1909 New York Highlanders Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 74-77
Finished 5th in the AL
Attendance: 501,000, Avg. 8,153
Ballpark: Hilltop Park
Manager: George Stallings (74-77)
Location: New York, New York

1909 New York Highlanders Roster
1909 New York Highlanders Results

The New York Highlanders of the American League ended the 1909 season with a record of 74 wins and 77 losses, finishing fifth in the AL.

The Highlanders tallied 589 runs and conceded 587 runs. Clyde Engle drove in 71 runs. Hal Chase topped all regular hitters with a .283 average. Joe Lake led the team with 14 wins and a team-best 1.88 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

George Stallings 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
Joe Lake	14	11	.560	1.88	31	26	5	17	3	1	215.3	180	81	45	2	59	117	5	0	11	863
Jack Warhop	13	15	.464	2.40	36	23	12	21	3	2	243.3	197	84	65	2	81	95	26	0	3	954
King Brockett	10	8	.556	2.12	26	18	6	10	3	1	170.0	148	68	40	3	59	70	6	0	9	669
Jack Quinn	9	5	.643	1.97	23	11	12	8	0	1	118.7	110	45	26	1	24	36	4	0	2	464
Slow Joe Doyle	8	6	.571	2.58	17	15	2	8	3	0	125.7	103	49	36	3	37	57	2	0	4	483
Tom Hughes	7	8	.467	2.65	24	15	8	9	2	2	118.7	109	42	35	3	37	69	4	0	0	479
Rube Manning	7	11	.389	3.17	26	21	5	11	2	1	173.0	167	76	61	2	48	71	9	0	3	688
Pete Wilson	6	5	.545	3.17	14	13	1	7	1	0	93.7	82	55	33	2	43	44	4	0	2	403
Dick Carroll	0	0		3.60	2	1	1	0	0	0	5.0	7	6	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	25
Charles Schmidt	0	0		7.20	1	0	1	0	0	0	5.0	10	8	4	0	1	2	0	1	0	24
Russ Ford	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	4	4	3	0	4	2	3	0	0	19
Al Orth	0	0		12.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	6	4	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	15
George McConnell	0	1	.000	2.25	2	1	1	0	0	0	4.0	3	2	1	0	3	4	0	1	1	16
Doc Newton	0	3	.000	2.82	4	4	0	1	0	0	22.3	27	17	7	0	11	11	3	0	2	104
Jack Chesbro	0	4	.000	6.34	9	4	4	2	0	0	49.7	70	47	35	2	13	17	3	0	0	218
Totals	74	77	.490	2.65	217	153	59	94	17	8	1350.3	1223	588	397	21	422	597	69	2	37	5424

