1955 Cincinnati Redlegs Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 75-79
Finished 5th in the NL
Attendance: 693,662, Avg. 10,833
Ballpark: Crosley Field
Manager: Birdie Tebbetts (75-79)
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

1955 Cincinnati Redlegs Roster
1955 Cincinnati Redlegs Results

The Cincinnati Redlegs of the National League ended the 1955 season with a record of 75 wins and 79 losses, finishing fifth in the NL.

The Redlegs scored 761 runs and surrendered 684 runs. Ted Kluszewski walloped 47 home runs for Cincinnati, while Smoky Burgess, Wally Post and Gus Bell each added 20 or more as well. Ted Kluszewski accounted for 113 RBI and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .314 clip. Joe Nuxhall led the team with 17 wins, and Johnny Klippstein earned a 3.39 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Birdie Tebbetts 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
Joe Nuxhall	17	12	.586	3.47	50	33	8	14	5	3	257.0	240	108	99	25	78	6	98	5	0	5	1061
Art Fowler	11	10	.524	3.90	46	28	9	8	3	2	207.7	198	96	90	20	63	3	94	1	0	6	867
Jackie Collum	9	8	.529	3.63	32	17	8	5	0	1	134.0	128	65	54	17	37	4	49	2	0	0	546
Johnny Klippstein	9	10	.474	3.39	39	14	14	3	2	0	138.0	120	66	52	13	60	5	68	4	0	6	588
Hersh Freeman	7	4	.636	2.16	52	0	27	0	0	11	91.7	94	31	22	3	30	6	37	2	1	2	386
Joe Black	5	2	.714	4.22	32	11	13	1	0	3	102.3	106	58	48	13	25	3	54	0	1	0	439
Gerry Staley	5	8	.385	4.66	30	18	3	2	0	0	119.7	146	72	62	22	28	3	40	3	0	1	519
Rudy Minarcin	5	9	.357	4.90	41	12	11	3	1	1	115.7	116	73	63	17	51	7	45	3	0	4	506
Don Gross	4	5	.444	4.14	17	11	6	2	1	0	67.3	79	33	31	11	16	0	33	1	0	0	287
Corky Valentine	2	1	.667	7.43	10	5	2	0	0	0	26.7	29	23	22	5	16	2	14	1	1	0	127
Bud Podbielan	1	2	.333	3.21	17	2	5	0	0	0	42.0	36	16	15	4	11	0	26	1	0	2	171
Maurice Fisher	0	0		6.75	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	5	2	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	15
Fred Baczewski	0	0		18.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Jim Pearce	0	1	.000	10.80	2	1	0	0	0	0	3.3	8	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18
Jerry Lane	0	2	.000	4.91	8	0	6	0	0	1	11.0	11	6	6	2	6	2	5	0	0	0	47
Bob Hooper	0	2	.000	7.62	8	0	1	0	0	0	13.0	20	12	11	2	6	0	6	0	0	0	65
Steve Ridzik	0	3	.000	4.50	13	2	3	0	0	0	30.0	35	16	15	4	14	1	6	1	0	2	134
Totals	75	79	.487	3.95	399	154	116	38	12	22	1363.0	1373	684	598	161	443	42	576	24	3	28	5781

