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1938 St. Louis Browns season

Major League Baseball season

Field	Value
name	St. Louis Browns
season	1938
league	American League
ballpark	Sportsman's Park
city	St. Louis, Missouri
record	55–97 (.362)
league_place	7th
owners	Donald Lee Barnes
general_managers	Bill DeWitt
managers	Gabby Street and Ski Melillo
radio	KMOX
(France Laux, Jim Alt)
KWK
(Johnny O'Hara, Allan Anthony)

(France Laux, Jim Alt) KWK (Johnny O'Hara, Allan Anthony) |}} The 1938 St. Louis Browns season involved the Browns finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 55 wins and 97 losses.

Offseason

December 1, 1937: Elon Hogsett was traded by the Browns to the Washington Senators for Ed Linke.
December 2, 1937: Joe Vosmik was traded by the Browns to the Boston Red Sox for Red Kress, Buster Mills and Bobo Newsom.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day lineup

Mel Mazzera, LF
Billy Sullivan Jr., C
Sam West, CF
Beau Bell, 3B
Harlond Clift, 3B
Red Kress, SS
George McQuinn, 1B
Don Heffner, 2B
Bobo Newsom, P

Notable transactions

June 11, 1938: Jack Knott was traded by the Browns to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Bill Cox.
September 8, 1938: Joe Grace was purchased by the Browns from the Memphis Chicks (Southern Association).

Roster

1938 St. Louis Browns
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

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	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	111	375	104	.277	7	49
1B	148	602	195	.324	12	82
2B	141	473	116	.245	2	69
SS	150	566	171	.302	7	79
3B	149	534	155	.290	34	118
OF	102	436	149	.342	3	37
OF	123	466	133	.285	3	46
OF	147	526	138	.262	13	84

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
Mel Mazzera	86	204	57	.279	6	29
	70	194	44	.227	2	22
Sam West	44	165	51	.309	1	27
Glenn McQuillen	43	116	33	.284	0	13
	58	96	27	.281	2	13
	12	47	16	.340	0	4
	19	33	10	.303	0	4
	11	24	7	.292	0	0
Sig Gryska	7	21	10	.476	0	4
Johnny Lucadello	7	20	3	.150	0	0

Pitching

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
	44	329.2	20	16	5.08	226
Lefty Mills	30	210.1	10	12	5.31	134
	23	163.0	8	10	5.69	66
	1	8.0	0	0	3.38	1
	1	8.0	0	1	5.62	1
	1	7.0	0	1	9.00	4

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
Russ Van Atta	25	104.0	4	7	6.06	35
	18	94.0	1	12	6.80	28
	36	88.2	1	5	5.18	26
	17	69.0	3	7	5.61	24
	22	63.0	1	4	7.00	16
Les Tietje	17	62.0	2	5	7.55	15
	7	30.0	1	2	4.80	8
	5	21.2	1	2	7.06	11
Vito Tamulis	3	15.1	0	3	7.63	11

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	ERA	SO
21	1	7	7.94	18
17	2	3	6.35	7
2	0	0	6.00	1

Farm system

and Mike Serlick

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/linkeed01.shtml Ed Linke page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/k/kressre01.shtml Red Kress page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/coxbi01.shtml Bill Cox page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/g/gracejo01.shtml Joe Grace page at Baseball Reference]
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball''. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997

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