1959 Chicago Cubs Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 74-80
Finished 5th in the NL
Attendance: 858,255, Avg. 11,905
Ballpark: Wrigley Field
Manager: Bob Scheffing (74-80)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1959 Chicago Cubs Roster
1959 Chicago Cubs Results

The Chicago Cubs of the National League ended the 1959 season with a record of 74 wins and 80 losses, finishing fifth in the NL.

The Cubs scored 673 runs and conceded 688 runs. Ernie Banks walloped 45 home runs for Chicago and drove in 143 runs, while leading all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .304 average. Glen Hobbie topped the team with 16 wins, and Bill Henry recorded a 2.68 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bob Scheffing 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
Glen Hobbie	16	13	.552	3.69	46	33	3	10	3	0	234.0	204	105	96	15	106	1	138	6	0	9	991
Bob Anderson	12	13	.480	4.13	37	36	1	7	1	0	235.3	245	117	108	21	77	3	113	5	3	4	1004
Don Elston	10	8	.556	3.32	65	0	49	0	0	13	97.7	77	40	36	11	46	7	82	3	0	2	413
Bill Henry	9	8	.529	2.68	65	0	35	0	0	12	134.3	111	42	40	19	26	3	115	1	1	3	526
Dave Hillman	8	11	.421	3.53	39	24	5	4	1	0	191.0	178	84	75	17	43	3	88	1	0	1	780
Art Ceccarelli	5	5	.500	4.76	18	15	2	4	2	0	102.0	95	58	54	19	37	6	56	1	1	4	432
Moe Drabowsky	5	10	.333	4.13	31	23	4	3	1	0	141.7	138	78	65	21	75	4	70	3	0	7	631
John Buzhardt	4	5	.444	4.97	31	10	7	1	1	0	101.3	107	64	56	12	29	4	33	1	0	1	439
Elmer Singleton	2	1	.667	2.72	21	1	12	0	0	0	43.0	40	15	13	2	12	2	25	0	0	0	180
Joe Schaffernoth	1	0	1.000	8.22	5	1	1	0	0	0	7.7	11	7	7	1	4	0	3	0	0	0	36
Ed Donnelly	1	1	.500	3.14	9	0	3	0	0	0	14.3	18	7	5	1	9	1	6	0	1	0	69
Dick Drott	1	2	.333	5.93	8	6	0	1	1	0	27.3	25	19	18	5	26	1	15	0	0	2	129
Ben Johnson	0	0		2.16	4	2	1	0	0	0	16.7	17	5	4	1	4	0	6	0	0	0	69
Bob Porterfield	0	0		11.37	4	0	0	0	0	0	6.3	14	9	8	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	36
Morrie Martin	0	0		19.29	3	0	1	0	0	0	2.3	5	5	5	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	14
Bob Smith	0	0		81.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	5	6	6	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	9
Seth Morehead	0	1	.000	4.82	11	2	1	0	0	0	18.7	25	13	10	1	8	2	9	0	0	0	88
Taylor Phillips	0	2	.000	7.56	7	2	0	0	0	0	16.7	22	14	14	3	11	2	5	2	0	0	84
Totals	74	80	.481	4.01	405	155	125	30	10	25	1391.0	1337	688	620	152	519	40	765	24	6	34	5930

