1953 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 83-71
Finished 3rd in the NL
Attendance: 872,727, Avg. 11,794
Ballpark: Sportsman's Park IV
Manager: Eddie Stanky (83-71)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1953 St. Louis Cardinals Roster
1953 St. Louis Cardinals Results

The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League ended the 1953 season with a record of 83 wins and 71 losses, finishing third in the NL.

The Cardinals plated 768 runs and surrendered 713 runs. Stan Musial walloped 30 home runs for St. Louis, while Steve Bilko, Ray Jablonski, Rip Repulski and Red Schoendienst each swatted 20 or more, too. Stan Musial drove in 113 runs. Red Schoendienst paced all regular hitters by connecting at a .342 clip. Harvey Haddix topped the squad with 20 wins, plus Gerry Staley added 15 or more wins, too Harvey Haddix recorded a 3.06 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Eddie Stanky coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Harvey Haddix	20	9	.690	3.06	36	33	2	19	6	1	253.0	220	97	86	24	69	163	4	0	9	1031
Gerry Staley	18	9	.667	3.99	40	32	6	10	1	4	230.0	243	118	102	31	54	88	17	1	1	980
Vinegar Bend Mizell	13	11	.542	3.49	33	33	0	10	1	0	224.3	193	93	87	12	114	173	4	2	4	980
Stu Miller	7	8	.467	5.56	40	18	10	8	2	4	137.7	161	86	85	19	47	79	2	0	2	608
Hal White	6	5	.545	2.98	49	0	24	0	0	7	84.7	84	32	28	5	39	32	0	1	2	358
Al Brazle	6	7	.462	4.21	60	0	33	0	0	18	92.0	101	47	43	8	43	57	2	0	0	417
Joe Presko	6	13	.316	5.01	34	25	3	4	0	1	161.7	165	95	90	19	65	56	5	0	4	707
Eddie Erautt	3	1	.750	6.31	20	1	7	0	0	0	35.7	43	25	25	6	16	15	2	0	0	162
Cliff Chambers	3	6	.333	4.86	32	8	9	0	0	0	79.7	82	50	43	7	43	26	1	1	3	362
Mike Clark	1	0	1.000	4.79	23	2	8	0	0	1	35.7	46	21	19	2	21	17	2	0	1	171
John Romonosky	0	0		4.70	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.7	9	6	4	1	4	3	1	0	1	37
Dick Bokelmann	0	0		6.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	13
Jackie Collum	0	0		6.35	7	0	2	0	0	0	11.3	15	10	8	1	4	5	0	0	2	52
Jack Faszholz	0	0		6.94	4	1	1	0	0	0	11.7	16	9	9	3	1	7	1	0	0	51
Eddie Yuhas	0	0		18.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	6
Willard Schmidt	0	2	.000	9.17	6	2	1	0	0	0	17.7	21	20	18	1	13	11	1	0	0	89
Totals	83	71	.539	4.23	391	157	106	51	10	36	1386.7	1406	713	651	139	533	732	42	5	30	6024

