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What's exceptional about Don Larsen St. Louis Browns 1953 ?


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heavier; few homers; season

In 1953, only Don Larsen of the St. Louis Browns both gave up as few homers per nine innings (.5) and was as heavy (215 lbs).

closest were Bob Turley of the St. Louis Browns (.600, 215 lbs), Ralph Branca of the Detroit Tigers (.600, 220 lbs), Bob Keegan of the Chicago White Sox (.400, 207 lbs), and Bobo Holloman of the St. Louis Browns (.300, 207 lbs), ending with Paul LaPalme of the Pittsburgh Pirates (1.0, 175 lbs).



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References

  1. Strikeouts, walks, hits and homers per nine innings, and innings per game, are counted only if at least 50 innings were pitched during the season for the specified team. The raw data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  2. Batting, pitching, fielding, personal, team, and awards data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  3. Player heights and weights have a single value for their entire career. The data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Profile

Don Larsen of the 1953 St. Louis Browns threw right-handed, was debuting in the majors, played on a losing team, played in Sportsman's Park IV, and was born in Indiana.

  • achievement score (-0.8 see References)
  • assists (29)
  • complete games (7)
  • double plays (1)
  • games finished (14)
  • games played (38)
  • games started (22)
  • innings pitched (192.7)
  • putouts (8)
  • saves (2)
  • shutouts (2)
  • strikeouts (96)
  • strikeouts per nine innings (4.5)
  • winning percentage (36.8%)
  • wins (7)
  • balks (0)
  • earned run average (4.16)
  • earned runs (89)
  • errors (2)
  • hit by pitch (4)
  • hits (201)
  • hits per nine innings (9.4)
  • homers given up (11)
  • homers per nine innings (.5)
  • losses (12)
  • runs allowed (99)
  • walks (64)
  • walks per nine innings (3.0)
  • wild pitches (3)
  • age (24 yrs)
  • batters faced (828)
  • height (6'4")
  • innings pitched per game (5.1)
  • weight (215 lbs)

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