1948 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 85-69
Finished 2nd in the NL
Attendance: 1,111,440, Avg. 16,347
Ballpark: Sportsman's Park IV
Manager: Eddie Dyer (85-69)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1948 St. Louis Cardinals Roster
1948 St. Louis Cardinals Results

The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League ended the 1948 season with a record of 85 wins and 69 losses, finishing second in the NL.

The Cardinals scored 742 runs and yielded 646 runs. Stan Musial walloped 39 home runs for St. Louis and drove in 131 runs, while leading batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .376 clip. Harry Brecheen topped the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 2.24 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Eddie Dyer 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
Harry Brecheen	20	7	.741	2.24	33	30	1	21	7	1	233.3	193	62	58	6	49	149	2	1	2	931
Howie Pollet	13	8	.619	4.54	36	26	2	11	0	0	186.3	216	102	94	10	67	80	2	0	3	826
Murry Dickson	12	16	.429	4.14	42	29	8	11	1	1	252.3	257	121	116	39	85	113	0	0	1	1064
Al Brazle	10	6	.625	3.80	42	23	9	6	2	1	156.3	171	77	66	8	50	55	0	1	2	673
Red Munger	10	11	.476	4.50	39	25	3	7	2	0	166.0	179	91	83	13	74	72	1	0	2	738
Jim Hearn	8	6	.571	4.22	34	13	17	3	0	1	89.7	92	44	42	9	35	27	2	0	2	384
Ted Wilks	6	6	.500	2.62	57	2	28	1	0	13	130.7	113	40	38	5	39	71	0	0	3	529
Gerry Staley	4	4	.500	6.92	31	3	9	0	0	0	52.0	61	44	40	5	21	23	0	0	1	237
Ken Johnson	2	4	.333	4.76	13	4	2	0	0	0	45.3	43	27	24	1	30	20	1	0	2	198
Ray Yochim	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	6
Erv Dusak	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	4
Ken Burkhart	0	0		5.54	20	0	7	0	0	1	37.3	50	24	23	4	14	16	2	0	0	171
Clarence Beers	0	0		13.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	3	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	7
Al Papai	0	1	.000	5.06	10	0	7	0	0	0	16.0	14	10	9	3	7	8	0	0	1	67
Totals	85	69	.552	3.91	360	155	95	60	12	18	1368.0	1392	646	594	103	476	635	10	2	22	5835

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH
Stan Musial	155	694	611	135	230	46	18	39	131	7	79	34	.376	.450	.702	1.152	429	18	3	1
Enos Slaughter	146	637	549	91	176	27	11	11	90	4	81	29	.321	.409	.470	.879	258	11	1	6
Marty Marion	144	613	567	70	143	26	4	4	43	1	37	54	.252	.298	.333	.631	189	13	0	9
Nippy Jones	132	523	481	58	122	21	9	10	81	2	36	45	.254	.307	.397	.704	191	25	1	5
Red Schoendienst	119	438	408	64	111	21	4	4	36	1	28	16	.272	.319	.373	.691	152	6	0	2
Don Lang	117	379	323	30	87	14	1	4	31	2	47	38	.269	.364	.356	.720	115	3	1	8
Ron Northey	96	288	246	40	79	10	1	13	64	0	38	25	.321	.420	.528	.949	130	8	4	0
Erv Dusak	114	365	311	60	65	9	2	6	19	3	49	55	.209	.317	.309	.625	96	2	0	5
Del Rice	100	338	290	24	57	10	1	4	34	1	37	46	.197	.298	.279	.578	81	6	5	6
Ralph LaPointe	87	245	222	27	50	3	0	0	15	1	18	19	.225	.283	.239	.522	53	1	0	5
Terry Moore	91	240	207	30	48	11	0	4	18	0	27	12	.232	.321	.343	.664	71	4	0	6
Whitey Kurowski	77	270	220	34	47	8	0	2	33	0	42	28	.214	.352	.277	.629	61	3	5	3
Bill Baker	45	134	119	13	35	10	1	0	15	1	15	7	.294	.373	.395	.768	47	4	0	0
Murry Dickson	43	101	96	7	27	2	0	0	11	0	1	1	.281	.289	.302	.591	29	3	0	4
Babe Young	41	127	111	14	27	5	2	1	13	0	16	6	.243	.339	.351	.690	39	3	0	0
Harry Brecheen	33	90	82	4	12	1	1	0	2	0	5	20	.146	.205	.183	.387	15	3	1	2
Del Wilber	27	64	58	5	11	2	0	0	10	0	4	9	.190	.242	.224	.466	13	3	0	2
Hal Rice	8	33	31	3	10	1	2	0	3	0	2	4	.323	.364	.484	.848	15	0	0	0
Red Munger	39	56	50	2	8	1	1	0	2	0	4	15	.160	.222	.220	.442	11	2	0	2
Al Brazle	45	56	55	5	8	1	0	0	7	0	1	9	.145	.161	.164	.324	9	1	0	0
Howie Pollet	38	76	68	6	8	1	0	0	4	0	3	9	.118	.155	.132	.287	9	2	0	5
Ken Johnson	20	20	20	2	6	2	0	0	1	0	0	7	.300	.300	.400	.700	8	0	0	0
Eddie Kazak	6	22	22	1	6	3	0	0	2	0	0	2	.273	.273	.409	.682	9	1	0	0
Joe Garagiola	24	69	56	9	6	1	0	2	7	0	12	9	.107	.275	.232	.508	13	0	1	0
Jim Hearn	36	26	25	1	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	.200	.200	.200	.400	5	1	0	1
Ted Wilks	57	36	30	1	5	1	0	0	4	0	3	7	.167	.242	.200	.442	6	0	0	3
Joe Medwick	20	20	19	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	.211	.250	.211	.461	4	1	0	0
Gerry Staley	31	11	9	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	.222	.300	.556	.856	5	0	0	1
Ken Burkhart	21	4	4	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.500	.750	2	0	0	0
Al Papai	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Johnny Bucha	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0
Larry Miggins	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Chuck Diering	7	9	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	.000	.222	.000	.222	0	1	0	0
Bobby Young	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Clarence Beers	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Jeff Cross	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Ray Yochim	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals	1940	5990	5302	742	1396	238	58	105	680	24	590	523	.263	.340	.389	.729	2065	125	22	76

