1956 CHICAGO WHITE SOX

| Level: MLB

Location: Chicago,IL
Team Record: 85-69 .552
Result: 3rd in American League
Manager(s): Marty Marion
General Manager: Charlie Comiskey
Stadium: Comiskey Park
Attendance: 1,000,090
Playoffs: Did not qualify

Chicago White Sox affiliate history

Oldest Player: Ellis Kinder (41)
Youngest Player: Jim Derrington (16)
Longest Tenure: Billy Pierce (8)
Top Hitter: Minnie Minoso (2)
Top Pitcher: Billy Pierce (4)
Top Draft Pick:

Roster Continuity: 77.01%

American League Standings

Teams	W	L	Pct	GB
NY Yankees	97	57	.630	--
Cleveland	88	66	.571	9.0
Chi White Sox	85	69	.552	12.0
Boston	84	70	.545	13.0
Detroit	82	72	.532	15.0
Baltimore	69	85	.448	28.0
Washington	59	95	.383	38.0
KC Athletics	52	102	.338	45.0

BATTING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

#	Player	Pos	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	PA	OUT	RC	RC/G	babip
2	Nellie Fox	2b	8	28	-	MLB	154	649	109	192	20	10	4	52	8	4	44	14	10	1	13	5	19	.296	.347	.376	723	244	721	498	98	5.3	.296
9	Minnie Minoso	of	2	33	-	MLB	151	545	106	172	29	11	21	88	12	6	86	40	23	4	4	7	10	.316	.425	.525	950	286	665	400	140	9.4	.308
11	Luis Aparicio	ss	24	22	UDFA: 1954	MLB	152	533	69	142	19	6	3	56	21	4	34	63	1	2	14	1	9	.266	.311	.341	653	182	583	419	63	4.1	.297
14	Larry Doby	of	16	32	-	MLB	140	504	89	135	22	3	24	102	0	1	102	105	4	6	4	5	7	.268	.392	.466	858	235	619	386	102	7.1	.292
7	Jim Rivera	of	25	33	-	MLB	139	491	76	125	23	5	12	66	20	9	49	75	3	2	6	6	3	.255	.322	.395	718	194	555	390	71	4.9	.276
10	Sherm Lollar	c	27	31	-	MLB	136	450	55	132	28	2	11	75	2	0	53	34	16	4	2	6	19	.293	.383	.438	821	197	527	345	85	6.7	.294
8	Walt Dropo	1b	61	33	-	MLB	125	361	42	96	13	1	8	52	1	0	37	51	3	2	5	6	15	.266	.334	.374	708	135	412	291	47	4.3	.286
3	Fred Hatfield	3b-2b	45	31	-	MLB	106	321	46	84	9	1	7	33	1	0	37	36	8	3	3	4	7	.262	.349	.361	710	116	373	251	46	4.9	.273
6	Dave Philley	of	46	36	-	MLB	86	279	44	74	14	2	4	47	1	3	28	27	1	0	2	6	9	.265	.328	.373	701	104	316	225	38	4.5	.276
48	Sammy Esposito	3b-ss	-	24	-	MLB	81	184	30	42	8	2	3	25	1	2	41	19	2	0	5	2	4	.228	.371	.342	714	63	234	155	29	5.1	.238
12	Les Moss	c	-	31	-	MLB	56	127	20	31	4	0	10	22	0	0	18	15	0	0	2	0	7	.244	.338	.512	850	65	147	105	23	5.9	.206
19	Billy Pierce	p	68	29	-	MLB	39	102	6	16	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	22	1	0	7	0	3	.157	.189	.157	346	16	113	96	-2	-0.5	.200
5	Bubba Phillips	3b-of	-	28	-	MLB	67	99	16	27	6	0	2	11	1	2	6	12	1	0	1	0	0	.273	.321	.394	715	39	107	75	14	5.0	.294
22	Dick Donovan	p	-	28	-	MLB	44	90	10	20	4	0	3	15	0	0	14	30	1	1	1	1	2	.222	.330	.367	697	33	107	74	10	3.8	.293
1	George Kell	3b	39	33	-	MLB	21	80	7	25	5	0	1	11	0	0	8	6	0	0	2	1	3	.312	.371	.412	783	33	91	61	14	6.0	.324
