1956 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 76-78
Finished 4th in the NL
Attendance: 1,029,773
Manager: Fred Hutchinson (76-78)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1956 St. Louis Cardinals Roster
1956 St. Louis Cardinals Results

The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League ended the 1956 season with a record of 76 wins and 78 losses, finishing fourth in the NL. Fred Hutchinson 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	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Vinegar Bend Mizell	14	14	.500	3.62	33	33	0	11	3	0	208.7	172	93	84	20	92	5	153	7	0	4	881
Murry Dickson	13	8	.619	3.07	28	27	0	12	3	0	196.3	175	75	67	20	57	4	109	1	0	7	799
Herm Wehmeier	12	9	.571	3.69	34	19	6	7	2	1	170.7	150	80	70	16	71	8	68	1	0	2	715
Tom Poholsky	9	14	.391	3.59	33	29	1	7	2	0	203.0	210	100	81	27	44	7	95	5	0	6	847
Lindy McDaniel	7	6	.538	3.40	39	7	10	1	0	0	116.3	121	60	44	7	42	7	59	0	0	8	499
Jackie Collum	6	2	.750	4.20	38	1	20	0	0	7	60.0	63	29	28	6	27	6	17	2	0	2	260
Willard Schmidt	6	8	.429	3.84	33	21	6	2	0	1	147.7	131	69	63	18	78	7	52	1	0	6	629
Ellis Kinder	2	0	1.000	3.51	22	0	17	0	0	6	25.7	23	11	10	3	9	3	4	0	0	0	108
Larry Jackson	2	2	.500	4.11	51	1	26	0	0	9	85.3	75	44	39	5	45	8	50	1	1	4	366
Harvey Haddix	1	0	1.000	5.32	4	4	0	1	1	0	23.7	28	15	14	3	10	0	16	0	0	1	106
Jim Konstanty	1	1	.500	4.58	27	0	16	0	0	5	39.3	46	20	20	4	6	1	7	0	0	0	167
Ben Flowers	1	1	.500	6.94	3	3	0	0	0	0	11.7	15	9	9	1	5	1	5	0	0	0	53
Don Liddle	1	2	.333	8.39	14	2	6	0	0	0	24.7	36	25	23	8	18	5	14	0	0	3	122
Bob Blaylock	1	6	.143	6.37	14	6	3	0	0	0	41.0	45	32	29	7	24	1	39	0	0	0	189
Max Surkont	0	0		9.53	5	0	2	0	0	0	5.7	10	6	6	3	2	0	5	0	0	0	27
Paul LaPalme	0	0		81.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	4	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	8
Stu Miller	0	1	.000	4.91	3	0	2	0	0	1	7.3	12	6	4	3	5	0	5	0	0	0	37
Gordon Jones	0	2	.000	5.56	5	1	0	0	0	0	11.3	14	9	7	2	5	0	6	0	0	0	53
Dick Littlefield	0	2	.000	7.45	3	2	0	0	0	0	9.7	9	9	8	2	4	1	5	0	0	0	43
Totals	76	78	.494	3.97	390	156	115	41	11	30	1388.7	1339	698	612	155	546	64	709	18	1	45	5909

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Stan Musial	156	682	594	87	184	33	6	27	109	2	0	75	39	.310	.386	.522	.908	310	19	3	3	7	15
Ken Boyer	150	639	595	91	182	30	2	26	98	8	3	38	65	.306	.347	.494	.841	294	18	1	2	3	7
Wally Moon	149	622	540	86	161	22	11	16	68	12	9	80	50	.298	.390	.469	.858	253	13	1	1	0	7
Don Blasingame	150	665	587	94	153	22	7	0	27	8	8	72	52	.261	.344	.322	.666	189	3	3	2	1	0
Al Dark	100	442	413	54	118	14	7	4	37	3	1	21	33	.286	.320	.383	.703	158	9	2	2	4	0
Rip Repulski	112	410	376	44	104	18	3	11	55	2	2	24	46	.277	.330	.428	.758	161	14	7	1	2	3
Hal Smith	75	242	227	27	64	12	0	5	23	1	0	15	22	.282	.326	.401	.727	91	7	0	0	0	4
Bobby Del Greco	102	315	270	29	58	16	2	5	18	1	1	32	50	.215	.308	.344	.652	93	2	6	3	4	3
Red Schoendienst	40	168	153	22	48	9	0	0	15	0	1	13	5	.314	.365	.373	.738	57	2	0	1	1	0
Whitey Lockman	70	213	193	14	48	0	2	0	10	2	2	18	8	.249	.311	.269	.581	52	2	0	1	1	4
Hank Sauer	75	181	151	11	45	4	0	5	24	0	0	25	31	.298	.403	.424	.827	64	5	3	0	2	3
Bill Sarni	43	159	148	12	43	7	2	5	22	1	0	8	15	.291	.329	.466	.795	69	4	1	1	1	2
Ray Katt	47	167	158	11	41	4	0	6	20	0	1	6	24	.259	.289	.399	.688	63	2	1	1	1	1
Bobby Morgan	61	130	113	14	22	7	0	3	20	0	2	15	24	.195	.287	.336	.623	38	4	0	1	1	0
Murry Dickson	32	80	77	6	19	2	2	0	6	0	0	1	9	.247	.256	.325	.581	25	1	0	2	0	0
