1954 Brunswick Pirates Roster
Team Record: 88-52
Finished 1st in the GGL
Manager: Frank Oceak (88-52)
Affiliation: Pittsburgh Pirates
Location: Brunswick, Georgia
Ballpark: Edo Miller Park
Attendance: 54,475, Avg. 778
Playoffs - Brunswick Pirates 4 games, Waycross Bears 1
Finals - Fitzgerald Red Legs 3 games, Brunswick Pirates 2 - Rainouts forced cancellation of the series. No champion was declared.
The Brunswick Pirates of the Georgia-Florida League ended the 1954 season with a record of 88 wins and 52 losses, finishing first in the GGL.
The Pirates plated 828 runs, tops in the circuit. Brunswick yielded 646 runs. Chuck Buheller paced hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .325 clip. Whammy Douglas earned 27 wins on the mound for the team, while Ronald Gray added 15 or more wins, too Whammy Douglas registered a 2.06 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.
Whammy Douglas played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Brunswick Pirates to do so.
Frank Oceak served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
| Player | Bats | Throws | Birth Date | Height | Weight | Hometown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Arent | R | September 28, 1935 | 6'4" | 220 | ||
| Dick Brockell | R | R | August 4, 1934 | 6'4" | 198 | Wilmington, DE US |
| John Brumbaugh | August 19, 1931 | |||||
| Chuck Buheller | R | R | March 20, 1934 | 6'2" | 185 | Richmond, VA US |
| Joseph Canuso | R | R | April 3, 1935 | 5'11" | 190 | |
| Robert Capone | L | October 6, 1934 | 6'0" | 165 | ||
| Dick Chadner | April 22, 1935 | |||||
| Stan Chlebek | ||||||
| James Deveney | July 27, 1935 | |||||
| Whammy Douglas | R | R | February 17, 1935 | 6'2" | 185 | Carrboro, NC US |
| Samuel Farless | L | 6'1" | 180 | |||
| Floyd Faust | R | 5'8" | 165 | |||
| William Gay | 6'0" | 190 | ||||
| Bernard Graham | October 21, 1933 | Hollywood, PA US | ||||
| Ronald Gray | L | L | 6'0" | 160 | ||
| Thomas Hayes | R | R | 5'9" | 165 | ||
| William Henderson | ||||||
| Paul Hensley | R | R | July 29, 1931 | 6'3" | 183 | |
| Stanley Honkus | R | R | 6'2" | 193 | ||
| Edward Mathes | R | 6'0" | 170 | |||
| Russell McClenaghan | L | 5'11" | 185 | |||
| Don McNally | R | June 20, 1929 | 5'8" | 155 | ||
| John Moriskiewicz | R | February 26, 1928 | 5'10" | 170 | Ludlow, MA US | |
| Stan Patchell | R | R | December 8, 1931 | 6'1" | 190 | |
| Richard Payne | R | R | 6'1" | 185 | ||
| Adrian Rechichar | R | 5'11" | 164 | |||
| Thomas Smith | L | L | 6'1" | 165 | ||
| Dickie Tyndall | R | R | 6'2" | 200 | ||
| Milton Vest | R | R | 6'5" | 188 | ||
| Cedric Wolfman | R | R | 5'11" | 195 | ||
| Regis Zaski | January 23, 1935 |
Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.
