1942 Philadelphia Athletics Statistics
Team Record: 55-99
Finished 8th in the AL
Attendance: 546,142, Avg. 9,581
Ballpark: Shibe Park
Manager: Connie Mack (55-99)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1942 Philadelphia Athletics Results
The Philadelphia Athletics of the American League ended the 1942 season with a record of 55 wins and 99 losses, finishing eighth in the AL.
The Athletics tallied 549 runs and allowed 801 runs. Bob Johnson paced Philadelphia with 13 home runs and drove in 80 runs, while leading all regular hitters with a .291 average. Phil Marchildon topped the team with 17 wins, and Roger Wolff recorded a 3.32 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.
Connie Mack coached the team.
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Pitching:
Player | W | L | W% | ERA | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
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Phil Marchildon | 17 | 14 | .548 | 4.20 | 38 | 31 | 7 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 244.0 | 215 | 126 | 114 | 14 | 140 | 0 | 110 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 1081 |
Roger Wolff | 12 | 15 | .444 | 3.32 | 32 | 25 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 214.3 | 206 | 99 | 79 | 16 | 69 | 0 | 94 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 912 |
Lum Harris | 11 | 15 | .423 | 3.74 | 26 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 166.0 | 146 | 80 | 69 | 14 | 70 | 0 | 60 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 705 |
Dick Fowler | 6 | 11 | .353 | 4.95 | 31 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 140.0 | 159 | 90 | 77 | 13 | 45 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 605 |
Russ Christopher | 4 | 13 | .235 | 3.82 | 30 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 165.0 | 154 | 78 | 70 | 8 | 99 | 0 | 58 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 718 |
Herman Besse | 2 | 9 | .182 | 6.16 | 30 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 133.0 | 163 | 99 | 91 | 7 | 69 | 0 | 78 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 629 |
Jack Knott | 2 | 10 | .167 | 5.57 | 20 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 95.3 | 127 | 84 | 59 | 7 | 36 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 456 |
Bob Harris | 1 | 5 | .167 | 2.88 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 78.0 | 77 | 31 | 25 | 5 | 24 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 334 |
Sam Lowry | 0 | 0 | 6.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
Ted Abernathy | 0 | 0 | 10.13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | |
Les McCrabb | 0 | 0 | 31.50 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 29 | |
Joe Coleman | 0 | 1 | .000 | 3.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
Bob Savage | 0 | 1 | .000 | 3.23 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30.7 | 24 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 141 |
Tex Shirley | 0 | 1 | .000 | 5.30 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 35.7 | 37 | 30 | 21 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 162 |
Bill Beckmann | 0 | 1 | .000 | 7.08 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.3 | 24 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 |
Fred Caligiuri | 0 | 3 | .000 | 6.38 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 36.7 | 45 | 27 | 26 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 172 |
Totals | 55 | 99 | .357 | 4.45 | 268 | 154 | 87 | 67 | 5 | 9 | 1374.7 | 1404 | 801 | 679 | 89 | 639 | 0 | 546 | 21 | 3 | 35 | 6089 |
Batting:
Player | GP | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | TB | DP | HBP | SH | SF | IBB |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bob Johnson | 149 | 634 | 550 | 78 | 160 | 35 | 7 | 13 | 80 | 3 | 2 | 82 | 61 | .291 | .384 | .451 | .835 | 248 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Dick Siebert | 153 | 642 | 612 | 57 | 159 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 74 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 17 | .260 | .291 | .333 | .624 | 204 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Buddy Blair | 137 | 523 | 484 | 48 | 135 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 66 | 1 | 6 | 30 | 30 | .279 | .325 | .397 | .722 | 192 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Pete Suder | 128 | 511 | 476 | 46 | 122 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 54 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 39 | .256 | .293 | .340 | .634 | 162 | 20 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Elmer Valo | 133 | 542 | 459 | 64 | 115 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 40 | 13 | 8 | 70 | 21 | .251 | .355 | .336 | .690 | 154 | 14 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
Mike Kreevich | 116 | 494 | 444 | 57 | 113 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 7 | 9 | 47 | 31 | .255 | .326 | .309 | .634 | 137 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Dee Miles | 99 | 362 | 346 | 41 | 94 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 10 | .272 | .300 | .335 | .635 | 116 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Bill Knickerbocker | 87 | 328 | 289 | 25 | 73 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 30 | .253 | .323 | .304 | .627 | 88 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
Hal Wagner | 104 | 320 | 288 | 26 | 68 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 29 | .236 | .304 | .313 | .616 | 90 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Crash Davis | 86 | 301 | 272 | 31 | 61 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 30 | .224 | .282 | .283 | .565 | 77 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Bob Swift | 60 | 206 | 192 | 9 | 44 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 17 | .229 | .278 | .245 | .523 | 47 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Jack Wallaesa | 36 | 127 | 117 | 13 | 30 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 26 | .256 | .315 | .359 | .674 | 42 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eric McNair | 34 | 114 | 103 | 8 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | .243 | .316 | .262 | .578 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Phil Marchildon | 38 | 93 | 84 | 3 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 13 | .238 | .273 | .262 | .535 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Frankie Hayes | 21 | 72 | 63 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | .238 | .333 | .302 | .635 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Herman Besse | 34 | 57 | 53 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | .226 | .281 | .245 | .526 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lum Harris | 26 | 63 | 62 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | .161 | .161 | .177 | .339 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Eddie Collins | 20 | 38 | 34 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | .235 | .316 | .294 | .610 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dick Fowler | 32 | 52 | 50 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | .160 | .176 | .160 | .336 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Jim Castiglia | 16 | 19 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .389 | .421 | .389 | .810 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bob Harris | 16 | 26 | 26 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .269 | .269 | .308 | .577 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Roger Wolff | 32 | 79 | 68 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 19 | .088 | .173 | .103 | .276 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Russ Christopher | 30 | 60 | 56 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | .089 | .105 | .125 | .230 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Jack Knott | 20 | 33 | 29 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | .138 | .194 | .138 | .331 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Bruce Konopka | 5 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .300 | .364 | .300 | .664 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Felix Mackiewicz | 6 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .214 | .214 | .357 | .571 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bill Beckmann | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | .600 | .750 | 1.350 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
