1952 Ponca City Dodgers Statistics
Team Record: 68-58
Finished 2nd in the KOML
Manager: Boyd Bartley (68-58)
Affiliation: Brooklyn Dodgers
Location: Ponca City, Oklahoma
Ballpark: Conoco Park
Attendance: 55,726, Avg. 885
Playoffs - Ponca City Dodgers 1 game, Iola Indians 0
Finals - Miami Eagles 2 games, Ponca City Dodgers 0
The Ponca City Dodgers of the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League ended the 1952 season with a record of 68 wins and 58 losses, finishing second in the KOML.
The Dodgers led the league with 790 runs, fueled by 72 home runs. Ponca City yielded 645 runs, fewest in the league. Don Stewart paced all regular batters by connecting at a .318 clip. Joe Ryan and Billy Cornsilk topped the team with 15 wins each, while Billy Cornsilk registered a 2.34 earned run average, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.
Boyd Bartley played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Ponca City Dodgers to do so.
Boyd Bartley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Cornsilk | 15 | 10 | .600 | 2.34 | 28 | 200.0 | 155 | 84 | 52 | 5 | 132 | |||||||||||
| Joe Ryan | 15 | 13 | .536 | 2.94 | 33 | 233.0 | 199 | 113 | 76 | 21 | 113 | |||||||||||
| Ralph Vold | 12 | 9 | .571 | 3.53 | 37 | 227.0 | 195 | 120 | 89 | 15 | 151 | |||||||||||
| James Peterson | 8 | 8 | .500 | 3.88 | 29 | 144.0 | 109 | 85 | 62 | 2 | 122 | |||||||||||
| Anthony DeVelis | 7 | 5 | .583 | 3.94 | 13 | 64.0 | 31 | 42 | 28 | 4 | 81 | |||||||||||
| Sylvester Zacher | 6 | 2 | .750 | 3.00 | 23 | 93.0 | 85 | 48 | 31 | 5 | 47 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 63 | 47 | .573 | 3.17 | 163 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 961.0 | 774 | 492 | 338 | 52 | 646 | 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 Stewart | 114 | 449 | 449 | 143 | 16 | 8 | 2 | .318 | .318 | .403 | .722 | 181 | |||||||||||
| Elbert Jarvis | 124 | 487 | 487 | 136 | 19 | 6 | 16 | .279 | .279 | .441 | .721 | 215 | |||||||||||
| Ronald Stuart | 123 | 466 | 466 | 130 | 16 | 3 | 4 | .279 | .279 | .352 | .631 | 164 | |||||||||||
| Morris Mack | 71 | 297 | 297 | 98 | 13 | 4 | 2 | .330 | .330 | .421 | .751 | 125 | |||||||||||
| Clyde Girrens | 71 | 269 | 269 | 92 | 14 | 1 | 12 | .342 | .342 | .535 | .877 | 144 | |||||||||||
| Wayne Parsons | 99 | 358 | 358 | 80 | 21 | 0 | 7 | .223 | .223 | .341 | .564 | 122 | |||||||||||
| Lyle Wiley | 85 | 322 | 322 | 77 | 7 | 0 | 4 | .239 | .239 | .298 | .537 | 96 | |||||||||||
| Ray Mladovich | 65 | 248 | 248 | 76 | 15 | 3 | 9 | .306 | .306 | .500 | .806 | 124 | |||||||||||
| Robert Carlson | 52 | 182 | 182 | 39 | 11 | 0 | 2 | .214 | .214 | .308 | .522 | 56 | |||||||||||
| Tom Sleeper | 48 | 155 | 155 | 32 | 5 | 1 | 1 | .206 | .206 | .271 | .477 | 42 | |||||||||||
| Russell Greenbush | 63 | 183 | 183 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 2 | .169 | .169 | .268 | .437 | 49 | |||||||||||
| Ralph Vold | 47 | 103 | 103 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .243 | .243 | .252 | .495 | 26 | |||||||||||
| Les Machen | 29 | 79 | 79 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .278 | .278 | .430 | .709 | 34 | |||||||||||
| Billy Cornsilk | 34 | 83 | 83 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .241 | .241 | .337 | .578 | 28 | |||||||||||
| Bobby Elkins | 37 | 108 | 108 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 2 | .167 | .167 | .269 | .435 | 29 | |||||||||||
| Ted Downey | 17 | 59 | 59 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .288 | .288 | .356 | .644 | 21 | |||||||||||
| John McDermott | 18 | 61 | 61 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .262 | .262 | .410 | .672 | 25 | |||||||||||
| Joe Ryan | 32 | 85 | 85 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .188 | .188 | .282 | .471 | 24 | |||||||||||
| Joseph Parisi | 18 | 64 | 64 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .203 | .203 | .281 | .484 | 18 | |||||||||||
| Larry Smith | 16 | 55 | 55 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | .218 | .218 | .345 | .564 | 19 | |||||||||||
| Boyd Bartley | 19 | 54 | 54 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .204 | .204 | .296 | .500 | 16 | |||||||||||
| James Peterson | 35 | 64 | 64 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .094 | .094 | .156 | .250 | 10 | |||||||||||
| Sylvester Zacher | 23 | 27 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Anthony DeVelis | 13 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .048 | .048 | .048 | .095 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 1253 | 4279 | 4279 | 0 | 1114 | 170 | 36 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .260 | .260 | .367 | .628 | 1572 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ralph Vold | P | 37 | .000 | |||||
| Joe Ryan | P | 33 | .000 | |||||
| James Peterson | P | 29 | .000 | |||||
| Billy Cornsilk | P | 28 | .000 | |||||
| Sylvester Zacher | P | 23 | .000 | |||||
| Anthony DeVelis | P | 13 | .000 | |||||
| Totals | 163 | 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.
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