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB
Babe Young	1B	35	266	8	1	23	.996	7.829	0
Stan Musial	1B	2	7	1	0	0	1.000	4.000	0
Nippy Jones	1B	128	1148	63	17	98	.986	9.461	0
Red Schoendienst	2B	96	230	269	10	57	.980	5.198	0
Ralph LaPointe	2B	44	114	108	8	24	.965	5.045	0
Don Lang	2B	2	5	3	1	2	.889	4.000	0
Erv Dusak	2B	29	56	63	3	11	.975	4.103	0
Bobby Young	3B	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	0
Ralph LaPointe	3B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Don Lang	3B	95	81	188	10	13	.964	2.832	0
Whitey Kurowski	3B	65	55	100	10	7	.939	2.385	0
Eddie Kazak	3B	6	7	11	2	2	.900	3.000	0
Erv Dusak	3B	9	6	12	1	0	.947	2.000	0
Del Wilber	C	26	67	7	4	1	.949	2.846	2
Del Rice	C	99	447	46	2	5	.996	4.980	3
Joe Garagiola	C	23	83	14	1	1	.990	4.217	0
Johnny Bucha	C	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Bill Baker	C	36	152	15	1	2	.994	4.639	3
Enos Slaughter	OF	146	330	9	10	1	.971	2.322	0
Hal Rice	OF	8	16	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	0
Ron Northey	OF	67	85	2	1	0	.989	1.299	0
Stan Musial	OF	155	347	10	7	3	.981	2.303	0
Terry Moore	OF	71	131	2	1	0	.993	1.873	0
Joe Medwick	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Erv Dusak	OF	68	128	3	1	2	.992	1.926	0
Chuck Diering	OF	5	4	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Ray Yochim	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Ted Wilks	P	57	6	19	0	1	1.000	.439	0
Gerry Staley	P	31	0	15	1	1	.938	.484	0
Howie Pollet	P	36	5	44	2	2	.961	1.361	0
Al Papai	P	10	1	4	0	0	1.000	.500	0
Red Munger	P	39	8	37	0	5	1.000	1.154	0
Ken Johnson	P	13	0	8	1	0	.889	.615	0
Jim Hearn	P	34	1	8	0	0	1.000	.265	0
Erv Dusak	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Murry Dickson	P	42	12	51	0	0	1.000	1.500	0
Ken Burkhart	P	20	3	8	0	1	1.000	.550	0
Harry Brecheen	P	33	5	45	0	2	1.000	1.515	0
Al Brazle	P	42	5	45	0	1	1.000	1.190	0
Clarence Beers	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Marty Marion	SS	142	263	445	19	80	.974	4.986	0
Ralph LaPointe	SS	25	28	50	4	12	.951	3.120	0
Erv Dusak	SS	1	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	0
Totals		1747	4107	1716	118	357	.980	3.333	8

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