1961 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 80-74
Finished 5th in the NL
Attendance: 855,305, Avg. 12,229
Ballpark: Sportsman's Park IV
Manager: Solly Hemus (33-41)
Manager: Johnny Keane (47-33)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1961 St. Louis Cardinals Roster
1961 St. Louis Cardinals Results

The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League ended the 1961 season with a record of 80 wins and 74 losses, finishing fifth in the NL.

The Cardinals scored 703 runs and conceded 668 runs. Ken Boyer led St. Louis with 24 home runs, while Stan Musial and Bill White walloped 20 or more also. Ken Boyer recorded 95 runs batted in and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .329 clip. Ray Sadecki and Larry Jackson paced the team with 14 wins each, and Curt Simmons recorded a 3.13 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Solly Hemus and Johnny Keane 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
Ray Sadecki	14	10	.583	3.72	31	31	0	13	0	0	222.7	196	100	92	28	102	2	114	3	0	8	949
Larry Jackson	14	11	.560	3.75	33	28	2	12	3	0	211.0	203	99	88	20	56	5	113	4	0	3	880
Bob Gibson	13	12	.520	3.24	35	27	3	10	2	1	211.3	186	91	76	13	119	7	166	6	1	8	916
Lindy McDaniel	10	6	.625	4.87	55	0	39	0	0	9	94.3	117	57	51	11	31	11	65	2	1	8	424
Curt Simmons	9	10	.474	3.13	30	29	0	6	2	0	195.7	203	91	68	14	64	6	99	4	0	2	840
Ernie Broglio	9	12	.429	4.12	29	26	2	7	2	0	174.7	166	97	80	19	75	5	113	1	0	1	762
Craig Anderson	4	3	.571	3.26	25	0	13	0	0	1	38.7	38	15	14	3	12	0	21	1	0	3	164
Ed Bauta	2	0	1.000	1.40	13	0	9	0	0	5	19.3	12	5	3	2	5	1	12	0	0	0	76
Al Cicotte	2	6	.250	5.28	29	7	9	0	0	1	75.0	83	47	44	16	34	2	51	2	0	3	333
Mickey McDermott	1	0	1.000	3.67	19	0	13	0	0	4	27.0	29	17	11	3	15	2	15	0	0	2	125
Ray Washburn	1	1	.500	1.77	3	2	1	1	0	0	20.3	10	4	4	1	7	0	12	1	1	1	75
Bob Miller	1	3	.250	4.24	34	5	13	0	0	3	74.3	82	41	35	6	46	7	39	0	0	4	333
Bobby Tiefenauer	0	0		6.23	3	0	2	0	0	0	4.3	9	4	3	0	4	0	3	0	0	1	24
Totals	80	74	.519	3.74	339	155	106	49	9	24	1368.7	1334	668	569	136	570	48	823	24	3	44	5901

