
1954 Brunswick Pirates Statistics
Team Record: 88-52
Finished 1st in the GGL
Manager: Frank Oceak (88-52)
Affiliation: Pittsburgh Pirates
Location: Brunswick, Georgia
Ballpark: Edo Miller Park
Attendance: 54,475, Avg. 778
Playoffs - Brunswick Pirates 4 games, Waycross Bears 1
Finals - Fitzgerald Red Legs 3 games, Brunswick Pirates 2 - Rainouts forced cancellation of the series. No champion was declared.
The Brunswick Pirates of the Georgia-Florida League ended the 1954 season with a record of 88 wins and 52 losses, finishing first in the GGL.
The Pirates plated 828 runs, tops in the circuit. Brunswick yielded 646 runs. Chuck Buheller paced hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .325 clip. Whammy Douglas earned 27 wins on the mound for the team, while Ronald Gray added 15 or more wins, too Whammy Douglas registered a 2.06 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.
Whammy Douglas played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Brunswick Pirates to do so.
Frank Oceak 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whammy Douglas | 27 | 6 | .818 | 2.06 | 37 | 28 | 271.0 | 195 | 79 | 62 | 9 | 116 | ||||||||||
Ronald Gray | 19 | 4 | .826 | 2.71 | 31 | 27 | 209.0 | 187 | 76 | 63 | 5 | 101 | ||||||||||
Richard Payne | 14 | 8 | .636 | 3.48 | 41 | 19 | 194.0 | 179 | 92 | 75 | 9 | 99 | ||||||||||
Stanley Honkus | 9 | 6 | .600 | 3.38 | 24 | 15 | 106.7 | 101 | 67 | 40 | 3 | 67 | ||||||||||
Milton Vest | 4 | 6 | .400 | 5.64 | 17 | 11 | 81.3 | 80 | 62 | 51 | 5 | 61 | ||||||||||
Stan Patchell | 3 | 9 | .250 | 3.65 | 16 | 13 | 98.7 | 87 | 53 | 40 | 0 | 82 | ||||||||||
Cedric Wolfman | 2 | 2 | .500 | 8 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Bernard Graham | 2 | 3 | .400 | 6.24 | 15 | 7 | 53.3 | 52 | 48 | 37 | 0 | 59 | ||||||||||
Thomas Smith | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 7 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Thomas Hayes | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 5 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Don McNally | 1 | 1 | .500 | 7 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Paul Hensley | 1 | 1 | .500 | 4 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Stan Chlebek | 1 | 1 | .500 | 6 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Dickie Tyndall | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
Dick Chadner | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
Dick Brockell | 0 | 1 | .000 | 5 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals | 85 | 48 | .639 | 3.27 | 234 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1014.0 | 881 | 477 | 368 | 31 | 585 | 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chuck Buheller | 141 | 567 | 567 | 184 | 27 | 8 | 19 | .325 | .325 | .501 | .825 | 284 | |||||||||||
Floyd Faust | 141 | 560 | 560 | 153 | 27 | 10 | 14 | .273 | .273 | .432 | .705 | 242 | |||||||||||
Samuel Farless | 127 | 495 | 495 | 141 | 13 | 7 | 4 | .285 | .285 | .364 | .648 | 180 | |||||||||||
Adrian Rechichar | 126 | 462 | 462 | 126 | 24 | 6 | 1 | .273 | .273 | .357 | .630 | 165 | |||||||||||
Dick Brockell | 134 | 457 | 457 | 123 | 29 | 4 | 12 | .269 | .269 | .429 | .698 | 196 | |||||||||||
Robert Capone | 118 | 449 | 449 | 115 | 18 | 10 | 1 | .256 | .256 | .347 | .604 | 156 | |||||||||||
Joseph Canuso | 131 | 461 | 461 | 104 | 20 | 2 | 1 | .226 | .226 | .284 | .510 | 131 | |||||||||||
John Moriskiewicz | 117 | 366 | 366 | 93 | 21 | 4 | 6 | .254 | .254 | .383 | .637 | 140 | |||||||||||
Don McNally | 82 | 304 | 304 | 66 | 15 | 2 | 3 | .217 | .217 | .309 | .526 | 94 | |||||||||||
