1961 Milwaukee Braves Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 83-71
Finished 4th in the NL
Attendance: 1,101,441, Avg. 15,735
Ballpark: County Stadium
Manager: Chuck Dressen (71-58)
Manager: Birdie Tebbetts (12-13)
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1961 Milwaukee Braves Roster
1961 Milwaukee Braves Results

The Milwaukee Braves of the National League ended the 1961 season with a record of 83 wins and 71 losses, finishing fourth in the NL.

The Braves scored 712 runs and yielded 656 runs. Joe Adcock walloped 35 home runs for Milwaukee, while Frank Bolling, Eddie Mathews, Frank Thomas and Hank Aaron each added 20 or more also. Hank Aaron drove in 120 runs and topped all regular hitters by hitting .327. Warren Spahn led the squad with 21 wins, plus Lew Burdette contributed 15 or more wins, too Warren Spahn recorded a 3.02 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Chuck Dressen and 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
Warren Spahn	21	13	.618	3.02	38	34	3	21	4	0	262.7	236	96	88	24	64	1	115	4	0	4	1064
Lew Burdette	18	11	.621	4.00	40	36	4	14	3	0	272.3	295	131	121	31	33	3	92	3	1	1	1126
Bob Buhl	9	10	.474	4.11	32	28	2	9	1	0	188.3	180	99	86	23	98	4	77	5	0	3	820
Tony Cloninger	7	2	.778	5.25	19	10	4	3	0	0	84.0	84	49	49	16	33	1	51	1	4	7	363
Don McMahon	6	4	.600	2.84	53	0	32	0	0	8	92.0	84	35	29	4	51	6	55	2	0	4	402
Don Nottebart	6	7	.462	4.06	38	11	13	2	0	3	126.3	117	61	57	11	48	2	66	2	0	1	532
Carl Willey	6	12	.333	3.83	35	22	6	4	0	0	159.7	147	71	68	20	65	9	91	2	0	5	676
Bob Hendley	5	7	.417	3.90	19	13	2	3	0	0	97.0	96	46	42	8	39	2	44	0	0	2	412
Ron Piche	2	2	.500	3.47	12	1	5	1	0	1	23.3	20	12	9	1	16	2	16	0	0	0	104
Claude Raymond	1	0	1.000	3.98	13	0	8	0	0	2	20.3	22	9	9	2	9	1	13	1	0	0	91
Seth Morehead	1	0	1.000	6.46	12	0	3	0	0	0	15.3	16	11	11	4	7	0	13	1	0	1	70
Johnny Antonelli	1	0	1.000	7.59	9	0	4	0	0	0	10.7	16	9	9	2	3	0	8	0	0	0	51
George Brunet	0	0		5.40	5	0	3	0	0	0	5.0	7	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	23
Chi-Chi Olivo	0	0		18.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	4	4	1	5	1	1	0	0	0	12
Ken MacKenzie	0	1	.000	5.14	5	0	1	0	0	0	7.0	8	5	4	1	2	0	5	1	0	0	31
Moe Drabowsky	0	2	.000	4.62	16	0	7	0	0	2	25.3	26	15	13	4	18	3	5	1	1	1	118
Totals	83	71	.539	3.89	349	155	98	57	8	16	1391.3	1357	656	602	153	493	35	652	23	6	30	5895

