1951 Cocoa Indians Statistics
Team Record: 49-91
Finished 8th in the FSL
Manager: Carl Kettles (0-0), Lee Hipp (0-0), Sam Demma (0-0), Harry Murdock (0-0)
Location: Cocoa, Florida
Ballpark: Charles D. Provost Park
Attendance: 24,393, Avg. 348
The Cocoa Indians of the Florida State League ended the 1951 season with a record of 49 wins and 91 losses, finishing eighth in the FSL.
The Indians scored 634 runs, worst in the league, and allowed 850 runs, most in the circuit. Ernest Brooklyn paced all regular batters with a .277 average. Harry Bailes topped Cocoa with 12 wins and a team-best 3.71 ERA, tops among qualifying pitchers. Carl Kettles, Lee Hipp, Sam Demma and Harry Murdock served as manager.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Bailes | 12 | 16 | .429 | 3.71 | 36 | 233.0 | 258 | 132 | 96 | 1 | 75 | |||||||||||
| Lowell Gray | 8 | 21 | .276 | 6.08 | 38 | 219.0 | 285 | 186 | 148 | 20 | 119 | |||||||||||
| James Vickery | 6 | 13 | .316 | 4.19 | 30 | 172.0 | 166 | 114 | 80 | 5 | 112 | |||||||||||
| Curtis White | 5 | 9 | .357 | 4.88 | 21 | 129.0 | 131 | 84 | 70 | 7 | 87 | |||||||||||
| Carl Kettles | 3 | 6 | .333 | 4.66 | 17 | 85.0 | 109 | 59 | 44 | 4 | 21 | |||||||||||
| Ernest Brooklyn | 2 | 3 | .400 | 5.54 | 7 | 26.0 | 29 | 23 | 16 | 0 | 28 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 36 | 68 | .346 | 4.73 | 149 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 864.0 | 978 | 598 | 454 | 37 | 442 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ernest Brooklyn | 140 | 581 | 581 | 161 | 31 | 3 | 1 | .277 | .277 | .346 | .623 | 201 | |||||||||||
| Lee Hipp | 139 | 522 | 522 | 124 | 22 | 5 | 6 | .238 | .238 | .333 | .571 | 174 | |||||||||||
| Andy Caldwell | 103 | 316 | 316 | 76 | 12 | 4 | 6 | .241 | .241 | .361 | .601 | 114 | |||||||||||
| Rod Colson | 45 | 184 | 184 | 51 | 10 | 5 | 2 | .277 | .277 | .418 | .696 | 77 | |||||||||||
| Desmond Salter | 39 | 143 | 143 | 36 | 8 | 1 | 3 | .252 | .252 | .385 | .636 | 55 | |||||||||||
| Wiley Nash | 41 | 160 | 160 | 36 | 6 | 1 | 3 | .225 | .225 | .331 | .556 | 53 | |||||||||||
| Sam Demma | 44 | 130 | 130 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 1 | .269 | .269 | .354 | .623 | 46 | |||||||||||
| Bill Brown | 36 | 132 | 132 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 2 | .265 | .265 | .348 | .614 | 46 | |||||||||||
| Samuel Porter | 18 | 70 | 70 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .329 | .329 | .386 | .714 | 27 | |||||||||||
| Lewis Treen | 24 | 94 | 94 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .245 | .255 | .500 | 24 | |||||||||||
| Harry Bailes | 51 | 122 | 122 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .164 | .164 | .180 | .344 | 22 | |||||||||||
| Carl Kettles | 26 | 44 | 44 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .432 | .432 | .500 | .932 | 22 | |||||||||||
| Willard Jones | 20 | 67 | 67 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 1 | .194 | .194 | .358 | .552 | 24 | |||||||||||
| Lowell Gray | 40 | 88 | 88 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .159 | .284 | 14 | |||||||||||
| Robert Morem | 10 | 36 | 36 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .278 | .278 | .556 | 10 | |||||||||||
| Harold Bryant | 12 | 47 | 47 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .213 | .234 | .447 | 11 | |||||||||||
| James Vickery | 37 | 61 | 61 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .164 | .164 | .180 | .344 | 11 | |||||||||||
| Ralph Jackson | 13 | 34 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .235 | .235 | .294 | .529 | 10 | |||||||||||
| Russ Clark | 10 | 24 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .375 | .625 | 9 | |||||||||||
| Richard Pace | 13 | 39 | 39 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .128 | .128 | .154 | .282 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Curtis White | 28 | 63 | 63 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .063 | .079 | .143 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Donald McGetty | 10 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .400 | .400 | 1.000 | 1.400 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 899 | 2962 | 2962 | 0 | 718 | 122 | 24 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .242 | .326 | .569 | 966 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowell Gray | P | 38 | .000 | |||||
| Harry Bailes | P | 36 | .000 | |||||
| James Vickery | P | 30 | .000 | |||||
| Curtis White | P | 21 | .000 | |||||
| Carl Kettles | P | 17 | .000 | |||||
| Totals | 142 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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.
Persons data from the Chadwick Baseball Bureau are Copyright Chadwick Baseball Bureau, and are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
