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1952 St. Louis Browns season

Major League Baseball season

Summary

Major League Baseball season

Field	Value
name	St. Louis Browns
season	1952
league	American League
ballpark	Sportsman's Park
city	St. Louis, Missouri
record	64–90 (.416)
league_place	7th
owners	Bill Veeck
general_managers	Bill Veeck
managers	Rogers Hornsby, Marty Marion
television	KSD
(Buddy Blattner)
radio	WIL
(Buddy Blattner, Dizzy Dean)

(Buddy Blattner) (Buddy Blattner, Dizzy Dean) |}} The 1952 St. Louis Browns season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Browns finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 64 wins and 90 losses. This was the franchise's penultimate season in St. Louis.

Offseason

November 27, 1951: Al Widmar, Sherm Lollar, and Tom Upton were traded by the Browns to the Chicago White Sox for Joe DeMaestri, Gordon Goldsberry, Dick Littlefield, Gus Niarhos, and Jim Rivera.

Regular season

In 1952, Rogers Hornsby, an alleged former member of the Ku Klux Klan, took over as manager of the Browns. Despite past accusations of racism, Hornsby was less hesitant to use pitcher Satchel Paige than Indians manager Lou Boudreau had been four years before. Paige was so effective that when Hornsby was fired by Browns owner Bill Veeck, his successor Marty Marion seemed not to want to risk going more than three games without using Paige in some form. By July 4, with Paige having worked in 25 games, Casey Stengel named him to the American League All-Star team, making him the first black pitcher on an AL All-Star team. The All-Star game was cut short after five innings due to rain and Paige never got in. Stengel resolved to name him to the team the following year. Paige finished the year 12–10 with a 3.07 ERA for a team that lost ninety games.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

July 28, 1952: Darrell Johnson and Jim Rivera were traded by the Browns to the Chicago White Sox for Jay Porter and Ray Coleman.
August 14, 1952: Jim Delsing, Ned Garver, Bud Black and Dave Madison were traded by the Browns to the Detroit Tigers for Dick Littlefield, Marlin Stuart, Don Lenhardt and Vic Wertz.

Roster

1952 St. Louis Browns
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Clint Courtney	119	413	118	.286	5	50
1B	Dick Kryhoski	111	342	83	.243	11	42
2B	Bobby Young	149	575	142	.247	4	39
SS		81	186	42	.226	1	18
3B	Jim Dyck	122	402	108	.269	15	64
OF	Jim Rivera	97	336	86	.256	4	30
OF	Bob Nieman	131	478	138	.289	18	74
OF	Jim Delsing	93	298	76	.255	1	34

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Fred Marsh	87	247	69	.279	2	27
	86	227	52	.229	3	17
Marty Marion	67	186	46	.247	2	19
Cass Michaels	55	166	44	.265	3	25
Al Zarilla	48	130	31	.238	1	9
Vic Wertz	37	130	45	.346	6	19
Leo Thomas	41	124	29	.234	0	12
Les Moss	52	118	29	.246	3	12
Jay Porter	33	104	26	.250	0	7
Darrell Johnson	29	78	22	.282	0	9
	29	66	16	.242	1	6
George Schmees	34	61	8	.131	0	3
Earl Rapp	30	49	7	.143	0	4
Don Lenhardt	18	48	13	.271	1	5
	20	46	9	.196	0	1
Roy Sievers	11	30	6	.200	0	5
Hank Arft	15	28	4	.143	0	4
Willy Miranda	7	11	1	.091	0	1
Jake Crawford	7	11	2	.182	0	0
Stan Rojek	9	7	1	.143	0	0
Mike Goliat	3	4	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Duane Pillette	30	205.1	10	13	3.59	62
	29	176.0	9	14	4.68	91
	29	170.0	12	10	4.13	70
Ned Garver	21	148.2	7	10	3.69	60
	7	46.1	2	3	2.72	34

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	34	150.2	7	8	4.30	45
Earl Harrist	36	116.2	2	8	4.01	49
Stubby Overmire	17	41.0	0	3	3.73	10
Marlin Stuart	12	26.0	1	2	4.15	13
Bobby Hogue	8	16.1	0	1	2.76	2
Cliff Fannin	10	16.1	0	2	12.67	6
Johnny Hetki	3	9.1	0	1	3.86	4
Lou Sleater	4	8.2	0	1	7.27	1

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Satchel Paige	46	12	10	10	3.07	91
Dave Madison	31	4	2	0	4.38	35
Ken Holcombe	12	0	2	0	3.86	7
Hal Hudson	3	0	0	0	12.71	0
Bob Mahoney	3	0	0	0	18.00	1
Pete Taylor	1	0	0	0	13.50	0

Farm system

Notes

References

1952 St. Louis Browns team at Baseball-Reference
1952 St. Louis Browns season at baseball-almanac.com

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/d/demaejo01.shtml Joe DeMaestri] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/porteja01.shtml Jay Porter] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/blackbu01.shtml Bud Black] at ''Baseball-Reference''

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