Walker Cooper	40	72	68	5	18	5	1	2	14	0	0	3	8	.265	.296	.456	.752	31	2	0	1	0	1
Grady Hatton	44	89	73	10	18	1	2	0	7	1	0	13	7	.247	.360	.315	.676	23	3	0	3	0	0
Bill Virdon	24	80	71	10	15	2	0	2	9	0	1	5	8	.211	.269	.324	.593	23	0	1	2	1	2
Rocky Nelson	38	62	56	6	13	5	0	3	8	0	0	6	6	.232	.306	.482	.789	27	2	0	0	0	1
Herm Wehmeier	42	61	58	6	13	3	0	2	8	0	0	2	17	.224	.250	.379	.629	22	0	0	1	0	0
Jackie Brandt	27	48	42	9	12	3	0	1	3	0	1	4	5	.286	.362	.429	.790	18	1	1	1	0	0
Tom Poholsky	33	73	69	7	11	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	14	.159	.171	.188	.360	13	2	0	3	0	0
Willard Schmidt	33	48	43	3	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	16	.233	.267	.256	.522	11	0	0	3	0	0
Charlie Peete	23	59	52	3	10	2	2	0	6	0	2	6	10	.192	.288	.308	.596	16	6	1	0	0	0
Vinegar Bend Mizell	33	85	75	5	8	1	0	0	4	0	0	4	16	.107	.163	.120	.283	9	4	1	5	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	39	33	32	1	7	4	0	0	2	0	0	1	10	.219	.242	.344	.586	11	1	0	0	0	0
Joe Frazier	14	22	19	1	4	2	0	1	4	0	1	3	3	.211	.318	.474	.792	9	0	0	0	0	0
Alex Grammas	6	13	12	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.250	.308	.250	.558	3	0	0	0	0	0
Jackie Collum	38	17	14	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	.214	.294	.214	.508	3	0	0	0	1	0
Dick Schofield	16	30	30	3	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.100	.100	.167	.267	5	1	0	0	0	0
Harvey Haddix	5	11	9	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.222	.364	.333	.697	3	1	0	0	0	0
Solly Hemus	8	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	.200	.429	.200	.629	1	0	1	1	0	0
Larry Jackson	51	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Blaylock	14	11	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	0	0	0
Max Surkont	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Alston	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Cunningham	4	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stu Miller	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ben Flowers	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Harmon	20	17	15	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.118	.000	.118	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gordon Jones	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ellis Kinder	22	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Liddle	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Littlefield	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Konstanty	27	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0		.000			0	0	0	0	1	0
Paul LaPalme	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2002	5986	5378	678	1443	234	49	124	628	41	35	503	622	.268	.333	.399	.732	2147	128	33	41	31	53

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Stan Musial	1B	103	103	873.7	870	90	7	96	.993	9.889	9.320	0	0	0	0
Wally Moon	1B	52	52	454.0	498	47	9	52	.984	1.804	1.481	0	0	0	0
Rocky Nelson	1B	14	0	39.3	54	7	0	6	1.000	13.958	4.357	0	0	0	0
Whitey Lockman	1B	2	1	11.0	14	0	2	1	.875	11.455	7.000	0	0	0	0
Tom Alston	1B	3	0	5.7	4	1	0	1	1.000	7.941	1.667	0	0	0	0
Chuck Harmon	1B	2	0	3.0	4	0	0	1	1.000	12.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Cunningham	1B	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Don Blasingame	2B	98	96	859.7	280	303	8	89	.986	6.104	5.949	0	0	0	0
Red Schoendienst	2B	36	36	313.7	99	93	1	27	.995	5.509	5.333	0	0	0	0