29	Jack Harshman	p	-	28	-	MLB	36	71	8	12	1	0	6	19	0	0	11	21	0	0	4	1	0	.169	.277	.437	714	31	87	64	9	3.9	.133
30	Jim Wilson	p	-	34	-	MLB	28	62	6	19	2	0	1	8	0	0	1	13	0	0	2	1	2	.306	.312	.387	700	24	66	48	7	3.8	.367
42	Ron Jackson	1b	-	22	-	MLB	22	56	7	12	3	0	1	4	1	0	10	13	0	1	0	0	2	.214	.333	.321	655	18	66	46	6	3.6	.262
6,32	Ron Northey	of	-	36	-	MLB	53	48	4	17	2	0	3	23	0	0	8	1	0	2	0	4	2	.354	.417	.583	1000	28	60	37	13	9.6	.292
25	Jim Delsing	of	-	30	-	MLB	55	41	11	5	3	0	0	2	1	0	10	13	0	0	1	0	0	.122	.294	.195	489	8	52	37	3	1.9	.179
18	Bob Nieman	of	21	29	-	MLB	14	40	3	12	1	0	2	4	0	1	4	4	0	2	0	0	4	.300	.364	.475	839	19	44	33	6	4.6	.294
21,66	Gerry Staley	p	-	35	-	MLB	26	32	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	6	0	0	1	0	0	.094	.147	.094	241	3	35	31	-2	-1.4	.115
15	Bob Keegan	p	-	35	-	MLB	20	32	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	7	0	0	4	0	1	.125	.222	.125	347	4	40	33	0	-0.2	.160
28	Dixie Howell	p	-	36	-	MLB	34	17	4	4	0	0	2	3	0	0	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	.235	.316	.588	904	10	19	13	3	6.6	.222
30	Bob Kennedy	of-3b	-	35	-	MLB	8	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	.077	.200	.077	277	1	15	12	0	-1.1	.111
3	Jim Brideweser	ss-2b	-	29	-	MLB	10	11	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	.182	.250	.273	523	3	12	9	1	2.1	.250
24	Howie Pollet	p	-	35	-	MLB	12	8	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	.375	.375	.375	750	3	9	6	1	4.1	.600
31	Paul LaPalme	p	-	32	-	MLB	29	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	7	7	-	-	.000
16	Mike Fornieles	p	-	24	-	MLB	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.200	.400	600	2	6	5	1	3.0	.250
36	Jim McDonald	p	-	29	-	MLB	8	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.167	.000	167	0	6	5	-1	-2.8	.000
36	Morrie Martin	p	-	33	-	MLB	10	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.333	.200	533	1	6	4	0	2.5	.250
26	Earl Battey	c	-	21	-	MLB	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.400	.250	650	1	5	5	-	-	.333
20	Sandy Consuegra	p	-	35	-	MLB	28	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	4	4	-	-	.000
25	Cal Abrams	of	-	32	-	MLB	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.600	.333	933	1	5	2	1	12.6	.500
44	Connie Johnson	p	-	33	-	MLB	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	3	3	-	-	.000
18	Jim Derrington	p	-	16	-	MLB	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1000	1	2	1	0	9.9	1.000
27	Ellis Kinder	p	-	41	-	MLB	29	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	2	2	-	-	.000
32	Harry Byrd	p	-	31	-	MLB	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	1	-	-	.000
Totals: (38 players)							154	5286	776	1412	218	43	128	726	70	33	619	658	75	30	86	56	130	.267	.349	.397	746	2100	6122	4179	820	5.3	.282