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
Clyde Engle	135	563	492	66	137	20	5	3	71	18	47	55	.278	.347	.358	.705	176	5	19
Hal Chase	118	513	474	60	134	17	3	4	63	25	20	50	.283	.317	.357	.674	169	4	15
Ray Demmitt	123	498	427	68	105	12	12	4	30	16	55	43	.246	.340	.358	.698	153	6	10
Jimmy Austin	136	500	437	37	101	11	5	1	39	30	32	61	.231	.285	.286	.571	125	1	30
Willie Keeler	99	427	360	44	95	7	5	1	32	10	24	6	.264	.327	.319	.647	115	10	33
Frank LaPorte	89	337	309	35	92	19	3	0	31	5	18	36	.298	.340	.379	.719	117	2	8
Birdie Cree	104	395	343	48	90	6	3	2	27	10	30	31	.262	.338	.315	.653	108	9	13
Kid Elberfeld	106	431	379	47	90	9	5	0	26	23	28	17	.237	.314	.288	.601	109	14	10
John Knight	116	416	360	46	85	8	5	0	40	15	37	68	.236	.311	.286	.597	103	2	17
Ed Sweeney	67	200	176	18	47	3	0	0	21	3	16	19	.267	.328	.284	.612	50	0	8
Red Kleinow	78	241	206	24	47	11	4	0	15	7	25	31	.228	.315	.320	.635	66	1	9
Charlie Hemphill	73	216	181	23	44	5	1	0	10	10	32	23	.243	.357	.282	.639	51	0	3
Earle Gardner	22	89	85	12	28	4	0	0	15	4	3	8	.329	.352	.376	.729	32	0	1
Walter Blair	42	121	110	5	23	2	2	0	11	2	7	17	.209	.269	.264	.533	29	2	2
King Brockett	26	65	60	6	17	0	0	0	4	1	1	5	.283	.306	.283	.590	17	1	3
Joe Lake	31	83	81	10	14	3	2	0	8	0	2	19	.173	.193	.259	.452	21	0	0
Rube Manning	26	65	60	5	11	1	0	0	3	0	2	11	.183	.210	.200	.410	12	0	3
Jack Warhop	36	91	86	6	11	1	1	0	3	0	2	16	.128	.157	.163	.320	14	1	2
Al Orth	22	40	34	3	9	0	1	0	5	1	5	9	.265	.359	.324	.683	11	0	1
George McConnell	13	45	43	4	9	0	1	0	5	1	1	9	.209	.227	.256	.483	11	0	1
Slow Joe Doyle	17	49	42	5	7	0	0	0	1	0	3	7	.167	.255	.167	.422	7	2	2
Jack Quinn	23	50	45	2	7	1	0	0	2	0	3	9	.156	.224	.178	.402	8	1	1
Neal Ball	8	34	29	5	6	1	1	0	3	2	3	10	.207	.281	.310	.592	9	0	2
Joe Ward	9	33	28	3	5	0	0	0	0	2	1	5	.179	.233	.179	.412	5	1	3
Tom Hughes	24	42	39	2	5	1	1	1	3	0	1	15	.128	.171	.282	.453	11	1	1
Pete Wilson	14	36	34	2	4	0	1	0	2	0	1	10	.118	.143	.176	.319	6	0	1
Eddie Tiemeyer	3	9	8	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.375	.444	.500	.944	4	0	0
Jack Chesbro	9	18	17	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	1	4	.176	.222	.176	.399	3	0	0
Bobby Vaughn	5	15	14	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	.143	.200	.143	.343	2	0	0
Dick Carroll	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0
Doc Newton	4	8	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.167	.375	.167	.542	1	0	0
Jack Wanner	3	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	.125	.300	.125	.425	1	0	0
Charles Schmidt	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Russ Ford	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Irish McIlveen	4	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0
Totals	1589	5649	4981	590	1234	143	61	16	473	187	407	598	.248	.313	.311	.623	1547	63	198

