1955 Fort Walton Beach Jets Statistics
Team Record: 70-50
Finished 2nd in the AAL
Manager: John Streza (0-0), Shovel Hodge (0-0)
Affiliation: Cincinnati Redlegs
Location: Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium
Attendance: 19,680, Avg. 328
Playoffs - Crestview Braves 4 games, Fort Walton Beach Jets 1
The Fort Walton Beach Jets of the Alabama-Florida League ended the 1955 season with a record of 70 wins and 50 losses, finishing second in the AAL.
The Jets paced the circuit with just 668 runs allowed. Fort Walton Beach scored 800 runs. Thomas Swanson topped batters with significant playing time with a .330 average. Reinaldo Alonso led the team with 18 wins and a team-best 2.96 earned run average, best among qualifying pitchers.
Duane Richards played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Fort Walton Beach Jets to do so.
John Streza and Shovel Hodge 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reinaldo Alonso | 18 | 8 | .692 | 2.96 | 39 | 24 | 234.0 | 221 | 120 | 77 | 12 | 80 | ||||||||||
| Dizzy Higginbottom | 13 | 13 | .500 | 4.10 | 37 | 26 | 200.0 | 165 | 121 | 91 | 12 | 167 | ||||||||||
| Hank Hemmerly | 11 | 12 | .478 | 3.97 | 34 | 25 | 213.0 | 209 | 115 | 94 | 6 | 121 | ||||||||||
| Thomas Bramlish | 10 | 3 | .769 | 4.90 | 24 | 13 | 123.0 | 124 | 92 | 67 | 12 | 91 | ||||||||||
| Jackie Loftin | 9 | 7 | .562 | 5.60 | 29 | 20 | 135.0 | 145 | 97 | 84 | 7 | 96 | ||||||||||
| Ronald Bossie | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 8 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Gene Harp | 2 | 4 | .333 | 7.45 | 18 | 5 | 64.0 | 87 | 59 | 53 | 5 | 52 | ||||||||||
| Charles Brown | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Thomas Swanson | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duane Richards | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 8 | 23.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Totals | 65 | 47 | .580 | 4.23 | 200 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 992.0 | 951 | 604 | 466 | 54 | 607 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Swanson | 118 | 458 | 458 | 151 | 41 | 7 | 11 | .330 | .330 | .522 | .852 | 239 | |||||||||||
| Charles Tulner | 118 | 462 | 462 | 144 | 17 | 9 | 31 | .312 | .312 | .589 | .900 | 272 | |||||||||||
| Thomas Dotterer | 111 | 453 | 453 | 124 | 16 | 7 | 13 | .274 | .274 | .426 | .700 | 193 | |||||||||||
| Phil Shartzer | 118 | 499 | 499 | 116 | 20 | 2 | 3 | .232 | .232 | .299 | .531 | 149 | |||||||||||
| Arnold Fregin | 116 | 392 | 392 | 111 | 18 | 3 | 9 | .283 | .283 | .413 | .696 | 162 | |||||||||||
| John Streza | 84 | 329 | 329 | 102 | 17 | 3 | 9 | .310 | .310 | .462 | .772 | 152 | |||||||||||
| Carlos Castillo | 90 | 350 | 350 | 99 | 22 | 4 | 3 | .283 | .283 | .394 | .677 | 138 | |||||||||||
| Alberto Alvarez | 83 | 297 | 297 | 84 | 13 | 5 | 6 | .283 | .283 | .421 | .704 | 125 | |||||||||||
| John McAreavy | 44 | 167 | 167 | 43 | 7 | 3 | 4 | .257 | .257 | .407 | .665 | 68 | |||||||||||
| Thomas Bramlish | 50 | 131 | 131 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 3 | .221 | .221 | .336 | .557 | 44 | |||||||||||
| Jimmy Lail | 23 | 91 | 91 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .242 | .242 | .308 | .549 | 28 | |||||||||||
| Bernie Ferrara | 19 | 68 | 68 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .235 | .235 | .353 | .588 | 24 | |||||||||||
| Reinaldo Alonso | 39 | 88 | 88 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .148 | .148 | .170 | .318 | 15 | |||||||||||
| Dizzy Higginbottom | 39 | 69 | 69 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .174 | .174 | .275 | .449 | 19 | |||||||||||
| Jackie Loftin | 46 | 87 | 87 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .138 | .138 | .149 | .287 | 13 | |||||||||||
| Hank Hemmerly | 34 | 82 | 82 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .122 | .122 | .122 | .244 | 10 | |||||||||||
| George Mann | 13 | 20 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .350 | .600 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Gene Harp | 20 | 29 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .138 | .138 | .138 | .276 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Nicholas Falcone | 3 | 3 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Vincent Slaboszewski | 4 | 14 | 14 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Charles Brown | 2 | 4 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Ronald Bossie | 8 | 4 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Duane Richards | 8 | 8 | 8 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Totals | 1190 | 4105 | 4105 | 0 | 1097 | 180 | 47 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .267 | .405 | .672 | 1662 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reinaldo Alonso | P | 39 | .000 | |||||
| Dizzy Higginbottom | P | 37 | .000 | |||||
| Hank Hemmerly | P | 34 | .000 | |||||
| Jackie Loftin | P | 29 | .000 | |||||
| Gene Harp | P | 18 | .000 | |||||
| Duane Richards | P | 8 | .000 | |||||
| Ronald Bossie | P | 8 | .000 | |||||
| Charles Brown | P | 2 | .000 | |||||
| Totals | 175 | 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.
