1953 St. Louis Cardinals

83-71 • 0.539 Win% • 3rd in NL

📊 Season Record

83 Wins
71 Losses
0.539 Win %
3rd Rank
768 R 713 RA
Diff +55

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⚡ Quick Stats

768 Runs Scored
713 Runs Allowed
+55 Run Diff
872K Attendance

📈 vs. 1953 NL Average

Batting Avg .273 3% above the 1953 league average (.266)
OBP .342 3% above the 1953 league average (.332)
SLG .350 equal to the 1953 league average (.350)
Team ERA 4.23 1% better than the 1953 league average (4.29)
Runs Scored 768 4% above the 1953 league average (739 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumSportsman's Park IV
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Home Games 78
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Total Attendance 872,727
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Avg per Game 11,188

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Red Schoendienst 0.342 2 Stan Musial 0.337 3 Enos Slaughter 0.291 4 Harvey Haddix 0.289 5 Solly Hemus 0.279

Home Runs

1 Stan Musial 30 2 Steve Bilko 21 3 Ray Jablonski 21 4 Rip Repulski 15 5 Red Schoendienst 15

RBI

1 Stan Musial 113 2 Ray Jablonski 112 3 Enos Slaughter 89 4 Steve Bilko 84 5 Red Schoendienst 79
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Ray Jablonski 157 604 64 162 0 0 21 112 34 61 2 0.268
Stan Musial 157 593 127 200 0 0 30 113 105 32 3 0.337
Solly Hemus 154 585 110 163 0 0 14 61 86 40 2 0.279
Steve Bilko 154 570 72 143 0 0 21 84 70 125 0 0.251
Rip Repulski 153 567 75 156 0 0 15 66 33 71 3 0.275
Red Schoendienst 146 564 107 193 0 0 15 79 60 23 3 0.342
Enos Slaughter 143 492 64 143 0 0 6 89 80 28 4 0.291
Del Rice 135 419 32 99 0 0 6 37 48 49 0 0.236
Peanuts Lowrey 104 182 26 49 0 0 5 27 15 21 1 0.269
Harvey Haddix 48 97 21 28 0 0 1 11 5 19 0 0.289
Vinegar Bend Mizell 33 83 4 7 0 0 1 8 3 42 0 0.084
Gerry Staley 40 78 4 8 0 0 0 2 4 21 0 0.103
Harry Elliott 24 59 6 15 0 0 1 6 3 8 0 0.254
Joe Presko 35 59 6 13 0 0 0 2 4 5 0 0.220
Sal Yvars 30 57 4 14 0 0 1 6 4 6 0 0.246
Pete Castiglione 67 52 9 9 0 0 0 3 2 5 0 0.173
Stu Miller 42 43 4 8 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 0.186
Dick Sisler 32 43 3 11 0 0 0 4 1 4 0 0.256
Dick Schofield 33 39 9 7 0 0 2 4 2 11 0 0.179
Ferrell Anderson 18 35 1 10 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0.286
Dick Rand 9 31 3 9 0 0 0 1 2 6 0 0.290
Eddie Stanky 17 30 5 8 0 0 0 1 6 4 0 0.267
Cliff Chambers 32 17 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.118
Grant Dunlap 16 17 2 6 0 0 1 3 0 2 0 0.353
Hal White 49 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 0 0.000
Al Brazle 60 15 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.333
Les Fusselman 11 8 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.250
Hal Rice 8 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.250
Mike Clark 23 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Eddie Erautt 20 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.167
Billy Johnson 11 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0.200
Vern Benson 13 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.000
Willard Schmidt 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Jackie Collum 7 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.000
Jack Faszholz 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
John Romonosky 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Virgil Stallcup 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Dick Bokelmann 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Fred Marolewski 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Eddie Phillips 9 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Eddie Yuhas 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Hal White 2.98 2 Harvey Haddix 3.06 3 Vinegar Bend Mizell 3.49 4 Gerry Staley 3.99 5 Al Brazle 4.21

Wins

1 Harvey Haddix 20 2 Gerry Staley 18 3 Vinegar Bend Mizell 13 4 Stu Miller 7 5 Al Brazle 6

Strikeouts

1 Vinegar Bend Mizell 173 2 Harvey Haddix 163 3 Gerry Staley 88 4 Stu Miller 79 5 Al Brazle 57
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Harvey Haddix 20 9 3.06 36 33 1 253.0 69 163
Gerry Staley 18 9 3.99 40 32 4 230.0 54 88
Vinegar Bend Mizell 13 11 3.49 33 33 0 224.1 114 173
Joe Presko 6 13 5.01 34 25 1 161.2 65 56
Stu Miller 7 8 5.56 40 18 4 137.2 47 79
Al Brazle 6 7 4.21 60 0 18 92.0 43 57
Hal White 6 5 2.98 49 0 7 84.2 39 32
Cliff Chambers 3 6 4.86 32 8 0 79.2 43 26
Mike Clark 1 0 4.79 23 2 1 35.2 21 17
Eddie Erautt 3 1 6.31 20 1 0 35.2 16 15
Willard Schmidt 0 2 9.17 6 2 0 17.2 13 11
Jack Faszholz 0 0 6.94 4 1 0 11.2 1 7
Jackie Collum 0 0 6.35 7 0 0 11.1 4 5
John Romonosky 0 0 4.70 2 2 0 7.2 4 3
Dick Bokelmann 0 0 6.00 3 0 0 3.0 0 0
Eddie Yuhas 0 0 18.00 2 0 0 1.0 0 0

👥 Roster (41)

Ferrell Anderson Vern Benson Steve Bilko Dick Bokelmann Al Brazle Pete Castiglione Cliff Chambers Mike Clark Jackie Collum Grant Dunlap Harry Elliott Eddie Erautt +29 more

41 players

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