1952 Mobile Bears Statistics
Team Record: 80-73
Finished 4th in the SA
Manager: Ed Head (80-73)
Affiliation: Brooklyn Dodgers
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Ballpark: Hartwell Field
Attendance: 158,989, Avg. 2,078
Playoffs - Mobile Bears 4 games, Atlanta Crackers 2
Finals - Memphis Chicks 4 games, Mobile Bears 2
The Mobile Bears of the Southern Association ended the 1952 season with a record of 80 wins and 73 losses, finishing fourth in the SA.
The Bears scored 775 runs and allowed 680 runs. Spook Jacobs led all regular batters with a .316 average. Robert Ludwick and Wade Browning topped Mobile with 14 wins each, while Wade Browning recorded a 2.9 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.
Members of the 1952 Mobile Bears who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Fred Waters, Spook Jacobs, Don Zimmer, Chuck Coles, Dick Teed, Norm Larker, Bill Antonello, Bama Rowell, George Freese and Lee Griffeth.
Ed Head served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
Pitching:
| Player | W | L | W% | ERA | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Ludwick | 14 | 7 | .667 | 3.84 | 35 | 26 | 171.0 | 170 | 81 | 73 | 86 | |||||||||||
| Wade Browning | 14 | 14 | .500 | 2.90 | 33 | 25 | 211.0 | 196 | 89 | 68 | 79 | |||||||||||
| Mel Himes | 11 | 6 | .647 | 3.04 | 32 | 20 | 169.0 | 168 | 70 | 57 | 68 | |||||||||||
| Mike Lemish | 11 | 11 | .500 | 4.15 | 38 | 22 | 182.0 | 202 | 97 | 84 | 69 | |||||||||||
| Peter Nicolis | 10 | 9 | .526 | 5.00 | 26 | 25 | 135.0 | 126 | 88 | 75 | 129 | |||||||||||
| Jay Ver Crouse | 8 | 9 | .471 | 4.03 | 38 | 14 | 152.0 | 164 | 81 | 68 | 51 | |||||||||||
| Tom Lakos | 5 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.44 | 24 | 0 | 59.0 | 52 | 21 | 16 | 34 | |||||||||||
| Lee Griffeth | 4 | 5 | .444 | 4.78 | 15 | 7 | 79.0 | 95 | 43 | 42 | 29 | |||||||||||
| Fred Waters | 4 | 8 | .333 | 4.88 | 38 | 11 | 129.0 | 140 | 86 | 70 | 70 | |||||||||||
| Bama Rowell | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 2.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| John Forizs | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 3.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Herb Banton | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 4 | 10.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Kenny Hemphill | 0 | 3 | .000 | 0.00 | 4 | 15.0 | 16 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| Totals | 81 | 72 | .529 | 3.78 | 289 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317.0 | 1329 | 656 | 553 | 0 | 621 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Zimmer | 153 | 613 | 613 | 190 | 32 | 7 | 17 | .310 | .310 | .468 | .778 | 287 | |||||||||||
| Chuck Coles | 153 | 624 | 624 | 185 | 34 | 10 | 13 | .296 | .296 | .446 | .742 | 278 | |||||||||||
| George Freese | 150 | 571 | 571 | 179 | 37 | 14 | 8 | .313 | .313 | .469 | .783 | 268 | |||||||||||
| Bill Antonello | 153 | 593 | 593 | 172 | 22 | 12 | 28 | .290 | .290 | .509 | .799 | 302 | |||||||||||
| Norm Larker | 153 | 564 | 564 | 157 | 27 | 6 | 11 | .278 | .278 | .406 | .684 | 229 | |||||||||||
| Spook Jacobs | 120 | 478 | 478 | 151 | 22 | 3 | 1 | .316 | .316 | .381 | .697 | 182 | |||||||||||
| Bama Rowell | 110 | 334 | 334 | 97 | 19 | 1 | 5 | .290 | .290 | .398 | .689 | 133 | |||||||||||
| Jimmy Williams | 124 | 314 | 314 | 80 | 16 | 6 | 2 | .255 | .255 | .363 | .618 | 114 | |||||||||||
| Ray Dabek | 79 | 259 | 259 | 77 | 14 | 2 | 4 | .297 | .297 | .413 | .710 | 107 | |||||||||||
| Dick Teed | 90 | 278 | 278 | 76 | 13 | 0 | 7 | .273 | .273 | .396 | .669 | 110 | |||||||||||
| Wade Browning | 66 | 99 | 99 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .283 | .505 | 28 | |||||||||||
| Mel Himes | 36 | 64 | 64 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .297 | .297 | .328 | .625 | 21 | |||||||||||
| Les Barnes | 27 | 74 | 74 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .230 | .230 | .311 | .541 | 23 | |||||||||||
| Peter Nicolis | 26 | 46 | 46 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .304 | .304 | .326 | .630 | 15 | |||||||||||
| Fred Waters | 42 | 42 | 42 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .262 | .262 | .310 | .571 | 13 | |||||||||||
| Mike Lemish | 39 | 51 | 51 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .216 | .216 | .235 | .451 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Robert Ludwick | 35 | 55 | 55 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .255 | .455 | 14 | |||||||||||
| Jay Ver Crouse | 38 | 48 | 48 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Jack Lillis | 18 | 49 | 49 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .163 | .163 | .184 | .347 | 9 | |||||||||||
| Lee Griffeth | 15 | 22 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .227 | .227 | .455 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Jack Lindsey | 11 | 21 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .190 | .190 | .381 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Tom Lakos | 24 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .188 | .188 | .188 | .375 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Herb Banton | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Kenny Hemphill | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| John Forizs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 1671 | 5225 | 5225 | 0 | 1499 | 250 | 65 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .287 | .287 | .415 | .702 | 2167 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Waters | P | 38 | .000 | |||||
| Jay Ver Crouse | P | 38 | .000 | |||||
| Mike Lemish | P | 38 | .000 | |||||
| Robert Ludwick | P | 35 | .000 | |||||
| Mel Himes | P | 32 | .000 | |||||
| Peter Nicolis | P | 26 | .000 | |||||
| Tom Lakos | P | 24 | .000 | |||||
| Lee Griffeth | P | 15 | .000 | |||||
| Totals | 246 | 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.
