1942 Portland Beavers Statistics

Pacific Coast League (PCL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 67-110
Finished 8th in the PCL
Manager: Frank Brazill (67-110)
Location: Portland, Oregon
Ballpark: Vaughn Street Park
Attendance: 144,705, Avg. 1,635

1942 Portland Beavers Roster

The Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League ended the 1942 season with a record of 67 wins and 110 losses, finishing eighth in the PCL.

The Beavers scored 650 runs and allowed 862 runs, most in the circuit. Ted Norbert led Portland with 28 home runs and drove in 99 runs, while leading all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .378. Ad Liska topped the team with 15 wins and a team-best 3.63 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Players from the 1942 Portland Beavers who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Joe Orrell, Walter Hilcher, Tommy Thompson, Lee Stine, Marv Owen, Wayne Osborne, Johnny Gill, Ad Liska, Paul Fitzke, Al Wright, Elmer Singleton, John Leovich, Syd Cohen, By Speece and Lindsay Brown.

Frank Brazill 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
Ad Liska	15	21	.417	3.63	43	38		30	2		322.0	338	154	130		73		164	7	0	5
Joe Orrell	11	22	.333	4.02	39	34		18	3		280.0	301	147	125		94		121	13	0	8
Syd Cohen	10	14	.417	3.90	37	27		14	2		224.0	276	126	97		56		48	5	1	4
By Speece	9	6	.600	3.92	19	16		10	0		124.0	127	65	54		36		48	3	0	1
William Schubel	8	8	.500	4.98	32	15		4	0		141.0	190	91	78		51		43	3	0	1
Roy Helser	1	2	.333	1.97	5	4		1	0		32.0	46	9	7		22		13
Elmer Singleton	1	2	.333	3.86	6	2		0	0		14.0	13	8	6		7		4
Paul Fitzke	1	4	.200	5.70	23	3		2	0		71.0	103	47	45		28		7	2	0	1
George Beck	0	0		0.00	1	0		0	0		1.0	1	0	0		0		0
Tommy Thompson	0	0		0.00	2	1		0	0		4.0	10				2		0
Harry Johnston	0	1	.000	0.00	2	0		0	0		5.0	7				3		2
John Tate	0	1	.000	0.00	2	1		0	0		8.0	13				9		0
Lee Stine	0	4	.000	12.60	12	3		0	0		20.0	33	31	28		12		2
Walt Schafer	0	6	.000	0.00	11	4		0	0		19.0	20				20		11
Totals	56	91	.381	4.06	234	148	0	79	7	0	1265.0	1478	678	570	0	413	0	463	33	1	20	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
Tommy Thompson	175	724	650	81	200	34	1	11	49	6		69	38	.308	.375	.414	.789	269		1	4
Ted Norbert	149	548	481	88	182	25	4	28	99	4		49	25	.378	.446	.622	1.068	299		10	8
Larry Barton	155	622	564	82	172	33	6	10	75	12		53	40	.305	.365	.438	.803	247		0	5
Marv Owen	147	561	535	52	162	27	7	3	66	5		22	33	.303	.333	.396	.729	212		2	2
Johnny Gill	124	422	387	48	117	28	1	11	57	7		31	44	.302	.357	.465	.822	180		2	2
Lindsay Brown	134	539	492	37	108	10	2	0	31	5		33	51	.220	.270	.248	.518	122		1	13
Al Wright	110	446	395	38	90	16	0	0	18	1		29	55	.228	.286	.268	.554	106		3	19
Lee Stine	100	297	281	33	78	9	4	2	40	2		10	46	.278	.305	.359	.664	101		1	5
Danny Amaral	79	289	250	39	77	9	3	2	27	3		31	18	.308	.399	.392	.791	98		7	1
Henry Martinez	85	319	284	37	69	10	5	3	26	8		29	47	.243	.320	.345	.665	98		3	3
John Leovich	117	371	337	16	64	12	1	1	31	0		22	37	.190	.248	.240	.488	81		4	8
Bob Bergstrom	62	175	160	7	38	6	1	0	14	1		10	12	.238	.282	.288	.570	46		0	5
Ted Mayer	47	141	127	11	27	4	0	0	9	0		12	22	.213	.281	.244	.525	31		0	2
Dominic Castro	37	105	97	4	19	2	0	0	9	0		7	15	.196	.250	.216	.466	21		0	1
Syd Cohen	41	94	84	5	18	0	0	0	4	0		3	5	.214	.241	.214	.456	18		0	7
Ad Liska	43	118	108	5	17	3	0	0	5	0		2	17	.157	.180	.185	.365	20		1	7
By Speece	20	45	41	2	8	1	0	1	3	0		1	5	.195	.214	.293	.507	12		0	3
Joe Orrell	39	104	97	3	8	3	0	0	5	0		0	27	.082	.092	.113	.205	11		1	6
William Schubel	32	52	47	4	6	0	0	1	3	0		3	13	.128	.180	.191	.371	9		0	2
Paul Fitzke	23	30	25	1	4	0	0	0	1	0		4	3	.160	.276	.160	.436	4		0	1
Walt Schafer	15	12	12	1	3	0	0	0	0	1		0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	3		0	0
John Tate	2	2	2		1	0	0	0	0	0				.500	.500	.500	1.000	1
Harry Johnston	2	2	2		1	0	0	0	0	0				.500	.500	.500	1.000	1
Elmer Singleton	6	4	4		1	0	0	0	0	0				.250	.250	.250	.500	1
Clarence Thomas	5	7	7		1	1	0	0	0	0				.143	.143	.286	.429	2
Roy Helser	5	15	15		1	0	0	0	2	0				.067	.067	.067	.133	1
Totals	1754	6044	5484	594	1472	233	35	73	574	55	0	420	554	.268	.325	.364	.688	1994	0	36	104	0	0

