1950 Ponca City Dodgers Statistics
Team Record: 80-42
Finished 1st in the KOML
Manager: Boyd Bartley (80-42)
Affiliation: Brooklyn Dodgers
Location: Ponca City, Oklahoma
Ballpark: Conoco Park
Attendance: 63,313, Avg. 1,038
Playoffs - Ponca City Dodgers 3 games, Pittsburg Browns 2
Finals - Ponca City Dodgers 3 games, Bartlesville Pirates 1
The Ponca City Dodgers of the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League ended the 1950 season with a record of 80 wins and 42 losses, finishing first in the KOML.
The Dodgers surrendered 543 runs, least in the league. Ponca City plated 728 runs. Stan Gwinn led hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .320 clip. Connie Swensson topped the team with 16 wins, while Charles Lamberti registered a 2.29 earned run average, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound.
Joe Stanka played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Ponca City Dodgers to do so.
Boyd Bartley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connie Swensson | 16 | 3 | .842 | 3.58 | 24 | 181.0 | 137 | 92 | 72 | 5 | 129 | |||||||||||
| Ernest Nichols | 12 | 6 | .667 | 2.86 | 21 | 148.0 | 98 | 66 | 47 | 1 | 138 | |||||||||||
| Joe Stanek | 11 | 2 | .846 | 3.39 | 25 | 138.0 | 111 | 72 | 52 | 4 | 97 | |||||||||||
| Charles Lamberti | 11 | 6 | .647 | 2.29 | 43 | 118.0 | 101 | 48 | 30 | 3 | 66 | |||||||||||
| Don Brate | 9 | 3 | .750 | 3.10 | 31 | 148.0 | 131 | 74 | 51 | 1 | 78 | |||||||||||
| Ernest Jordan | 8 | 5 | .615 | 3.13 | 16 | 95.0 | 72 | 41 | 33 | 0 | 71 | |||||||||||
| Michael Werbach | 8 | 7 | .533 | 2.58 | 27 | 122.0 | 82 | 49 | 35 | 3 | 76 | |||||||||||
| Joe Stanka | 1 | 3 | .250 | 3.54 | 5 | 28.0 | 24 | 11 | 22 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 76 | 35 | .685 | 3.05 | 192 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 978.0 | 756 | 442 | 331 | 17 | 677 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Hunter | 123 | 479 | 479 | 152 | 31 | 14 | 5 | .317 | .317 | .472 | .789 | 226 | |||||||||||
| Loren Doll | 122 | 496 | 496 | 152 | 13 | 4 | 4 | .306 | .306 | .373 | .679 | 185 | |||||||||||
| Stan Gwinn | 115 | 422 | 422 | 135 | 19 | 3 | 12 | .320 | .320 | .464 | .784 | 196 | |||||||||||
| Willie Davis | 119 | 433 | 433 | 107 | 22 | 0 | 21 | .247 | .247 | .443 | .691 | 192 | |||||||||||
| Robert Henne | 106 | 383 | 383 | 102 | 13 | 2 | 0 | .266 | .266 | .311 | .577 | 119 | |||||||||||
| Bob Bonebrake | 85 | 337 | 337 | 94 | 11 | 9 | 2 | .279 | .279 | .383 | .662 | 129 | |||||||||||
| Don Keeter | 69 | 226 | 226 | 68 | 14 | 2 | 0 | .301 | .301 | .381 | .681 | 86 | |||||||||||
| Harry Crandall | 91 | 308 | 308 | 53 | 8 | 2 | 5 | .172 | .172 | .260 | .432 | 80 | |||||||||||
| Jasper Spears | 49 | 160 | 160 | 42 | 5 | 1 | 3 | .262 | .262 | .362 | .625 | 58 | |||||||||||
| Mike Witwicki | 47 | 135 | 135 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 2 | .193 | .193 | .289 | .481 | 39 | |||||||||||
| Clyde Girrens | 31 | 114 | 114 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .193 | .193 | .246 | .439 | 28 | |||||||||||
| Rafael Fernandez | 22 | 73 | 73 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 1 | .288 | .288 | .452 | .740 | 33 | |||||||||||
| Don Blackman | 18 | 73 | 73 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .219 | .219 | .274 | .493 | 20 | |||||||||||
| Roland Alexander | 18 | 60 | 60 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .200 | .200 | .267 | .467 | 16 | |||||||||||
| Joe Stanek | 25 | 50 | 50 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .280 | .480 | 14 | |||||||||||
| Ernest Nichols | 21 | 58 | 58 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .172 | .172 | .241 | .414 | 14 | |||||||||||
| Lloyd Moore | 19 | 61 | 61 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .148 | .148 | .197 | .344 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Don Brate | 31 | 46 | 46 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .174 | .174 | .174 | .348 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Connie Swensson | 25 | 70 | 70 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .114 | .114 | .114 | .229 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Steve Cavlovic | 10 | 29 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .207 | .207 | .310 | .517 | 9 | |||||||||||
| Charles Lamberti | 43 | 35 | 35 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .171 | .171 | .257 | .429 | 9 | |||||||||||
| Ernest Jordan | 21 | 36 | 36 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .222 | .389 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Michael Werbach | 27 | 44 | 44 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .136 | .136 | .136 | .273 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 1237 | 4128 | 4128 | 0 | 1071 | 165 | 44 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .259 | .259 | .362 | .622 | 1495 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Lamberti | P | 43 | .000 | |||||
| Don Brate | P | 31 | .000 | |||||
| Michael Werbach | P | 27 | .000 | |||||
| Joe Stanek | P | 25 | .000 | |||||
| Connie Swensson | P | 24 | .000 | |||||
| Ernest Nichols | P | 21 | .000 | |||||
| Ernest Jordan | P | 16 | .000 | |||||
| Totals | 187 | 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.
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