1896 Louisville Colonels Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 38-93
Finished 12th in the NL
Attendance: 133,000, Avg. 2,361
Ballpark: Eclipse Park II
Manager: John McCloskey (2-17)
Manager: Bill McGunnigle (36-76)
Location: Louisville, Kentucky

1896 Louisville Colonels Roster
1896 Louisville Colonels Results

The Louisville Colonels of the National League ended the 1896 season with a record of 38 wins and 93 losses, finishing twelfth in the NL.

The Colonels scored 653 runs and conceded 997 runs, most in the circuit. Fred Clarke drove in 79 runs. Tom McCreery led batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .351 clip. Chick Fraser topped the squad with 12 wins, while Bill Hill earned a 4.31 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

John McCloskey and Bill McGunnigle 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	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Chick Fraser	12	27	.308	4.87	43	38	5	36	0	1	349.3	396	282	189	9	166	91	29	0	27	1594
Bill Hill	9	28	.243	4.31	43	39	3	32	0	2	319.7	353	229	153	14	155	104	18	1	9	1444
Bert Cunningham	7	14	.333	5.09	27	20	5	17	0	1	189.3	242	168	107	6	74	37	17	0	5	876
Art Herman	4	6	.400	5.63	14	12	2	9	0	0	94.3	122	73	59	4	36	13	2	0	2	431
Tom Smith	2	3	.400	5.40	11	5	6	4	0	0	55.0	73	55	33	2	25	14	4	0	4	260
Gus Weyhing	2	3	.400	6.64	5	5	0	4	0	0	42.0	62	46	31	6	15	9	2	0	1	200
Mike McDermott	2	7	.222	7.34	12	10	2	4	1	0	65.0	87	77	53	4	44	12	6	0	5	324
Joe Kostal	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Ducky Holmes	0	1	.000	7.50	2	1	1	0	0	0	12.0	26	23	10	0	8	3	0	0	0	68
Charlie Emig	0	1	.000	7.88	1	1	0	1	0	0	8.0	12	17	7	1	7	1	3	0	0	45
Tom McCreery	0	1	.000	36.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	4	10	4	1	5	0	0	0	0	12
Fritz Clausen	0	2	.000	6.55	2	2	0	1	0	0	11.0	17	13	8	1	6	4	3	0	0	58
Totals	38	93	.290	5.12	163	134	26	108	1	4	1148.7	1398	997	654	48	541	288	84	1	53	5322

