1961 Chicago Cubs Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 64-90
Finished 7th in the NL
Attendance: 673,057, Avg. 10,197
Ballpark: Wrigley Field
Manager: Vedie Himsl (5-6)
Manager: Harry Craft (4-8)
Manager: Vedie Himsl (5-12)
Manager: El Tappe (2-0)
Manager: Harry Craft (3-1)
Manager: Vedie Himsl (0-3)
Manager: El Tappe (35-43)
Manager: Lou Klein (5-6)
Manager: El Tappe (5-11)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1961 Chicago Cubs Roster
1961 Chicago Cubs Results

The Chicago Cubs of the National League ended the 1961 season with a record of 64 wins and 90 losses, finishing seventh in the NL.

The Cubs tallied 689 runs and allowed 800 runs, most in the league. Ernie Banks paced Chicago with 29 home runs, while Ron Santo, Billy Williams and George Altman each walloped 20 or more, too. George Altman drove in 96 runs and topped batters with significant playing time with a .303 average. Don Cardwell led the team with 15 wins and a team-best 3.82 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Vedie Himsl, Harry Craft, Vedie Himsl, El Tappe, Harry Craft, Vedie Himsl, El Tappe, Lou Klein and El Tappe 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
Don Cardwell	15	14	.517	3.82	39	38	1	13	3	0	259.3	243	121	110	22	88	0	156	10	2	6	1106
Dick Ellsworth	10	11	.476	3.86	37	31	2	7	1	0	186.7	213	90	80	23	48	3	91	3	0	9	799
Jack Curtis	10	13	.435	4.89	31	27	2	6	0	0	180.3	220	117	98	23	51	6	57	1	0	1	802
Barney Schultz	7	6	.538	2.70	41	0	25	0	0	7	66.7	57	32	20	6	25	4	59	4	0	6	286
Bob Anderson	7	10	.412	4.26	57	12	21	1	0	8	152.0	162	85	72	14	56	11	96	2	0	4	659
Glen Hobbie	7	13	.350	4.26	36	29	4	7	2	2	198.7	207	113	94	26	54	7	103	6	0	4	848
Don Elston	6	7	.462	5.59	58	0	32	0	0	8	93.3	108	64	58	11	45	12	59	6	0	3	421
Dick Drott	1	4	.200	4.22	35	8	12	0	0	0	98.0	75	54	46	13	51	0	48	1	1	7	414
Jim Brewer	1	7	.125	5.82	36	11	11	0	0	0	86.7	116	65	56	17	21	2	57	1	0	4	388
Dick Burwell	0	0		9.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	6	4	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	21
Mel Wright	0	1	.000	10.71	11	0	5	0	0	0	21.0	42	26	25	3	4	0	6	0	0	1	107
Joe Schaffernoth	0	4	.000	6.34	21	0	7	0	0	0	38.3	43	29	27	7	18	2	23	1	0	4	170
Totals	64	90	.416	4.48	404	156	122	34	6	25	1385.0	1492	800	690	165	465	47	755	35	3	50	6021

