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Major League Baseball

Record: 74-80 .481.... 6th in National League
Stadium: Wrigley Field
Playoffs: Did not Qualify
Attendance: 858,255

Manager - Bob Scheffing

Team Leaders

HR: Banks [45]
RBI: Banks [143]
2B: Taylor [30]
SB: Taylor [23]
W: Hobbie [16]
SV: Elston [13]
SO: Hobbie [138]

Oldest Player: Elmer Singleton [41]
Youngest Player: Billy Williams [21]
Longest Tenure: Ernie Banks [7]

Major League Debuts

Batters: George Altman (Apr 11) Don Eaddy (Apr 24) Billy Williams (Aug 6)
Pitchers: Ed Donnelly (Aug 1) Ben Johnson (Sep 6) Joe Schaffernoth (Apr 15)

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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
Sammy Taylor	26	C	109			497	37	10	544	1	6	0	0	.982	--
Cal Neeman	30	C	38			158	9	1	168	1	3	0	0	.994	--
Earl Averill	27	C	32			173	11	7	191	1	3			.963	--

Dale Long	33	1B	85			731	49	12	792	63	-	-	-	.985	--
Jim Marshall	28	1B	72			558	51	2	611	52	-	-	-	.997	--
Art Schult	31	1B	23			126	6	2	134	15	-	-	-	.985	--
Alvin Dark	37	1B	4			26	4	1	31	1	-	-	-	.968	--
Bobby Adams	37	1B	1			2	0	1	3	0	-	-	-	.667	--
Irv Noren	34	1B	1			3	0	0	3	0	-	-	-	1.000	--

Tony Taylor	23	2B	149			352	456	25	833	105	-	-	-	.970	--
Johnny Goryl	25	2B	11			11	25	1	37	1	-	-	-	.973	--
Earl Averill	27	2B	2			3	6	0	9	1	-	-	-	1.000	--

Alvin Dark	37	3B	131			111	255	20	386	20	-	-	-	.948	--
Randy Jackson	33	3B	22			20	28	3	51	2	-	-	-	.941	--
Earl Averill	27	3B	13			16	32	5	53	2	-	-	-	.906	--
Johnny Goryl	25	3B	4			0	6	0	6	1	-	-	-	1.000	--
Don Eaddy	25	3B	1			0	1	1	2	0	-	-	-	.500	--

Ernie Banks	28	SS	154			271	519	12	802	95	-	-	-	.985	--
Tony Taylor	23	SS	2			3	0	0	3	0	-	-	-	1.000	--
Alvin Dark	37	SS	1			1	1	0	2	0	-	-	-	1.000	--

George Altman	26	OF	121			278	7	3	288	2	-	-	-	.990	--
Lee Walls	26	OF	119			203	1	7	211	0	-	-	-	.967	--
Bobby Thomson	35	OF	116			223	9	3	235	4	-	-	-	.987	--
Walt Moryn	33	OF	104			175	9	2	186	1	-	-	-	.989	--
Irv Noren	34	OF	40			81	4	0	85	1	-	-	-	1.000	--
Art Schult	31	OF	15			26	0	0	26	0	-	-	-	1.000	--
Billy Williams	21	OF	10			18	0	0	18	0	-	-	-	1.000	--
Jim Marshall	28	OF	8			7	1	0	8	0	-	-	-	1.000	--
Earl Averill	27	OF	5			5	0	1	6	0	-	-	-	.833	--
Randy Jackson	33	OF	1			0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	---	--
Chick King	28	OF	1			2	0	0	2	0	-	-	-	1.000	--

Don Elston	30	P	65		97.2	3	14	2	19	1	-	-	-	.895	1.567
Bill Henry	31	P	65		134.1	2	18	1	21	2	-	-	-	.952	1.340
Glen Hobbie	23	P	46		234	18	40	4	62	2	-	-	-	.935	2.231
Dave Hillman	31	P	39		191	28	31	2	61	0	-	-	-	.967	2.780
Bob Anderson	23	P	37		235.1	13	43	4	60	4	-	-	-	.933	2.142
John Buzhardt	22	P	31		101.1	7	22	3	32	1	-	-	-	.906	2.576
Moe Drabowsky	23	P	31		141.2	12	21	2	35	1	-	-	-	.943	2.096
Elmer Singleton	41	P	21		43	5	10	1	16	1	-	-	-	.938	3.140
Art Ceccarelli	29	P	18		102	2	15	1	18	1	-	-	-	.944	1.500
Seth Morehead	24	P	11		18.2	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	---	.000
Ed Donnelly	24	P	9		14.1	0	3	0	3	0	-	-	-	1.000	1.884
Dick Drott	22	P	8		27.1	0	4	1	5	0	-	-	-	.800	1.317
Taylor Phillips	26	P	7		16.2	1	4	0	5	0	-	-	-	1.000	2.700
Joe Schaffernoth	21	P	5		7.2	0	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	1.000	1.174
Ben Johnson	28	P	4		16.2	2	1	0	3	0	-	-	-	1.000	1.620
Bob Porterfield	35	P	4		6.1	0	2	0	2	1	-	-	-	1.000	2.842
Morrie Martin	36	P	3		2.1	0	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	1.000	3.857
Bob Smith	32	P	1		0.2	0	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	1.000	13.500