1953 Birmingham Barons Statistics

Southern Association (SA) - Class: AA
Team Record: 78-76
Finished 4th in the SA
Manager: Mayo Smith (78-76)
Affiliation: New York Yankees
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Ballpark: Rickwood Field
Attendance: 207,612, Avg. 2,696

1953 Birmingham Barons Roster

Playoffs - Birmingham Barons 4 games, Memphis Chicks 1
Finals - Nashville Vols 4 games, Birmingham Barons 1

The Birmingham Barons of the Southern Association ended the 1953 season with a record of 78 wins and 76 losses, finishing fourth in the SA.

The Barons plated 757 runs and conceded 737 runs. Norm Siebern paced Birmingham with 21 home runs, while Emil Tellinger and Gus Triandos walloped 15 or more, too. Emil Tellinger accounted for 99 RBI and topped batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .316 clip. Johnny Kucab, Tom Sturdivant and Red Crowder led the squad with 10 wins each, and Tom Sturdivant registered a 2.98 earned run average, leading qualifying pitchers.

Members of the 1953 Birmingham Barons who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Hal Smith, Al Cicotte, Gus Triandos, Bill Kennedy, Tom Sturdivant, Johnny Kucab, Bobby Kline, Tommy O'Brien, Norm Siebern, Charles George, Tom Kirk, Don Leppert and Bill Virdon.

Mayo Smith served as manager.

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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
Red Crowder	10	4	.714	3.26	38	7		3	1		127.0	139	65	46	9	42		69	2	2	5
Tom Sturdivant	10	7	.588	2.98	47	3		1	1		139.0	130	70	46	13	61		104	9	0	9
Johnny Kucab	10	8	.556	4.56	25	23		8	3		156.0	184	97	79	15	38		59	4	0	2
Pete Mallory	6	2	.750		21						0.0
Bill Kennedy	6	7	.462	3.39	29	5		1	0		85.0	87	45	32	7	22		35	1	0	0
Ed Grenkoski	5	5	.500	4.26	12	11		4	0		74.0	88	44	35	6	20		29	1	0	0
Emil Patrick	4	3	.571	4.02	10	7		4	0		56.0	57	25	25	6	24		16	1	0	2
Dick Fiedler	4	5	.444	3.71	16	11		4	1		80.0	85	39	33	3	37		26	9	0	0
Robert Kerce	4	5	.444	4.71	13	10		4	0		63.0	78	35	33	2	31		30	4	0	3
Al Cicotte	4	8	.333	5.17	23	18		2	0		94.0	73	58	54	7	102		84	1	0	6
Meredith Murray	3	2	.600	2.09	10						43.0	52	17	10		10		23
Bill Freese	3	6	.333	4.33	29	13		2	0		106.0	123	63	51	15	45		44	1	0	4
George Maier	3	10	.231	6.16	19	15		2	0		92.0	102	74	63	6	55		56	3	0	6
Bobby Kline	2	1	.667	6.52	6						29.0	29	12	21		21		8
Fred Robbins	2	3	.400	4.42	10	10		2	0		57.0	52	30	28	5	45		33	1	1	2
Tom Jayne	1	0	1.000	4.00	2						9.0	8	0	4		4		4
Neil Lettau	1	0	1.000	5.62	5						8.0	19	12	5		5		1
Richard Carr	0	0			1						0.0	2		1		1		0
John Wingo	0	0		5.54	4						13.0	13	8	8		8		5
Totals	78	76	.506	4.20	320	133	0	37	6	0	1231.0	1321	694	574	94	571	0	626	37	3	39	0

