1897 Louisville Colonels Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 52-78
Finished 11th in the NL
Attendance: 145,210, Avg. 2,380
Ballpark: Eclipse Park II
Manager: Jim Rogers (17-24)
Manager: Fred Clarke (35-54)
Location: Louisville, Kentucky

1897 Louisville Colonels Roster
1897 Louisville Colonels Results

The Louisville Colonels of the National League ended the 1897 season with a record of 52 wins and 78 losses, finishing eleventh in the NL.

The Colonels scored 675 runs and gave up 869 runs. Perry Werden drove in 83 runs. Fred Clarke led all regular batters by connecting at a .390 clip. Chick Fraser topped the team with 15 wins, while Bill Hill earned a 3.62 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Jim Rogers and Fred Clarke coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Chick Fraser	15	19	.441	4.04	36	34	2	32	0	294.3	334	226	132	11	139	70	22	22	1340
Bert Cunningham	14	13	.519	4.15	30	28	2	26	0	242.7	294	152	112	3	72	49	14	7	1077
Bill Hill	7	17	.292	3.62	27	26	1	20	1	199.0	209	127	80	6	69	55	17	4	866
Roy Evans	5	4	.556	4.10	9	8	1	6	0	59.3	66	40	27	4	24	20	8	1	268
Bill Magee	4	12	.250	5.41	23	17	6	13	1	156.3	187	137	94	6	101	44	10	6	747
George Hemming	3	4	.429	5.10	9	8	1	7	0	67.0	80	59	38	5	25	7	1	1	298
Dad Clarke	2	4	.333	3.95	7	6	1	6	0	54.7	74	33	24	3	10	7	2	2	243
Pete Dowling	1	2	.333	5.88	4	4	0	2	0	26.0	39	30	17	0	8	3	6	1	128
Jim Jones	0	0		18.90	1	0	1	0	0	6.7	19	22	14	1	5	0	2	0	45
Rube Waddell	0	1	.000	3.21	2	1	1	1	0	14.0	17	6	5	0	6	5	1	0	64
Art Herman	0	1	.000	4.00	3	2	1	1	0	18.0	23	14	8	1	5	4	0	0	80
Bert Miller	0	1	.000	7.94	4	1	3	1	0	17.0	32	23	15	0	3	3	0	1	84
Totals	51	78	.395	4.41	155	135	20	115	2	1155.0	1374	869	566	40	467	267	83	45	5240

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
Fred Clarke	130	599	526	122	205	30	13	6	67	59	45	26	.390	.461	.530	.992	279	25	3
Perry Werden	133	569	512	76	154	21	14	5	83	15	41	21	.301	.365	.426	.791	218	11	5
James Stafford	113	486	441	68	122	16	5	7	54	15	31	35	.277	.328	.383	.712	169	3	11
Tom McCreery	91	408	344	55	96	5	6	4	40	13	40	45	.279	.354	.363	.718	125	0	24
Billy Clingman	115	453	403	61	92	14	7	2	47	14	37	52	.228	.301	.313	.614	126	5	8
Bill Wilson	107	423	389	44	83	12	4	1	41	9	18	39	.213	.257	.272	.530	106	5	11
Honus Wagner	62	263	242	38	81	18	4	2	39	20	15	14	.335	.376	.467	.843	113	1	5
Charlie Dexter	76	283	257	43	72	12	5	2	46	12	21	30	.280	.342	.389	.731	100	3	2
Ollie Pickering	64	282	249	34	62	5	2	1	21	20	26	23	.249	.325	.297	.622	74	2	5
Abbie Johnson	49	180	165	16	40	6	1	0	23	2	13	12	.242	.302	.291	.593	48	1	1
William Nance	35	144	120	25	29	5	3	3	17	3	20	15	.242	.355	.408	.763	49	1	3
Joe Dolan	36	144	133	10	28	2	2	0	7	6	8	17	.211	.271	.256	.526	34	3	0
Bert Cunningham	32	104	97	13	22	0	1	2	10	1	1	13	.227	.242	.309	.552	30	1	5
Jim Rogers	42	185	153	22	22	3	2	2	22	4	23	12	.144	.260	.229	.489	35	1	8
George Smith	21	81	76	7	20	3	0	1	7	1	3	9	.263	.300	.342	.642	26	1	1
Chick Fraser	37	128	115	10	18	1	0	2	11	2	10	19	.157	.230	.217	.448	25	1	2
Bill Magee	23	67	62	4	13	1	0	0	9	0	4	14	.210	.258	.226	.483	14	0	1
Irv Hach	16	62	51	5	11	2	0	0	3	1	5	5	.216	.322	.255	.577	13	3	3
Dick Butler	10	39	38	3	7	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	.184	.184	.184	.368	7	0	1
Bill Hill	27	80	74	5	7	0	1	0	4	1	4	16	.095	.141	.122	.263	9	0	2
Dad Clarke	7	22	22	0	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	.227	.227	.227	.455	5	0	0
George Hemming	10	30	28	5	5	1	0	0	2	0	2	2	.179	.233	.214	.448	6	0	0
Win Clark	4	17	16	2	3	0	0	0	2	1	1	4	.188	.235	.188	.423	3	0	0
Roy Evans	9	25	23	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	2	9	.130	.200	.130	.330	3	0	0
Art Herman	3	9	6	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	.333	.556	.500	1.056	3	0	0
Frank Martin	2	8	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0
Pete Dowling	4	10	10	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.300	.500	3	0	0
Tom Delahanty	1	4	4	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	.250	.250	.500	.750	2	0	0
Jim Jones	2	5	4	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.400	.500	.900	2	0	0
Bert Miller	4	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0
Ossee Schrecongost	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Rube Waddell	2	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Ducky Holmes	2	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0
Totals	1270	5130	4587	675	1209	161	70	40	565	200	375	445	.264	.328	.355	.684	1630	67	101

