1954 Pittsburgh Pirates

1954 > Class Major League > 1954 National League
Overall: 53-101
Scored 557 runs, Allowed 845 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 49-105

Affiliation: none or n/a
Manager: Fred Haney
Represented: Pittsburgh, PA
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 1953 / 1955

Team Batting

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

Rk		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF
1	Cal Abrams*	30	17	52	42	6	6	1	1	0	2	0	0	10	9	.143	.308	.214	.522	9	2	0	0	0
2	Gair Allie	22	121	482	418	38	83	8	6	3	30	1	1	56	84	.199	.294	.268	.562	112	3	2	3	3
3	Toby Atwell*	30	96	340	287	36	83	8	4	3	26	2	3	43	21	.289	.384	.376	.760	108	11	3	4	3
4	Dick Cole	28	138	541	486	40	131	22	5	1	40	0	0	41	48	.270	.323	.342	.664	166	20	0	8	6
5	Bob Friend	23	35	57	51	6	14	1	1	1	7	0	0	5	8	.275	.339	.392	.731	20	2	0	1	0
6	Sid Gordon	36	131	447	363	38	111	12	0	12	49	0	0	67	24	.306	.405	.438	.843	159	10	0	8	9
7	Bill Hall*	25	5	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
8	Dick Hall	23	112	353	310	38	74	8	4	2	27	3	0	33	46	.239	.304	.310	.614	96	14	0	1	9
9	Gail Henley*	25	14	35	30	7	9	1	0	1	2	0	0	4	4	.300	.382	.433	.816	13	0	0	1	0
10	Johnny Hetki	32	58	10	9	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	1	0
11	Cal Hogue	26	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0
12	Vic Janowicz	24	41	84	73	10	11	3	0	0	2	0	0	7	23	.151	.235	.192	.426	14	0	1	3	0
13	Sam Jethroe#	37	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
14	Nick Koback	18	4	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
15	Paul LaPalme*	30	33	39	35	2	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	.143	.167	.229	.395	8	0	1	3	0
16	Vern Law	24	50	64	52	10	12	5	0	1	13	0	0	5	8	.231	.310	.385	.695	20	4	1	6	0
17	Dick Littlefield*	28	23	55	49	4	8	2	1	0	2	0	0	2	13	.163	.196	.245	.441	12	1	0	4	0
18	Jerry Lynch*	23	98	308	284	27	68	4	5	8	36	2	2	20	43	.239	.290	.373	.663	106	9	1	1	2
19	Jim Mangan	24	14	30	26	2	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	9	.192	.300	.192	.492	5	0	0	0	0
20	George O'Donnell	25	21	24	23	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	10	.087	.125	.217	.342	5	0	0	0	0
21	Eddie Pellagrini	36	73	142	125	12	27	6	0	0	16	0	0	9	21	.216	.288	.264	.552	33	1	4	3	1
22	Laurin Pepper	23	14	17	17	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.235	.235	.294	.529	5	0	0	0	0
23	Bob Purkey	24	36	33	26	2	2	1	0	0	4	0	0	4	12	.077	.200	.115	.315	3	0	0	3	0
24	Curt Roberts	24	134	565	496	47	115	18	7	1	36	6	3	55	49	.232	.309	.302	.612	150	6	2	9	3
25	Jack Shepard	23	82	265	227	24	69	8	2	3	22	0	0	26	33	.304	.370	.396	.766	90	10	0	8	4
26	Bob Skinner*	22	132	530	470	67	117	15	9	8	46	4	0	47	59	.249	.316	.370	.686	174	11	0	11	2
27	Dick Smith	26	12	37	31	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	6	5	.097	.243	.194	.437	6	1	0	0	0
28	Max Surkont	32	33	76	60	3	10	1	0	0	5	0	0	6	19	.167	.239	.183	.422	11	2	0	9	1
29	Jake Thies	28	33	40	33	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	11	.030	.158	.030	.188	1	0	0	2	0
30	Frank Thomas	25	153	653	577	81	172	32	7	23	94	3	2	51	74	.298	.359	.497	.856	287	10	10	4	11
31	Preston Ward*	26	117	406	360	37	97	16	2	7	48	0	0	39	61	.269	.337	.383	.721	138	5	0	3	4
32	Len Yochim*	25	10	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0
	32 Players	26.1	154	5836	5088	557	1260	181	57	76	526	21	13	566	737	.248	.323	.350	.673	1783	125	25	99	58

Only players for whom we have stats are shown. See roster for more complete team list.

