1897 New York Giants Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 83-48
Finished 3rd in the NL
Attendance: 390,340, Avg. 5,817
Ballpark: Polo Grounds III
Manager: Bill Joyce (83-48)
Location: New York, New York

1897 New York Giants Roster
1897 New York Giants Results

The New York Giants of the National League ended the 1897 season with a record of 83 wins and 48 losses, finishing third in the NL.

The Giants scored 901 runs and yielded 696 runs. George Davis led New York with 10 home runs and drove in 135 runs, while leading all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .353. Amos Rusie earned 28 wins on the mound for the team, and Cy Seymour and Jouett Meekin added 15 or more victories as well Amos Rusie recorded a 2.54 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Joyce 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
Amos Rusie	28	10	.737	2.54	38	37	1	35	2	0	322.3	314	143	91	6	87	135	10	0	6	1336
Jouett Meekin	20	11	.645	3.76	37	34	3	30	2	0	303.7	328	176	127	9	99	83	8	0	15	1307
Cy Seymour	18	14	.563	3.27	39	34	5	29	2	1	286.7	257	162	104	4	168	156	21	2	12	1269
Mike Sullivan	8	7	.533	5.09	23	16	7	11	1	2	148.7	183	113	84	6	71	35	14	0	13	695
Ed Doheny	4	4	.500	2.12	10	10	0	10	0	0	85.0	69	45	20	0	45	37	8	0	7	366
Dad Clarke	2	1	.667	6.10	6	4	2	2	0	0	31.0	43	34	21	1	11	10	2	0	1	145
Charlie Gettig	1	1	.500	5.21	3	2	0	2	0	0	19.0	23	23	11	0	9	7	2	0	2	89
Totals	81	48	.628	3.45	156	137	18	119	7	3	1196.3	1217	696	458	26	490	463	65	2	56	5207

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
George Van Haltren	130	615	566	119	186	22	9	3	64	50	42	25	.329	.376	.415	.791	235	1	6
George Davis	131	576	521	112	184	31	10	10	135	65	43	23	.353	.410	.509	.918	265	7	5
Mike Tiernan	128	595	532	123	174	29	10	5	72	40	61	36	.327	.397	.447	.845	238	1	1
Kid Gleason	132	578	543	86	172	16	4	1	106	44	27	24	.317	.353	.366	.719	199	3	5
Willie Clark	117	486	436	63	122	17	12	1	75	18	37	29	.280	.349	.381	.729	166	9	4
Bill Joyce	110	492	389	111	118	15	13	3	64	35	81	38	.303	.444	.432	.875	168	17	5
Jack Warner	111	446	400	50	109	6	3	2	51	8	26	22	.273	.342	.318	.659	127	16	4
Ducky Holmes	80	338	310	52	82	8	6	1	45	30	18	31	.265	.313	.339	.652	105	4	6
Tom McCreery	49	206	177	36	53	8	5	1	28	15	22	28	.299	.380	.418	.798	74	1	6
Parke Wilson	47	174	158	29	47	9	3	0	23	6	15	3	.297	.362	.392	.754	62	1	0
Jouett Meekin	42	143	137	22	41	6	1	0	10	3	5	11	.299	.329	.358	.686	49	1	0
Amos Rusie	40	148	144	25	40	1	3	0	22	1	3	8	.278	.297	.326	.624	47	1	0
Cy Seymour	45	146	141	13	34	5	1	2	14	3	4	13	.241	.262	.333	.595	47	0	1
Mike Sullivan	23	68	66	6	18	1	0	0	8	0	2	10	.273	.294	.288	.582	19	0	0
Jake Beckley	17	73	68	8	17	2	3	1	11	2	2	2	.250	.301	.412	.713	28	3	0
Jim Donnelly	23	95	85	19	16	3	0	0	11	6	9	5	.188	.266	.224	.489	19	0	1
Charlie Gettig	22	83	75	8	15	6	0	0	12	3	6	10	.200	.277	.280	.557	21	2	0
Walt Wilmot	11	37	34	8	9	2	0	1	4	1	2	3	.265	.306	.412	.717	14	0	1
Ed Doheny	10	36	35	5	7	1	0	0	0	2	1	4	.200	.222	.229	.451	8	0	0
Dave Zearfoss	5	10	10	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.300	.300	.500	.800	5	0	0
Dad Clarke	6	14	13	4	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	.231	.286	.231	.516	3	0	0
James Stafford	7	26	23	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	3	1	.087	.192	.087	.279	2	0	0
Yale Murphy	5	10	8	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0
Totals	1291	5395	4871	901	1452	188	84	31	760	332	412	330	.298	.361	.390	.751	1901	67	45

