1955 Chicago Cubs Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 72-81
Finished 6th in the NL
Attendance: 875,800, Avg. 13,419
Ballpark: Wrigley Field
Manager: Stan Hack (72-81)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1955 Chicago Cubs Roster
1955 Chicago Cubs Results

The Chicago Cubs of the National League ended the 1955 season with a record of 72 wins and 81 losses, finishing sixth in the NL.

The Cubs plated 626 runs and surrendered 713 runs. Ernie Banks walloped 44 home runs for Chicago, while Dee Fondy and Randy Jackson swatted 20 or more also. Ernie Banks drove in 117 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .295 average. Sam Jones led the team with 14 wins, and Paul Minner recorded a 3.48 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Stan Hack coached the team.

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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
Sam Jones	14	20	.412	4.10	36	34	1	12	4	0	241.7	175	118	110	22	185	5	198	14	0	5	1070
Bob Rush	13	11	.542	3.50	33	33	0	14	3	0	234.0	204	95	91	19	73	4	130	2	0	4	959
Warren Hacker	11	15	.423	4.27	35	30	4	13	0	3	213.0	202	112	101	38	43	7	80	2	0	3	885
Paul Minner	9	9	.500	3.48	22	22	0	7	1	0	157.7	173	67	61	15	47	10	53	1	0	2	675
Hal Jeffcoat	8	6	.571	2.95	50	1	26	0	0	6	100.7	107	46	33	5	53	12	32	4	0	2	453
Jim Davis	7	11	.389	4.44	42	16	17	0	0	3	133.7	122	79	66	16	58	5	62	2	0	7	568
Howie Pollet	4	3	.571	5.61	24	7	7	1	1	5	61.0	62	41	38	11	27	3	27	0	0	2	267
Bill Tremel	3	0	1.000	3.72	23	0	12	0	0	2	38.7	33	18	16	2	18	2	13	0	0	1	163
Harry Perkowski	3	4	.429	5.29	25	4	14	0	0	2	47.7	53	32	28	3	25	4	28	0	0	1	215
Bob Thorpe	0	0		3.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12
Dave Hillman	0	0		5.31	25	3	9	0	0	0	57.7	63	36	34	10	25	0	23	1	0	1	259
Don Kaiser	0	0		5.40	11	0	6	0	0	0	18.3	20	11	11	2	5	0	11	1	0	1	79
Bubba Church	0	0		5.40	2	0	1	0	0	1	3.3	4	2	2	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	15
Hy Cohen	0	0		7.94	7	1	0	0	0	0	17.0	28	17	15	2	10	0	4	1	0	0	86
Vicente Amor	0	1	.000	4.50	4	0	3	0	0	0	6.0	11	3	3	0	3	1	3	0	1	1	31
John Andre	0	1	.000	5.80	22	3	5	0	0	1	45.0	45	34	29	7	28	4	19	1	0	1	207
Totals	72	81	.471	4.17	363	154	107	47	9	23	1378.3	1306	713	639	153	601	57	686	29	1	31	5944

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
Ernie Banks	154	646	596	98	176	29	9	44	117	9	3	45	72	.295	.345	.596	.941	355	16	2	0	3	6
Gene Baker	154	681	609	82	163	29	7	11	52	9	7	49	57	.268	.323	.392	.715	239	14	2	18	3	1
Dee Fondy	150	618	574	69	152	23	8	17	65	8	9	35	87	.265	.307	.422	.729	242	9	2	3	4	6
Randy Jackson	138	565	499	73	132	13	7	21	70	0	2	58	58	.265	.340	.445	.785	222	11	1	3	4	6
Eddie Miksis	131	524	481	52	113	14	2	9	41	3	6	32	55	.235	.282	.328	.611	158	11	0	10	1	3
Frank Baumholtz	105	309	280	23	81	12	5	1	27	0	1	16	24	.289	.325	.379	.703	106	9	1	7	5	2
Harry Chiti	113	372	338	24	78	6	1	11	41	0	0	25	68	.231	.282	.352	.634	119	8	1	3	5	8
Jim King	113	333	301	43	77	12	3	11	45	2	1	24	39	.256	.312	.425	.737	128	3	2	3	3	1
Bob Speake	95	293	261	36	57	9	5	12	43	3	4	28	71	.218	.300	.429	.729	112	1	3	0	1	4
Hank Sauer	79	290	261	29	55	8	1	12	28	0	0	26	47	.211	.286	.387	.673	101	8	2	0	1	0
Jim Bolger	64	173	160	19	33	5	4	0	7	2	2	9	17	.206	.257	.288	.545	46	3	2	2	0	1
Walker Cooper	54	119	111	11	31	8	1	7	15	0	0	6	19	.279	.322	.559	.881	62	3	1	1	0	1
Lloyd Merriman	72	167	145	15	31	6	1	1	8	1	0	21	21	.214	.311	.290	.601	42	0	0	0	1	0
Warren Hacker	35	72	72	6	18	3	1	0	3	0	0	0	9	.250	.250	.319	.569	23	1	0	0	0	0
Clyde McCullough	44	94	81	7	16	0	0	0	10	0	0	8	15	.198	.272	.198	.469	16	1	1	2	2	3
Sam Jones	36	85	77	2	14	1	0	0	5	0	0	3	27	.182	.213	.195	.407	15	4	0	5	0	0
Ted Tappe	23	63	50	12	13	2	0	4	10	0	0	11	11	.260	.413	.540	.953	27	0	2	0	0	3
Paul Minner	22	62	56	5	13	2	0	0	1	0	0	5	7	.232	.295	.268	.563	15	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Rush	33	91	82	6	9	2	0	1	5	0	0	6	40	.110	.170	.171	.341	14	0	0	3	0	0
Howie Pollet	24	18	15	0	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.400	.471	.533	1.004	8	0	0	1	0	0
Gale Wade	9	38	33	5	6	1	0	1	1	0	0	4	3	.182	.270	.303	.573	10	1	0	1	0	0
Hal Jeffcoat	52	27	23	3	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	9	.174	.240	.304	.544	7	2	0	2	0	0
Bill Tremel	23	8	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.286	.375	.286	.661	2	0	0	0	0	0
Harry Perkowski	26	14	13	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.154	.214	.154	.368	2	0	0	0	0	0
Vern Morgan	7	10	7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	4	.143	.400	.143	.543	1	0	0	0	0	0
John Andre	22	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Owen Friend	6	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Hillman	26	14	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	.100	.308	.100	.408	1	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Davis	42	43	37	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	21	.027	.100	.027	.127	1	1	0	3	0	0
Don Kaiser	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bubba Church	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hy Cohen	7	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Fanning	5	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	1	0	0	0	0
El Tappe	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Thorpe	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Lary	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Vicente Amor	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1890	5766	5214	626	1287	187	55	164	597	37	35	428	806	.247	.305	.398	.703	2076	107	22	69	33	45