Team Pitching

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

Rk		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	Bob Friend	23	7	12	.368	5.07	35	20	8	4	2	2	170.1	204	106	96	16	58	73	1	2	1	758	1.538	10.8	0.8	3.1	3.9	1.26
2	Johnny Hetki	32	4	4	.500	4.99	58	1	46	0	0	9	83.0	102	53	46	11	30	27	0	0	2	384	1.590	11.1	1.2	3.3	2.9	0.90
3	Cal Hogue	26	0	1	.000	4.91	3	2	0	0	0	0	11.0	11	6	6	1	12	7	0	0	0	52	2.091	9.0	0.8	9.8	5.7	0.58
4	Nellie King	26	0	0		5.14	4	0	3	0	0	0	7.0	10	5	4	0	1	3	0	0	0	31	1.571	12.9	0.0	1.3	3.9	3.00
5	Paul LaPalme*	30	4	10	.286	5.52	33	15	7	2	0	0	120.2	147	79	74	15	54	57	0	1	8	552	1.666	11.0	1.1	4.0	4.3	1.06
6	Vern Law	24	9	13	.409	5.51	39	18	17	7	0	3	161.2	201	109	99	20	56	57	3	0	6	728	1.590	11.2	1.1	3.1	3.2	1.02
7	Dick Littlefield*	28	10	11	.476	3.60	23	21	1	7	1	0	155.0	140	78	62	10	85	92	2	0	2	686	1.452	8.1	0.6	4.9	5.3	1.08
8	George O'Donnell	25	3	9	.250	4.53	21	10	6	3	0	1	87.1	105	50	44	4	21	8	2	0	2	373	1.443	10.8	0.4	2.2	0.8	0.38
9	Joe Page*	36	0	0		11.17	7	0	4	0	0	0	9.2	16	17	12	4	7	4	1	0	0	54	2.379	14.9	3.7	6.5	3.7	0.57
10	Laurin Pepper	23	1	5	.167	7.99	14	8	4	0	0	0	50.2	63	53	45	4	43	17	0	1	4	254	2.092	11.2	0.7	7.6	3.0	0.40
11	Bob Purkey	24	3	8	.273	5.07	36	11	7	0	0	0	131.1	145	78	74	3	62	38	7	1	1	581	1.576	9.9	0.2	4.2	2.6	0.61
12	Max Surkont	32	9	18	.333	4.41	33	29	2	11	0	0	208.1	216	124	102	25	78	78	4	0	4	916	1.411	9.3	1.1	3.4	3.4	1.00
13	Jake Thies	28	3	9	.250	3.87	33	18	7	3	1	0	130.1	120	70	56	13	49	57	3	0	2	559	1.297	8.3	0.9	3.4	3.9	1.16
14	Len Yochim*	25	0	1	.000	7.32	10	1	5	0	0	0	19.2	30	17	16	2	8	7	0	0	5	95	1.932	13.7	0.9	3.7	3.2	0.88
	14 Players	27.4	53	101	.344	4.92	154	154	117	37	4	15	1346.0	1510	845	736	128	564	525	23	5	37	6023	1.541	10.1	0.9	3.8	3.5	0.93

Team Fielding--By Pos

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

C

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Toby Atwell	88	360	39	4	4	.990	4.53	5	43	20	32%
Jack Shepard	67	257	46	7	5	.977	4.52	4	34	23	40%
Jim Mangan	7	24	3	0	1	1.000	3.86	0	1	2	67%
Nick Koback	4	14	0	0	0	1.000	3.50	0	0	0
Bill Hall	1	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.00	0	1	0	0%

1B

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Bob Skinner	118		1026	84	16	87	.986	9.41
Preston Ward	48		338	41	6	31	.984	7.90

