1955 Wytheville Statesmen Statistics
Team Record: 58-68
Finished 5th in the AL
Manager: Lowell Hamons (0-0), Frank Tepedino (0-0)
Location: Wytheville, Virginia
Ballpark: Withers Field
Attendance: 22,505, Avg. 357
The Wytheville Statesmen of the Appalachian League ended the 1955 season with a record of 58 wins and 68 losses, finishing fifth in the AL.
The Statesmen scored 775 runs and yielded 785 runs. Guy Lavalliere paced all regular hitters with a .333 average. John Wantz topped Wytheville with 14 wins, while Robert McNeil recorded a 4.09 ERA, tops among regular hurlers. Lowell Hamons and Frank Tepedino 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Wantz | 14 | 8 | .636 | 4.43 | 28 | 23 | 181.0 | 191 | 112 | 89 | 12 | 69 | ||||||||||
| Robert McNeil | 13 | 15 | .464 | 4.09 | 49 | 24 | 233.0 | 262 | 142 | 106 | 19 | 70 | ||||||||||
| Joseph Harris | 8 | 8 | .500 | 5.27 | 26 | 2 | 164.0 | 194 | 115 | 96 | 14 | 84 | ||||||||||
| Michael Callahan | 6 | 5 | .545 | 5.42 | 12 | 10 | 83.0 | 90 | 55 | 50 | 6 | 23 | ||||||||||
| Richard Avery | 5 | 9 | .357 | 5.80 | 22 | 12 | 104.0 | 153 | 90 | 67 | 14 | 41 | ||||||||||
| John Kelley | 5 | 10 | .333 | 5.48 | 33 | 13 | 138.0 | 161 | 105 | 84 | 13 | 66 | ||||||||||
| Martin Solomon | 3 | 6 | .333 | 4.70 | 16 | 12 | 88.0 | 93 | 58 | 46 | 5 | 37 | ||||||||||
| Warren McLea | 2 | 2 | .500 | 8 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| William Carpenter | 2 | 2 | .500 | 6.19 | 12 | 4 | 48.0 | 60 | 39 | 33 | 2 | 23 | ||||||||||
| Frank Tepedino | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Jack Melzer | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alfred Geyer | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Joyce Laney | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Thomas Ford | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pervie Wentz | 0 | 1 | .000 | 1 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Donn Coates | 0 | 1 | .000 | 6.92 | 10 | 3 | 26.0 | 43 | 27 | 20 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 58 | 67 | .464 | 4.99 | 225 | 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1065.0 | 1247 | 743 | 591 | 87 | 423 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyce Laney | 124 | 471 | 471 | 146 | 20 | 13 | 1 | .310 | .310 | .414 | .724 | 195 | |||||||||||
| Mike Coppola | 125 | 445 | 445 | 136 | 24 | 7 | 33 | .306 | .306 | .613 | .919 | 273 | |||||||||||
| Frank Tepedino | 112 | 412 | 412 | 124 | 23 | 7 | 3 | .301 | .301 | .413 | .714 | 170 | |||||||||||
| Guy Lavalliere | 115 | 369 | 369 | 123 | 28 | 5 | 14 | .333 | .333 | .550 | .883 | 203 | |||||||||||
| Stan Anderson | 111 | 415 | 415 | 104 | 17 | 4 | 7 | .251 | .251 | .361 | .612 | 150 | |||||||||||
| Jess Brandenburg | 121 | 435 | 435 | 94 | 15 | 6 | 10 | .216 | .216 | .347 | .563 | 151 | |||||||||||
| Fred Cannon | 73 | 254 | 254 | 66 | 12 | 3 | 10 | .260 | .260 | .449 | .709 | 114 | |||||||||||
| Joe Oxendine | 28 | 113 | 113 | 38 | 4 | 2 | 3 | .336 | .336 | .487 | .823 | 55 | |||||||||||
| John Wantz | 41 | 95 | 95 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 4 | .284 | .284 | .463 | .747 | 44 | |||||||||||
| Melvyn Provost | 26 | 78 | 78 | 23 | 1 | 4 | 1 | .295 | .295 | .449 | .744 | 35 | |||||||||||
| John Croke | 42 | 97 | 97 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 3 | .227 | .227 | .412 | .639 | 40 | |||||||||||
| William Pemberton | 20 | 67 | 67 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .239 | .239 | .343 | .582 | 23 | |||||||||||
| Robert McNeil | 49 | 86 | 86 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .186 | .186 | .198 | .384 | 17 | |||||||||||
| John Kelley | 42 | 58 | 58 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .190 | .190 | .310 | .500 | 18 | |||||||||||
| Richard Avery | 22 | 41 | 41 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .220 | .220 | .220 | .439 | 9 | |||||||||||
| Joseph Harris | 26 | 63 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .111 | .111 | .159 | .270 | 10 | |||||||||||
| Samuel Coppola | 19 | 52 | 52 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .115 | .115 | .135 | .250 | 7 | |||||||||||
| William Carpenter | 15 | 26 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .192 | .192 | .192 | .385 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Martin Solomon | 16 | 23 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .174 | .174 | .174 | .348 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Michael Callahan | 12 | 30 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .133 | .133 | .267 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Donn Coates | 10 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .444 | .778 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Pervie Wentz | 1 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Warren McLea | 8 | 11 | 11 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Edward Mathes | 7 | 19 | 19 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Joseph Bass | 6 | 22 | 22 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Carl Brickey | 5 | 9 | 9 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Aubrey Dickinson | 2 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Charles Dungan | 9 | 23 | 23 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Alfred Geyer | 2 | 3 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Donald Abrams | 2 | 4 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Marvin Jordan | 8 | 16 | 16 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Eddie Knezevich | 4 | 6 | 6 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Thomas Wycoff | 2 | 6 | 6 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Totals | 1205 | 3760 | 3760 | 0 | 984 | 160 | 54 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .262 | .262 | .407 | .669 | 1531 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert McNeil | P | 49 | .000 | |||||
| John Kelley | P | 33 | .000 | |||||
| John Wantz | P | 28 | .000 | |||||
| Joseph Harris | P | 26 | .000 | |||||
| Richard Avery | P | 22 | .000 | |||||
| Martin Solomon | P | 16 | .000 | |||||
| William Carpenter | P | 12 | .000 | |||||
| Michael Callahan | P | 12 | .000 | |||||
| Donn Coates | P | 10 | .000 | |||||
| Warren McLea | P | 8 | .000 | |||||
| Alfred Geyer | P | 2 | .000 | |||||
| Pervie Wentz | P | 1 | .000 | |||||
| Jack Melzer | P | 1 | .000 | |||||
| Thomas Ford | P | 1 | .000 | |||||
| Totals | 221 | 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.