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
Hank Aaron	155	671	603	115	197	39	10	34	120	21	9	56	64	.327	.381	.594	.974	358	16	2	1	9	20
Eddie Mathews	152	672	572	103	175	23	6	32	91	12	7	93	95	.306	.402	.535	.937	306	10	2	1	4	3
Joe Adcock	152	629	562	77	160	20	0	35	108	2	1	59	94	.285	.354	.507	.861	285	22	2	4	2	4
Frank Bolling	148	658	585	86	153	16	4	15	56	7	3	57	62	.262	.329	.379	.708	222	25	3	10	3	1
Frank Thomas	124	464	423	58	120	13	3	25	67	2	4	29	70	.284	.335	.506	.841	214	16	6	2	4	7
Joe Torre	113	441	406	40	113	21	4	10	42	3	5	28	60	.278	.330	.424	.754	172	10	4	2	1	4
Roy McMillan	154	588	505	42	111	16	0	7	48	2	4	61	86	.220	.305	.293	.598	148	16	4	11	7	2
Lee Maye	110	417	373	68	101	11	5	14	41	10	1	36	50	.271	.337	.440	.777	164	1	3	2	3	2
Al Spangler	68	125	97	23	26	2	0	0	6	4	2	28	9	.268	.432	.289	.721	28	0	0	0	0	2
Mack Jones	28	119	104	13	24	3	2	0	12	4	4	12	28	.231	.322	.298	.620	31	0	2	1	0	2
Gino Cimoli	37	131	117	12	23	5	0	3	4	1	0	11	15	.197	.266	.316	.582	37	3	0	3	0	0
Warren Spahn	39	106	94	13	21	7	0	4	15	0	0	7	33	.223	.279	.426	.704	40	1	1	2	2	0
Lew Burdette	42	108	103	10	21	5	0	3	11	0	0	2	39	.204	.219	.340	.559	35	0	0	3	0	0
Felix Mantilla	45	105	93	13	20	3	0	1	5	1	1	10	16	.215	.298	.280	.578	26	2	1	1	0	0
Charlie Lau	28	102	82	3	17	5	0	0	5	1	1	14	11	.207	.323	.268	.592	22	1	1	3	2	3
Sammy White	21	68	63	1	14	1	0	1	5	0	0	2	9	.222	.242	.286	.528	18	1	0	2	1	0
John DeMerit	32	80	74	5	12	3	0	2	5	0	0	5	19	.162	.225	.284	.509	21	2	1	0	0	0
Bob Boyd	36	43	41	3	10	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	7	.244	.256	.244	.500	10	1	0	0	1	0
Don Nottebart	38	42	38	4	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	9	.184	.244	.184	.428	7	3	0	1	0	0
Del Crandall	15	32	30	3	6	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	.200	.226	.300	.526	9	1	0	1	0	0
Mel Roach	13	42	36	3	6	0	0	1	6	0	0	2	4	.167	.244	.250	.494	9	0	2	1	1	0
Hawk Taylor	20	29	26	1	5	0	0	1	1	0	1	3	11	.192	.276	.308	.584	8	0	0	0	0	0
Tony Cloninger	19	33	30	4	5	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	6	.167	.194	.167	.360	5	0	0	2	0	0
Wes Covington	9	23	21	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.190	.261	.238	.499	5	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Buhl	32	67	60	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	30	.067	.138	.067	.205	4	1	0	2	0	0
Don McMahon	53	17	16	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.188	.188	.250	.438	4	0	0	1	0	0
Neil Chrisley	10	10	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.222	.300	.222	.522	2	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny Logan	18	20	19	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.105	.150	.158	.308	3	1	0	0	0	0
Moe Drabowsky	16	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Hendley	19	35	31	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	.032	.091	.032	.123	1	0	0	2	0	0
Carl Willey	35	58	54	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	26	.019	.036	.019	.055	1	0	0	3	0	0
Ron Piche	12	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Claude Raymond	13	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny Antonelli	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken MacKenzie	5	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Martin	6	6	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
George Brunet	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Seth Morehead	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Roof	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chi-Chi Olivo	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1847	5958	5288	712	1365	199	34	188	662	70	43	534	880	.258	.328	.415	.743	2196	133	34	62	40	50

