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Record: 54-100 .351.... 8th in American League
Stadium: Shibe Park
Playoffs: Did not Qualify
Attendance: 432,145

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Team Leaders

HR: Johnson [31]
RBI: Johnson [103]
2B: Moses [41]
SB: Hayes [9]
W: Babich [14]
SV: Heusser [5]
SO: Babich [94]

Oldest Player: Earle Brucker [39]
Youngest Player: Elmer Valo [19]
Longest Tenure: Bob Johnson [8]

Major League Debuts

Batters: Crash Davis (Jun 15) Buddy Hancken (May 14) Al Rubeling (Apr 16) Elmer Valo (Sep 22) Jack Wallaesa (Sep 22)
Pitchers: Herman Besse (Apr 19) Phil Marchildon (Sep 22) Carl Miles (Jun 8) Porter Vaughan (Jun 16)

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Fielding Statistics

Players are sorted by games played for each position group. LF, CF and RF totals are available for recent major league seasons only.

Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	TC	DP	PB	SB	CS	FPCT	RF
Frankie Hayes	25	C	134			515	63	17	595	9	13	0	0	.971	--
Hal Wagner	24	C	28			91	16	4	111	4	0	0	0	.964	--
Earle Brucker	39	C	13			47	9	2	58	1	2	0	0	.966	--
Buddy Hancken	25	C	1			1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	--

Dick Siebert	28	1B	154			1322	119	22	1463	112	-	-	-	.985	--
Joe Gantenbein	23	1B	6			26	1	0	27	0	-	-	-	1.000	--
Frankie Hayes	25	1B	2			16	0	1	17	0	-	-	-	.941	--
Chubby Dean	23	1B	1			8	0	0	8	1	-	-	-	1.000	--

Benny McCoy	24	2B	130			261	392	34	687	82	-	-	-	.951	--
Crash Davis	20	2B	19			52	52	4	108	11	-	-	-	.963	--
Al Rubeling	27	2B	10			24	27	2	53	6	-	-	-	.962	--
Bill Lillard	22	2B	1			1	0	0	1	0	-	-	-	1.000	--

Al Rubeling	27	3B	98			96	184	20	300	13	-	-	-	.933	--
Joe Gantenbein	23	3B	45			31	75	8	114	11	-	-	-	.930	--
Al Brancato	21	3B	25			24	51	6	81	4	-	-	-	.926	--
Benny McCoy	24	3B	1			1	1	1	3	0	-	-	-	.667	--

Al Brancato	21	SS	80			136	180	17	333	35	-	-	-	.949	--
Bill Lillard	22	SS	69			112	157	23	292	28	-	-	-	.921	--
Fred Chapman	23	SS	25			40	54	15	109	12	-	-	-	.862	--
Jack Wallaesa	20	SS	6			9	19	3	31	3	-	-	-	.903	--
Joe Gantenbein	23	SS	3			0	2	0	2	0	-	-	-	1.000	--
Crash Davis	20	SS	1			1	1	0	2	0	-	-	-	1.000	--

Bob Johnson	34	OF	136			310	15	13	338	4	-	-	-	.962	--
Wally Moses	29	OF	133			295	10	8	313	1	-	-	-	.974	--
Sam Chapman	24	OF	129			348	13	14	375	2	-	-	-	.963	--
Dee Miles	31	OF	50			117	3	7	127	0	-	-	-	.945	--
Al Simmons	38	OF	18			51	1	2	54	0	-	-	-	.963	--
Elmer Valo	19	OF	6			18	0	0	18	0	-	-	-	1.000	--
Eric Tipton	25	OF	2			3	0	0	3	0	-	-	-	1.000	--
Joe Gantenbein	23	OF	1			0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	---	--

Ed Heusser	31	P	41		110	9	21	1	31	1	-	-	-	.968	2.455
George Caster	32	P	36		178.1	10	27	2	39	2	-	-	-	.949	1.867
Bill Beckmann	32	P	34		127.1	11	13	3	27	0	-	-	-	.889	1.696
Nels Potter	28	P	31		200.2	17	30	0	47	2	-	-	-	1.000	2.108
Johnny Babich	27	P	31		229.1	14	42	2	58	0	-	-	-	.966	2.198
Chubby Dean	23	P	30		159.1	4	36	1	41	1	-	-	-	.976	2.259
Buck Ross	25	P	24		156.1	12	23	3	38	0	-	-	-	.921	2.015
Porter Vaughan	21	P	18		99.1	2	16	3	21	0	-	-	-	.857	1.631
Herman Besse	28	P	17		53	0	5	0	5	0	-	-	-	1.000	.849
Les McCrabb	25	P	4		11.2	0	4	0	4	0	-	-	-	1.000	3.086
Carl Miles	22	P	2		8	0	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	1.000	1.125
Phil Marchildon	26	P	2		10	0	3	0	3	0	-	-	-	1.000	2.700
Pat McLaughlin	29	P	1		1.2	0	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	1.000	5.400