1944 Portland Beavers Statistics

Pacific Coast League (PCL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 87-82
Finished 2nd in the PCL
Manager: Marv Owen (87-82)
Location: Portland, Oregon
Ballpark: Vaughn Street Park
Attendance: 270,835, Avg. 3,205

1944 Portland Beavers Roster

Playoffs - Los Angeles Angels 4 games, Portland Beavers 2

The Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League ended the 1944 season with a record of 87 wins and 82 losses, finishing second in the PCL.

The Beavers scored 645 runs and allowed 662 runs. Marv Owen recorded 63 runs batted in. Frank Shone led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .275. Marino Pieretti earned 26 wins on the mound for the team, while Roy Helser and Ad Liska added 15 or more wins, too Roy Helser recorded a 2.41 ERA, tops among qualifying pitchers.

Members of the 1944 Portland Beavers who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Johnny Gill, John O'Neil, Joe Sullivan, Ad Liska, Jack Wilson, Marv Owen, Ted Gullic, Marino Pieretti, Gilly Campbell, Spence Harris, Frank Demaree and Syd Cohen.

Marv Owen 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
Marino Pieretti	26	13	.667	2.46	48	37		31	7		322.0	280	113	88		125		139	4	1	12
Roy Helser	20	16	.556	2.41	37	37		26	8		280.0	260	96	75		120		156	9	0	6
Ad Liska	18	9	.667	2.48	32	29		19	4		236.0	236	88	65		40		124	3	0	2
Syd Cohen	10	13	.435	3.54	27	23		12	3		150.0	172	81	59		56		44	6	0	6
Clarence Federmeyer	6	6	.500	4.19	38	7		3	1		144.0	122	72	67		109		59	8	1	6
Don Pulford	3	10	.231	3.72	21	18		7	0		121.0	141	58	50		43		48	3	0	8
George Windsor	1	1	.500	0.00	17	0		0	0		35.0	39				16		14
Jack Wilson	1	1	.500	0.00	7	5		1	0		41.0	44				13		9
Edward Van Leiden	0	0		0.00	2	0		0	0		6.0	4				2		1
James Rogers	0	0		0.00	1	0		0	0		0.7	0				0		0
John Mueller	0	0		0.00	2	0		0	0		2.0	5				3		1
Ed Lussow	0	0		0.00	1	0		0	0		0.7	0				3		0
Frank Shone	0	1	.000	0.00	3	1		0	0		3.0	7				11		0
Lefty Mossor	0	1	.000	0.00	11	0		0	0		30.0	32				19		23
Al Ott	0	2	.000	0.00	14	0		0	0		28.0	40				10		5
Totals	85	73	.538	2.60	261	157	0	99	23	0	1399.3	1382	508	404	0	570	0	623	33	2	40	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
John O'Neil	159	712	631	70	149	20	6	0	43	8		56	29	.236	.302	.287	.589	181		4	21
Frank Shone	145	568	509	71	140	23	7	0	48	17		47	66	.275	.338	.348	.685	177		1	11
Marv Owen	131	514	449	40	130	27	2	1	63	9		56	22	.290	.372	.365	.737	164		3	6
Johnny Gill	127	480	425	48	122	27	2	3	49	6		46	45	.287	.362	.381	.743	162		4	5
Larry Barton	128	535	462	71	117	28	4	4	53	6		54	35	.253	.340	.357	.697	165		7	12
Spence Harris	124	459	373	54	102	26	5	5	45	1		76	33	.273	.396	.410	.807	153		0	10
Charles Petersen	91	380	355	39	97	19	0	0	28	6		23	25	.273	.317	.327	.644	116		0	2
Ted Gullic	103	399	358	46	93	27	6	8	54	3		25	29	.260	.313	.436	.749	156		3	13
Eddie Adams	113	374	310	24	92	16	1	0	37	1		46	38	.297	.388	.355	.742	110		0	18
Norman DeWeese	106	358	332	42	84	22	1	2	33	2		19	35	.253	.293	.343	.637	114		0	7
Mel Nunes	105	338	302	25	66	6	0	1	21	2		18	57	.219	.265	.248	.513	75		1	17
Marino Pieretti	51	136	117	11	32	3	0	0	14	3		11	11	.274	.341	.299	.640	35		1	7
Roy Helser	63	133	126	12	28	3	0	0	13	0		4	20	.222	.246	.246	.492	31		0	3
Frank Demaree	35	121	104	12	27	7	0	0	12	2		15	6	.260	.353	.327	.680	34		0	2
John Ciccimarro	30	98	87	16	18	2	0	0	7	0		8	24	.207	.281	.230	.511	20		1	2
Earl Norager	48	102	96	4	17	3	0	0	4	0		4	9	.177	.210	.208	.418	20		0	2
Bob Hedington	34	67	61	6	15	2	0	0	6	1		3	7	.246	.281	.279	.560	17		0	3
Clarence Federmeyer	44	53	50	10	13	0	0	0	2	0		0	7	.260	.275	.260	.535	13		1	2
Ad Liska	32	91	83	3	13	0	0	0	9	0		4	13	.157	.195	.157	.352	13		0	4
Syd Cohen	27	57	53	7	10	3	1	0	2	1		1	3	.189	.204	.283	.487	15		0	3
Carl Anderson	25	73	67	6	8	1	1	0	7	1		6	16	.119	.192	.164	.356	11		0	0
Don Pulford	24	50	42	4	6	1	1	0	7	0		4	11	.143	.217	.214	.432	9		0	4
George Windsor	17	11	11	2	3	0	0	0	0	0		0	4	.273	.273	.273	.545	3		0	0
Don Cook	8	10	10		2	1	0	0	2	0				.200	.200	.300	.500	3
Jack Wilson	7	13	13		2	0	0	0	1	0				.154	.154	.154	.308	2
Norman Johnson	2	2	2		1	0	0	0	0	0				.500	.500	.500	1.000	1
Lefty Mossor	11	8	8		1	0	0	0	0	0				.125	.125	.125	.250	1
John Mueller	2	2	2		0	0	0	0	0	0				.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Al Ott	14	5	5		0	0	0	0	0	0				.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Jimmie Daniels	6	5	5		0	0	0	0	0	0				.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Thomas Higgins	6	3	3		0	0	0	0	0	0				.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Totals	1818	6157	5451	623	1388	267	37	24	560	69	0	526	545	.255	.323	.330	.654	1801	0	26	154	0	0