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Larry Barton	1B	151	1432	89	19	106	.988	1.073
Al Wright	2B	106	253	274	28	67	.950	4.972
Henry Martinez	2B	42	114	112	3	25	.987	5.381
Tommy Thompson	2B	36	91	100	14	17	.932	5.306
Marv Owen	3B	108	92	224	13	10	.960	2.926
Bob Bergstrom	3B	34	29	75	14	3	.881	3.059
Henry Martinez	3B	31	24	64	5	4	.946	2.839
John Leovich	C	116	335	62	19	7	.954	3.422	5
Ted Mayer	C	46	139	26	5	4	.971	3.587	3
Dominic Castro	C	35	108	16	2	2	.984	3.543	4
Tommy Thompson	OF	138	356	15	5	4	.987	2.688
Ted Norbert	OF	138	292	7	5	0	.984	2.167
Johnny Gill	OF	101	186	9	7	2	.965	1.931
Lee Stine	OF	67	93	4	3	2	.970	1.448
Danny Amaral	OF	67	109	3	4	0	.966	1.672
Bob Bergstrom	OF	16	8	0	1	0	.889	.500
Ad Liska	P	43	8	70	1	3	.987	1.814
Joe Orrell	P	39	6	59	7	0	.903	1.667
Syd Cohen	P	37	12	66	2	5	.975	2.108
William Schubel	P	32	4	28	0	3	1.000	1.000
Paul Fitzke	P	23	2	18	0	0	1.000	.870
By Speece	P	19	1	29	1	2	.968	1.579
Lee Stine	P	12	2	2	0	0	1.000	.333
Walt Schafer	P	11	0	7	0	2	1.000	.636
Elmer Singleton	P	6						.000
Roy Helser	P	5						.000
Tommy Thompson	P	2						.000
John Tate	P	2						.000
Harry Johnston	P	2						.000
George Beck	P	1						.000
Lindsay Brown	SS	134	260	406	30	81	.957	4.970
Marv Owen	SS	33	66	96	8	12	.953	4.909
Henry Martinez	SS	12	21	26	6	4	.887	3.917
Totals		1645	4043	1887	202	365	.967	3.605	12	0	0

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.

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