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Joe Adcock	1B	148	148	1315.0	1471	102	11	133	.993	1.766	1.628	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	1B	11	4	45.3	48	4	0	6	1.000	1.324	4.727	0	0	0	0
Bob Boyd	1B	3	2	21.0	20	5	0	3	1.000	1.714	8.333	0	0	0	0
Mel Roach	1B	2	1	10.0	18	0	0	0	1.000	16.200	9.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Bolling	2B	148	145	1307.3	326	489	10	112	.988	5.611	5.507	0	0	0	0
Felix Mantilla	2B	10	10	84.0	25	27	1	4	.981	5.571	5.200	0	0	0	0
Eddie Mathews	3B	151	151	1340.3	168	281	18	30	.961	3.015	2.974	0	0	0	0
Felix Mantilla	3B	6	4	42.0	5	11	1	1	.941	3.429	2.667	0	0	0	0
Hank Aaron	3B	2	0	9.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Torre	C	112	108	964.7	494	50	10	4	.982	5.075	4.857	10	20	29	28	49.1
Charlie Lau	C	25	24	217.7	114	7	4	2	.968	5.003	4.840	1	2	9	5	35.7
Sammy White	C	20	18	162.7	107	5	3	0	.974	6.197	5.600	0	2	3	2	40.0
Del Crandall	C	5	5	43.3	17	3	0	0	1.000	4.154	4.000	0	4	2	1	33.3
Hawk Taylor	C	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Phil Roof	C	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Hank Aaron	OF	154	154	1367.0	377	13	7	3	.982	2.568	2.532	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	OF	109	109	941.3	202	4	10	0	.954	1.970	1.890	0	0	0	0
Lee Maye	OF	96	85	785.7	169	6	5	0	.972	2.005	1.823	0	0	0	0
Gino Cimoli	OF	31	28	255.0	66	0	1	0	.985	2.329	2.129	0	0	0	0
Al Spangler	OF	44	19	225.3	56	2	0	0	1.000	2.317	1.318	0	0	0	0
Mack Jones	OF	26	24	217.0	45	2	0	1	1.000	1.949	1.808	0	0	0	0
John DeMerit	OF	21	19	165.7	40	2	0	0	1.000	2.282	2.000	0	0	0	0
Mel Roach	OF	9	9	72.0	12	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.333	0	0	0	0
Felix Mantilla	OF	10	8	67.0	12	1	0	0	1.000	1.746	1.300	0	0	0	0
Hawk Taylor	OF	5	5	42.0	8	1	0	0	1.000	1.929	1.800	0	0	0	0
Wes Covington	OF	5	5	36.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	.750	.600	0	0	0	0
Lew Burdette	P	40	36	272.3	27	60	1	2	.989	2.875	2.175	0	0	0	0
Warren Spahn	P	38	34	262.7	16	63	2	7	.975	2.707	2.079	0	0	0	0
Bob Buhl	P	32	28	188.3	16	37	1	1	.981	2.533	1.656	0	0	0	0
Carl Willey	P	35	22	159.7	9	42	0	3	1.000	2.875	1.457	0	0	0	0
Don Nottebart	P	38	11	126.3	9	31	1	1	.976	2.850	1.053	0	0	0	0
Bob Hendley	P	19	13	97.0	6	24	1	0	.968	2.784	1.579	0	0	0	0
Don McMahon	P	53	0	92.0	7	23	3	1	.909	2.935	.566	0	0	0	0
Tony Cloninger	P	19	10	84.0	11	16	0	0	1.000	2.893	1.421	0	0	0	0
Moe Drabowsky	P	16	0	25.3	1	7	1	0	.889	2.842	.500	0	0	0	0
Ron Piche	P	12	1	23.3	0	6	0	1	1.000	2.314	.500	0	0	0	0
Claude Raymond	P	13	0	20.3	2	5	0	0	1.000	3.098	.538	0	0	0	0
Seth Morehead	P	12	0	15.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.174	.167	0	0	0	0
Johnny Antonelli	P	9	0	10.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	.222	0	0	0	0
Ken MacKenzie	P	5	0	7.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.857	.600	0	0	0	0
George Brunet	P	5	0	5.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	5.400	.600	0	0	0	0
Chi-Chi Olivo	P	3	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Roy McMillan	SS	154	154	1352.3	257	496	19	110	.975	5.011	4.890	0	0	0	0
Felix Mantilla	SS	19	0	29.0	5	9	1	2	.933	4.345	.737	0	0	0	0
Johnny Logan	SS	2	1	10.0	0	3	0	1	1.000	2.700	1.500	0	0	0	0
Totals		1679	1395	12522.0	4174	1848	111	428	.982	4.328	3.587	11	28	43	36	45.6

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