1953 St. Louis Browns season

The 1953 St. Louis Browns season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Browns finishing 8th in the American League with a record of 54 wins and 100 losses, 46½ games behind the AL and World Series champion New York Yankees, in their 52nd and final season in the Gateway City. After the season, the Browns moved to Baltimore, where they play today, and became the Baltimore Orioles.

1953 St. Louis Browns
Major League affiliations
Location
Results
Record54–100 (.351)
League place8th
Other information
Owner(s)Bill Veeck
General manager(s)Bill Veeck
Manager(s)Marty Marion
Local televisionnone
Local radioKMOX
(Buddy Blattner, Bill Durney, Milo Hamilton)
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Offseason

Regular season
  • May 6, 1953: In his first major league start, the Browns' Bobo Holloman pitched a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Athletics. The twenty-seven-year-old Holloman struck out three, walked five, and helped himself offensively by batting in three of the Browns' runs with a pair of singles in the Browns' 6–0 victory. (Holloman finished the season with a 3–7 record and did not pitch in the major leagues after 1953.)
  • September 27, 1953: The Browns ended their 51-year residence in St. Louis, losing to the Chicago White Sox at home 2–1 in 11 innings[5] to complete a sweep by the White Sox, giving the Browns 100 losses for the year.[6] Official attendance was 3,174.[5]

Season standings
American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 9952 0.656 — 50–27 49–25
Cleveland Indians 9262 0.597 8½ 53–24 39–38
Chicago White Sox 8965 0.578 11½ 41–36 48–29
Boston Red Sox 8469 0.549 16 38–38 46–31
Washington Senators 7676 0.500 23½ 39–36 37–40
Detroit Tigers 6094 0.390 40½ 30–47 30–47
Philadelphia Athletics 5995 0.383 41½ 27–50 32–45
St. Louis Browns 54100 0.351 46½ 23–54 31–46

Record vs. opponents
1953 American League Records

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHI STL WSH
Boston —6–1613–913–910–1115–717–510–12
Chicago 16–6—11–11–114–8–19–1310–1217–512–10
Cleveland 9–1311–11–1—14–811–1119–317–511–11
Detroit 9–138–14–18–14—6–1611–11–37–1511–11
New York 11–1013–911–1116–6—17–517–514–6
Philadelphia 7–1512–103–1911–11–35–17—13–98–14
St. Louis 5–175–175–1715–75–179–13—10–12
Washington 12–1010–1211–1111–116–1414–812–10—

Notable transactions

Roster
1953 St. Louis Browns
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Other batters

 Manager

Coaches

Player stats

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
SSBilly Hunter154567124.219137

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Hank Edwards6510621.19809
Marty Marion370.00000
Willy Miranda1761.16700

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Don Larsen38192.27124.1696

[8]

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Harry Brecheen26117.15133.0744
Bob Cain3299.24106.2336
Mike Blyzka3394.1266.3923
Bobo Holloman2265.1375.2325

[8]

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO

Awards and honors

1953 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

Casey Stengel kept to his word and named Paige to the 1953 All-Star team despite Paige not having a very good year. He got in the game in the eighth inning. First Paige got Gil Hodges to line out, then after Roy Campanella singled up the middle, Eddie Mathews popped out. He then walked Duke Snider and Enos Slaughter lined a hit to center to score Campanella. National League pitcher Murry Dickson drove in Snider, but was thrown out at second base trying to stretch the hit into a double. Paige ended the year with a disappointing 3–9 record, but a respectable 3.53 ERA. Paige was released after the season when Veeck once again had to sell the team.

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AA San Antonio Missions Texas League Jim Crandall and Bill Norman
A Wichita Indians Western League George Hausmann and Mark Christman
A Lewiston Broncs Western International League Bill Brenner
B York White Roses Piedmont League Mark Christman, Bill Enos and George Hausmann
B Anderson Rebels Tri-State League Hillis Layne
C Pine Bluff Judges Cotton States League Frank Lucchesi
C Aberdeen Pheasants Northern League Barney Lutz
C Pocatello Bannocks Pioneer League Hersh Martin and Butch Moran
C Thetford Mines Mineurs Provincial League Bill Krueger
D Wytheville Statesmen Appalachian League John O'Donnell
D Valdosta Browns Georgia–Florida League Rollie Stuckney and Gil Torres
D Ada Herefords Sooner State League Louis Brower

Notes
  1. Ray Coleman at Baseball-Reference
  2. Joe DeMaestri at Baseball-Reference
  3. Neil Berry at Baseball-Reference
  4. Jay Porter at Baseball-Reference
  5. "Sep 27, 1953, White Sox at Browns Play by Play and Box Score". Baseball Reference. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  6. "1953 St. Louis Browns Schedule". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  7. Bobo Holloman at Baseball-Reference
  8. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SLB/1953.shtml

References
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