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
Ron Santo	154	655	578	84	164	32	6	23	83	2	3	73	77	.284	.362	.479	.842	277	25	0	1	3	7
George Altman	138	573	518	77	157	28	12	27	96	6	2	40	92	.303	.353	.560	.913	290	4	4	4	7	3
Billy Williams	146	584	529	75	147	20	7	25	86	6	0	45	70	.278	.338	.484	.822	256	11	5	1	4	11
Ernie Banks	138	573	511	75	142	22	4	29	80	1	2	54	75	.278	.346	.507	.852	259	11	2	0	6	21
Don Zimmer	128	512	477	57	120	25	4	13	40	5	1	25	70	.252	.291	.403	.694	192	16	2	7	1	1
Al Heist	109	366	321	48	82	14	3	7	37	3	3	39	51	.255	.337	.383	.720	123	7	1	4	1	0
Richie Ashburn	109	368	307	49	79	7	4	0	19	7	6	55	27	.257	.373	.306	.679	94	4	3	1	2	2
Ed Bouchee	112	387	319	49	79	12	3	12	38	1	4	58	77	.248	.371	.417	.788	133	2	5	4	1	7
Jerry Kindall	96	333	310	37	75	22	3	9	44	2	2	18	89	.242	.288	.419	.707	130	5	2	3	0	0
Dick Bertell	92	287	267	20	73	7	1	2	33	0	0	15	33	.273	.308	.330	.637	88	7	0	1	4	3
Andre Rodgers	73	243	214	27	57	17	0	6	23	1	1	25	54	.266	.343	.430	.773	92	6	1	1	2	1
Sammy Taylor	89	264	235	26	56	8	2	8	23	0	0	23	39	.238	.316	.391	.707	92	6	4	1	1	7
Bob Will	86	130	113	9	29	9	0	0	8	0	1	15	19	.257	.341	.336	.677	38	1	0	1	1	0
Frank Thomas	15	52	50	7	13	2	0	2	6	0	0	2	8	.260	.288	.420	.708	21	3	0	0	0	0
Glen Hobbie	36	74	66	5	11	3	0	2	6	0	0	5	30	.167	.225	.303	.528	20	1	0	3	0	0
Jack Curtis	31	72	60	8	10	2	0	2	4	0	0	10	23	.167	.286	.300	.586	18	0	0	2	0	0
Don Cardwell	40	106	95	6	10	3	0	3	6	0	0	6	55	.105	.167	.232	.398	22	0	1	4	0	0
Dick Drott	35	23	22	1	6	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	7	.273	.304	.364	.668	8	1	0	0	0	0
Cuno Barragan	10	31	28	3	6	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	7	.214	.267	.321	.588	9	1	0	1	0	0
Moe Thacker	25	47	35	3	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	11	11	.171	.383	.171	.554	6	1	1	0	0	1
Bob Anderson	57	45	42	5	6	0	0	2	5	0	0	1	22	.143	.163	.286	.449	12	0	0	2	0	0
Danny Murphy	4	14	13	3	5	0	0	2	3	0	0	1	5	.385	.429	.846	1.275	11	0	0	0	0	0
Moe Morhardt	7	21	18	3	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	5	.278	.381	.278	.659	5	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Hubbs	10	28	28	4	5	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	8	.179	.179	.393	.571	11	0	0	0	0	0
Mel Roach	23	42	39	1	5	2	0	0	1	1	0	3	9	.128	.190	.179	.370	7	3	0	0	0	0
Jim Brewer	36	25	22	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	.182	.250	.182	.432	4	0	0	1	0	0
Jim McAnany	11	11	10	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.300	.364	.400	.764	4	0	0	0	0	0
George Freese	9	8	7	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.286	.375	.286	.661	2	0	0	0	0	0
Don Elston	58	14	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	0	0	3	0	0
Dick Ellsworth	37	65	56	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	29	.036	.100	.054	.154	3	0	1	5	0	0
Nelson Mathews	3	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Barney Schultz	41	12	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	2	0	0
Lou Brock	4	12	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Schaffernoth	21	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Burwell	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sammy Drake	13	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mel Wright	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2009	6000	5344	689	1364	238	51	176	650	35	25	539	1027	.255	.325	.418	.743	2232	115	32	52	33	64

