1939 Philadelphia Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 55-97
Finished 7th in the AL
Attendance: 395,022, Avg. 8,737
Ballpark: Shibe Park
Manager: Connie Mack (25-37)
Manager: Earle Mack (30-60)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1939 Philadelphia Athletics Roster
1939 Philadelphia Athletics Results

The Philadelphia Athletics of the American League ended the 1939 season with a record of 55 wins and 97 losses, finishing seventh in the AL.

The Athletics scored 711 runs and allowed 1022 runs. Bob Johnson led Philadelphia with 23 home runs, while Frankie Hayes and Sam Chapman walloped 20 or more as well. Bob Johnson drove in 114 runs and topped batters with significant playing time with a .338 average. Lynn Nelson paced the squad with 10 wins and a team-best 4.78 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Connie Mack and Earle Mack 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
Lynn Nelson	10	13	.435	4.78	35	24	11	12	2	1	197.7	233	117	105	27	64	75	3	0	0	877
George Caster	9	9	.500	4.90	28	17	8	7	1	0	136.0	144	82	74	16	45	59	3	1	1	583
Nels Potter	8	12	.400	6.60	41	25	12	9	0	2	196.3	258	163	144	26	88	60	5	2	12	922
Bill Beckmann	7	11	.389	5.39	27	19	5	7	2	0	155.3	198	104	93	15	41	20	1	0	1	692
Buck Ross	6	14	.300	6.00	29	28	0	6	1	0	174.0	216	143	116	17	95	43	0	0	5	833
Chubby Dean	5	8	.385	5.25	54	1	38	0	0	7	116.7	132	93	68	8	80	39	0	0	2	556
Cotton Pippen	4	11	.267	5.99	25	17	4	5	0	1	118.7	169	97	79	13	40	33	1	0	4	566
Bob Joyce	3	5	.375	6.69	30	6	11	1	0	0	107.7	156	91	80	13	37	25	1	0	3	517
Eddie Smith	1	0	1.000	9.82	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.7	7	4	4	0	2	3	0	1	0	20
Les McCrabb	1	2	.333	4.04	5	4	1	2	0	0	35.7	42	20	16	4	10	11	1	0	0	160
Roy Parmelee	1	6	.143	6.45	14	5	8	0	0	1	44.7	42	41	32	2	35	13	3	0	4	220
Jim Schelle	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	3	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	5
Dave Smith	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3
Walt Masters	0	0		6.55	4	0	4	0	0	0	11.0	15	9	8	0	8	2	0	0	0	58
Bill Nagel	0	0		12.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	7	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	18
Bud Thomas	0	1	.000	15.75	2	2	0	0	0	0	4.0	8	8	7	2	1	0	0	0	0	21
Jim Reninger	0	2	.000	7.71	4	2	0	0	0	0	16.3	24	15	14	3	12	3	0	0	3	82
Sam Page	0	3	.000	6.95	4	3	0	1	0	0	22.0	34	27	17	1	15	11	0	0	0	115
Totals	55	97	.362	5.79	308	153	103	50	6	12	1342.7	1687	1022	864	148	579	397	19	4	35	6248

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH
Bob Johnson	150	653	544	115	184	30	9	23	114	15	5	99	59	.338	.440	.553	.993	301	12	0	10
Wally Moses	115	486	437	68	134	28	7	3	33	7	4	44	23	.307	.370	.423	.793	185	4	0	5
Sam Chapman	140	554	498	74	134	24	6	15	64	11	4	51	62	.269	.338	.432	.770	215	11	1	4
Frankie Hayes	124	486	431	66	122	28	5	20	83	4	1	40	55	.283	.348	.510	.859	220	10	3	12
Dick Siebert	101	433	402	58	118	28	3	6	47	4	1	21	22	.294	.329	.423	.751	170	6	0	10
Dario Lodigiani	121	446	393	46	102	22	4	6	44	2	0	42	18	.260	.337	.382	.719	150	9	4	7
Joe Gantenbein	111	387	348	47	101	14	4	4	36	1	5	32	22	.290	.353	.388	.741	135	4	2	5
Dee Miles	106	343	320	49	96	17	6	1	37	3	4	15	17	.300	.331	.400	.731	128	3	0	8
Bill Nagel	105	374	341	39	86	19	4	12	39	2	1	25	86	.252	.307	.437	.744	149	15	2	6
Skeeter Newsome	99	282	248	22	55	9	1	0	17	5	7	19	12	.222	.277	.266	.543	66	8	0	15
Earle Brucker	62	199	172	18	50	15	1	3	31	0	1	24	16	.291	.381	.442	.823	76	7	1	2
Wayne Ambler	95	263	227	15	48	13	0	0	24	1	0	22	25	.211	.281	.269	.550	61	10	0	14
Nick Etten	43	174	155	20	39	11	2	3	29	0	0	16	11	.252	.322	.406	.728	63	4	0	3
Chubby Dean	80	88	77	12	27	4	0	0	19	0	0	8	4	.351	.412	.403	.814	31	5	0	3
Eric Tipton	47	121	104	12	24	4	2	1	14	2	0	13	7	.231	.316	.337	.653	35	4	0	4
Lynn Nelson	40	83	80	3	15	2	0	0	5	0	1	2	13	.188	.217	.213	.429	17	1	1	0
Fred Chapman	15	51	49	5	14	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	3	.286	.300	.347	.647	17	0	0	1
Al Brancato	21	79	68	12	14	5	0	1	8	1	0	8	4	.206	.299	.324	.622	22	3	1	2
Bill Beckmann	27	60	52	5	13	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	3	.250	.278	.250	.528	13	1	0	6
Buck Ross	29	66	58	2	12	2	0	0	4	0	0	1	19	.207	.220	.241	.462	14	2	0	7
Nels Potter	41	76	67	6	12	2	0	0	4	0	0	5	6	.179	.236	.209	.445	14	1	0	4
George Caster	28	45	43	2	9	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	8	.209	.209	.209	.419	9	0	0	2
Bill Lillard	7	23	19	4	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	.316	.409	.368	.778	7	0	0	1
Eddie Collins	32	21	21	6	5	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	.238	.238	.286	.524	6	0	0	0
Sam Page	4	9	7	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.429	.500	.429	.929	3	1	0	1
Lou Finney	9	24	22	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	.136	.208	.136	.345	3	0	0	0
Bob Joyce	30	37	35	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.086	.111	.114	.225	4	1	0	1
Cotton Pippen	25	42	35	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	5	.086	.179	.086	.265	3	0	0	3
Bob McNamara	9	10	9	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	.222	.300	.333	.633	3	0	0	0
Roy Parmelee	16	16	15	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.133	.188	.133	.321	2	0	0	0
Jim Reninger	4	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0
Hal Wagner	5	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0
Bud Thomas	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Walt Masters	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Les McCrabb	5	15	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2
Jim Schelle	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Harry O'Neill	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Dave Smith	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Eddie Smith	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals	1858	5965	5309	711	1438	282	55	98	667	60	34	503	531	.271	.336	.400	.736	2124	122	15	138