George Yankowski | 6 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .154 | .154 | .231 | .385 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dick Adkins | 3 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .143 | .333 | .143 | .476 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bob Savage | 8 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .111 | .273 | .111 | .384 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fred Caligiuri | 13 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .083 | .154 | .167 | .321 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ken Richardson | 6 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .067 | .176 | .067 | .243 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Sam Lowry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Larry Eschen | 12 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | .000 | .267 | .000 | .267 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Joe Coleman | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Les McCrabb | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tex Shirley | 15 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Ted Abernathy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Totals | 1690 | 5823 | 5285 | 549 | 1315 | 213 | 46 | 33 | 517 | 44 | 45 | 441 | 489 | .249 | .309 | .325 | .635 | 1719 | 129 | 23 | 74 | 0 | 0 |
Fielding:
Player | Pos | GP | GS | Inn. | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/9 | RF/G | PB | WP | SB | CS | CS% |
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Dick Siebert | 1B | 152 | 0 | 0.0 | 1345 | 104 | 16 | 109 | .989 | 9.533 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ken Richardson | 1B | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .933 | 14.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bruce Konopka | 1B | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 6.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Crash Davis | 1B | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Pete Suder | 2B | 31 | 0 | 0.0 | 63 | 95 | 2 | 20 | .988 | 5.097 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Eric McNair | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bill Knickerbocker | 2B | 81 | 0 | 0.0 | 178 | 220 | 15 | 45 | .964 | 4.914 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Larry Eschen | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Crash Davis | 2B | 57 | 0 | 0.0 | 131 | 142 | 10 | 19 | .965 | 4.789 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Pete Suder | 3B | 34 | 0 | 0.0 | 38 | 56 | 4 | 8 | .959 | 2.765 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ken Richardson | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Buddy Blair | 3B | 126 | 0 | 0.0 | 143 | 234 | 28 | 21 | .931 | 2.992 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
George Yankowski | C | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.833 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Hal Wagner | C | 94 | 0 | 0.0 | 371 | 47 | 6 | 7 | .986 | 4.447 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bob Swift | C | 60 | 0 | 0.0 | 253 | 39 | 9 | 3 | .970 | 4.867 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Frankie Hayes | C | 20 | 0 | 0.0 | 66 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.850 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jim Castiglia | C | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .875 | 2.333 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Elmer Valo | OF | 122 | 0 | 0.0 | 264 | 5 | 10 | 0 | .964 | 2.205 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ken Richardson | OF | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Dee Miles | OF | 81 | 0 | 0.0 | 177 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .984 | 2.259 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Felix Mackiewicz | OF | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Mike Kreevich | OF | 107 | 0 | 0.0 | 314 | 4 | 6 | 0 | .981 | 2.972 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bob Johnson | OF | 149 | 0 | 0.0 | 318 | 18 | 13 | 1 | .963 | 2.255 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Eddie Collins | OF | 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .800 | .889 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Roger Wolff | P | 32 | 0 | 0.0 | 17 | 38 | 2 | 5 | .965 | 1.719 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Tex Shirley | P | 15 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .400 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bob Savage | P | 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Les McCrabb | P | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Phil Marchildon | P | 38 | 0 | 0.0 | 13 | 35 | 2 | 3 | .960 | 1.263 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Sam Lowry | P | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jack Knott | P | 20 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 24 | 1 | 3 | .969 | 1.550 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Lum Harris | P | 26 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 31 | 1 | 3 | .974 | 1.462 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bob Harris | P | 16 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Dick Fowler | P | 31 | 0 | 0.0 | 8 | 18 | 3 | 2 | .897 | .839 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Joe Coleman | P | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Russ Christopher | P | 30 | 0 | 0.0 | 10 | 60 | 2 | 5 | .972 | 2.333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Fred Caligiuri | P | 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | .889 | .615 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Herman Besse | P | 30 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 0 | .947 | .600 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bill Beckmann | P | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .400 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ted Abernathy | P | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jack Wallaesa | SS | 36 | 0 | 0.0 | 62 | 76 | 12 | 16 | .920 | 3.833 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Pete Suder | SS | 69 | 0 | 0.0 | 141 | 193 | 16 | 31 | .954 | 4.841 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Eric McNair | SS | 29 | 0 | 0.0 | 50 | 68 | 6 | 10 | .952 | 4.069 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bill Knickerbocker | SS | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Larry Eschen | SS | 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | .824 | 2.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Crash Davis | SS | 26 | 0 | 0.0 | 44 | 68 | 9 | 11 | .926 | 4.308 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Dick Adkins | SS | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | .875 | 2.333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Totals | 1587 | 0 | 0.0 | 4117 | 1679 | 188 | 327 | .969 | 3.652 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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