1959 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 71-83
Finished 7th in the NL
Attendance: 929,953, Avg. 13,478
Ballpark: Sportsman's Park IV
Manager: Solly Hemus (71-83)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1959 St. Louis Cardinals Roster
1959 St. Louis Cardinals Results

The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League ended the 1959 season with a record of 71 wins and 83 losses, finishing seventh in the NL.

The Cardinals scored 641 runs and yielded 725 runs. Ken Boyer led St. Louis with 28 home runs and recorded 94 runs batted in. Joe Cunningham paced hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .345 clip. Larry Jackson and Lindy McDaniel topped the team with 14 wins each, while Larry Jackson recorded a 3.30 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Solly Hemus 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	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Lindy McDaniel	14	12	.538	3.82	62	7	47	1	0	15	132.0	144	61	56	11	41	8	86	1	0	10	562
Larry Jackson	14	13	.519	3.30	40	37	2	12	3	0	256.0	271	103	94	13	64	3	145	4	0	7	1081
Vinegar Bend Mizell	13	10	.565	4.20	31	30	1	8	1	0	201.3	196	104	94	21	89	7	108	8	1	2	890
Ernie Broglio	7	12	.368	4.72	35	25	4	6	3	0	181.3	174	104	95	20	89	10	133	0	0	8	793
Marshall Bridges	6	3	.667	4.26	27	4	11	1	0	1	76.0	67	38	36	10	37	8	76	0	0	3	328
Bob Miller	4	3	.571	3.31	11	10	1	3	0	0	70.7	66	31	26	2	21	2	43	1	1	0	294
Gary Blaylock	4	5	.444	5.13	26	12	1	3	0	0	100.0	117	61	57	14	43	3	61	2	0	3	449
Bob Gibson	3	5	.375	3.33	13	9	3	2	1	0	75.7	77	35	28	4	39	2	48	1	0	4	333
Alex Kellner	2	1	.667	3.16	12	4	2	0	0	0	37.0	31	17	13	9	10	2	19	1	0	0	154
Howie Nunn	2	2	.500	7.59	16	0	4	0	0	0	21.3	23	18	18	3	15	5	20	0	0	1	97
Jim Brosnan	1	3	.250	4.91	20	1	10	0	0	2	33.0	34	18	18	5	15	5	18	1	0	1	142
Dick Ricketts	1	6	.143	5.82	12	9	2	0	0	0	55.7	68	42	36	7	30	4	25	0	0	1	259
Bill Smith	0	0		1.08	6	0	2	0	0	1	8.3	11	3	1	0	3	1	4	0	0	0	36
Jack Urban	0	0		9.28	8	0	3	0	0	0	10.7	18	11	11	1	7	4	4	0	0	0	53
Marv Grissom	0	0		22.50	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	6	5	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	12
Bob Duliba	0	1	.000	2.78	11	0	5	0	0	1	22.7	19	7	7	2	12	1	14	0	0	2	94
Bob Blaylock	0	1	.000	4.00	3	1	0	0	0	0	9.0	8	5	4	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	38
Dean Stone	0	1	.000	4.20	18	1	5	0	0	1	30.0	30	15	14	4	16	4	17	0	0	2	132
Tom Cheney	0	1	.000	6.94	11	2	5	0	0	0	11.7	17	9	9	2	11	2	8	2	0	1	63
Hal Jeffcoat	0	1	.000	9.17	11	0	6	0	0	0	17.7	33	18	18	4	9	2	7	0	0	1	91
Phil Clark	0	1	.000	12.86	7	0	2	0	0	0	7.0	8	11	10	0	8	1	5	0	0	0	36
Tom Hughes	0	2	.000	15.75	2	2	0	0	0	0	4.0	9	9	7	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	24
Totals	71	83	.461	4.34	385	154	118	36	8	21	1363.0	1427	725	657	137	564	74	846	21	2	46	5961

