1952 St. Louis Browns season explained

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)

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.^[1]

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.

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.^[2]
• 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.^[3]

Roster

1952 St. Louis Browns
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		Outfielders		ManagerCoaches

Player stats

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		119	413	118	.286	5	50
1B		111	342	83	.243	11	42
2B		149	575	142	.247	4	39
SS		81	186	42	.226	1	18
3B		122	402	108	.269	15	64
OF		97	336	86	.256	4	30
OF		131	478	138	.289	18	74
OF		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
	87	247	69	.279	2	27
	86	227	52	.229	3	17
	67	186	46	.247	2	19
	55	166	44	.265	3	25
	48	130	31	.238	1	9
	37	130	45	.346	6	19
	41	124	29	.234	0	12
	52	118	29	.246	3	12
	33	104	26	.250	0	7
	29	78	22	.282	0	9
	29	66	16	.242	1	6
	34	61	8	.131	0	3
	30	49	7	.143	0	4
	18	48	13	.271	1	5
	20	46	9	.196	0	1
	11	30	6	.200	0	5
	15	28	4	.143	0	4
	7	11	1	.091	0	1
	7	11	2	.182	0	0
	9	7	1	.143	0	0
	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
	30	205.1	10	13	3.59	62
	29	176.0	9	14	4.68	91
	29	170.0	12	10	4.13	70
	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
	36	116.2	2	8	4.01	49
	17	41.0	0	3	3.73	10
	12	26.0	1	2	4.15	13
	8	16.1	0	1	2.76	2
	10	16.1	0	2	12.67	6
	3	9.1	0	1	3.86	4
	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
	46	12	10	10	3.07	91
	31	4	2	0	4.38	35
	12	0	2	0	3.86	7
	3	0	0	0	12.71	0
	3	0	0	0	18.00	1
	1	0	0	0	13.50	0

Farm system

See also: Minor League Baseball.

References

• Book: Johnson. Lloyd. Wolff. Miles. The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. 2nd. Durham, North Carolina. Baseball America. 1997. 978-0-9637189-8-3.
• 1952 St. Louis Browns team at Baseball-Reference
• 1952 St. Louis Browns season at baseball-almanac.com

Notes and References

1. https://www.baseball-reference.com/d/demaejo01.shtml Joe DeMaestri
2. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/porteja01.shtml Jay Porter
3. https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/blackbu01.shtml Bud Black