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
Fred Clarke	131	581	517	96	168	15	18	9	79	34	43	34	.325	.392	.476	.868	246	14	7
Tom McCreery	115	493	441	87	155	23	21	7	65	26	42	58	.351	.409	.546	.956	241	1	9
Charlie Dexter	107	427	402	65	112	18	7	3	37	21	17	34	.279	.318	.381	.698	153	6	2
Billy Clingman	121	487	423	57	99	10	2	2	37	19	57	51	.234	.329	.281	.611	119	3	4
George Miller	98	356	324	54	89	17	4	1	33	16	27	9	.275	.334	.361	.695	117	2	3
Jim Rogers	72	307	290	39	75	8	6	0	38	13	15	14	.259	.297	.328	.625	95	1	1
John O'Brien	49	201	186	24	63	9	1	2	24	4	13	7	.339	.385	.430	.815	80	1	1
Ollie Pickering	45	178	165	28	50	6	4	1	22	13	12	11	.303	.350	.406	.756	67	0	1
Pete Cassidy	49	198	184	16	39	1	1	0	12	5	7	7	.212	.256	.228	.485	42	4	3
Ducky Holmes	47	165	141	22	38	3	2	0	18	8	13	5	.270	.360	.319	.679	45	7	4
Joe Dolan	44	175	165	14	35	2	1	3	18	6	9	12	.212	.253	.291	.544	48	0	1
Jack Crooks	39	144	122	19	29	5	1	2	15	8	20	8	.238	.354	.344	.698	42	2	0
Bill Hassamaer	30	120	106	8	26	5	0	2	14	1	14	7	.245	.333	.349	.682	37	0	0
Jack Warner	33	124	110	9	25	1	1	0	10	3	10	10	.227	.303	.255	.558	28	2	2
Bill Hill	43	125	116	11	24	0	0	0	5	1	5	23	.207	.240	.207	.447	24	0	4
Bert Cunningham	29	94	88	11	22	3	2	2	15	0	5	14	.250	.290	.398	.688	35	0	1
Chick Fraser	45	154	146	12	22	3	2	0	6	1	7	34	.151	.195	.199	.393	29	1	0
Herm McFarland	30	120	110	11	21	4	1	1	12	4	9	14	.191	.252	.273	.525	30	0	1
Abbie Johnson	25	93	87	10	20	2	1	0	14	0	4	6	.230	.264	.276	.540	24	0	2
Frank Shannon	31	133	115	14	18	1	1	1	15	3	13	15	.157	.248	.209	.457	24	1	4
Frank Eustace	25	107	100	18	17	2	2	1	11	4	6	14	.170	.217	.260	.477	26	0	1
Sammy Strang	14	52	46	6	12	0	0	0	7	4	6	6	.261	.346	.261	.607	12	0	0
Mike McDermott	12	30	27	6	8	2	0	0	1	0	2	2	.296	.345	.370	.715	10	0	1
Tom Smith	15	43	39	3	8	1	1	0	1	0	4	5	.205	.279	.282	.561	11	0	0
Tom Kinslow	8	27	25	4	7	0	1	0	7	0	1	5	.280	.308	.360	.668	9	0	1
Art Herman	14	36	36	3	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	11	.139	.139	.139	.278	5	0	0
Tom Morrison	8	31	27	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	4	4	.148	.258	.185	.443	5	0	0
Joe Wright	2	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0
Gus Weyhing	5	17	15	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	.133	.235	.133	.369	2	0	0
Frank Freund	2	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0
George Treadway	2	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.143	.250	.143	.393	1	0	0
Charlie Emig	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Fritz Clausen	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Eddie Boyle	3	11	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.182	.000	.182	0	0	0
Joe Kostal	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Totals	1298	5057	4588	653	1197	142	80	37	520	195	371	427	.261	.322	.351	.673	1610	45	53

