1956 Chicago White Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 85-69
Finished 3rd in the AL
Attendance: 1,000,090, Avg. 16,144
Ballpark: Comiskey Park
Manager: Marty Marion (85-69)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1956 Chicago White Sox Roster
1956 Chicago White Sox Results

The Chicago White Sox of the American League ended the 1956 season with a record of 85 wins and 69 losses, finishing third in the AL.

The White Sox plated 776 runs and surrendered 634 runs. Larry Doby paced Chicago with 24 home runs, while Minnie Minoso walloped 20 or more, too. Larry Doby drove in 102 runs. Minnie Minoso led all regular batters by hitting .316. Billy Pierce topped the squad with 20 wins, and Jack Harshman added 15 or more wins, too Jack Harshman recorded a 3.10 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Marty Marion coached the team.

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 Pierce	20	9	.690	3.32	35	33	2	21	1	1	276.3	261	108	102	24	100	7	192	3	1	6	1166
Jack Harshman	15	11	.577	3.10	34	30	3	15	4	0	226.7	183	85	78	14	102	4	143	3	0	7	950
Dick Donovan	12	10	.545	3.64	34	31	2	14	3	0	234.7	212	99	95	22	59	6	120	6	1	5	966
Jim Wilson	9	12	.429	4.06	28	21	4	6	3	0	159.7	149	82	72	15	70	5	82	2	2	3	680
Gerry Staley	8	3	.727	2.92	26	10	6	5	0	0	101.7	98	37	33	11	20	3	25	6	0	1	420
Dixie Howell	5	6	.455	4.62	34	1	18	0	0	4	64.3	79	39	33	3	36	10	28	2	0	4	298
Bob Keegan	5	7	.417	3.93	20	16	1	4	0	0	105.3	119	56	46	15	35	2	32	2	0	1	463
Paul LaPalme	3	1	.750	2.36	29	0	14	0	0	2	45.7	31	14	12	2	27	2	23	0	0	2	193
Ellis Kinder	3	1	.750	2.73	29	0	19	0	0	3	29.7	33	10	9	2	8	0	19	0	0	0	130
Howie Pollet	3	1	.750	4.10	11	4	1	0	0	0	26.3	27	15	12	2	11	0	14	0	0	1	119
Morrie Martin	1	0	1.000	4.91	10	0	3	0	0	0	18.3	21	10	10	1	7	0	9	0	0	1	80
Sandy Consuegra	1	2	.333	5.17	28	1	12	0	0	3	38.3	45	25	22	0	11	3	7	1	0	0	168
Dick Marlowe	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Jerry Dahlke	0	0		19.29	5	0	1	0	0	0	2.3	5	5	5	0	6	0	1	0	0	0	18
Bill Fischer	0	0		21.60	3	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	6	4	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	12
Connie Johnson	0	1	.000	3.65	5	2	2	0	0	0	12.3	11	5	5	1	7	0	6	0	0	1	56
Mike Fornieles	0	1	.000	4.60	6	0	0	0	0	0	15.7	22	9	8	1	6	1	6	0	0	0	79
Jim Derrington	0	1	.000	7.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	9	6	5	2	6	0	3	0	1	0	31
Harry Byrd	0	1	.000	10.38	3	1	0	0	0	0	4.3	9	6	5	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	26
Jim McDonald	0	2	.000	8.68	8	3	0	0	0	0	18.7	29	18	18	2	7	0	10	1	0	1	88
Totals	85	69	.552	3.73	350	154	89	65	11	13	1389.0	1351	634	575	118	524	43	722	26	5	33	5948

