1906_St._Louis_Cardinals_season Knowpia

1906 St. Louis Cardinals
1906 St. Louis Cardinals
League	National League
Ballpark	League Park
City	St. Louis, Missouri
Record	52–98 (.347)
League place	7th
Owners	Frank Robison and Stanley Robison
Managers	John McCloskey

The 1906 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 25th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 15th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 52–98 during the season and finished seventh in the National League.

Regular season edit

Season standings edit

v t e National League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Chicago Cubs	116	36	0.763	—	56–21	60–15
New York Giants	96	56	0.632	20	51–24	45–32
Pittsburgh Pirates	93	60	0.608	23½	49–27	44–33
Philadelphia Phillies	71	82	0.464	45½	37–40	34–42
Brooklyn Superbas	66	86	0.434	50	31–44	35–42
Cincinnati Reds	64	87	0.424	51½	36–40	28–47
St. Louis Cardinals	52	98	0.347	63	28–48	24–50
Boston Beaneaters	49	102	0.325	66½	28–47	21–55

Record vs. opponents edit

Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Team

BOS

BR

CHC

CIN

NYG

PHI

PIT

STL

Boston

—

9–13

5–17

11–10–1

6–15

6–16

3–19

9–12

Brooklyn

13–9

—

6–16

8–14

9–13

8–13

9–13

13–8–1

Chicago

17–5

16–6

—

18–4

15–7–1

19–3–1

16–5

15–6–1

Cincinnati

10–11–1

14–8

4–18

—

5–16

11–11

8–14–1

12–9–2

New York

15–6

13–9

7–15–1

16–5

—

15–7

11–11

19–3

Philadelphia

16–6

13–8

3–19–1

11–11

7–15

—

8–14

13–9

Pittsburgh

19–3

13–9

5–16

14–8–1

11–11

14–8

—

17–5

St. Louis 12–9 8–13–1 6–15–1 9–12–2 3–19 9–13 5–17 — Notable transactions edit

July 13, 1906: Spike Shannon was traded by the Cardinals to the New York Giants for Doc Marshall and Sam Mertes.^[1]

Roster edit

1906 St. Louis Cardinals

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

John McCloskey

Player stats edit

Batting edit

Starters by position edit

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
C	Mike Grady	97	280	70	.250	2	27
1B	Jake Beckley	87	320	79	.247	0	44
2B	Pug Bennett	153	595	156	.262	1	34
SS	George McBride	90	313	53	.169	0	13
3B	Harry Arndt	69	256	69	.270	2	26
OF	Al Burch	91	335	89	.266	0	11
OF	Homer Smoot	86	343	85	.248	0	31
OF	Spike Shannon	80	302	78	.258	0	25

Other batters edit

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
Art Hoelskoetter	94	317	71	.224	0	14
Shad Barry	62	237	59	.249	0	12
Sam Mertes	53	191	47	.246	0	19
Jack Himes	40	155	42	.271	0	14
Forrest Crawford	45	145	30	.207	0	11
Red Murray	46	144	37	.257	1	16
Pete Noonan	44	125	21	.168	1	9
Doc Marshall	39	123	34	.276	0	10
Joe Marshall	33	95	15	.158	0	7
Tommy Raub	24	78	22	.282	0	2
Bill Phyle	22	73	13	.178	0	4
Tom O'Hara	14	53	16	.302	0	0
Joe McCarthy	15	37	9	.243	0	2
Ed Holly	10	34	2	.059	0	7
Ducky Holmes	9	27	5	.185	0	2
Eddie Zimmerman	5	14	3	.214	0	1
Jack Slattery	3	7	2	.286	0	0
Rube DeGroff	1	4	0	.000	0	0

Pitching edit

Starting pitchers edit

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Buster Brown	32	238.1	8	16	2.64	109
Ed Karger	25	191.2	5	16	2.72	73
Fred Beebe	20	160.2	9	9	3.02	116
Jack Taylor	17	155.0	8	9	2.15	27
Carl Druhot	15	130.1	6	7	2.42	45
Gus Thompson	17	103.0	2	11	4.28	36
Wish Egan	16	86.1	2	9	4.59	23
Stoney McGlynn	6	48.0	2	2	2.44	25
Irv Higginbotham	7	47.1	1	4	3.23	14
Art Fromme	3	25.0	1	2	1.44	11
Ambrose Puttmann	4	18.2	2	2	5.30	12
Jake Thielman	1	5.0	0	1	3.60	0
Babe Adams	1	4.0	0	1	13.50	0