PITCHING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

#	Player	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	BB/SO	BABIP	GB/FB
19	Billy Pierce	4	29	-	MLB	20	9	3.32	35	33	21	1	2	1	276.1	261	108	102	24	100	192	6	1	1.31	8.50	0.78	3.26	6.25	0.52	--	0.67
22	Dick Donovan	12	28	-	MLB	12	10	3.64	34	31	14	3	2	0	234.2	212	99	95	22	59	120	5	1	1.15	8.13	0.84	2.26	4.60	0.49	--	1.10
29	Jack Harshman	9	28	-	MLB	15	11	3.10	34	30	15	4	3	0	226.2	183	85	78	14	102	143	7	0	1.26	7.27	0.56	4.05	5.68	0.71	--	0.60
30	Jim Wilson	20	34	-	MLB	9	12	4.06	28	21	6	3	4	0	159.2	149	82	72	15	70	82	3	2	1.37	8.40	0.85	3.95	4.62	0.85	--	0.84
15	Bob Keegan	-	35	-	MLB	5	7	3.93	20	16	4	0	1	0	105.1	119	56	46	15	35	32	1	0	1.46	10.17	1.28	2.99	2.73	1.09	--	0.89
21,66	Gerry Staley	-	35	-	MLB	8	3	2.92	26	10	5	0	6	0	101.2	98	37	33	11	20	25	1	0	1.16	8.68	0.97	1.77	2.21	0.80	--	1.63
28	Dixie Howell	38	36	-	MLB	5	6	4.62	34	1	0	0	18	4	64.1	79	39	33	3	36	28	4	0	1.79	11.05	0.42	5.04	3.92	1.29	--	1.35
31	Paul LaPalme	-	32	-	MLB	3	1	2.36	29	0	0	0	14	2	45.2	31	14	12	2	27	23	2	0	1.27	6.11	0.39	5.32	4.53	1.17	--	1.04
20	Sandy Consuegra	-	35	-	MLB	1	2	5.17	28	1	0	0	12	3	38.1	45	25	22	0	11	7	0	0	1.46	10.57	0.00	2.58	1.64	1.57	--	1.44
27	Ellis Kinder	43	41	-	MLB	3	1	2.73	29	0	0	0	19	3	29.2	33	10	9	2	8	19	0	0	1.38	10.01	0.61	2.43	5.76	0.42	--	0.68
24	Howie Pollet	-	35	-	MLB	3	1	4.10	11	4	0	0	1	0	26.1	27	15	12	2	11	14	1	0	1.44	9.23	0.68	3.76	4.78	0.79	--	1.06
36	Jim McDonald	-	29	-	MLB	0	2	8.68	8	3	0	0	0	0	18.2	29	18	18	2	7	10	1	0	1.93	13.98	0.96	3.37	4.82	0.70	--	1.73
36	Morrie Martin	-	33	-	MLB	1	0	4.91	10	0	0	0	3	0	18.1	21	10	10	1	7	9	1	0	1.53	10.31	0.49	3.44	4.42	0.78	--	0.85
16	Mike Fornieles	-	24	-	MLB	0	1	4.60	6	0	0	0	0	0	15.2	22	9	8	1	6	6	0	0	1.79	12.64	0.57	3.45	3.45	1.00	--	0.63
44	Connie Johnson	15	33	-	MLB	0	1	3.65	5	2	0	0	2	0	12.1	11	5	5	1	7	6	1	0	1.46	8.03	0.73	5.11	4.38	1.17	--	1.14
18	Jim Derrington	-	16	-	MLB	0	1	7.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	9	6	5	2	6	3	0	1	2.50	13.50	3.00	9.00	4.50	2.00	--	2.25
32	Harry Byrd	-	31	-	MLB	0	1	10.38	3	1	0	0	0	0	4.1	9	6	5	0	4	0	0	0	3.00	18.69	0.00	8.31	0.00	--	--	0.63
31	Jerry Dahlke	-	26	-	MLB	0	0	19.29	5	0	0	0	1	0	2.1	5	5	5	0	6	1	0	0	4.71	19.29	0.00	23.14	3.86	6.00	--	2.50
27	Bill Fischer	-	25	-	MLB	0	0	21.60	3	0	0	0	1	0	1.2	6	4	4	0	1	2	0	0	4.20	32.40	0.00	5.40	10.80	0.50	--	0.50
24	Dick Marlowe	-	27	-	MLB	0	0	9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	3.00	18.00	9.00	9.00	0.00	--	--	--
Totals: (38 players)						85	69	3.73	154	154	65	11	89	13	1,389	1351	634	575	128	524	722	33	5	1.46	8.75	0.76	3.40	4.68	0.73	--