2B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Curt Roberts	131	357	394	24	82	.969	5.73
Dick Cole	17	43	46	3	5	.967	5.24
Eddie Pellagrini	7	24	17	0	5	1.000	5.86

3B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Dick Cole	55	48	112	10	7	.941	2.91
Sid Gordon	40	28	71	8	5	.925	2.48
Eddie Pellagrini	31	18	43	2	5	.968	1.97
Gair Allie	19	19	35	3	0	.947	2.84
Vic Janowicz	18	15	32	5	3	.904	2.61
Preston Ward	11	7	20	3	0	.900	2.45
Dick Smith	9	7	21	2	3	.933	3.11

SS

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Gair Allie	95	192	260	23	59	.952	4.76
Dick Cole	66	101	178	15	29	.949	4.23
Eddie Pellagrini	1	0	0	0	0		0.00

LF

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Frank Thomas	48							0.00
Jerry Lynch	46							0.00
Dick Hall	42							0.00
Sid Gordon	8							0.00
Cal Abrams	5							0.00
Gail Henley	1							0.00
Vic Janowicz	1							0.00

CF

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Frank Thomas	109							0.00
Dick Hall	44							0.00
Jerry Lynch	4							0.00
Cal Abrams	3							0.00

RF

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Sid Gordon	66							0.00
Preston Ward	42							0.00
Jerry Lynch	36							0.00
Dick Hall	18							0.00
Gail Henley	8							0.00
Cal Abrams	5							0.00
Bob Skinner	2							0.00
Sam Jethroe	1							0.00
Vern Law	1							0.00

OF

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Frank Thomas	153	418	14	5	2	.989	2.82
Dick Hall	102	235	5	11	1	.956	2.35
Jerry Lynch	83	127	10	5	2	.965	1.65
Sid Gordon	73	121	9	3	1	.977	1.78
Preston Ward	42	74	8	6	3	.932	1.95
Cal Abrams	13	23	2	0	0	1.000	1.92
Gail Henley	9	13	1	0	0	1.000	1.56
Bob Skinner	2	0	0	0	0		0.00
Vic Janowicz	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00
Sam Jethroe	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00
Vern Law	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00

P

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Johnny Hetki	58	3	11	0	0	1.000	0.24
Vern Law	39	11	23	1	2	.971	0.87
Bob Purkey	36	16	40	0	6	1.000	1.56
Bob Friend	35	7	27	1	1	.971	0.97
Paul LaPalme	33	7	19	0	1	1.000	0.79
Max Surkont	33	8	40	1	1	.980	1.45
Jake Thies	33	8	24	4	2	.889	0.97
Dick Littlefield	23	5	14	3	0	.864	0.83
George O'Donnell	21	7	19	0	1	1.000	1.24
Laurin Pepper	14	1	17	1	0	.947	1.29
Len Yochim	10	4	6	1	0	.909	1.00
Joe Page	7	0	2	0	0	1.000	0.29
Nellie King	4	0	3	0	1	1.000	0.75
Cal Hogue	3	0	2	0	0	1.000	0.67