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH
Stan Musial	157	698	593	127	200	53	9	30	113	3	4	105	32	.337	.437	.609	1.046	361	10	0	0
Red Schoendienst	146	627	564	107	193	35	5	15	79	3	3	60	23	.342	.405	.502	.907	283	19	0	3
Solly Hemus	154	690	585	110	163	32	11	14	61	2	1	86	40	.279	.382	.443	.825	259	10	12	7
Ray Jablonski	157	640	604	64	162	23	5	21	112	2	2	34	61	.268	.308	.427	.735	258	15	1	1
Rip Repulski	153	614	567	75	156	25	4	15	66	3	6	33	71	.275	.325	.413	.738	234	14	9	5
Enos Slaughter	143	578	492	64	143	34	9	6	89	4	4	80	28	.291	.395	.433	.828	213	10	5	1
Steve Bilko	154	641	570	72	143	23	3	21	84	0	1	70	125	.251	.334	.412	.746	235	17	1	0
Del Rice	135	480	419	32	99	22	1	6	37	0	0	48	49	.236	.323	.337	.660	141	13	6	7
Peanuts Lowrey	104	198	182	26	49	9	2	5	27	1	0	15	21	.269	.325	.423	.748	77	8	0	1
Harvey Haddix	48	107	97	21	28	3	3	1	11	0	0	5	19	.289	.337	.412	.749	40	2	2	3
Harry Elliott	24	63	59	6	15	6	1	1	6	0	0	3	8	.254	.302	.441	.742	26	3	1	0
Sal Yvars	30	62	57	4	14	2	0	1	6	0	1	4	6	.246	.306	.333	.640	19	4	1	0
Joe Presko	35	67	59	6	13	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	5	.220	.270	.237	.507	14	3	0	4
Dick Sisler	32	44	43	3	11	1	1	0	4	0	0	1	4	.256	.273	.326	.598	14	1	0	0
Ferrell Anderson	18	35	35	1	10	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.286	.286	.343	.629	12	0	0	0
Dick Rand	9	34	31	3	9	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.290	.333	.323	.656	10	0	0	1
Pete Castiglione	67	55	52	9	9	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	5	.173	.204	.212	.415	11	3	0	1
Eddie Stanky	17	40	30	5	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	4	.267	.405	.267	.672	8	0	1	3
Stu Miller	42	50	43	4	8	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	.186	.239	.233	.472	10	2	0	4
Gerry Staley	40	89	78	4	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	21	.103	.146	.103	.249	8	3	0	7
Dick Schofield	33	41	39	9	7	0	0	2	4	0	0	2	11	.179	.220	.333	.553	13	0	0	0
Vinegar Bend Mizell	33	89	83	4	7	1	1	1	8	0	0	3	42	.084	.116	.157	.273	13	0	0	3
Grant Dunlap	16	17	17	2	6	0	1	1	3	0	0	0	2	.353	.353	.647	1.000	11	1	0	0
Al Brazle	60	17	15	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.400	.733	6	0	0	2
Hal Rice	8	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0	0
Les Fusselman	11	9	8	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.375	.625	3	1	0	1
Cliff Chambers	32	17	17	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.118	.118	.176	.294	3	0	0	0
Billy Johnson	11	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.400	.733	2	0	0	0
Eddie Erautt	20	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	1
Jackie Collum	7	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0
Hal White	49	17	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.000	.059	.000	.059	0	1	0	0
Virgil Stallcup	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jack Faszholz	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Vern Benson	13	5	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0
Willard Schmidt	6	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
John Romonosky	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Mike Clark	23	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0
Fred Marolewski	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Eddie Phillips	9	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Eddie Yuhas	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Dick Bokelmann	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals	2009	6065	5397	768	1474	281	56	140	722	18	22	574	617	.273	.347	.424	.771	2287	141	39	55

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB
Dick Sisler	1B	10	42	6	0	5	1.000	4.800	0
Fred Marolewski	1B	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Steve Bilko	1B	154	1446	124	15	145	.991	1.195	0
Eddie Stanky	2B	8	16	22	0	4	1.000	4.750	0
Red Schoendienst	2B	140	365	430	14	109	.983	5.679	0
Peanuts Lowrey	2B	10	22	19	3	6	.932	4.100	0
Solly Hemus	2B	3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.333	0
Pete Castiglione	2B	9	14	15	2	3	.935	3.222	0
Peanuts Lowrey	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Billy Johnson	3B	11	1	8	0	1	1.000	.818	0
Ray Jablonski	3B	157	94	278	27	27	.932	2.369	0
Pete Castiglione	3B	51	7	22	1	4	.967	.569	0
Sal Yvars	C	26	76	12	1	3	.989	3.385	0
Del Rice	C	135	627	60	8	6	.988	5.089	8
Dick Rand	C	9	56	7	1	0	.984	7.000	1
Les Fusselman	C	11	20	2	0	0	1.000	2.000	0
Ferrell Anderson	C	12	32	4	0	0	1.000	3.000	1
Enos Slaughter	OF	137	235	2	1	0	.996	1.730	0
Rip Repulski	OF	153	361	7	5	1	.987	2.405	0
Stan Musial	OF	157	294	9	5	1	.984	1.930	0
Peanuts Lowrey	OF	38	42	1	0	0	1.000	1.132	0
Harry Elliott	OF	17	34	1	0	0	1.000	2.059	0
Grant Dunlap	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Eddie Yuhas	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Hal White	P	49	7	17	1	1	.960	.490	0
Gerry Staley	P	40	13	52	4	2	.942	1.625	0
Willard Schmidt	P	6	2	2	0	0	1.000	.667	0
John Romonosky	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Joe Presko	P	34	13	21	1	2	.971	1.000	0
Vinegar Bend Mizell	P	33	13	35	7	2	.873	1.455	0
Stu Miller	P	40	22	38	3	4	.952	1.500	0
Harvey Haddix	P	36	15	43	2	5	.967	1.611	0
Jack Faszholz	P	4	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Eddie Erautt	P	20	1	8	0	2	1.000	.450	0
Jackie Collum	P	7	1	7	0	0	1.000	1.143	0
Mike Clark	P	23	3	9	3	1	.800	.522	0
Cliff Chambers	P	32	3	16	1	1	.950	.594	0
Al Brazle	P	60	3	24	0	0	1.000	.450	0
Dick Bokelmann	P	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Dick Schofield	SS	15	19	36	5	8	.917	3.667	0
Solly Hemus	SS	150	257	476	27	90	.964	4.887	0
Pete Castiglione	SS	3	3	7	1	1	.909	3.333	0
Totals		1810	4160	1823	138	434	.977	3.306	10

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