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Jim Rogers	1B	60	513.0	591	37	19	42	.971	11.018	1.467	0	0	0
Pete Cassidy	1B	38	304.0	348	17	10	14	.973	1.806	9.605	0	0	0
Bill Hassamaer	1B	29	254.0	292	31	8	24	.976	11.445	11.138	0	0	0
Tom Smith	1B	4	30.0	34	0	1	2	.971	1.200	8.500	0	0	0
George Miller	1B	3	23.0	21	5	0	0	1.000	1.174	8.667	0	0	0
George Treadway	1B	1	10.0	13	1	3	0	.824	12.600	14.000	0	0	0
Tom Kinslow	1B	1	9.0	9	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Jack Warner	1B	1	6.0	7	1	0	0	1.000	12.000	8.000	0	0	0
John O'Brien	2B	49	429.0	125	147	24	19	.919	5.706	5.551	0	0	0
Jack Crooks	2B	39	337.0	112	111	18	24	.925	5.955	5.718	0	0	0
Abbie Johnson	2B	25	196.0	57	61	8	9	.937	5.418	4.720	0	0	0
George Miller	2B	25	153.0	28	54	7	6	.921	4.824	3.280	0	0	0
Frank Eustace	2B	3	22.0	4	9	1	2	.929	5.318	4.333	0	0	0
Tom McCreery	2B	1	7.0	3	1	0	1	1.000	5.143	4.000	0	0	0
Ducky Holmes	2B	1	6.0	0	2	1	0	.667	3.000	2.000	0	0	0
Billy Clingman	3B	121	1012.0	188	281	38	21	.925	4.171	3.876	0	0	0
George Miller	3B	8	63.0	3	19	6	3	.786	3.143	2.750	0	0	0
Tom Morrison	3B	5	44.0	5	14	3	0	.864	3.886	3.800	0	0	0
Frank Shannon	3B	3	29.0	8	4	2	2	.857	3.724	4.000	0	0	0
Charlie Dexter	C	55	441.0	179	63	26	9	.903	4.939	4.400	14	127	71	35.9
George Miller	C	48	359.0	138	50	16	4	.922	4.713	3.917	10	104	57	35.4
Jack Warner	C	32	266.0	132	38	11	4	.939	5.752	5.313	2	77	43	35.8
Tom Kinslow	C	5	37.0	14	3	4	2	.810	4.135	3.400	3	11	3	21.4
Eddie Boyle	C	3	24.0	12	3	1	0	.938	5.625	5.000	0	7	3	30.0
Herm McFarland	C	1	12.0	3	2	4	0	.556	3.750	5.000	0	3	2	40.0
Frank Freund	C	2	10.0	3	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	2.500	0	3	2	40.0
Fred Clarke	OF	131	1106.0	277	18	30	2	.908	2.401	2.252	0	0	0
Tom McCreery	OF	111	966.0	177	20	18	4	.916	1.835	1.775	0	0	0
Ollie Pickering	OF	45	392.0	97	12	12	4	.901	2.503	2.422	0	0	0
Charlie Dexter	OF	47	384.0	87	8	11	3	.896	2.227	2.021	0	0	0
Ducky Holmes	OF	33	261.0	43	6	13	1	.790	1.690	1.485	0	0	0
Herm McFarland	OF	28	238.0	51	4	11	3	.833	2.080	1.964	0	0	0
George Miller	OF	8	45.0	10	1	0	0	1.000	2.200	1.375	0	0	0
Chick Fraser	OF	2	20.0	4	1	2	0	.714	2.250	2.500	0	0	0
George Treadway	OF	1	19.0	3	0	3	0	.500	1.421	3.000	0	0	0
Joe Wright	OF	2	12.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000	0	0	0
Tom Morrison	OF	2	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Chick Fraser	P	43	349.0	39	95	25	5	.843	3.456	3.116	0	0	0
Bill Hill	P	43	320.0	13	95	13	5	.893	3.038	2.512	0	0	0
Bert Cunningham	P	27	189.0	23	48	9	3	.888	3.381	2.630	0	0	0
Art Herman	P	14	94.0	1	20	4	1	.840	2.011	1.500	0	0	0
Mike McDermott	P	12	65.0	5	20	4	0	.862	3.462	2.083	0	0	0
Tom Smith	P	11	55.0	2	18	0	0	1.000	3.273	1.818	0	0	0
Gus Weyhing	P	5	42.0	2	17	2	1	.905	4.071	3.800	0	0	0
Ducky Holmes	P	2	12.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.500	0	0	0
Fritz Clausen	P	2	11.0	1	4	1	0	.833	4.091	2.500	0	0	0
Charlie Emig	P	1	8.0	0	5	1	0	.833	5.625	5.000	0	0	0
Joe Kostal	P	2	2.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Tom McCreery	P	1	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Joe Dolan	SS	44	379.0	92	159	16	25	.940	5.960	5.705	0	0	0
Frank Shannon	SS	28	241.0	58	74	27	7	.830	4.929	4.714	0	0	0
Frank Eustace	SS	22	197.0	48	68	22	6	.841	5.299	5.273	0	0	0
Jim Rogers	SS	12	100.0	31	31	5	3	.925	5.580	5.167	0	0	0
Sammy Strang	SS	14	99.0	19	30	12	5	.803	4.455	3.500	0	0	0
Pete Cassidy	SS	11	98.0	20	31	14	4	.785	4.684	4.636	0	0	0
Ducky Holmes	SS	1	11.0	1	3	5	2	.444	3.273	4.000	0	0	0
Bert Cunningham	SS	1	9.0	3	2	1	0	.833	5.000	5.000	0	0	0
George Miller	SS	2	8.0	2	1	2	1	.600	3.375	1.500	0	0	0
Tom Morrison	SS	1	7.0	2	2	0	1	1.000	5.143	4.000	0	0	0
Totals		1272	10338.0	3442	1754	475	274	.916	4.524	4.085	29	332	181	35.3

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