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
Ken Boyer	153	663	589	109	194	26	11	24	95	6	3	68	91	.329	.397	.533	.930	314	11	1	0	5	9
Bill White	153	663	591	89	169	28	11	20	90	8	11	64	84	.286	.354	.472	.826	279	13	1	2	5	4
Julian Javier	113	484	445	58	124	14	3	2	41	11	4	30	51	.279	.326	.337	.663	150	5	2	5	2	1
Curt Flood	132	380	335	53	108	15	5	2	21	6	2	35	33	.322	.391	.415	.806	139	6	3	7	0	2
Stan Musial	123	431	372	46	107	22	4	15	70	0	0	52	35	.288	.371	.489	.860	182	7	1	0	6	17
Joe Cunningham	113	390	322	60	92	11	2	7	40	1	0	53	32	.286	.403	.398	.801	128	1	11	3	1	3
Charlie James	108	371	349	43	89	19	2	4	44	2	2	15	59	.255	.288	.355	.644	124	9	3	0	4	1
Don Taussig	98	210	188	27	54	14	5	2	25	2	2	16	34	.287	.338	.447	.785	84	5	0	3	3	0
Carl Sawatski	86	200	174	23	52	8	0	10	33	0	0	25	17	.299	.385	.517	.902	90	4	0	0	1	7
Bob Lillis	86	245	230	24	50	4	0	0	21	3	3	7	13	.217	.245	.235	.480	54	6	2	4	2	2
Jimmie Schaffer	68	167	153	15	39	7	0	1	16	0	0	9	29	.255	.301	.320	.621	49	5	1	4	0	1
Carl Warwick	55	177	152	27	38	6	2	4	16	3	0	18	33	.250	.324	.395	.718	60	2	0	4	3	0
Red Schoendienst	72	133	120	9	36	9	0	1	12	1	0	12	6	.300	.364	.400	.764	48	1	0	1	0	2
Alex Grammas	89	197	170	23	36	10	1	0	21	0	1	19	21	.212	.293	.282	.576	48	4	1	6	1	3
Daryl Spencer	37	153	130	19	33	4	0	4	21	1	0	23	17	.254	.366	.377	.743	49	8	0	0	0	3
Hal Smith	45	142	125	6	31	4	1	0	10	0	0	11	12	.248	.309	.296	.605	37	3	1	3	2	4
Ray Sadecki	36	90	87	6	22	4	0	0	12	0	0	1	7	.253	.261	.299	.560	26	0	0	2	0	0
Curt Simmons	32	77	66	9	20	3	0	0	6	0	0	8	22	.303	.378	.348	.727	23	1	0	3	0	0
Tim McCarver	22	68	67	5	16	2	1	1	6	0	0	0	5	.239	.239	.343	.582	23	1	0	1	0	0
Gene Oliver	22	61	52	8	14	2	0	4	9	0	0	6	10	.269	.367	.538	.905	28	2	2	1	0	1
Bob Gibson	40	75	66	4	13	5	0	1	10	0	0	3	23	.197	.236	.318	.554	21	1	1	3	2	0
Larry Jackson	34	83	74	9	13	3	2	0	6	0	0	2	14	.176	.208	.270	.478	20	3	1	6	0	0
Jerry Buchek	31	93	90	6	12	2	0	0	9	0	0	0	28	.133	.151	.156	.306	14	6	2	0	1	0
Julio Gotay	10	48	45	5	11	4	0	0	5	0	0	3	5	.244	.292	.333	.625	15	1	0	0	0	1
Don Landrum	28	74	66	5	11	2	0	1	3	1	0	5	14	.167	.225	.242	.468	16	0	0	3	0	0
Ernie Broglio	29	70	62	3	9	1	0	0	5	0	0	3	11	.145	.182	.161	.343	10	1	0	4	1	0
Bob Nieman	6	17	17	0	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.471	.471	.529	1.000	9	0	0	0	0	0
Al Cicotte	29	21	21	2	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	.286	.286	.333	.619	7	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	35	18	14	2	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	5	.357	.438	.500	.938	7	0	0	2	0	0
Ed Olivares	21	31	30	2	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	4	.167	.161	.167	.328	5	1	0	0	1	0
Lindy McDaniel	55	20	17	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.235	.235	.235	.471	4	0	0	3	0	0
Walt Moryn	17	33	32	0	4	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	5	.125	.152	.188	.339	6	1	0	0	0	0
Craig Anderson	25	9	9	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.444	.778	4	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Bauta	13	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Clemens	6	15	12	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	.167	.333	.250	.583	3	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Cannizzaro	6	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
George Crowe	7	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Washburn	3	8	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mickey McDermott	22	14	14	1	1	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	4	.071	.071	.143	.214	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Tiefenauer	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2063	5944	5307	703	1436	236	51	103	657	46	28	494	745	.271	.334	.393	.727	2083	108	33	70	40	61