Grady Hatton	2B	13	12	111.0	24	34	3	8	.951	4.703	4.462	0	0	0	0
Bobby Morgan	2B	13	12	104.3	25	25	1	3	.980	4.313	3.846	0	0	0	0
Ken Boyer	3B	149	148	1298.7	130	309	18	37	.961	3.042	2.946	0	0	0	0
Bobby Morgan	3B	11	8	82.0	9	23	4	1	.889	3.512	2.909	0	0	0	0
Don Blasingame	3B	2	0	6.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	6.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Grady Hatton	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Chuck Harmon	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Hal Smith	C	66	58	516.0	300	34	6	3	.982	5.826	5.061	1	21	15	11	42.3
Ray Katt	C	47	46	404.0	231	16	4	3	.984	5.502	5.255	2	8	14	4	22.2
Bill Sarni	C	41	40	356.7	219	25	2	1	.992	6.157	5.951	3	7	18	8	30.8
Walker Cooper	C	16	12	112.0	56	4	1	0	.984	4.821	3.750	2	9	5	0	0.0
Wally Moon	OF	97	95	838.3	159	8	2	2	.988	1.793	1.722	0	0	0	0
Rip Repulski	OF	100	93	831.3	187	3	5	0	.974	2.057	1.900	0	0	0	0
Bobby Del Greco	OF	99	87	760.3	217	3	3	0	.987	2.604	2.222	0	0	0	0
Stan Musial	OF	53	53	466.7	84	5	1	0	.989	1.716	1.679	0	0	0	0
Whitey Lockman	OF	57	46	422.3	103	2	5	0	.955	2.238	1.842	0	0	0	0
Hank Sauer	OF	37	34	287.7	55	2	0	1	1.000	1.783	1.541	0	0	0	0
Bill Virdon	OF	24	22	183.7	53	2	1	0	.982	2.695	2.292	0	0	0	0
Charlie Peete	OF	21	13	130.7	37	3	0	1	1.000	2.755	1.905	0	0	0	0
Jackie Brandt	OF	26	10	110.0	33	1	0	1	1.000	2.782	1.308	0	0	0	0
Rocky Nelson	OF	8	8	69.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	1.435	1.375	0	0	0	0
Chuck Harmon	OF	11	4	41.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.537	.636	0	0	0	0
Joe Frazier	OF	3	3	25.0	4	0	1	0	.800	1.440	1.333	0	0	0	0
Vinegar Bend Mizell	P	33	33	208.7	19	30	2	2	.961	2.113	1.485	0	0	0	0
Tom Poholsky	P	33	29	203.0	12	35	0	3	1.000	2.084	1.424	0	0	0	0
Murry Dickson	P	28	27	196.3	24	45	1	4	.986	3.163	2.464	0	0	0	0
Herm Wehmeier	P	34	19	170.7	15	24	2	1	.951	2.057	1.147	0	0	0	0
Willard Schmidt	P	33	21	147.7	6	34	0	3	1.000	2.438	1.212	0	0	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	P	39	7	116.3	9	24	3	0	.917	2.553	.846	0	0	0	0
Larry Jackson	P	51	1	85.3	4	26	3	0	.909	3.164	.588	0	0	0	0
Jackie Collum	P	38	1	60.0	4	16	2	1	.909	3.000	.526	0	0	0	0
Bob Blaylock	P	14	6	41.0	1	8	0	0	1.000	1.976	.643	0	0	0	0
Jim Konstanty	P	27	0	39.3	0	5	0	1	1.000	1.144	.185	0	0	0	0
Ellis Kinder	P	22	0	25.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	.701	.091	0	0	0	0
Don Liddle	P	14	2	24.7	3	3	1	0	.857	2.189	.429	0	0	0	0
Harvey Haddix	P	4	4	23.7	3	1	0	0	1.000	1.521	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ben Flowers	P	3	3	11.7	2	2	0	0	1.000	3.086	1.333	0	0	0	0
Gordon Jones	P	5	1	11.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.588	.400	0	0	0	0
Dick Littlefield	P	3	2	9.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	.931	.333	0	0	0	0
Stu Miller	P	3	0	7.3	0	1	0	1	1.000	1.227	.333	0	0	0	0
Max Surkont	P	5	0	5.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Paul LaPalme	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Al Dark	SS	99	99	857.3	178	292	20	66	.959	4.934	4.747	0	0	0	0
Don Blasingame	SS	49	49	417.0	93	135	13	31	.946	4.921	4.653	0	0	0	0
Dick Schofield	SS	9	3	52.3	11	13	2	4	.923	4.127	2.667	0	0	0	0
Bobby Morgan	SS	6	2	31.0	8	8	1	2	.941	4.645	2.667	0	0	0	0
Alex Grammas	SS	5	3	31.0	3	9	0	1	1.000	3.484	2.400	0	0	0	0
Totals		1765	1404	12498.0	4166	1758	134	454	.978	4.266	3.356	8	45	52	23	30.7

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