1908 St. Louis Browns Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 83-69
Finished 4th in the AL
Attendance: 618,947, Avg. 8,942
Ballpark: Sportsman's Park III
Manager: Jimmy McAleer (83-69)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1908 St. Louis Browns Roster
1908 St. Louis Browns Results

The St. Louis Browns of the American League ended the 1908 season with a record of 83 wins and 69 losses, finishing fourth in the AL.

The Browns scored 544 runs and surrendered 483 runs. Hobe Ferris drove in 74 runs. George Stone led batters with significant playing time by hitting .281. Rube Waddell topped the team with 19 wins, while Harry Howell and Jack Powell as well added 15 or more victories as well Harry Howell and Rube Waddell earned a 1.89 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Jimmy McAleer 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	WP	BF
Rube Waddell	19	14	.576	1.89	43	36	6	25	5	3	285.7	223	93	60	0	90	232	8	7	1143
Harry Howell	18	18	.500	1.89	41	32	7	27	2	1	324.3	279	103	68	1	70	117	17	6	1251
Jack Powell	16	13	.552	2.11	33	32	1	23	5	1	256.0	208	73	60	1	47	85	6	0	954
Bill Dinneen	14	7	.667	2.10	27	16	10	11	2	0	167.0	133	52	39	2	53	39	4	1	633
Barney Pelty	7	4	.636	1.99	20	13	5	7	1	0	122.0	104	44	27	0	32	36	10	2	473
Bill Grahame	6	7	.462	2.30	21	13	4	7	0	0	117.3	104	46	30	0	32	47	12	0	477
Bill Bailey	3	5	.375	3.04	22	12	8	7	0	0	106.7	85	53	36	2	50	42	3	5	439
Dode Criss	0	1	.000	6.50	9	1	7	0	0	0	18.0	15	14	13	1	13	9	3	1	76
Totals	83	69	.546	2.15	216	155	48	107	15	5	1397.0	1151	478	333	7	387	607	63	22	5446

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
George Stone	148	659	588	89	165	21	8	5	31	20	55	68	.281	.345	.369	.714	217	3	13
Hobe Ferris	148	601	555	54	150	26	7	2	74	6	14	72	.270	.291	.353	.644	196	2	30
Tom Jones	155	617	549	43	135	14	2	1	50	18	30	21	.246	.290	.284	.574	156	4	34
Jimmy Williams	148	619	539	63	127	20	7	4	53	7	55	71	.236	.310	.321	.631	173	3	22
Bobby Wallace	137	560	487	59	123	24	4	1	60	5	52	47	.253	.327	.324	.652	158	2	19
Roy Hartzell	115	467	422	41	112	5	6	2	32	24	19	38	.265	.302	.320	.622	135	3	23
Danny Hoffman	99	402	363	41	91	9	7	1	25	17	23	56	.251	.304	.322	.627	117	5	11
Charlie Jones	74	286	263	37	61	11	2	0	17	14	14	39	.232	.279	.289	.568	76	3	6
Tubby Spencer	91	310	286	19	60	6	1	0	28	1	17	24	.210	.254	.238	.492	68	0	7
Al Schweitzer	64	213	182	22	53	4	2	1	14	6	20	25	.291	.374	.352	.725	64	4	7
Jim Stephens	47	164	150	14	30	4	1	0	6	0	9	22	.200	.255	.240	.495	36	2	3
Dode Criss	64	91	82	15	28	6	0	0	14	1	9	5	.341	.407	.415	.821	34	0	0
Harry Howell	41	125	120	10	22	7	0	1	9	0	4	33	.183	.210	.267	.476	32	0	1
Jack Powell	33	94	89	3	21	3	1	0	6	0	1	10	.236	.244	.292	.537	26	0	4
Emmet Heidrick	26	97	93	8	20	2	2	1	6	3	1	18	.215	.223	.312	.535	29	0	3
Syd Smith	27	80	76	6	14	4	0	0	5	2	4	7	.184	.225	.237	.462	18	0	0
Bill Dinneen	27	62	59	4	12	1	0	0	1	0	2	12	.203	.230	.220	.450	13	0	1
Rube Waddell	43	103	91	4	10	4	0	1	8	0	8	35	.110	.190	.187	.377	17	1	3
Bert Blue	11	28	24	2	9	1	2	0	1	0	3	5	.375	.444	.583	1.028	14	0	1
Joe Yeager	10	20	15	3	5	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	.333	.474	.400	.874	6	3	1
Barney Pelty	21	46	42	3	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	.119	.119	.119	.238	5	0	4
Bill Grahame	21	44	42	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	.119	.119	.119	.238	5	0	2
Bill Bailey	22	38	34	3	3	0	0	0	4	0	2	13	.088	.139	.088	.227	3	0	2
Totals	1572	5726	5151	543	1261	173	52	20	447	126	343	651	.245	.296	.310	.607	1598	35	197