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Bill White	1B	151	149	1306.7	1373	104	17	125	.989	1.173	9.781	0	0	0	0
Joe Cunningham	1B	10	6	62.0	69	1	0	8	1.000	1.161	7.000	0	0	0	0
Julian Javier	2B	113	109	935.3	239	332	20	82	.966	5.494	5.053	0	0	0	0
Bob Lillis	2B	24	23	167.0	43	62	2	13	.981	5.659	4.375	0	0	0	0
Red Schoendienst	2B	32	14	164.0	43	42	4	10	.955	4.665	2.656	0	0	0	0
Alex Grammas	2B	18	9	101.3	31	43	1	11	.987	6.572	4.111	0	0	0	0
Don Landrum	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ken Boyer	3B	153	153	1350.7	117	346	24	23	.951	3.085	3.026	0	0	0	0
Alex Grammas	3B	3	2	18.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jimmie Schaffer	C	68	45	410.7	244	23	1	6	.996	5.851	3.926	6	19	14	14	50.0
Carl Sawatski	C	60	39	356.7	218	19	1	3	.996	5.980	3.950	6	9	28	8	22.2
Hal Smith	C	45	42	344.3	261	28	2	6	.993	7.554	6.422	1	9	12	11	47.8
Tim McCarver	C	20	17	146.7	86	9	3	0	.969	5.830	4.750	2	5	7	6	46.2
Gene Oliver	C	15	12	102.0	75	6	0	4	1.000	7.147	5.400	2	2	6	1	14.3
Chris Cannizzaro	C	5	0	8.3	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.000	0	0	0	0
Curt Flood	OF	119	84	795.3	241	13	4	4	.984	2.874	2.134	0	0	0	0
Stan Musial	OF	103	99	767.7	149	9	1	0	.994	1.852	1.534	0	0	0	0
Charlie James	OF	90	84	754.0	151	3	6	1	.963	1.838	1.711	0	0	0	0
Joe Cunningham	OF	86	77	649.3	131	2	5	1	.964	1.843	1.547	0	0	0	0
Don Taussig	OF	87	47	484.3	123	6	1	2	.992	2.397	1.483	0	0	0	0
Carl Warwick	OF	48	39	350.0	94	2	3	1	.970	2.469	2.000	0	0	0	0
Don Landrum	OF	25	16	147.0	42	3	0	1	1.000	2.755	1.800	0	0	0	0
Ed Olivares	OF	10	5	50.3	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.430	.800	0	0	0	0
Walt Moryn	OF	7	6	46.7	8	0	1	0	.889	1.543	1.143	0	0	0	0
Bob Nieman	OF	4	4	28.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	.643	.500	0	0	0	0
Doug Clemens	OF	3	3	24.0	2	0	1	0	.667	.750	.667	0	0	0	0
Gene Oliver	OF	1	1	9.0	2	0	1	0	.667	2.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Carl Sawatski	OF	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ray Sadecki	P	31	31	222.7	3	24	7	1	.794	1.091	.871	0	0	0	0
Bob Gibson	P	35	27	211.3	14	35	2	4	.961	2.087	1.400	0	0	0	0
Larry Jackson	P	33	28	211.0	17	42	1	5	.983	2.517	1.788	0	0	0	0
Curt Simmons	P	30	29	195.7	6	36	1	4	.977	1.932	1.400	0	0	0	0
Ernie Broglio	P	29	26	174.7	13	27	1	0	.976	2.061	1.379	0	0	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	P	55	0	94.3	5	22	0	1	1.000	2.576	.491	0	0	0	0
Al Cicotte	P	29	7	75.0	7	12	0	1	1.000	2.280	.655	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	P	34	5	74.3	2	18	3	3	.870	2.422	.588	0	0	0	0
Craig Anderson	P	25	0	38.7	3	7	0	0	1.000	2.328	.400	0	0	0	0
Mickey McDermott	P	19	0	27.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.333	.211	0	0	0	0
Ray Washburn	P	3	2	20.3	0	5	0	0	1.000	2.213	1.667	0	0	0	0
Ed Bauta	P	13	0	19.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.397	.231	0	0	0	0
Bobby Tiefenauer	P	3	0	4.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Lillis	SS	56	43	383.7	73	134	16	19	.928	4.856	3.696	0	0	0	0
Alex Grammas	SS	65	35	350.7	81	136	9	29	.960	5.569	3.338	0	0	0	0
Daryl Spencer	SS	37	37	316.7	66	109	8	26	.956	4.974	4.730	0	0	0	0
Jerry Buchek	SS	31	30	230.0	42	62	10	20	.912	4.070	3.355	0	0	0	0
Julio Gotay	SS	10	10	87.7	16	25	10	6	.804	4.209	4.100	0	0	0	0
Totals		1840	1395	12318.0	4106	1756	166	420	.972	4.283	3.186	17	44	67	40	37.4

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