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Sherm Lollar	C	132		679	40	5	6	.993	0.00
Les Moss	C	49		149	10	1	1	.994	0.00
Earl Battey	C	3		4	0	1	0	.800	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Walt Dropo	1B	117		855	50	6	95	.993	0.00
Dave Philley	1B	51		299	17	7	31	.978	0.00
Ron Jackson	1B	19		138	11	0	16	1.000	0.00
George Kell	1B	4		19	3	0	4	1.000	0.00
Minnie Minoso	1B	1		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Nellie Fox	2B	154		478	396	12	124	.986	0.00
Sammy Esposito	2B	3		2	2	0	1	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Fred Hatfield	3B	100		83	189	11	21	.961	0.00
Sammy Esposito	3B	61		41	109	6	17	.962	0.00
George Kell	3B	18		17	28	0	0	1.000	0.00
Minnie Minoso	3B	8		2	6	2	0	.800	0.00
Bob Kennedy	3B	6		4	3	0	2	1.000	0.00
Bubba Phillips	3B	2		2	2	0	1	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Luis Aparicio	SS	152		250	474	35	91	.954	0.00
Sammy Esposito	SS	19		9	21	0	1	1.000	0.00
Jim Brideweser	SS	10		4	11	1	1	.937	0.00
Fred Hatfield	SS	3		1	2	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Minnie Minoso	OF	148		284	10	8	1	.974	0.00
Larry Doby	OF	137		371	4	5	2	.987	0.00
Jim Rivera	OF	134		271	9	7	4	.976	0.00
Bubba Phillips	OF	35		59	2	0	1	1.000	0.00
Dave Philley	OF	30		50	2	0	0	1.000	0.00
Jim Delsing	OF	29		21	1	1	0	.957	0.00
Bob Nieman	OF	10		24	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Ron Northey	OF	4		4	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Cal Abrams	OF	2		2	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Billy Pierce	P	35	276	4	33	3	2	.925	1.21
Dick Donovan	P	34	234	11	46	1	4	.983	2.19
Jack Harshman	P	34	226	2	29	4	3	.886	1.23
Dixie Howell	P	34	64	2	12	2	2	.875	1.97
Ellis Kinder	P	29	29	2	2	0	0	1.000	1.23
Paul LaPalme	P	29	45	1	11	0	1	1.000	2.39
Sandy Consuegra	P	28	38	1	8	1	0	.900	2.13
Jim Wilson	P	28	159	7	25	0	1	1.000	1.81
Gerry Staley	P	26	101	4	23	0	2	1.000	2.40
Bob Keegan	P	20	105	6	18	1	0	.960	2.06
Howie Pollet	P	11	26	1	6	0	0	1.000	2.41
Morrie Martin	P	10	18	0	4	1	1	.800	1.99
Jim McDonald	P	8	18	1	3	1	0	.800	1.98
Mike Fornieles	P	6	15	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.78
Jerry Dahlke	P	5	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.29
Connie Johnson	P	5	12	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.23
Harry Byrd	P	3	4	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.39
Bill Fischer	P	3	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	7.50
Jim Derrington	P	1	6	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Dick Marlowe	P	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00

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