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Tom Jones	1B	155	155	1388.0	1616	90	24	79	.986	11.062	11.006	0	0	0
Dode Criss	1B	1	0	6.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	12.000	8.000	0	0	0
Jimmy Williams	2B	148	148	1320.0	352	445	31	50	.963	5.434	5.385	0	0	0
Roy Hartzell	2B	4	4	38.0	5	11	1	0	.941	3.789	4.000	0	0	0
Joe Yeager	2B	4	3	35.0	4	10	0	0	1.000	3.600	3.500	0	0	0
Hobe Ferris	3B	148	148	1332.0	222	316	27	27	.952	3.635	3.635	0	0	0
Roy Hartzell	3B	7	7	62.0	6	9	3	0	.833	2.177	2.143	0	0	0
Tubby Spencer	C	88	80	727.0	398	109	9	9	.983	6.276	5.761	12	70	70	50.0
Jim Stephens	C	45	44	402.0	193	68	11	4	.960	5.843	5.800	4	36	43	54.4
Syd Smith	C	24	24	204.0	137	32	4	1	.977	7.456	7.042	6	26	20	43.5
Bert Blue	C	8	7	60.0	42	7	3	1	.942	7.350	6.125	1	10	4	28.6
George Stone	OF	148	148	1330.0	274	11	16	3	.947	1.929	1.926	0	0	0
Danny Hoffman	OF	99	95	840.0	185	19	8	8	.962	2.186	2.061	0	0	0
Roy Hartzell	OF	82	79	707.0	117	15	8	5	.943	1.680	1.610	0	0	0
Charlie Jones	OF	72	65	609.0	116	13	5	2	.963	1.906	1.792	0	0	0
Al Schweitzer	OF	55	48	421.0	86	14	5	3	.952	2.138	1.818	0	0	0
Emmet Heidrick	OF	25	23	205.0	42	3	2	1	.957	1.976	1.800	0	0	0
Dode Criss	OF	11	7	70.0	12	2	1	0	.933	1.800	1.273	0	0	0
Harry Howell	P	41	32	324.0	21	101	5	3	.961	3.389	2.976	0	0	0
Rube Waddell	P	43	36	286.0	5	79	10	1	.894	2.643	1.953	0	0	0
Jack Powell	P	33	32	256.0	2	56	3	0	.951	2.039	1.758	0	0	0
Bill Dinneen	P	27	16	167.0	3	44	1	1	.979	2.533	1.741	0	0	0
Barney Pelty	P	20	13	122.0	6	43	1	2	.980	3.615	2.450	0	0	0
Bill Grahame	P	21	13	117.0	6	35	2	2	.953	3.154	1.952	0	0	0
Bill Bailey	P	22	12	107.0	0	26	3	0	.897	2.187	1.182	0	0	0
Dode Criss	P	9	1	18.0	1	2	1	0	.750	1.500	.333	0	0	0
Bobby Wallace	SS	137	137	1213.0	286	510	41	45	.951	5.906	5.810	0	0	0
Roy Hartzell	SS	18	17	169.0	33	53	12	6	.878	4.580	4.778	0	0	0
Barney Pelty	SS	1	1	9.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.000	4.000	0	0	0
Joe Yeager	SS	1	0	3.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	6.000	2.000	0	0	0
Totals		1497	1395	12547.0	4180	2127	237	253	.964	4.524	4.213	23	142	137	49.1

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