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Willie Clark	1B	108	940.0	1050	65	18	69	.984	1.676	1.324	0	0	0
Jake Beckley	1B	17	152.0	166	15	5	12	.973	1.717	1.647	0	0	0
Parke Wilson	1B	11	83.0	92	5	2	6	.980	1.518	8.818	0	0	0
Bill Joyce	1B	2	21.0	22	0	3	2	.880	9.429	11.000	0	0	0
Kid Gleason	2B	130	1133.0	312	396	53	43	.930	5.624	5.446	0	0	0
Charlie Gettig	2B	6	31.0	5	10	4	1	.789	4.355	2.500	0	0	0
Tom McCreery	2B	3	22.0	3	9	2	1	.857	4.909	4.000	0	0	0
Yale Murphy	2B	2	5.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.600	1.000	0	0	0
Parke Wilson	2B	1	4.0	0	2	1	0	.667	4.500	2.000	0	0	0
Bill Joyce	3B	107	968.0	166	199	64	17	.851	3.394	3.411	0	0	0
Jim Donnelly	3B	23	173.0	18	35	8	2	.869	2.757	2.304	0	0	0
Charlie Gettig	3B	7	48.0	6	4	8	0	.556	1.875	1.429	0	0	0
Willie Clark	3B	1	7.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.857	3.000	0	0	0
Jack Warner	C	111	946.0	523	127	32	17	.953	6.184	5.856	20	104	114	52.3
Parke Wilson	C	30	221.0	123	20	11	3	.929	5.824	4.767	11	24	18	42.9
Dave Zearfoss	C	5	28.0	15	7	3	1	.880	7.071	4.400	2	3	6	66.7
George Van Haltren	OF	130	1129.0	271	31	20	4	.938	2.407	2.323	0	0	0
Mike Tiernan	OF	128	1125.0	178	11	14	2	.931	1.512	1.477	0	0	0
Ducky Holmes	OF	78	699.0	115	9	13	2	.905	1.597	1.590	0	0	0
Tom McCreery	OF	45	377.0	53	10	7	1	.900	1.504	1.400	0	0	0
Walt Wilmot	OF	9	76.0	13	2	1	0	.938	1.776	1.667	0	0	0
Willie Clark	OF	7	48.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.688	1.286	0	0	0
Cy Seymour	OF	6	38.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	2.132	1.500	0	0	0
Parke Wilson	OF	4	37.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	2.676	2.750	0	0	0
Charlie Gettig	OF	3	32.0	6	0	1	0	.857	1.688	2.000	0	0	0
James Stafford	OF	5	25.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.440	.800	0	0	0
Amos Rusie	P	38	322.0	19	77	8	3	.923	2.683	2.526	0	0	0
Jouett Meekin	P	37	304.0	14	56	11	2	.864	2.072	1.892	0	0	0
Cy Seymour	P	39	278.0	16	100	20	5	.853	3.755	2.974	0	0	0
Mike Sullivan	P	23	149.0	4	39	6	2	.878	2.597	1.870	0	0	0
Ed Doheny	P	10	85.0	4	31	4	3	.897	3.706	3.500	0	0	0
Dad Clarke	P	6	31.0	3	7	3	0	.769	2.903	1.667	0	0	0
Charlie Gettig	P	3	19.0	0	6	2	0	.750	2.842	2.000	0	0	0
George Davis	SS	130	1121.0	339	438	62	67	.926	6.238	5.977	0	0	0
Kid Gleason	SS	3	22.0	5	8	3	1	.813	5.318	4.333	0	0	0
James Stafford	SS	2	18.0	4	4	5	1	.615	4.000	4.000	0	0	0
Charlie Gettig	SS	3	13.0	2	6	1	0	.889	5.538	2.667	0	0	0
Ducky Holmes	SS	1	12.0	0	6	3	0	.667	4.500	6.000	0	0	0
Yale Murphy	SS	3	11.0	2	2	1	0	.800	3.273	1.333	0	0	0
Totals		1277	10753.0	3583	1741	399	267	.930	4.456	4.169	33	131	138	51.3

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