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Ed Bouchee	1B	107	90	829.0	852	76	16	97	.983	1.075	8.673	0	0	0	0
Andre Rodgers	1B	42	39	335.3	369	26	7	34	.983	1.601	9.405	0	0	0	0
Ernie Banks	1B	7	7	61.0	68	6	1	8	.987	1.918	1.571	0	0	0	0
Moe Morhardt	1B	7	7	55.3	72	3	3	9	.962	12.199	1.714	0	0	0	0
Mel Roach	1B	7	5	43.3	50	3	1	8	.981	11.008	7.571	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	1B	6	4	36.0	41	2	0	2	1.000	1.750	7.167	0	0	0	0
George Altman	1B	3	3	19.0	20	1	0	3	1.000	9.947	7.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Will	1B	1	1	6.0	3	0	1	1	.750	4.500	3.000	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	2B	116	108	944.3	282	323	17	99	.973	5.766	5.216	0	0	0	0
Jerry Kindall	2B	50	38	356.3	124	122	13	34	.950	6.213	4.920	0	0	0	0
Ken Hubbs	2B	8	6	53.3	13	15	0	2	1.000	4.725	3.500	0	0	0	0
Mel Roach	2B	7	4	30.0	3	5	1	0	.889	2.400	1.143	0	0	0	0
Andre Rodgers	2B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ron Santo	3B	153	152	1352.0	157	307	31	41	.937	3.089	3.033	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	3B	5	4	33.0	2	9	3	1	.786	3.000	2.200	0	0	0	0
Dick Bertell	C	90	75	655.0	396	49	8	10	.982	6.115	4.944	23	19	26	20	43.5
Sammy Taylor	C	75	61	541.7	319	25	4	5	.989	5.716	4.587	8	25	32	11	25.6
Moe Thacker	C	25	11	117.3	67	5	2	0	.973	5.523	2.880	3	4	3	2	40.0
Cuno Barragan	C	10	9	71.0	35	4	0	1	1.000	4.944	3.900	1	2	0	2	100.0
Billy Williams	OF	135	133	1179.3	220	9	11	3	.954	1.748	1.696	0	0	0	0
George Altman	OF	130	128	1145.3	258	11	6	2	.978	2.114	2.069	0	0	0	0
Al Heist	OF	99	82	717.3	211	9	5	0	.978	2.760	2.222	0	0	0	0
Richie Ashburn	OF	76	69	604.3	131	4	3	0	.978	2.010	1.776	0	0	0	0
Ernie Banks	OF	23	23	199.7	32	6	1	0	.974	1.713	1.652	0	0	0	0
Bob Will	OF	30	13	142.7	33	0	0	0	1.000	2.082	1.100	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	OF	10	8	75.0	9	2	0	0	1.000	1.320	1.100	0	0	0	0
Danny Murphy	OF	4	4	27.3	5	1	0	0	1.000	1.976	1.500	0	0	0	0
Lou Brock	OF	3	3	21.0	6	0	2	0	.750	2.571	2.000	0	0	0	0
Nelson Mathews	OF	2	2	18.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.500	2.500	0	0	0	0
Andre Rodgers	OF	2	2	16.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.688	1.500	0	0	0	0
Sammy Drake	OF	1	1	6.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jim McAnany	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Don Cardwell	P	39	38	259.3	18	54	2	3	.973	2.499	1.846	0	0	0	0
Glen Hobbie	P	36	29	198.7	16	53	4	1	.945	3.126	1.917	0	0	0	0
Dick Ellsworth	P	37	31	186.7	8	49	2	7	.966	2.748	1.541	0	0	0	0
Jack Curtis	P	31	27	180.3	5	42	3	1	.940	2.346	1.516	0	0	0	0
Bob Anderson	P	57	12	152.0	14	38	0	7	1.000	3.079	.912	0	0	0	0
Dick Drott	P	35	8	98.0	1	11	1	0	.923	1.102	.343	0	0	0	0
Don Elston	P	58	0	93.3	4	18	0	1	1.000	2.121	.379	0	0	0	0
Jim Brewer	P	36	11	86.7	4	8	1	0	.923	1.246	.333	0	0	0	0
Barney Schultz	P	41	0	66.7	4	9	0	0	1.000	1.755	.317	0	0	0	0
Joe Schaffernoth	P	21	0	38.3	0	8	0	0	1.000	1.878	.381	0	0	0	0
Mel Wright	P	11	0	21.0	3	7	0	1	1.000	4.286	.909	0	0	0	0
Dick Burwell	P	2	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ernie Banks	SS	104	102	883.3	173	358	19	68	.965	5.410	5.106	0	0	0	0
Jerry Kindall	SS	47	38	340.0	82	111	13	27	.937	5.109	4.106	0	0	0	0
Andre Rodgers	SS	24	16	161.7	35	57	2	10	.979	5.122	3.833	0	0	0	0
Totals		1816	1404	12465.0	4155	1848	183	486	.970	4.334	3.306	35	50	61	35	36.5

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