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
Nellie Fox	154	721	649	109	192	20	10	4	52	8	4	44	14	.296	.347	.376	.723	244	19	10	13	5	1
Minnie Minoso	151	665	545	106	172	29	11	21	88	12	6	86	40	.316	.425	.525	.950	286	10	23	4	7	4
Luis Aparicio	152	583	533	69	142	19	6	3	56	21	4	34	63	.266	.311	.341	.653	182	9	1	14	1	2
Larry Doby	140	619	504	89	135	22	3	24	102	0	1	102	105	.268	.392	.466	.858	235	7	4	4	5	6
Sherm Lollar	136	527	450	55	132	28	2	11	75	2	0	53	34	.293	.383	.438	.821	197	19	16	2	6	4
Jim Rivera	139	555	491	76	125	23	5	12	66	20	9	49	75	.255	.322	.395	.718	194	3	3	6	6	2
Walt Dropo	125	412	361	42	96	13	1	8	52	1	0	37	51	.266	.334	.374	.708	135	15	3	5	6	2
Fred Hatfield	106	373	321	46	84	9	1	7	33	1	0	37	36	.262	.349	.361	.710	116	7	8	3	4	3
Dave Philley	86	316	279	44	74	14	2	4	47	1	3	28	27	.265	.328	.373	.701	104	9	1	2	6	0
Sammy Esposito	81	234	184	30	42	8	2	3	25	1	2	41	19	.228	.371	.342	.714	63	4	2	5	2	0
Les Moss	56	147	127	20	31	4	0	10	22	0	0	18	15	.244	.338	.512	.850	65	7	0	2	0	0
Bubba Phillips	67	107	99	16	27	6	0	2	11	1	2	6	12	.273	.321	.394	.715	39	0	1	1	0	0
George Kell	21	91	80	7	25	5	0	1	11	0	0	8	6	.313	.371	.413	.783	33	3	0	2	1	0
Dick Donovan	44	107	90	10	20	4	0	3	15	0	0	14	30	.222	.330	.367	.697	33	2	1	1	1	1
Jim Wilson	28	66	62	6	19	2	0	1	8	0	0	1	13	.306	.313	.387	.700	24	2	0	2	1	0
Ron Northey	53	60	48	4	17	2	0	3	23	0	0	8	1	.354	.417	.583	1.000	28	2	0	0	4	2
Billy Pierce	39	113	102	6	16	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	22	.157	.189	.157	.346	16	3	1	7	0	0
Bob Nieman	14	44	40	3	12	1	0	2	4	0	1	4	4	.300	.364	.475	.839	19	4	0	0	0	2
Ron Jackson	22	66	56	7	12	3	0	1	4	1	0	10	13	.214	.333	.321	.655	18	2	0	0	0	1
Jack Harshman	36	87	71	8	12	1	0	6	19	0	0	11	21	.169	.277	.437	.714	31	0	0	4	1	0
Jim Delsing	55	52	41	11	5	3	0	0	2	1	0	10	13	.122	.294	.195	.489	8	0	0	1	0	0
Dixie Howell	34	19	17	4	4	0	0	2	3	0	0	2	6	.235	.316	.588	.904	10	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Keegan	20	40	32	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	7	.125	.222	.125	.347	4	1	0	4	0	0
Howie Pollet	12	9	8	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.375	.375	.375	.750	3	0	0	1	0	0
Gerry Staley	26	35	32	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	6	.094	.147	.094	.241	3	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Brideweser	10	12	11	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.182	.250	.273	.523	3	0	1	0	0	0
Jim Derrington	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Cal Abrams	4	5	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.333	.600	.333	.933	1	0	0	0	0	0
Earl Battey	4	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	2	0	0	0	0
Mike Fornieles	6	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.400	.600	2	0	0	1	0	0
Morrie Martin	10	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Kennedy	8	15	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.077	.200	.077	.277	1	0	0	0	0	0
Paul LaPalme	29	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Harry Byrd	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sandy Consuegra	28	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Connie Johnson	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim McDonald	8	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ellis Kinder	29	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Fischer	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Dahlke	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Marlowe	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1951	6122	5286	776	1412	218	43	128	726	70	33	619	658	.267	.349	.397	.746	2100	130	75	86	56	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Walt Dropo	1B	117	91	869.0	855	50	6	95	.993	9.373	7.735	0	0	0	0