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors

	Age	B	T	Ht	Wt	DoB	Birthplace
Cal Abrams	30	L	L	6' 0.0"	185	Mar 2, 1924	Philadelphia, PA, US	1954-04-13	1954-05-22
Gair Allie	22	R	R	6' 1.0"	190	Oct 28, 1931	Statesville, NC, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-26
Toby Atwell	30	L	R	5' 9.0"	185	Mar 8, 1924	Leesburg, VA, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-25
Dick Cole	28	R	R	6' 2.0"	175	May 6, 1926	Long Beach, CA, US	1954-04-14	1954-09-26
Walker Cooper	39	R	R	6' 3.0"	210	Jan 8, 1915	Atherton, MO, US	1954-04-14	1954-05-18
Bob Friend	23	R	R	6' 0.0"	190	Nov 24, 1930	Lafayette, IN, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-25
Sid Gordon	36	R	R	5' 10.0"	185	Aug 13, 1917	Brooklyn, NY, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-26
Bill Hall	25	L	R	5' 11.0"	165	Jul 30, 1928	Moultrie, GA, US	1954-04-18	1954-05-06
Dick Hall	23	R	R	6' 6.0"	200	Sep 27, 1930	St. Louis, MO, US	1954-05-08	1954-09-26
Gail Henley	25	L	R	5' 9.0"	180	Oct 15, 1928	Wichita, KS, US	1954-04-13	1954-05-06
Johnny Hetki	32	R	R	6' 1.0"	202	May 12, 1922	Leavenworth, KS, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-22
Cal Hogue	26	R	R	6' 0.0"	185	Oct 24, 1927	Dayton, OH, US	1954-04-15	1954-04-24
Vic Janowicz	24	R	R	5' 9.0"	185	Feb 26, 1930	Elyria, OH, US	1954-04-18	1954-09-10
Sam Jethroe	37	S	R	6' 1.0"	178	Jan 23, 1917	Lowndes County, MS, US	1954-04-14	1954-04-15
Nellie King	26	R	R	6' 6.0"	185	Mar 15, 1928	Shenandoah, PA, US	1954-04-15	1954-05-04
Nick Koback	18	R	R	6' 0.0"	187	Jul 19, 1935	Hartford, CT, US	1954-07-11	1954-09-26
Paul LaPalme	30	L	L	5' 10.0"	175	Dec 14, 1923	Springfield, MA, US	1954-04-14	1954-09-23
Vern Law	24	R	R	6' 2.0"	195	Mar 12, 1930	Meridian, ID, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-25
Dick Littlefield	28	L	L	6' 0.0"	180	Mar 18, 1926	Detroit, MI, US	1954-05-30	1954-09-22
Jerry Lynch	23	L	R	6' 1.0"	185	Jul 17, 1930	Bay City, MI, US	1954-04-15	1954-09-25
Jim Mangan	24	R	R	5' 10.0"	190	Sep 24, 1929	San Francisco, CA, US	1954-05-25	1954-06-23
Luis Marquez	28	R	R	5' 10.0"	174	Oct 28, 1925	Aguadilla, PR	1954-06-14	1954-07-11
George O'Donnell	25	R	R	6' 3.0"	175	May 27, 1929	Winchester, IL, US	1954-04-18	1954-07-25
Joe Page	36	L	L	6' 3.0"	200	Oct 28, 1917	Cherry Valley, PA, US	1954-04-18	1954-05-25
Eddie Pellagrini	36	R	R	5' 9.0"	160	Mar 13, 1918	Boston, MA, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-24
Laurin Pepper	23	R	R	5' 11.0"	190	Jan 18, 1931	Vaughan, MS, US	1954-07-04	1954-09-22
Bob Purkey	24	R	R	6' 2.0"	175	Jul 14, 1929	Pittsburgh, PA, US	1954-04-14	1954-09-24
Hal Rice	30	L	R	6' 1.0"	195	Feb 11, 1924	Morganette, WV, US	1954-04-13	1954-06-13
Curt Roberts	24	R	R	5' 8.0"	165	Aug 16, 1929	Pineland, TX, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-26
Jack Shepard	23	R	R	6' 2.0"	195	May 13, 1931	Clovis, CA, US	1954-04-14	1954-09-14
Bob Skinner	22	L	R	6' 4.0"	190	Oct 3, 1931	La Jolla, CA, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-26
Dick Smith	26	R	R	5' 8.0"	160	Jul 21, 1927	Blandburg, PA, US	1954-04-14	1954-05-02
Max Surkont	32	R	R	6' 1.0"	195	Jun 16, 1922	Central Falls, RI, US	1954-04-15	1954-09-24
Jake Thies	28	R	R	5' 11.0"	170	Apr 1, 1926	St. Louis, MO, US	1954-04-24	1954-09-26
Frank Thomas	25	R	R	6' 3.0"	200	Jun 11, 1929	Pittsburgh, PA, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-26
Preston Ward	26	L	R	6' 4.0"	190	Jul 24, 1927	Columbia, MO, US	1954-04-13	1954-09-25
Len Yochim	25	L	L	6' 2.0"	200	Oct 16, 1928	New Orleans, LA, US	1954-04-24	1954-06-19

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