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
Ted Kluszewski	153	686	612	116	192	25	0	47	113	1	1	66	40	.314	.382	.585	.967	358	10	4	0	4	25
Gus Bell	154	672	610	88	188	30	6	27	104	4	4	54	57	.308	.361	.510	.871	311	6	0	2	6	2
Wally Post	154	668	601	116	186	33	3	40	109	7	4	60	102	.309	.372	.574	.946	345	15	2	2	3	5
Johnny Temple	150	684	588	94	165	20	3	0	50	19	4	80	32	.281	.365	.325	.690	191	6	1	10	5	0
Smoky Burgess	116	477	421	67	129	15	3	20	77	1	1	47	35	.306	.373	.499	.871	210	11	1	2	6	4
Roy McMillan	151	556	470	50	126	21	2	1	37	4	4	66	33	.268	.364	.328	.692	154	11	7	10	3	7
Ray Jablonski	74	239	221	28	53	9	0	9	28	0	1	13	35	.240	.289	.403	.691	89	4	3	0	2	1
Stan Palys	79	240	222	29	51	14	0	7	30	1	1	12	35	.230	.271	.387	.659	86	4	1	4	1	0
Chuck Harmon	96	232	198	31	50	6	3	5	28	9	9	26	24	.253	.345	.389	.734	77	2	3	3	2	0
Rocky Bridges	95	190	168	20	48	4	0	1	18	1	1	15	19	.286	.341	.327	.668	55	4	0	5	2	2
Bobby Adams	64	176	150	23	41	11	2	2	20	2	0	20	21	.273	.368	.413	.781	62	3	3	2	1	1
Bob Thurman	82	170	152	19	33	2	3	7	22	0	2	17	26	.217	.296	.408	.704	62	6	0	1	0	2
Hobie Landrith	43	98	87	9	22	3	0	4	7	0	1	10	14	.253	.330	.425	.755	37	2	0	1	0	1
Milt Smith	36	117	102	15	20	3	1	3	8	2	2	13	24	.196	.293	.333	.626	34	3	1	1	0	0
Matt Batts	26	78	71	4	18	4	1	0	13	0	0	4	11	.254	.286	.338	.624	24	3	0	1	2	0
Joe Nuxhall	53	101	86	10	17	4	0	3	14	0	0	8	24	.198	.268	.349	.617	30	0	1	4	2	0
Sam Mele	35	68	62	4	13	1	0	2	7	0	1	5	13	.210	.279	.323	.602	20	5	1	0	0	0
Art Fowler	46	74	60	6	12	0	0	0	7	0	0	5	13	.200	.254	.200	.454	12	1	0	7	2	0
Jackie Collum	32	51	40	8	10	2	0	0	5	0	0	5	3	.250	.348	.300	.648	12	1	1	5	0	0
Ed Bailey	21	46	39	3	8	1	1	1	4	0	0	4	10	.205	.326	.359	.685	14	2	3	0	0	0
Glen Gorbous	8	21	18	2	6	3	0	0	4	0	0	3	1	.333	.429	.500	.929	9	0	0	0	0	0
Rudy Minarcin	41	31	28	2	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	6	.179	.226	.179	.404	5	0	0	0	1	0
Jim Greengrass	13	48	39	1	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	9	9	.103	.271	.154	.425	6	1	0	0	0	0
Bob Hazle	6	13	13	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.231	.231	.231	.462	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hersh Freeman	53	19	18	3	3	1	0	1	3	0	0	1	3	.167	.211	.389	.599	7	1	0	0	0	0
Bob Borkowski	25	20	18	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.167	.211	.222	.433	4	1	0	1	0	0
Don Gross	17	23	19	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.158	.200	.158	.358	3	0	0	3	0	0
Joe Black	32	34	30	3	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	10	.100	.129	.100	.229	3	0	0	3	0	0
Bud Podbielan	17	8	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.400	.571	.400	.971	2	0	0	1	0	0
Andy Seminick	6	15	15	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	.133	.133	.333	.467	5	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Brovia	21	20	18	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	6	.111	.150	.111	.261	2	0	0	0	1	0
Johnny Klippstein	39	39	31	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	15	.065	.171	.097	.268	3	1	1	4	0	0
Gerry Staley	30	42	36	2	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	11	.056	.105	.056	.161	2	1	0	4	0	0
Steve Ridzik	13	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Al Silvera	13	7	7	3	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Corky Valentine	10	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Hooper	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Maurice Fisher	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lane	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Baczewski	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Pearce	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2024	5978	5270	761	1424	216	28	181	726	51	36	556	657	.270	.341	.425	.766	2239	104	33	76	43	50