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	155	671	589	97	179	25	6	45	143	2	4	64	72	.304	.374	.596	.970	351	18	7	2	9	20
Tony Taylor	150	688	624	96	175	30	8	8	38	23	9	45	86	.280	.331	.393	.724	245	8	6	6	7	0
Al Dark	136	545	477	60	126	22	9	6	45	1	1	55	50	.264	.342	.386	.728	184	4	3	7	3	9
George Altman	135	468	420	54	103	14	4	12	47	1	0	34	80	.245	.312	.383	.695	161	8	7	6	1	4
Bobby Thomson	122	418	374	55	97	15	2	11	52	1	0	35	50	.259	.322	.398	.721	149	9	2	2	5	6
Sammy Taylor	110	390	353	41	95	13	2	13	43	1	0	35	47	.269	.336	.428	.764	151	6	1	0	1	13
Lee Walls	120	409	354	43	91	18	3	8	33	0	2	42	73	.257	.342	.393	.734	139	6	5	5	3	1
Walt Moryn	117	432	381	41	89	14	1	14	48	0	0	44	66	.234	.316	.386	.702	147	13	3	2	2	2
Jim Marshall	108	331	294	39	74	10	1	11	40	0	1	33	39	.252	.324	.405	.729	119	5	0	1	3	1
Dale Long	110	330	296	34	70	10	3	14	37	0	0	31	53	.236	.306	.432	.738	128	6	0	0	3	2
Irv Noren	65	172	156	27	50	6	2	4	19	2	0	13	24	.321	.384	.462	.845	72	1	3	0	0	1
Earl Averill	74	205	186	22	44	10	0	10	34	0	1	15	39	.237	.298	.452	.749	84	2	2	0	2	1
Art Schult	42	130	118	17	32	7	0	2	14	0	0	7	14	.271	.320	.381	.702	45	6	2	2	1	0
Randy Jackson	41	91	74	7	18	5	1	1	10	0	0	11	10	.243	.341	.378	.720	28	5	0	6	0	1
Cal Neeman	44	117	105	7	17	2	0	3	9	0	0	11	23	.162	.241	.267	.508	28	1	0	1	0	2
Johnny Goryl	25	53	48	1	9	3	1	1	6	1	1	5	3	.188	.264	.354	.618	17	3	0	0	0	0
Dave Hillman	42	71	60	0	9	0	0	0	3	0	0	6	32	.150	.239	.150	.389	9	0	1	4	0	0
Glen Hobbie	46	84	79	3	9	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	30	.114	.136	.127	.262	10	0	0	3	0	0
Bill Henry	65	32	31	4	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	12	.194	.194	.194	.387	6	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Anderson	37	90	80	6	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	34	.075	.119	.088	.207	7	1	1	6	0	0
Billy Williams	18	34	33	0	5	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	7	.152	.176	.212	.389	7	2	0	0	0	0
Moe Drabowsky	31	47	45	2	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	20	.111	.149	.133	.282	6	1	0	0	0	0
Don Elston	65	22	19	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.211	.211	.211	.421	4	0	0	3	0	0
Art Ceccarelli	18	38	33	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	16	.091	.167	.091	.258	3	1	0	2	0	0
John Buzhardt	31	32	29	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	15	.069	.100	.103	.203	3	0	0	2	0	0
Seth Morehead	11	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Lou Jackson	6	4	4	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Drott	8	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Elmer Singleton	21	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Schaffernoth	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Porterfield	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Taylor Phillips	7	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chick King	7	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ben Johnson	4	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Don Eaddy	15	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Adams	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Morrie Martin	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Smith	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Donnelly	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2011	5939	5296	673	1321	209	44	163	635	32	19	498	911	.249	.317	.398	.715	2107	106	43	62	40	63

