1956 Chicago Cubs Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 60-94
Finished 8th in the NL
Attendance: 720,118, Avg. 11,630
Ballpark: Wrigley Field
Manager: Stan Hack (60-94)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1956 Chicago Cubs Roster
1956 Chicago Cubs Results

The Chicago Cubs of the National League ended the 1956 season with a record of 60 wins and 94 losses, finishing eighth in the NL.

The Cubs plated 597 runs and conceded 708 runs. Ernie Banks paced Chicago with 28 home runs, while Jim King, Walt Moryn and Monte Irvin each walloped 20 or more also. Ernie Banks drove in 85 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time with a .297 average. Bob Rush led the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 3.19 ERA, leading 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
Bob Rush	13	10	.565	3.19	32	32	0	13	1	0	239.7	210	101	85	30	59	8	104	2	0	6	977
Turk Lown	9	8	.529	3.58	61	0	47	0	0	13	110.7	95	49	44	10	78	12	74	1	0	1	489
Sam Jones	9	14	.391	3.91	33	28	3	8	2	0	188.7	155	93	82	21	115	6	176	8	0	2	832
Vito Valentinetti	6	4	.600	3.78	42	2	18	0	0	1	95.3	84	47	40	10	36	7	26	1	0	4	397
Jim Davis	5	7	.417	3.66	46	11	17	2	1	2	120.3	116	56	49	11	59	4	66	6	0	3	525
Jim Brosnan	5	9	.357	3.79	30	10	11	1	1	1	95.0	95	44	40	9	45	8	51	0	0	2	411
Don Kaiser	4	9	.308	3.59	27	22	2	5	1	0	150.3	144	69	60	15	52	8	74	1	0	3	640
Warren Hacker	3	13	.188	4.66	34	24	4	4	0	0	168.0	190	103	87	28	44	11	65	1	0	1	726
Moe Drabowsky	2	4	.333	2.47	9	7	2	3	0	0	51.0	37	19	14	1	39	3	36	2	0	0	225
Paul Minner	2	5	.286	6.89	10	9	0	1	0	0	47.0	60	38	36	9	19	2	14	2	0	1	213
Jim Hughes	1	3	.250	5.16	25	1	8	0	0	0	45.3	43	35	26	4	30	5	20	4	1	1	206
Russ Meyer	1	6	.143	6.32	20	9	6	0	0	0	57.0	71	41	40	11	26	4	28	2	0	0	264
John Briggs	0	0		1.69	3	0	1	0	0	0	5.3	5	1	1	1	4	1	1	3	0	0	28
George Piktuzis	0	0		7.20	2	0	1	0	0	0	5.0	6	4	4	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	21
Bill Tremel	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Dave Hillman	0	2	.000	2.19	2	2	0	0	0	0	12.3	11	7	3	0	5	0	6	0	0	0	56
Totals	60	94	.390	3.96	377	157	120	37	6	17	1392.0	1325	708	612	161	613	79	744	33	1	24	6015

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	139	593	538	82	160	25	8	28	85	6	9	52	62	.297	.358	.530	.887	285	7	0	0	3	18
Walt Moryn	147	588	529	69	151	27	3	23	67	4	2	50	67	.285	.348	.478	.826	253	9	3	1	5	2
Dee Fondy	137	580	543	52	146	22	9	9	46	9	7	20	74	.269	.290	.392	.682	213	4	0	7	10	5
Gene Baker	140	606	546	65	141	23	3	12	57	4	3	39	54	.258	.309	.377	.686	206	15	3	13	5	2
Monte Irvin	111	387	339	44	92	13	3	15	50	1	0	41	41	.271	.346	.460	.807	156	11	0	3	4	5
Don Hoak	121	478	424	51	91	18	4	5	37	8	3	41	46	.215	.283	.311	.594	132	4	1	8	4	0
Eddie Miksis	114	395	356	54	85	10	3	9	27	4	2	32	40	.239	.303	.360	.662	128	10	1	5	1	2
Jim King	118	354	317	32	79	13	2	15	54	1	2	30	40	.249	.313	.445	.757	141	4	1	2	4	5
Pete Whisenant	103	347	314	37	75	16	3	11	46	8	2	24	53	.239	.292	.414	.706	130	6	1	5	3	1
Hobie Landrith	111	362	312	22	69	10	3	4	32	0	2	39	38	.221	.307	.311	.618	97	2	1	7	3	15
Solly Drake	65	242	215	29	55	9	1	2	15	9	5	23	35	.256	.331	.335	.665	72	0	1	3	0	0
Harry Chiti	72	227	203	17	43	6	4	4	18	0	0	19	35	.212	.281	.340	.621	69	9	1	3	1	3
Frank Kellert	71	143	129	10	24	3	1	4	17	0	0	12	22	.186	.254	.318	.571	41	8	0	1	1	1
Sam Jones	33	71	57	3	10	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	19	.175	.230	.175	.405	10	1	0	10	0	0
Jerry Kindall	32	62	55	7	9	1	1	0	0	1	0	6	17	.164	.246	.218	.464	12	2	0	1	0	1
Warren Hacker	34	55	54	2	8	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	6	.148	.148	.148	.296	8	1	0	1	0	0
Bob Rush	32	92	82	6	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	6	37	.098	.159	.110	.269	9	1	0	4	0	0
Turk Lown	61	26	23	2	5	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	11	.217	.280	.435	.715	10	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Davis	46	32	28	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	.179	.207	.179	.385	5	0	0	3	0	0
Moe Drabowsky	9	18	16	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	4	0	0	2	0	0
Clyde McCullough	14	22	19	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.211	.200	.263	.463	5	1	0	2	1	0
Jim Brosnan	30	24	22	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.182	.182	.227	.409	5	0	0	2	0	0
Paul Minner	10	12	12	2	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	.250	.250	.583	.833	7	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Hughes	25	7	7	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.429	.714	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Winceniak	15	18	17	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.118	.167	.118	.284	2	1	0	0	0	0
Vito Valentinetti	42	22	20	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	10	.100	.143	.100	.243	2	0	0	1	0	0
Don Kaiser	27	48	47	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	30	.043	.042	.043	.084	2	0	0	0	1	0
Jim Fanning	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	1	0	0	0	0
Russ Meyer	20	15	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.083	.154	.083	.237	1	0	0	2	0	0
Gale Wade	10	13	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.077	.000	.077	0	2	0	0	0	0
El Tappe	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Richie Myers	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Owen Friend	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Hillman	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
George Piktuzis	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Tremel	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Briggs	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1907	5852	5260	597	1281	202	50	142	563	55	38	446	776	.244	.302	.382	.684	2009	99	13	87	46	60