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Don Blasingame	150	691	615	90	178	26	7	1	24	15	15	67	42	.289	.361	.359	.720	221	3	2	7	0	2
Ken Boyer	149	633	563	86	174	18	5	28	94	12	6	67	77	.309	.384	.508	.892	286	7	2	0	1	7
Joe Cunningham	144	556	458	65	158	28	6	7	60	2	6	88	47	.345	.453	.478	.931	219	9	5	2	3	9
Bill White	138	561	517	77	156	33	9	12	72	15	10	34	61	.302	.344	.470	.814	243	5	2	3	5	1
Gino Cimoli	143	569	519	61	145	40	7	8	72	7	0	37	83	.279	.327	.430	.757	223	19	2	7	4	2
Hal Smith	142	473	452	35	122	15	3	13	50	2	6	15	28	.270	.295	.403	.698	182	13	1	5	0	6
Alex Grammas	131	415	368	43	99	14	2	3	30	3	3	38	26	.269	.337	.342	.679	126	9	1	5	3	6
Stan Musial	115	404	341	37	87	13	2	14	44	0	2	60	25	.255	.364	.428	.792	146	12	0	0	3	11
Curt Flood	121	226	208	24	53	7	3	7	26	2	1	16	35	.255	.305	.418	.724	87	6	0	0	2	0
Gene Oliver	68	181	172	14	42	9	0	6	28	3	2	7	41	.244	.271	.401	.672	69	4	0	0	2	0
George Crowe	77	109	103	14	31	6	0	8	29	0	0	5	12	.301	.330	.592	.923	61	4	0	0	1	2
Wally Shannon	47	96	95	5	27	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	12	.284	.292	.337	.629	32	0	1	0	0	0
Ray Jablonski	60	96	87	11	22	4	0	3	14	1	0	8	19	.253	.313	.402	.715	35	3	0	0	1	0
Dick Gray	36	59	51	9	16	1	0	1	6	3	0	6	8	.314	.386	.392	.778	20	1	0	2	0	1
Gene Green	30	79	74	8	14	6	0	1	3	0	0	5	18	.189	.241	.311	.551	23	1	0	0	0	1
Vinegar Bend Mizell	31	83	75	7	14	1	1	0	7	0	1	3	29	.187	.218	.227	.445	17	0	0	5	0	0
Bobby Smith	43	61	60	11	13	1	1	1	7	0	0	1	9	.217	.230	.317	.546	19	2	0	0	0	0
Larry Jackson	54	89	80	9	9	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	25	.113	.134	.125	.259	10	0	0	7	0	0
Ray Katt	15	25	24	0	7	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	8	.292	.292	.375	.667	9	2	0	1	0	0
Jay Porter	23	35	33	5	7	3	0	1	2	0	0	1	4	.212	.257	.394	.651	13	0	1	0	0	0
Chuck Essegian	17	40	39	2	7	2	1	0	5	0	0	1	13	.179	.200	.282	.482	11	3	0	0	0	0
Lee Tate	41	58	50	5	7	1	1	1	4	0	0	5	7	.140	.232	.260	.492	13	2	1	2	0	1
Ernie Broglio	35	67	61	3	6	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	18	.098	.141	.098	.239	6	2	0	3	0	0
Marshall Bridges	27	26	23	3	5	1	0	1	4	0	0	1	6	.217	.250	.391	.641	9	0	0	2	0	0
Bob Miller	11	26	24	1	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	13	.208	.240	.208	.448	5	0	0	1	0	0
Solly Hemus	24	26	17	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	8	2	.235	.500	.353	.853	6	0	1	0	0	0
Tim McCarver	8	26	24	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.167	.231	.208	.439	5	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Blaylock	31	35	34	4	4	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	17	.118	.118	.294	.412	10	0	0	1	0	0
Chick King	5	8	7	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.429	.375	.429	.804	3	0	0	0	1	0
Duke Carmel	10	24	23	2	3	1	0	0	3	0	1	1	6	.130	.167	.174	.341	4	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Gibson	21	27	26	1	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	.115	.115	.192	.308	5	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Brosnan	20	7	7	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.571	.857	4	0	0	0	0	0
Alex Kellner	12	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	0	0	0
Irv Noren	8	8	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.250	.375	2	1	0	0	0	0
Dick Ricketts	12	20	18	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.056	.056	.056	.111	1	0	0	2	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	62	35	29	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	16	.034	.125	.034	.159	1	0	0	3	0	0
Bob Blaylock	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dean Stone	18	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Urban	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Smith	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim O'Rourke	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Duliba	11	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hal Jeffcoat	12	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Hughes	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Durham	6	5	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Howie Nunn	16	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tom Cheney	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Marv Grissom	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Clark	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2166	5907	5317	641	1432	244	49	118	605	65	53	485	747	.269	.331	.400	.731	2128	108	19	60	26	49