Dave Philley	1B	51	44	353.3	299	17	7	31	.978	8.049	6.196	0	0	0	0
Ron Jackson	1B	19	15	137.0	138	11	0	16	1.000	9.788	7.842	0	0	0	0
George Kell	1B	4	4	28.0	19	3	0	4	1.000	7.071	5.500	0	0	0	0
Minnie Minoso	1B	1	0	1.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.000	0	0	0	0
Nellie Fox	2B	154	154	1380.0	478	396	12	124	.986	5.700	5.675	0	0	0	0
Sammy Esposito	2B	3	0	9.0	2	2	0	1	1.000	4.000	1.333	0	0	0	0
Fred Hatfield	3B	100	84	771.3	83	189	11	21	.961	3.174	2.720	0	0	0	0
Sammy Esposito	3B	61	47	417.3	41	109	6	17	.962	3.235	2.459	0	0	0	0
George Kell	3B	18	17	143.3	17	28	0	0	1.000	2.826	2.500	0	0	0	0
Bob Kennedy	3B	6	4	32.0	4	3	0	2	1.000	1.969	1.167	0	0	0	0
Minnie Minoso	3B	8	1	18.0	2	6	2	0	.800	4.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Bubba Phillips	3B	2	1	7.0	2	2	0	1	1.000	5.143	2.000	0	0	0	0
Sherm Lollar	C	132	123	1074.7	679	40	5	6	.993	6.021	5.447	4	24	17	20	54.1
Les Moss	C	49	30	303.0	149	10	1	1	.994	4.723	3.245	4	10	11	4	26.7
Earl Battey	C	3	1	11.3	4	0	1	0	.800	3.176	1.333	1	0	0	0
Minnie Minoso	OF	148	147	1263.3	284	10	8	1	.974	2.094	1.986	0	0	0	0
Larry Doby	OF	137	136	1205.3	371	4	5	2	.987	2.800	2.737	0	0	0	0
Jim Rivera	OF	134	115	1084.0	271	9	7	4	.976	2.325	2.090	0	0	0	0
Dave Philley	OF	30	26	228.0	50	2	0	0	1.000	2.053	1.733	0	0	0	0
Bubba Phillips	OF	35	23	199.0	59	2	0	1	1.000	2.759	1.743	0	0	0	0
Jim Delsing	OF	29	3	84.7	21	1	1	0	.957	2.339	.759	0	0	0	0
Bob Nieman	OF	10	10	80.0	24	0	0	0	1.000	2.700	2.400	0	0	0	0
Ron Northey	OF	4	2	19.7	4	1	0	0	1.000	2.288	1.250	0	0	0	0
Cal Abrams	OF	2	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Billy Pierce	P	35	33	276.3	4	33	3	2	.925	1.205	1.057	0	0	0	0
Dick Donovan	P	34	31	234.7	11	46	1	4	.983	2.186	1.676	0	0	0	0
Jack Harshman	P	34	30	226.7	2	29	4	3	.886	1.231	.912	0	0	0	0
Jim Wilson	P	28	21	159.7	7	25	0	1	1.000	1.804	1.143	0	0	0	0
Bob Keegan	P	20	16	105.3	6	18	1	0	.960	2.051	1.200	0	0	0	0
Gerry Staley	P	26	10	101.3	4	23	0	2	1.000	2.398	1.038	0	0	0	0
Dixie Howell	P	34	1	64.3	2	12	2	2	.875	1.959	.412	0	0	0	0
Paul LaPalme	P	29	0	46.0	1	11	0	1	1.000	2.348	.414	0	0	0	0
Sandy Consuegra	P	28	1	38.3	1	8	1	0	.900	2.113	.321	0	0	0	0
Ellis Kinder	P	29	0	29.7	2	2	0	0	1.000	1.213	.138	0	0	0	0
Howie Pollet	P	11	4	26.3	1	6	0	0	1.000	2.392	.636	0	0	0	0
Jim McDonald	P	8	3	18.7	1	3	1	0	.800	1.929	.500	0	0	0	0
Morrie Martin	P	10	0	18.3	0	4	1	1	.800	1.964	.400	0	0	0	0
Mike Fornieles	P	6	0	15.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.723	.500	0	0	0	0
Connie Johnson	P	5	2	12.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.189	.600	0	0	0	0
Jim Derrington	P	1	1	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Harry Byrd	P	3	1	4.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.154	.667	0	0	0	0
Jerry Dahlke	P	5	0	2.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.857	.200	0	0	0	0
Bill Fischer	P	3	0	1.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	5.400	.333	0	0	0	0
Dick Marlowe	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Luis Aparicio	SS	152	151	1299.7	250	474	35	91	.954	5.014	4.763	0	0	0	0
Sammy Esposito	SS	19	1	48.0	9	21	0	1	1.000	5.625	1.579	0	0	0	0
Jim Brideweser	SS	10	2	35.3	4	11	1	1	.938	3.821	1.500	0	0	0	0
Fred Hatfield	SS	3	0	6.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1791	1386	12501.0	4168	1630	122	436	.979	4.174	3.237	9	34	28	24	46.2

Statistical data from Baseball Databank, made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

1956 Chicago White Sox Statistics

Pitching:

Batting:

Fielding:

Baseball

Latest News