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Ted Kluszewski	1B	153	153	1343.7	1388	86	8	153	.995	9.873	9.634	0	0	0	0
Chuck Harmon	1B	4	0	12.0	12	0	0	2	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Borkowski	1B	1	1	5.0	6	1	1	1	.875	12.600	7.000	0	0	0	0
Stan Palys	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Sam Mele	1B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Johnny Temple	2B	149	149	1287.0	408	410	24	119	.971	5.720	5.490	0	0	0	0
Rocky Bridges	2B	9	2	35.0	10	10	0	3	1.000	5.143	2.222	0	0	0	0
Milt Smith	2B	5	3	33.0	9	7	0	0	1.000	4.364	3.200	0	0	0	0
Bobby Adams	2B	5	0	7.7	4	4	0	1	1.000	9.391	1.600	0	0	0	0
Rocky Bridges	3B	59	35	354.3	48	88	5	7	.965	3.454	2.305	0	0	0	0
Bobby Adams	3B	42	40	318.7	35	88	4	11	.969	3.474	2.929	0	0	0	0
Chuck Harmon	3B	39	27	247.0	38	48	6	3	.935	3.134	2.205	0	0	0	0
Milt Smith	3B	28	25	222.0	21	54	7	4	.915	3.041	2.679	0	0	0	0
Ray Jablonski	3B	28	27	220.3	24	44	10	3	.872	2.778	2.429	0	0	0	0
Hersh Freeman	3B	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Smoky Burgess	C	107	103	912.0	457	35	7	6	.986	4.855	4.598	8	21	25	18	41.9
Hobie Landrith	C	27	20	183.3	86	14	0	3	1.000	4.909	3.704	1	2	2	5	71.4
Matt Batts	C	21	18	155.3	65	8	1	2	.986	4.230	3.476	0	4	3	3	50.0
Ed Bailey	C	11	9	76.0	42	8	2	3	.962	5.921	4.545	1	1	0	4	100.0
Andy Seminick	C	5	4	36.0	26	0	0	0	1.000	6.500	5.200	0	1	1	1	50.0
Gus Bell	OF	154	154	1357.7	364	4	5	0	.987	2.439	2.390	0	0	0	0
Wally Post	OF	154	154	1356.7	298	13	7	2	.978	2.063	2.019	0	0	0	0
Stan Palys	OF	55	48	436.7	116	3	1	0	.992	2.453	2.164	0	0	0	0
Bob Thurman	OF	36	27	239.0	54	2	3	0	.949	2.109	1.556	0	0	0	0
Chuck Harmon	OF	32	23	221.7	76	2	0	1	1.000	3.167	2.438	0	0	0	0
Ray Jablonski	OF	28	27	210.0	45	2	1	0	.979	2.014	1.679	0	0	0	0
Jim Greengrass	OF	11	11	96.0	30	1	0	0	1.000	2.906	2.818	0	0	0	0
Sam Mele	OF	13	11	91.0	24	0	1	0	.960	2.374	1.846	0	0	0	0
Glen Gorbous	OF	5	4	36.0	12	0	2	0	.857	3.000	2.400	0	0	0	0
Bob Hazle	OF	3	3	21.0	12	1	0	0	1.000	5.571	4.333	0	0	0	0
Bob Borkowski	OF	11	0	19.3	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.328	.455	0	0	0	0
Al Silvera	OF	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Nuxhall	P	50	33	256.7	12	35	3	4	.940	1.648	.940	0	0	0	0
Art Fowler	P	46	28	207.7	12	30	0	1	1.000	1.820	.913	0	0	0	0
Johnny Klippstein	P	39	14	138.0	9	23	3	0	.914	2.087	.821	0	0	0	0
Jackie Collum	P	32	17	134.0	6	24	3	0	.909	2.015	.938	0	0	0	0
Gerry Staley	P	30	18	119.7	9	24	2	3	.943	2.482	1.100	0	0	0	0
Rudy Minarcin	P	41	12	115.7	8	28	1	2	.973	2.801	.878	0	0	0	0
Joe Black	P	32	11	102.3	3	17	2	1	.909	1.759	.625	0	0	0	0
Hersh Freeman	P	52	0	91.7	4	20	0	4	1.000	2.356	.462	0	0	0	0
Don Gross	P	17	11	67.3	3	12	2	1	.882	2.005	.882	0	0	0	0
Bud Podbielan	P	17	2	42.0	0	9	0	0	1.000	1.929	.529	0	0	0	0
Steve Ridzik	P	13	2	30.0	1	4	1	0	.833	1.500	.385	0	0	0	0
Corky Valentine	P	10	5	26.7	2	9	1	0	.917	3.713	1.100	0	0	0	0
Bob Hooper	P	8	0	13.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	2.769	.500	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lane	P	8	0	11.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	3.273	.500	0	0	0	0
Jim Pearce	P	2	1	3.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.700	.500	0	0	0	0
Maurice Fisher	P	1	0	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Fred Baczewski	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Roy McMillan	SS	150	148	1275.0	290	495	25	111	.969	5.541	5.233	0	0	0	0
Rocky Bridges	SS	26	6	86.7	11	19	1	4	.968	3.115	1.154	0	0	0	0
Johnny Temple	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1775	1386	12264.0	4088	1689	139	455	.977	4.239	3.255	10	29	31	31	50.0

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