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Perry Werden	1B	133	1134.0	1335	120	24	72	.984	11.548	1.940	0	0	0
Jim Rogers	1B	3	18.0	22	1	1	0	.958	11.500	7.667	0	0	0
George Hemming	1B	1	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jim Rogers	2B	40	340.0	88	122	16	13	.929	5.559	5.250	0	0	0
Abbie Johnson	2B	34	276.0	71	93	22	8	.882	5.348	4.824	0	0	0
George Smith	2B	21	167.0	46	57	8	8	.928	5.551	4.905	0	0	0
Joe Dolan	2B	18	167.0	42	65	10	9	.915	5.766	5.944	0	0	0
Irv Hach	2B	9	79.0	20	28	6	3	.889	5.468	5.333	0	0	0
Honus Wagner	2B	9	71.0	23	20	4	2	.915	5.451	4.778	0	0	0
Win Clark	2B	3	29.0	9	8	4	1	.810	5.276	5.667	0	0	0
Frank Martin	2B	2	21.0	4	9	3	0	.813	5.571	6.500	0	0	0
Tom Delahanty	2B	1	6.0	1	0	2	0	.333	1.500	1.000	0	0	0
Billy Clingman	3B	115	965.0	178	273	25	16	.947	4.206	3.922	0	0	0
Charlie Dexter	3B	14	124.0	22	31	11	1	.828	3.847	3.786	0	0	0
Irv Hach	3B	7	38.0	4	10	3	1	.824	3.316	2.000	0	0	0
James Stafford	3B	1	11.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	4.091	5.000	0	0	0
Win Clark	3B	1	10.0	0	3	2	0	.600	2.700	3.000	0	0	0
Bill Wilson	3B	1	7.0	1	1	1	0	.667	2.571	2.000	0	0	0
Bill Wilson	C	105	878.0	341	116	29	7	.940	4.685	4.352	34	187	111	37.2
Charlie Dexter	C	23	188.0	65	23	10	2	.898	4.213	3.826	9	40	22	35.5
Dick Butler	C	10	81.0	25	11	8	0	.818	4.000	3.600	2	17	11	39.3
Ossee Schrecongost	C	1	6.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	3.000	1	1	1	50.0
Fred Clarke	OF	129	1131.0	285	18	24	0	.927	2.411	2.349	0	0	0
Tom McCreery	OF	91	783.0	133	13	24	2	.859	1.678	1.604	0	0	0
Ollie Pickering	OF	63	532.0	135	15	10	2	.938	2.538	2.381	0	0	0
Honus Wagner	OF	53	440.0	107	17	12	5	.912	2.536	2.340	0	0	0
William Nance	OF	35	301.0	60	8	1	4	.986	2.033	1.943	0	0	0
Charlie Dexter	OF	32	216.0	40	9	5	3	.907	2.042	1.531	0	0	0
James Stafford	OF	7	53.0	15	0	0	0	1.000	2.547	2.143	0	0	0
Chick Fraser	OF	1	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bert Cunningham	OF	2	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Chick Fraser	P	36	286.0	35	85	12	5	.909	3.776	3.333	0	0	0
Bert Cunningham	P	30	235.0	27	58	7	0	.924	3.255	2.833	0	0	0
Bill Hill	P	27	199.0	14	53	12	1	.848	3.030	2.481	0	0	0
Bill Magee	P	23	155.0	4	42	7	1	.868	2.671	2.000	0	0	0
George Hemming	P	9	67.0	9	16	2	0	.926	3.358	2.778	0	0	0
Roy Evans	P	9	59.0	0	9	0	0	1.000	1.373	1.000	0	0	0
Dad Clarke	P	7	55.0	6	10	0	0	1.000	2.618	2.286	0	0	0
Pete Dowling	P	4	26.0	4	3	0	1	1.000	2.423	1.750	0	0	0
Art Herman	P	3	18.0	0	6	0	0	1.000	3.000	2.000	0	0	0
Bert Miller	P	4	17.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	2.647	1.250	0	0	0
Rube Waddell	P	2	14.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.000	0	0	0
Jim Jones	P	1	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
James Stafford	SS	105	895.0	203	358	72	35	.886	5.641	5.343	0	0	0
Joe Dolan	SS	18	146.0	42	48	16	5	.849	5.548	5.000	0	0	0
Abbie Johnson	SS	12	87.0	28	27	5	7	.917	5.690	4.583	0	0	0
Charlie Dexter	SS	2	17.0	5	5	1	2	.909	5.294	5.000	0	0	0
Ducky Holmes	SS	1	10.0	4	4	0	2	1.000	7.200	8.000	0	0	0
Totals		1258	10371.0	3458	1807	399	218	.930	4.569	4.185	46	245	145	37.2

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