	3	.984	1.558	8.714	0	0
Henry Merchant	1B	4	4	24.0	29	1	0	1	1.000	11.250	7.500	0	0
Jim West	1B	2	0	11.0	10	0	0	1	1.000	8.182	5.000	0	0
Ray Neil	2B	25	25	197.7	58	68	8	13	.940	5.737	5.040	0	0
Coco Ferrer	2B	6	6	48.0	12	14	2	0	.929	4.875	4.333	0	0
Sam Hairston	3B	17	17	133.7	26	29	4	0	.932	3.703	3.235	0	0
Luis Pérez	3B	9	8	65.0	11	20	1	3	.969	4.292	3.444	0	0
Coco Ferrer	3B	5	5	39.0	6	3	1	0	.900	2.077	1.800	0	0
Koney Williams	3B	1	1	8.0	1	1	1	0	.667	2.250	2.000	0	0
Leonard Pigg	C	19	18	123.0	68	14	3	2	.965	6.000	4.316	2	18	0.0
Buster Haywood	C	12	6	62.7	28	1	2	0	.935	4.165	2.417	0	4	0.0
Sam Hairston	C	8	7	60.0	32	8	1	1	.976	6.000	5.000	1	11	0.0
Reinaldo Drake	OF	25	25	192.7	55	1	1	0	.982	2.616	2.240	0	0
Andrés Mesa	OF	25	23	188.7	21	2	0	0	1.000	1.097	.920	0	0
Henry Merchant	OF	17	14	129.7	38	3	3	0	.932	2.846	2.412	0	0
Rafael Cabrera	OF	11	11	87.0	19	2	2	1	.913	2.172	1.909	0	0
Ted Strong	OF	10	9	67.0	21	2	0	0	1.000	3.090	2.300	0	0
Chuck Wilson	OF	6	6	39.0	9	2	0	1	1.000	2.538	1.833	0	0
Les Witherspoon	OF	5	5	33.0	3	2	0	0	1.000	1.364	1.000	0	0
Willie Cathey	P	10	5	55.7	0	10	1	1	.909	1.617	1.000	0	0
Jim Cohen	P	7	6	49.3	1	9	0	1	1.000	1.824	1.429	0	0
Johnny Williams	P	7	4	40.3	2	11	1	0	.929	2.901	1.857	0	0
Luis Cabrera	P	5	5	33.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	.818	.600	0	0
Andy Porter	P	3	3	16.3	1	5	1	1	.857	3.306	2.000	0	0
Walter Gibbons	P	3	2	13.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.385	.667	0	0
Ladd White	P	2	2	11.3	0	4	1	0	.800	3.176	2.000	0	0
Manuel Godínez	P	3	1	8.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.080	.333	0	0
José Velásquez	P	1	1	8.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.375	3.000	0	0
Angel García	P	1	0	6.7	0	2	1	0	.667	2.700	2.000	0	0
Bill Blair	P	2	1	2.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.000	0	0
Preacher Henry	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0
Jimmie Bennett	P	1	1	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0
Richard King	PH	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0
Coco Ferrer	SS	11	11	89.7	16	34	4	4	.926	5.019	4.545	0	0
Benny Felder	SS	10	9	68.0	10	23	4	3	.892	4.368	3.300	0	0
Koney Williams	SS	6	6	41.3	10	16	3	0	.897	5.661	4.333	0	0
Ted Strong	SS	3	3	21.0	6	7	1	1	.929	5.571	4.333	0	0
Alex Colthirst	SS	5	2	19.0	3	7	3	2	.769	4.737	2.000	0	0
Rafael Cabrera	SS	1	0	6.7	3	0	3	0	.500	4.050	3.000	0	0
Totals		317	279	2211.0	736	323	58	46	.948	4.311	3.341	3	33	0.0

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