George Arent | 24 | 86 | 86 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 1 | .244 | .244 | .360 | .605 | 31 | |||||||||||
Whammy Douglas | 39 | 102 | 102 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .176 | .176 | .245 | .422 | 25 | |||||||||||
Stanley Honkus | 26 | 46 | 46 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .261 | .261 | .304 | .565 | 14 | |||||||||||
Regis Zaski | 14 | 35 | 35 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .314 | .314 | .514 | .829 | 18 | |||||||||||
William Gay | 24 | 56 | 56 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .161 | .161 | .214 | .375 | 12 | |||||||||||
Ronald Gray | 34 | 72 | 72 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | 9 | |||||||||||
Dickie Tyndall | 17 | 25 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .280 | .280 | .400 | .680 | 10 | |||||||||||
Richard Payne | 44 | 54 | 54 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .130 | .130 | .167 | .296 | 9 | |||||||||||
Stan Patchell | 17 | 32 | 32 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .156 | .156 | .188 | .344 | 6 | |||||||||||
Edward Mathes | 13 | 27 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .148 | .148 | .148 | .296 | 4 | |||||||||||
Milton Vest | 17 | 26 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .115 | .115 | .115 | .231 | 3 | |||||||||||
Bernard Graham | 16 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .154 | .308 | 2 | |||||||||||
Thomas Smith | 7 | 3 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
John Brumbaugh | 9 | 24 | 24 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Cedric Wolfman | 8 | 11 | 11 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Dick Chadner | 7 | 2 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Stan Chlebek | 6 | 3 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Russell McClenaghan | 5 | 10 | 10 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
James Deveney | 6 | 9 | 9 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Paul Hensley | 4 | 2 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Thomas Hayes | 5 | 4 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Totals | 1459 | 4763 | 4763 | 0 | 1213 | 216 | 55 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .255 | .255 | .363 | .618 | 1731 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fielding:
Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chuck Buheller | 1B | 116 | 977 | 44 | 14 | .986 | 8.802 | |
George Arent | 1B | 20 | 44 | 9 | 9 | .855 | 2.650 | |
Adrian Rechichar | 2B | 119 | 290 | 342 | 45 | .934 | 5.311 | |
Robert Capone | 3B | 89 | 88 | 122 | 25 | .894 | 2.360 | |
Joseph Canuso | C | 128 | 947 | 92 | 11 | .990 | 8.117 | |
William Gay | C | 16 | 86 | 9 | 3 | .969 | 5.938 | |
Floyd Faust | OF | 141 | 247 | 17 | 21 | .926 | 1.872 | |
Samuel Farless | OF | 127 | 177 | 17 | 10 | .951 | 1.528 | |
John Moriskiewicz | OF | 115 | 157 | 19 | 15 | .921 | 1.530 | |
Richard Payne | P | 41 | .000 | |||||
Whammy Douglas | P | 37 | .000 | |||||
Ronald Gray | P | 31 | .000 | |||||
Stanley Honkus | P | 24 | .000 | |||||
Milton Vest | P | 17 | .000 | |||||
Stan Patchell | P | 16 | .000 | |||||
Bernard Graham | P | 15 | .000 | |||||
Cedric Wolfman | P | 8 | .000 | |||||
Thomas Smith | P | 7 | .000 | |||||
Dick Chadner | P | 7 | .000 | |||||
Stan Chlebek | P | 6 | .000 | |||||
Thomas Hayes | P | 5 | .000 | |||||
Paul Hensley | P | 4 | .000 | |||||
Dick Brockell | SS | 75 | 118 | 193 | 25 | .926 | 4.147 | |
Don McNally | SS | 69 | 107 | 186 | 28 | .913 | 4.246 | |
Totals | 1233 | 3238 | 1050 | 206 | 0 | .954 | 3.478 |
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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