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Dale Long	1B	85	72	680.7	731	49	12	63	.985	1.313	9.176	0	0	0	0
Jim Marshall	1B	72	59	547.3	558	51	2	52	.997	1.014	8.458	0	0	0	0
Art Schult	1B	23	20	131.0	126	6	2	15	.985	9.069	5.739	0	0	0	0
Al Dark	1B	4	4	27.0	26	4	1	1	.968	1.000	7.500	0	0	0	0
Irv Noren	1B	1	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Bobby Adams	1B	1	0	2.0	2	0	1	0	.667	9.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Tony Taylor	2B	149	148	1302.0	352	456	25	105	.970	5.585	5.423	0	0	0	0
Johnny Goryl	2B	11	6	78.0	11	25	1	1	.973	4.154	3.273	0	0	0	0
Earl Averill	2B	2	1	11.0	3	6	0	1	1.000	7.364	4.500	0	0	0	0
Al Dark	3B	131	121	1090.0	111	255	20	20	.948	3.022	2.794	0	0	0	0
Randy Jackson	3B	22	18	166.7	20	28	3	2	.941	2.592	2.182	0	0	0	0
Earl Averill	3B	13	13	109.0	16	32	5	2	.906	3.963	3.692	0	0	0	0
Johnny Goryl	3B	4	3	21.3	0	6	0	1	1.000	2.531	1.500	0	0	0	0
Don Eaddy	3B	1	0	4.0	0	1	1	0	.500	2.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Sammy Taylor	C	109	96	889.7	497	37	10	1	.982	5.402	4.899	6	22	70	21	23.1
Cal Neeman	C	38	34	264.7	158	9	1	1	.994	5.679	4.395	3	6	20	2	9.1
Earl Averill	C	32	25	236.7	173	11	7	1	.963	6.997	5.750	3	6	18	4	18.2
George Altman	OF	121	103	949.0	278	7	3	2	.990	2.703	2.355	0	0	0	0
Bobby Thomson	OF	116	96	895.3	223	9	3	4	.987	2.332	2.000	0	0	0	0
Lee Walls	OF	119	100	893.3	203	1	7	0	.967	2.055	1.714	0	0	0	0
Walt Moryn	OF	104	100	859.7	175	9	2	1	.989	1.926	1.769	0	0	0	0
Irv Noren	OF	40	35	287.3	81	4	0	1	1.000	2.662	2.125	0	0	0	0
Art Schult	OF	15	11	120.7	26	0	0	0	1.000	1.939	1.733	0	0	0	0
Billy Williams	OF	10	7	65.0	18	0	0	0	1.000	2.492	1.800	0	0	0	0
Jim Marshall	OF	8	7	61.3	7	1	0	0	1.000	1.174	1.000	0	0	0	0
Earl Averill	OF	5	4	31.3	5	0	1	0	.833	1.436	1.000	0	0	0	0
Chick King	OF	1	1	9.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Randy Jackson	OF	1	1	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Anderson	P	37	36	234.3	13	43	4	4	.933	2.151	1.514	0	0	0	0
Glen Hobbie	P	46	33	232.0	18	40	4	2	.935	2.250	1.261	0	0	0	0
Dave Hillman	P	39	24	191.0	28	31	2	0	.967	2.780	1.513	0	0	0	0
Moe Drabowsky	P	31	23	141.3	12	21	2	1	.943	2.101	1.065	0	0	0	0
Bill Henry	P	65	0	134.3	2	18	1	2	.952	1.340	.308	0	0	0	0
John Buzhardt	P	31	10	103.3	7	22	3	1	.906	2.526	.935	0	0	0	0
Art Ceccarelli	P	18	15	102.0	2	15	1	1	.944	1.500	.944	0	0	0	0
Don Elston	P	65	0	98.7	3	14	2	1	.895	1.551	.262	0	0	0	0
Elmer Singleton	P	21	1	43.0	5	10	1	1	.938	3.140	.714	0	0	0	0
Dick Drott	P	8	6	27.3	0	4	1	0	.800	1.317	.500	0	0	0	0
Seth Morehead	P	11	2	18.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Taylor Phillips	P	7	2	16.7	1	4	0	0	1.000	2.700	.714	0	0	0	0
Ben Johnson	P	4	2	16.7	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.620	.750	0	0	0	0
Ed Donnelly	P	9	0	14.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.884	.333	0	0	0	0
Joe Schaffernoth	P	5	1	7.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.174	.200	0	0	0	0
Bob Porterfield	P	4	0	6.7	0	2	0	1	1.000	2.700	.500	0	0	0	0
Morrie Martin	P	3	0	2.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.857	.333	0	0	0	0
Bob Smith	P	1	0	0.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	13.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ernie Banks	SS	154	154	1371.3	271	519	12	95	.985	5.185	5.130	0	0	0	0
Tony Taylor	SS	2	1	11.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.455	1.500	0	0	0	0
Al Dark	SS	1	0	8.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.077	2.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1800	1395	12519.0	4173	1758	140	383	.977	4.264	3.295	12	34	108	27	20.0

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