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Dee Fondy	1B	147	147	1313.7	1304	107	13	135	.991	9.667	9.599	0	0	0	0
Bob Speake	1B	8	7	64.7	69	7	2	7	.974	1.577	9.500	0	0	0	0
Gene Baker	2B	154	154	1378.3	432	444	30	114	.967	5.720	5.688	0	0	0	0
Randy Jackson	3B	134	134	1202.7	125	247	20	26	.949	2.784	2.776	0	0	0	0
Eddie Miksis	3B	18	17	148.7	23	46	3	5	.958	4.177	3.833	0	0	0	0
Owen Friend	3B	2	2	16.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.000	0	0	0	0
Vern Morgan	3B	2	1	11.0	2	2	2	0	.667	3.273	2.000	0	0	0	0
Harry Chiti	C	113	103	904.7	495	69	9	10	.984	5.611	4.991	17	17	37	17	31.5
Clyde McCullough	C	37	26	234.0	160	12	2	0	.989	6.615	4.649	1	4	11	4	26.7
Walker Cooper	C	31	21	202.7	88	11	4	1	.961	4.396	3.194	1	2	5	3	37.5
Jim Fanning	C	5	4	33.0	30	2	0	0	1.000	8.727	6.400	2	1	1	1	50.0
El Tappe	C	2	0	4.0	3	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	1	0	0
Eddie Miksis	OF	111	109	969.0	267	6	3	1	.989	2.536	2.459	0	0	0	0
Jim King	OF	93	71	676.0	184	10	2	2	.990	2.583	2.086	0	0	0	0
Hank Sauer	OF	68	68	581.0	122	4	2	1	.984	1.952	1.853	0	0	0	0
Frank Baumholtz	OF	63	63	546.3	131	3	1	1	.993	2.207	2.127	0	0	0	0
Bob Speake	OF	55	55	476.7	90	4	4	1	.959	1.775	1.709	0	0	0	0
Jim Bolger	OF	51	44	385.3	125	1	6	0	.955	2.943	2.471	0	0	0	0
Lloyd Merriman	OF	47	32	311.0	82	2	2	2	.977	2.431	1.787	0	0	0	0
Ted Tappe	OF	15	13	114.0	18	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.267	0	0	0	0
Gale Wade	OF	9	7	75.7	12	1	2	0	.867	1.546	1.444	0	0	0	0
Sam Jones	P	36	34	241.7	14	36	5	0	.909	1.862	1.389	0	0	0	0
Bob Rush	P	33	33	234.0	16	43	1	1	.983	2.269	1.788	0	0	0	0
Warren Hacker	P	35	30	213.0	14	20	3	0	.919	1.437	.971	0	0	0	0
Paul Minner	P	22	22	157.7	4	39	1	3	.977	2.455	1.955	0	0	0	0
Jim Davis	P	42	16	133.7	5	22	1	0	.964	1.818	.643	0	0	0	0
Hal Jeffcoat	P	50	1	100.7	4	24	3	1	.903	2.503	.560	0	0	0	0
Howie Pollet	P	24	7	61.0	7	15	0	1	1.000	3.246	.917	0	0	0	0
Dave Hillman	P	25	3	57.7	4	10	1	1	.933	2.185	.560	0	0	0	0
Harry Perkowski	P	25	4	47.7	8	12	0	0	1.000	3.776	.800	0	0	0	0
John Andre	P	22	3	45.0	2	6	0	0	1.000	1.600	.364	0	0	0	0
Bill Tremel	P	23	0	38.7	2	5	2	0	.778	1.629	.304	0	0	0	0
Don Kaiser	P	11	0	18.3	0	2	1	0	.667	.982	.182	0	0	0	0
Hy Cohen	P	7	1	17.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.059	.286	0	0	0	0
Vicente Amor	P	4	0	6.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	6.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Bubba Church	P	2	0	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Thorpe	P	2	0	3.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	6.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ernie Banks	SS	154	154	1376.3	290	482	22	102	.972	5.048	5.013	0	0	0	0
Owen Friend	SS	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1683	1386	12405.0	4135	1706	147	415	.975	4.238	3.471	21	25	54	25	31.6

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