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Dee Fondy	1B	133	132	1171.0	1048	94	17	101	.985	8.777	8.586	0	0	0	0
Frank Kellert	1B	27	25	220.7	209	24	2	22	.991	9.503	8.630	0	0	0	0
Gene Baker	2B	140	139	1232.0	362	426	25	99	.969	5.756	5.629	0	0	0	0
Eddie Miksis	2B	19	18	158.7	30	52	2	9	.976	4.651	4.316	0	0	0	0
Ed Winceniak	2B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Don Hoak	3B	110	108	957.3	122	158	15	16	.949	2.632	2.545	0	0	0	0
Eddie Miksis	3B	48	47	412.3	59	96	4	5	.975	3.383	3.229	0	0	0	0
Ed Winceniak	3B	4	2	22.0	5	3	1	0	.889	3.273	2.000	0	0	0	0
Hobie Landrith	C	99	90	802.0	483	55	14	9	.975	6.037	5.434	10	10	31	11	26.2
Harry Chiti	C	67	63	540.0	327	35	7	2	.981	6.033	5.403	6	4	15	15	50.0
Clyde McCullough	C	7	3	36.3	24	3	0	0	1.000	6.688	3.857	1	0	2	0	0.0
Jim Fanning	C	1	1	8.0	5	3	2	1	.800	9.000	8.000	0	0	0	0
El Tappe	C	3	0	5.3	4	0	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.333	0	0	0	0
Walt Moryn	OF	141	141	1241.7	268	18	5	2	.983	2.073	2.028	0	0	0	0
Monte Irvin	OF	96	88	777.0	216	6	2	0	.991	2.571	2.313	0	0	0	0
Pete Whisenant	OF	93	85	759.7	242	6	2	0	.992	2.938	2.667	0	0	0	0
Jim King	OF	82	81	703.0	187	10	2	2	.990	2.522	2.402	0	0	0	0
Solly Drake	OF	53	52	461.3	142	3	1	1	.993	2.829	2.736	0	0	0	0
Eddie Miksis	OF	33	22	214.3	54	1	1	0	.982	2.309	1.667	0	0	0	0
Gale Wade	OF	3	2	18.0	7	0	1	0	.875	3.500	2.333	0	0	0	0
Bob Rush	P	32	32	239.7	14	34	2	2	.960	1.803	1.500	0	0	0	0
Sam Jones	P	33	28	188.7	7	21	4	3	.875	1.336	.848	0	0	0	0
Warren Hacker	P	34	24	167.0	5	18	0	2	1.000	1.240	.676	0	0	0	0
Don Kaiser	P	27	22	150.3	7	26	3	1	.917	1.976	1.222	0	0	0	0
Jim Davis	P	46	11	120.3	2	23	0	3	1.000	1.870	.543	0	0	0	0
Turk Lown	P	61	0	110.7	9	13	1	1	.957	1.789	.361	0	0	0	0
Vito Valentinetti	P	42	2	96.3	4	12	1	0	.941	1.495	.381	0	0	0	0
Jim Brosnan	P	30	10	95.0	8	11	0	0	1.000	1.800	.633	0	0	0	0
Russ Meyer	P	20	9	57.0	4	17	0	2	1.000	3.316	1.050	0	0	0	0
Moe Drabowsky	P	9	7	51.0	2	7	0	0	1.000	1.588	1.000	0	0	0	0
Paul Minner	P	10	9	47.0	4	10	1	0	.933	2.681	1.400	0	0	0	0
Jim Hughes	P	25	1	45.3	1	5	0	2	1.000	1.191	.240	0	0	0	0
Dave Hillman	P	2	2	12.3	0	4	0	0	1.000	2.919	2.000	0	0	0	0
John Briggs	P	3	0	5.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	.333	0	0	0	0
George Piktuzis	P	2	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Tremel	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ernie Banks	SS	139	139	1228.0	279	357	25	92	.962	4.661	4.576	0	0	0	0
Jerry Kindall	SS	18	18	158.7	33	53	4	12	.956	4.878	4.778	0	0	0	0
Eddie Miksis	SS	2	0	5.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.500	0	0	0	0
Totals		1696	1413	12525.0	4175	1607	144	389	.976	4.155	3.409	17	14	48	26	35.1

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