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Hal Chase	1B	118	117	1029.0	1202	71	28	53	.978	11.134	1.788	0	0	0
John Knight	1B	19	20	172.0	190	17	3	11	.986	1.831	1.895	0	0	0
George McConnell	1B	11	11	95.0	123	11	5	7	.964	12.695	12.182	0	0	0
Eddie Tiemeyer	1B	3	4	27.0	25	0	1	0	.962	8.333	8.333	0	0	0
Ed Sweeney	1B	3	0	15.0	19	1	1	1	.952	12.000	6.667	0	0	0
Joe Ward	1B	1	1	8.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.625	5.000	0	0	0
Frank LaPorte	2B	83	83	719.0	142	208	23	30	.938	4.381	4.217	0	0	0
Earle Gardner	2B	22	22	191.0	35	51	5	3	.945	4.052	3.909	0	0	0
John Knight	2B	17	21	185.0	38	46	7	4	.923	4.086	4.941	0	0	0
Neal Ball	2B	8	8	68.0	15	18	3	1	.917	4.368	4.125	0	0	0
Joe Ward	2B	7	7	62.0	8	14	4	1	.846	3.194	3.143	0	0	0
Al Orth	2B	6	6	54.0	10	16	0	0	1.000	4.333	4.333	0	0	0
Bobby Vaughn	2B	4	3	33.0	10	5	2	0	.882	4.091	3.750	0	0	0
Birdie Cree	2B	4	3	33.0	6	7	0	0	1.000	3.545	3.250	0	0	0
Jimmy Austin	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jimmy Austin	3B	111	109	947.0	176	236	32	19	.928	3.916	3.712	0	0	0
Kid Elberfeld	3B	44	43	373.0	62	91	7	6	.956	3.692	3.477	0	0	0
John Knight	3B	3	1	25.0	5	5	1	0	.909	3.600	3.333	0	0	0
Birdie Cree	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Red Kleinow	C	77	73	591.0	343	83	15	6	.966	6.487	5.532	6	88	64	42.1
Ed Sweeney	C	62	51	468.0	274	83	20	7	.947	6.865	5.758	5	83	64	43.5
Walter Blair	C	42	29	289.0	151	37	7	2	.964	5.855	4.476	4	28	28	50.0
Clyde Engle	OF	134	132	1172.0	299	17	18	5	.946	2.427	2.358	0	0	0
Ray Demmitt	OF	109	108	955.0	185	22	21	7	.908	1.951	1.899	0	0	0
Willie Keeler	OF	95	95	837.0	111	9	4	2	.968	1.290	1.263	0	0	0
Birdie Cree	OF	79	78	690.0	121	9	7	2	.949	1.696	1.646	0	0	0
Charlie Hemphill	OF	45	46	392.0	75	6	2	1	.976	1.860	1.800	0	0	0
Jack Warhop	P	36	23	243.0	15	80	7	2	.931	3.519	2.639	0	0	0
Joe Lake	P	31	26	215.0	3	94	10	2	.907	4.060	3.129	0	0	0
Rube Manning	P	26	21	173.0	5	51	1	0	.982	2.913	2.154	0	0	0
King Brockett	P	26	18	170.0	10	71	6	4	.931	4.288	3.115	0	0	0
Slow Joe Doyle	P	17	15	126.0	5	21	3	0	.897	1.857	1.529	0	0	0
Jack Quinn	P	23	11	119.0	5	52	2	3	.966	4.311	2.478	0	0	0
Tom Hughes	P	24	15	119.0	8	29	1	0	.974	2.798	1.542	0	0	0
Pete Wilson	P	14	13	94.0	2	27	4	0	.879	2.777	2.071	0	0	0
Jack Chesbro	P	9	4	50.0	1	21	0	0	1.000	3.960	2.444	0	0	0
Doc Newton	P	4	4	22.0	1	11	4	0	.750	4.909	3.000	0	0	0
Charles Schmidt	P	1	0	5.0	0	1	1	0	.500	1.800	1.000	0	0	0
Dick Carroll	P	2	1	5.0	0	1	1	0	.500	1.800	.500	0	0	0
George McConnell	P	2	1	4.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Al Orth	P	1	1	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Russ Ford	P	1	0	3.0	1	2	1	1	.750	9.000	3.000	0	0	0
John Knight	SS	76	65	569.0	141	204	38	19	.901	5.457	4.539	0	0	0
Kid Elberfeld	SS	61	61	532.0	134	178	19	24	.943	5.278	5.115	0	0	0
Jimmy Austin	SS	23	20	175.0	49	65	12	8	.905	5.863	4.957	0	0	0
Birdie Cree	SS	6	5	46.0	7	21	2	2	.933	5.478	4.667	0	0	0
Jack Wanner	SS	2	2	17.0	1	5	4	1	.600	3.176	3.000	0	0	0
Hal Chase	SS	1	0	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bobby Vaughn	SS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1496	1377	12132.0	4019	2000	332	234	.948	4.465	4.023	15	199	156	43.9

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