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Larry Barton	1B	123	1099	70	12	95	.990	9.504
Ted Gullic	1B	35	310	32	4	18	.988	9.771
Spence Harris	1B	13	104	9	1	6	.991	8.692
Mel Nunes	2B	95	250	238	20	48	.961	5.137
Charles Petersen	2B	52	134	97	4	23	.983	4.442
John Ciccimarro	2B	28	62	50	10	11	.918	4.000
Bob Hedington	2B	15	23	18	0	3	1.000	2.733
Marv Owen	3B	131	140	292	16	24	.964	3.298
Charles Petersen	3B	31	21	67	8	1	.917	2.839
Ted Gullic	3B	16	26	30	4	3	.933	3.500
Bob Hedington	3B	11	7	8	1	0	.938	1.364
Eddie Adams	C	111	448	69	12	5	.977	4.658	6
Earl Norager	C	45	105	20	4	4	.969	2.778	4
Frank Shone	OF	137	342	20	19	7	.950	2.642
Johnny Gill	OF	111	169	12	5	2	.973	1.631
Spence Harris	OF	100	161	12	6	2	.966	1.730
Norman DeWeese	OF	88	160	5	4	1	.976	1.875
Ted Gullic	OF	49	103	10	6	1	.950	2.306
Frank Demaree	OF	27	32	2	1	2	.971	1.259
Carl Anderson	OF	20	41	0	1	1	.976	2.050
Charles Petersen	OF	14	26	3	1	0	.967	2.071
Marino Pieretti	P	48	22	87	5	2	.956	2.271
Clarence Federmeyer	P	38	2	34	5	1	.878	.947
Roy Helser	P	37	19	79	2	4	.980	2.649
Ad Liska	P	32	15	38	1	0	.981	1.656
Syd Cohen	P	27	10	40	3	6	.943	1.852
Don Pulford	P	21	9	31	0	3	1.000	1.905
George Windsor	P	17	0	9	0	0	1.000	.529
Al Ott	P	14	0	8	0	0	1.000	.571
Lefty Mossor	P	11	0	6	1	0	.857	.545
Jack Wilson	P	7						.000
Frank Shone	P	3						.000
Edward Van Leiden	P	2						.000
John Mueller	P	2						.000
James Rogers	P	1						.000
Ed Lussow	P	1						.000
John O'Neil	SS	159	346	520	58	83	.937	5.447
Totals		1672	4186	1916	214	356	.966	3.650	10	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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