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB
Dick Siebert	1B	99	874	74	9	73	.991	9.576	0
Bob McNamara	1B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Nick Etten	1B	41	376	19	4	29	.990	9.634	0
Sam Chapman	1B	19	147	5	4	6	.974	8.000	0
Skeeter Newsome	2B	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Bill Nagel	2B	56	100	137	14	28	.944	4.232	0
Bob McNamara	2B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Dario Lodigiani	2B	28	56	82	10	16	.932	4.929	0
Bob Johnson	2B	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Joe Gantenbein	2B	76	165	179	19	26	.948	4.526	0
Eddie Collins	2B	1	1	1	1	0	.667	2.000	0
Wayne Ambler	2B	19	24	24	3	3	.941	2.526	0
Bill Nagel	3B	43	34	81	7	4	.943	2.674	0
Bob McNamara	3B	5	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.200	0
Dario Lodigiani	3B	89	103	181	17	8	.944	3.191	0
Joe Gantenbein	3B	14	8	13	1	2	.955	1.500	0
Al Brancato	3B	20	20	42	4	2	.939	3.100	0
Hal Wagner	C	5	11	3	0	0	1.000	2.800	0
Harry O'Neill	C	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Frankie Hayes	C	114	380	60	10	12	.978	3.860	12
Earle Brucker	C	47	150	18	0	5	1.000	3.574	2
Eric Tipton	OF	34	65	0	4	0	.942	1.912	0
Wally Moses	OF	103	209	10	8	2	.965	2.126	0
Dee Miles	OF	77	146	4	5	1	.968	1.948	0
Bob Johnson	OF	150	369	15	13	3	.967	2.560	0
Lou Finney	OF	4	12	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	0
Eddie Collins	OF	6	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.667	0
Sam Chapman	OF	117	350	11	17	2	.955	3.085	0
Bud Thomas	P	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	.500	0
Eddie Smith	P	3	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Dave Smith	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Jim Schelle	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Buck Ross	P	29	9	20	2	1	.935	1.000	0
Jim Reninger	P	4	3	2	0	0	1.000	1.250	0
Nels Potter	P	41	8	34	1	0	.977	1.024	0
Cotton Pippen	P	25	9	26	3	4	.921	1.400	0
Roy Parmelee	P	14	2	10	1	0	.923	.857	0
Sam Page	P	4	0	6	0	1	1.000	1.500	0
Lynn Nelson	P	35	11	27	2	6	.950	1.086	0
Bill Nagel	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Les McCrabb	P	5	1	6	0	0	1.000	1.400	0
Walt Masters	P	4	0	3	1	0	.750	.750	0
Bob Joyce	P	30	3	24	0	1	1.000	.900	0
Chubby Dean	P	54	3	26	2	4	.935	.537	0
George Caster	P	28	9	21	1	4	.968	1.071	0
Bill Beckmann	P	27	10	19	0	0	1.000	1.074	0
Skeeter Newsome	SS	93	176	221	21	44	.950	4.269	0
Bob McNamara	SS	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Bill Lillard	SS	7	12	25	1	3	.974	5.286	0
Joe Gantenbein	SS	5	5	11	3	2	.842	3.200	0
Fred Chapman	SS	15	24	38	7	5	.899	4.133	0
Al Brancato	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Wayne Ambler	SS	77	126	184	15	31	.954	4.026	0
Totals		1681	4028	1668	210	328	.964	3.388	14

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