1917 St. Louis Browns

57-97 • 0.370 Win% • 7th in AL

📊 Season Record

57 Wins
97 Losses
0.370 Win %
7th Rank
510 R 687 RA
Diff -177

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⚡ Quick Stats

510 Runs Scored
687 Runs Allowed
-177 Run Diff
300K Attendance

📈 vs. 1917 AL Average

Batting Avg .245 1% below the 1917 league average (.247)
OBP .301 4% below the 1917 league average (.312)
SLG .254 1% below the 1917 league average (.257)
Team ERA 3.20 20% worse than the 1917 league average (2.66)
Runs Scored 510 10% below the 1917 league average (568 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumSportsman's Park IV
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Home Games 78
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Total Attendance 300,950
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Avg per Game 3,858

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 George Sisler 0.353 2 Ray Demmitt 0.283 3 Earl Smith 0.281 4 Hank Severeid 0.265 5 William Rumler 0.261

Home Runs

1 Baby Doll Jacobson 4 2 Ernie Johnson 2 3 George Sisler 2 4 Tod Sloan 2 5 Ward Miller 1

RBI

1 Hank Severeid 57 2 Baby Doll Jacobson 55 3 Del Pratt 53 4 George Sisler 52 5 Doc Lavan 30
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
George Sisler 135 539 60 190 0 0 2 52 30 19 37 0.353
Baby Doll Jacobson 148 529 53 131 0 0 4 55 31 67 10 0.248
Hank Severeid 143 501 45 133 0 0 1 57 28 20 6 0.265
Jimmy Austin 127 455 61 109 0 0 0 19 50 46 13 0.240
Del Pratt 123 450 40 111 0 0 1 53 33 36 18 0.247
Burt Shotton 118 398 47 89 0 0 1 20 62 47 16 0.224
Doc Lavan 118 355 19 85 0 0 0 30 19 34 5 0.239
Tod Sloan 109 313 32 72 0 0 2 25 28 34 8 0.230
Armando Marsans 75 257 31 59 0 0 0 20 20 6 11 0.230
Ernie Johnson 80 199 28 49 0 0 2 20 12 16 13 0.246
Earl Smith 52 199 31 56 0 0 0 10 15 21 5 0.281
Lee Magee 36 112 11 19 0 0 0 4 6 6 3 0.170
Dave Davenport 47 92 0 9 0 0 0 8 4 48 0 0.098
Allen Sothoron 49 92 8 20 0 0 0 11 5 17 0 0.217
William Rumler 78 88 7 23 0 0 1 16 8 9 2 0.261
Ward Miller 43 82 13 17 0 0 1 2 16 15 7 0.207
Bob Groom 38 72 4 8 0 0 0 2 3 27 0 0.111
George Hale 38 61 4 12 0 0 0 8 10 12 0 0.197
Ray Demmitt 14 53 6 15 0 0 0 7 0 8 1 0.283
Wally Gerber 14 39 2 12 0 0 0 2 3 2 1 0.308
Eddie Plank 20 38 0 4 0 0 0 2 3 10 0 0.105
Ernie Koob 39 35 2 4 0 0 0 0 5 17 0 0.114
Tom Rogers 24 29 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0.172
Gene Paulette 12 22 3 4 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0.182
Earl Hamilton 27 19 0 7 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 0.368
Grover Hartley 19 13 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0.231
Duke Kenworthy 5 10 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.100
Rasty Wright 16 10 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 5 0 0.200
Scrappy Moore 4 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.125
Grover Lowdermilk 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Vince Molyneaux 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Carl Weilman 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Speed Martin 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jim Park 13 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ed Murray 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Tom Richardson 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ivan Bigler 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Tim McCabe 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Otto Neu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Kewpie Pennington 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Eddie Plank 1.79 2 Allen Sothoron 2.83 3 Bob Groom 2.94 4 Dave Davenport 3.08 5 Earl Hamilton 3.14

Wins

1 Dave Davenport 17 2 Allen Sothoron 14 3 Bob Groom 8 4 Ernie Koob 6 5 Eddie Plank 5

Strikeouts

1 Dave Davenport 100 2 Allen Sothoron 85 3 Bob Groom 82 4 Ernie Koob 47 5 Tom Rogers 27
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Dave Davenport 17 17 3.08 47 39 2 280.2 105 100
Allen Sothoron 14 19 2.83 48 32 4 276.2 96 85
Bob Groom 8 19 2.94 38 28 3 232.2 95 82
Ernie Koob 6 14 3.91 39 18 1 133.2 57 47
Eddie Plank 5 6 1.79 20 14 1 131.0 38 26
Tom Rogers 3 6 3.89 24 8 0 108.2 44 27
Earl Hamilton 0 9 3.14 27 8 1 83.0 41 19
Rasty Wright 0 1 5.45 16 1 0 39.2 10 5
Vince Molyneaux 0 0 4.91 7 0 0 22.0 20 4
Jim Park 1 1 6.64 13 0 0 20.1 12 9
Grover Lowdermilk 2 1 1.42 3 2 0 19.0 4 9
Carl Weilman 1 2 1.89 5 3 0 19.0 6 9
Speed Martin 0 2 5.74 9 2 0 15.2 5 5
Tim McCabe 0 0 23.14 1 0 0 2.1 4 2
Kewpie Pennington 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 1.0 0 0

👥 Roster (40)

Jimmy Austin Ivan Bigler Dave Davenport Ray Demmitt Wally Gerber Bob Groom George Hale Earl Hamilton Grover Hartley Baby Doll Jacobson Ernie Johnson Duke Kenworthy +28 more

40 players

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