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
Emil Tellinger	141	563	484	66	153	36	1	20	99	7		72	67	.316	.410	.519	.929	251		5	2
Norm Siebern	150	633	537	94	151	25	5	21	97	10		91	82	.281	.387	.464	.851	249		2	3
Gus Triandos	97	415	367	70	135	26	3	19	75	4		43	38	.368	.441	.610	1.051	224		5	0
Hal Smith	127	473	434	49	135	24	2	3	61	2		34	30	.311	.364	.396	.760	172		2	3
George Moskovich	131	510	462	61	133	21	2	6	54	2		43	48	.288	.350	.381	.731	176		1	4
Eugene Herbert	125	536	483	73	133	21	2	8	43	6		42	47	.275	.337	.377	.714	182		3	8
Bobby Kline	113	450	407	57	115	24	3	4	39	2		38	45	.283	.347	.386	.733	157		2	3
Joe Polich	77	353	312	51	85	17	1	4	33	4		30	20	.272	.342	.372	.714	116		3	8
Hal Grote	113	401	338	60	85	16	5	10	53	15		59	81	.251	.366	.417	.783	141		2	2
Tommy O'Brien	75	314	268	39	68	8	0	7	36	0		40	27	.254	.359	.362	.721	97		4	2
Bill Virdon	42	181	164	27	52	7	2	3	14	1		17	21	.317	.381	.439	.820	72		0	0
Dave Waters	31	123	115	17	34	5	1	0	21	2		7	17	.296	.341	.357	.698	41		1	0
Marty Carlson	31	97	88	10	22	2	1	0	9	2		5	8	.250	.298	.295	.593	26		1	3
Bill Casanova	20	78	68	17	20	2	0	1	12	0		9	13	.294	.377	.368	.744	25		0	1
Don Leppert	23	85	70	6	19	1	0	1	9	0		13	7	.271	.386	.329	.714	23		0	2
Tom Sturdivant	57	78	72	9	19	1	0	0	8	0		5	10	.264	.312	.278	.589	20		0	1
Johnny Kucab	25	66	58	7	12	0	0	0	10	0		2	14	.207	.233	.207	.440	12		0	6
Jim Fiscalini	12	33	29	2	9	2	0	0	6	0		4	4	.310	.394	.379	.773	11		0	0
George Maier	19	36	33	2	7	1	2	0	1	0		1	11	.212	.235	.364	.599	12		0	2
Al Cicotte	26	35	35	4	6	0	0	0	2	0		0	4	.171	.171	.171	.343	6		0	0
Neil Lettau	5	16	16	1	5	3	0	0	1	1				.312	.312	.500	.812	8
Dick Fiedler	16	31	24	3	4	0	0	0	1	0		4	9	.167	.286	.167	.452	4		0	3
Robert Kerce	13	26	21	0	3	0	0	0	1	0		2	13	.143	.217	.143	.360	3		0	3
Bill Kennedy	29	29	24	2	3	1	0	0	0	1		5	10	.125	.276	.167	.443	4		0	0
Ed Grenkoski	12	30	27	4	3	1	0	0	1	0		1	4	.111	.143	.148	.291	4		0	2
Bill Freese	29	36	30	1	3	0	0	0	2	0		4	9	.100	.206	.100	.306	3		0	2
Fred Robbins	10	24	20	1	2	1	0	0	1	0		2	13	.100	.182	.150	.332	3		0	2
Red Crowder	38	40	37	1	2	0	0	0	0	0		2	23	.054	.103	.054	.157	2		0	1
Meredith Murray	10	18	15	3	1	0	0	0	1	0		1	5	.067	.125	.067	.192	1		0	2
Emil Patrick	10	22	21	1	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	6	.048	.048	.048	.095	1		0	1
Richard Carr	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Chuck Weiss	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1				.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Charlie Frey	5	4	4		0	0	0	0						.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Tom Kirk	1	1	1		0	0	0	0						.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Tom Jayne	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Lyle Westrum	2	4	4		0	0	0	0						.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Charles George	5	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2								0
Totals	1626	5750	5077	740	1420	245	30	107	690	62	0	576	686	.280	.357	.403	.760	2046	0	31	66	0	0

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Gus Triandos	1B	89	782	55	13	86	.985	9.404
Hal Grote	1B	59	477	29	5	47	.990	8.576
George Moskovich	2B	124	301	347	14	84	.979	5.226
Eugene Herbert	2B	20	58	68	3	13	.977	6.300
Don Leppert	2B	14	47	40	2	9	.978	6.214
Eugene Herbert	3B	97	112	187	23	22	.929	3.082
Joe Polich	3B	35	28	64	8	8	.920	2.629
Dave Waters	3B	24	23	49	8	6	.900	3.000
Hal Smith	C	122	570	86	18	8	.973	5.377	4
Jim Fiscalini	C	10	38	4	2	0	.955	4.200	0
Norm Siebern	OF	148	355	13	13	4	.966	2.486
Emil Tellinger	OF	138	212	9	2	4	.991	1.601
Tommy O'Brien	OF	73	128	5	6	0	.957	1.822
Hal Grote	OF	49	95	7	3	0	.971	2.082
Bill Virdon	OF	41	96	7	4	1	.963	2.512
Marty Carlson	OF	30	40	4	2	1	.957	1.467
Bill Casanova	OF	19	23	1	1	0	.960	1.263
Tom Sturdivant	P	47	7	23	5	1	.857	.638
Red Crowder	P	38	6	23	0	2	1.000	.763
Bill Kennedy	P	29	3	19	0	0	1.000	.759
Bill Freese	P	29	3	17	1	2	.952	.690
Johnny Kucab	P	25	8	27	1	3	.972	1.400
Al Cicotte	P	23	3	8	0	1	1.000	.478
Pete Mallory	P	21						.000
George Maier	P	19	7	17	3	4	.889	1.263
Dick Fiedler	P	16	5	17	2	1	.917	1.375
Robert Kerce	P	13	3	11	2	2	.875	1.077
Ed Grenkoski	P	12	5	21	1	1	.963	2.167
Fred Robbins	P	10	4	6	1	0	.909	1.000
Emil Patrick	P	10	4	5	1	0	.900	.900
Meredith Murray	P	10	2	16	0	4	1.000	1.800
Bobby Kline	P	6						.000
Neil Lettau	P	5						.000
John Wingo	P	4						.000
Tom Jayne	P	2						.000
Richard Carr	P	1						.000
Bobby Kline	SS	108	198	299	28	68	.947	4.602
Joe Polich	SS	40	82	137	17	27	.928	5.475
Totals		1560	3725	1621	189	409	.966	3.427	4	0	0

Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.

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