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Stan Musial	1B	90	88	686.0	623	63	7	72	.990	9.000	7.622	0	0	0	0
Bill White	1B	71	40	405.0	404	25	2	32	.995	9.533	6.042	0	0	0	0
Joe Cunningham	1B	35	10	144.0	158	9	1	22	.994	1.437	4.771	0	0	0	0
George Crowe	1B	14	11	90.0	82	12	0	9	1.000	9.400	6.714	0	0	0	0
Gene Oliver	1B	5	5	35.0	39	2	0	1	1.000	1.543	8.200	0	0	0	0
Jay Porter	1B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Irv Noren	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Don Blasingame	2B	150	148	1290.0	362	439	17	104	.979	5.588	5.340	0	0	0	0
Wally Shannon	2B	10	5	59.0	13	18	3	2	.912	4.729	3.100	0	0	0	0
Solly Hemus	2B	1	1	5.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	5.400	3.000	0	0	0	0
Lee Tate	2B	2	0	4.0	2	3	0	1	1.000	11.250	2.500	0	0	0	0
Dick Gray	2B	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0	0
Curt Flood	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ken Boyer	3B	143	141	1220.3	134	300	20	32	.956	3.201	3.035	0	0	0	0
Ray Jablonski	3B	19	11	104.7	7	20	3	2	.900	2.322	1.421	0	0	0	0
Dick Gray	3B	6	1	27.0	1	4	2	0	.714	1.667	.833	0	0	0	0
Lee Tate	3B	2	0	9.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	.500	0	0	0	0
Solly Hemus	3B	1	1	2.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Hal Smith	C	141	128	1105.7	758	60	9	13	.989	6.658	5.801	5	34	44	32	42.1
Jay Porter	C	19	9	82.0	53	4	0	1	1.000	6.256	3.000	5	7	5	4	44.4
Ray Katt	C	14	5	55.0	38	2	1	0	.976	6.545	2.857	0	0	0	1	100.0
Tim McCarver	C	6	6	51.0	32	2	1	0	.971	6.000	5.667	3	3	2	0	0.0
Gene Green	C	11	4	37.3	34	3	0	0	1.000	8.920	3.364	0	1	1	0	0.0
Gene Oliver	C	9	2	32.0	24	2	1	0	.963	7.313	2.889	2	2	0	1	100.0
Gino Cimoli	OF	141	127	1120.0	267	12	6	2	.979	2.242	1.979	0	0	0	0
Joe Cunningham	OF	121	117	966.7	201	5	6	1	.972	1.918	1.702	0	0	0	0
Bill White	OF	92	90	721.7	175	2	7	1	.962	2.207	1.924	0	0	0	0
Curt Flood	OF	106	49	539.0	147	1	5	1	.967	2.471	1.396	0	0	0	0
Gene Oliver	OF	42	35	290.3	62	1	3	0	.955	1.953	1.500	0	0	0	0
Gene Green	OF	19	16	138.0	28	6	2	2	.944	2.217	1.789	0	0	0	0
Bobby Smith	OF	32	10	134.3	31	3	1	1	.971	2.278	1.063	0	0	0	0
Chuck Essegian	OF	9	8	64.0	8	1	0	0	1.000	1.266	1.000	0	0	0	0
Duke Carmel	OF	10	6	60.0	15	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.500	0	0	0	0
Stan Musial	OF	3	2	22.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.409	.333	0	0	0	0
Chick King	OF	4	0	20.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	3.150	1.750	0	0	0	0
Joe Durham	OF	1	1	8.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.000	0	0	0	0
Irv Noren	OF	2	1	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Gray	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Larry Jackson	P	40	37	256.0	18	37	2	5	.965	1.934	1.375	0	0	0	0
Vinegar Bend Mizell	P	31	30	201.3	9	23	3	1	.914	1.430	1.032	0	0	0	0
Ernie Broglio	P	35	25	181.3	11	30	0	2	1.000	2.035	1.171	0	0	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	P	62	7	132.0	7	31	3	3	.927	2.591	.613	0	0	0	0
Gary Blaylock	P	26	12	100.0	11	16	2	1	.931	2.430	1.038	0	0	0	0
Marshall Bridges	P	27	4	76.0	2	3	1	0	.833	.592	.185	0	0	0	0
Bob Gibson	P	13	9	75.7	6	10	2	2	.889	1.903	1.231	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	P	11	10	70.7	6	16	0	1	1.000	2.802	2.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Ricketts	P	12	9	55.7	2	2	3	0	.571	.647	.333	0	0	0	0
Alex Kellner	P	12	4	37.0	3	4	1	0	.875	1.703	.583	0	0	0	0
Jim Brosnan	P	20	1	33.0	4	8	0	1	1.000	3.273	.600	0	0	0	0
Dean Stone	P	18	1	30.0	2	4	1	0	.857	1.800	.333	0	0	0	0
Bob Duliba	P	11	0	23.7	4	7	0	0	1.000	4.183	1.000	0	0	0	0
Howie Nunn	P	16	0	21.3	0	6	0	1	1.000	2.531	.375	0	0	0	0
Hal Jeffcoat	P	11	0	17.7	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.038	.364	0	0	0	0
Tom Cheney	P	11	2	11.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.543	.182	0	0	0	0
Jack Urban	P	8	0	10.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.844	.125	0	0	0	0
Bill Smith	P	6	0	8.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.080	.167	0	0	0	0
Bob Blaylock	P	3	1	8.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.250	.667	0	0	0	0
Phil Clark	P	7	0	7.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.857	.429	0	0	0	0
Tom Hughes	P	2	2	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Marv Grissom	P	3	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.333	0	0	0	0
Alex Grammas	SS	130	123	1006.0	216	373	22	80	.964	5.269	4.531	0	0	0	0
Lee Tate	SS	39	12	158.3	31	45	6	9	.927	4.320	1.949	0	0	0	0
Wally Shannon	SS	21	7	88.0	27	17	0	7	1.000	4.500	2.095	0	0	0	0
Dick Gray	SS	13	6	56.7	10	13	1	3	.958	3.653	1.769	0	0	0	0
Ken Boyer	SS	12	6	53.0	9	10	2	1	.905	3.226	1.583	0	0	0	0
Ray Jablonski	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1938	1386	12267.0	4089	1673	146	417	.975	4.227	2.973	15	47	52	38	42.2

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