1952 Bartlesville/Pittsburg Pirates Statistics
Team Record: 59-65
Finished 4th in the KOML
Manager: Hersh Martin (0-0), Ben Hays (0-0)
Affiliation: Pittsburgh Pirates
Location: Pittsburg, Kansas; Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Ballpark: Bill Doenges Memorial Stadium, Jaycee Park
Attendance: 34,267, Avg. 553
Playoffs - Miami Eagles 1 game, Bartlesville/Pittsburg Pirates 0
The Bartlesville/Pittsburg Pirates of the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League ended the 1952 season with a record of 59 wins and 65 losses, finishing fourth in the KOML.Bartlesville (30-31) transferred to Pittsburg July 7.
The Pirates tallied 669 runs and conceded 787 runs, most in the league. Ben Hays topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .265 average. Joe Marx and Bob Gordon led Bartlesville/Pittsburg with 16 wins each, while Bob Gordon recorded a 3.14 ERA, leading regular hurlers.
Hersh Martin played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Bartlesville/Pittsburg Pirates to do so.
Hersh Martin and Ben Hays served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
Pitching:
| Player | W | L | W% | ERA | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Gordon | 16 | 5 | .762 | 3.14 | 27 | 195.0 | 179 | 91 | 68 | 8 | 69 | |||||||||||
| Joe Marx | 16 | 7 | .696 | 3.20 | 29 | 211.0 | 190 | 114 | 75 | 6 | 107 | |||||||||||
| Charles Matzen | 9 | 13 | .409 | 5.50 | 29 | 157.0 | 178 | 132 | 96 | 8 | 93 | |||||||||||
| Alan Willis | 4 | 7 | .364 | 5.49 | 23 | 105.0 | 108 | 80 | 64 | 3 | 82 | |||||||||||
| William Jacobs | 4 | 9 | .308 | 3.90 | 16 | 97.0 | 110 | 69 | 42 | 3 | 42 | |||||||||||
| Art Bunge | 3 | 6 | .333 | 5.03 | 12 | 59.0 | 67 | 54 | 33 | 3 | 47 | |||||||||||
| Joe Fishinghawk | 0 | 4 | .000 | 8.44 | 17 | 64.0 | 73 | 68 | 60 | 6 | 42 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 52 | 51 | .505 | 4.44 | 153 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 888.0 | 905 | 608 | 438 | 37 | 482 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Hays | 120 | 422 | 422 | 112 | 33 | 4 | 10 | .265 | .265 | .434 | .699 | 183 | |||||||||||
| Manuel Abril | 121 | 433 | 433 | 107 | 19 | 4 | 7 | .247 | .247 | .358 | .605 | 155 | |||||||||||
| Ernest Abril | 107 | 375 | 375 | 99 | 18 | 1 | 5 | .264 | .264 | .357 | .621 | 134 | |||||||||||
| Ciro Carcaterra | 64 | 264 | 264 | 79 | 5 | 2 | 7 | .299 | .299 | .413 | .712 | 109 | |||||||||||
| Joe Buckstead | 84 | 305 | 305 | 77 | 8 | 6 | 3 | .252 | .252 | .348 | .600 | 106 | |||||||||||
| Hersh Martin | 84 | 252 | 252 | 75 | 17 | 1 | 6 | .298 | .298 | .444 | .742 | 112 | |||||||||||
| Red Montgomery | 78 | 269 | 269 | 65 | 9 | 4 | 0 | .242 | .242 | .305 | .546 | 82 | |||||||||||
| Alan Willis | 91 | 270 | 270 | 64 | 9 | 0 | 1 | .237 | .237 | .281 | .519 | 76 | |||||||||||
| Art Bunge | 67 | 247 | 247 | 63 | 11 | 2 | 0 | .255 | .255 | .316 | .571 | 78 | |||||||||||
| Sterling Davis | 71 | 251 | 251 | 59 | 16 | 0 | 4 | .235 | .235 | .347 | .582 | 87 | |||||||||||
| Ervin Hartman | 39 | 127 | 127 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .228 | .228 | .252 | .480 | 32 | |||||||||||
| Joe Marx | 38 | 94 | 94 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 4 | .298 | .298 | .489 | .787 | 46 | |||||||||||
| Bob Gordon | 42 | 103 | 103 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .262 | .262 | .350 | .612 | 36 | |||||||||||
| Jerry Mayers | 38 | 132 | 132 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 1 | .205 | .205 | .258 | .462 | 34 | |||||||||||
| Burton Reagan | 24 | 87 | 87 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .253 | .253 | .310 | .563 | 27 | |||||||||||
| Richard Barr | 18 | 54 | 54 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .259 | .259 | .352 | .611 | 19 | |||||||||||
| Charles Matzen | 33 | 67 | 67 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .164 | .164 | .179 | .343 | 12 | |||||||||||
| William Jacobs | 22 | 46 | 46 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .196 | .196 | .239 | .435 | 11 | |||||||||||
| Joe Fishinghawk | 19 | 26 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .269 | .346 | .615 | 9 | |||||||||||
| Marco Lopez | 10 | 38 | 38 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .158 | .158 | .237 | .395 | 9 | |||||||||||
| Robert Friskel | 11 | 34 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .147 | .147 | .147 | .294 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Roy Alderson | 11 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 1192 | 3910 | 3910 | 0 | 985 | 172 | 26 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .252 | .252 | .348 | .600 | 1362 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Matzen | P | 29 | .000 | |||||
| Joe Marx | P | 29 | .000 | |||||
| Bob Gordon | P | 27 | .000 | |||||
| Joe Fishinghawk | P | 17 | .000 | |||||
| William Jacobs | P | 16 | .000 | |||||
| Totals | 118 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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.
Persons data from the Chadwick Baseball Bureau are Copyright Chadwick Baseball Bureau, and are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
