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1947 St. Louis Browns season

Major League Baseball season

Field	Value
name	St. Louis Browns
season	1947
league	American League
ballpark	Sportsman's Park
city	St. Louis, Missouri
record	59–95 (.383)
league_place	8th
owners	Richard Muckerman
general_managers	Bill DeWitt
managers	Muddy Ruel
radio	WIL
(Dizzy Dean, Johnny O'Hara)

(Dizzy Dean, Johnny O'Hara) |}} The 1947 St. Louis Browns season was the Major League Baseball franchise's 47th in the American League (AL) and its 46th in St. Louis. The 1947 Browns finished eighth and last in the league with a record of 59 wins and 95 losses, 38 games in arrears of the eventual World Series champion New York Yankees. The Browns were managed by Muddy Ruel in the former catcher's only stint as an MLB pilot, and drew only 320,474 fans to Sportsman's Park, 16th and last in the majors. On July 17, they became the third big-league team to racially integrate its ranks. However, the experiment failed when the two pioneer players, Hank Thompson and Willard Brown, were sent back to the Negro leagues in late August; the Browns would not field another African-American player until all-time great Satchel Paige joined them in July 1951.

Regular season

July 17: Hank Thompson became the first black player to appear in a game for the Browns.
July 20: Hank Thompson and Willard Brown of the Browns played against the Boston Red Sox. It was the first time that two black players appear in a major league game together since 1884. In that first game of the double-header, outfielder Paul Lehner hit an inside-the-park grand slam to drive in all four runs in the Browns' 4–3 victory.
September 28: Broadcaster Dizzy Dean comes out of retirement to pitch for the Browns. He pitches 4 scoreless innings and hits a single.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

1947 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	96	274	43	.157	6	27
1B	144	500	129	.258	18	64
2B	90	306	80	.261	1	20
3B	137	571	168	.294	3	37
SS	150	562	157	.279	15	83
OF	127	380	85	.224	3	38
OF	135	483	120	.248	7	48
OF	141	491	123	.251	27	85

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
	110	343	89	.259	2	30
Billy Hitchcock	80	275	61	.222	1	28
Jake Early	87	214	48	.224	3	19
	34	99	14	.141	2	12
	27	78	20	.256	0	5
	21	67	12	.179	1	6
Rusty Peters	39	47	16	.340	0	2
Joe Schultz Jr.	43	38	7	.184	1	1
Perry Currin	3	2	0	.000	0	0
Glenn McQuillen	1	1	0	.000	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
	33	199.1	11	16	4.97	77
Ellis Kinder	34	194.1	8	15	4.49	110
Fred Sanford	34	186.2	7	16	3.71	62
Bob Muncrief	31	176.1	8	14	4.90	74
	26	145.2	6	8	3.58	77
	1	4.0	0	0	0.00	0

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
Sam Zoldak	35	171.0	9	10	3.47	36
Nels Potter	32	122.2	4	10	4.04	65
	9	32.1	1	3	6.12	11

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
Glen Moulder	32	4	2	2	3.82	23
	19	1	0	0	4.89	10
Bud Swartz	5	0	0	0	6.75	1
Hooks Iott	4	0	1	0	16.20	6

Farm system

References

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season, p. 187, Jonathan Eig, Simon & Schuster, 2007, New York, {{ISBN. 978-0-7432-9461-4
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season, p. 188
"Paul Lehner".

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