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1953 Cleveland Indians season

Field	Value
name	Cleveland Indians
season	1953
league	American League
ballpark	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
city	Cleveland, Ohio
owners	Myron H. Wilson
general_managers	Hank Greenberg
managers	Al López
television	WXEL
(Bob Neal, Red Jones)
radio	WERE
(Jack Graney, Jimmy Dudley)

(Bob Neal, Red Jones) (Jack Graney, Jimmy Dudley) |}} The 1953 Cleveland Indians season was a season in American baseball. The team finished second in the American League with a record of 92–62, games behind the New York Yankees.

Offseason

December 11, 1952: Earl Averill, Jr. was signed as an amateur free agent by the Indians.

Regular season

Al Rosen became the first third baseman in the history of the American League to win the MVP Award.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

May 1953: Brooks Lawrence was acquired from the Indians by the Cincinnati Reds.
June 15, 1953: Ray Boone, Al Aber, Steve Gromek, and Dick Weik were traded by the Indians to the Detroit Tigers for Art Houtteman, Owen Friend, Bill Wight, and Joe Ginsberg.

Roster

1953 Cleveland Indians
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

	= Indicates league leader

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	112	299	65	.217	9	37
1B	147	411	100	.243	3	30
2B	141	559	160	.286	8	55
SS	123	419	119	.284	5	47
3B	155	599	201	.336	43	145
OF	149	513	135	.263	29	102
OF	82	242	55	.227	7	22
OF	134	500	150	.300	13	60

Other batters

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

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
82	218	72	.330	9	46
68	211	64	.303	7	31
100	161	38	.236	3	22
47	150	36	.240	3	14
34	112	27	.241	4	21
47	109	25	.229	6	13
46	109	31	.284	0	10
34	68	16	.235	2	13
50	50	15	.300	2	12
16	46	8	.174	1	5
22	21	4	.190	0	3
7	7	1	.143	0	0
4	3	0	.000	0	0
1	0	0	----	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
41	286.2	21	15	3.36	98
38	271.2	18	9	3.25	134
36	251.2	17	12	3.93	138
25	175.2	10	7	3.59	60
1	9.0	1	0	2.00	6

Other pitchers

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
26	112.2	9	3	3.99	55
22	109.0	7	7	3.80	40
7	27.0	0	2	2.67	6
5	11.0	1	1	3.27	8

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
43	5	4	7	4.02	16
20	2	1	1	3.71	14
16	0	0	2	7.62	5
6	1	1	0	7.50	4
4	0	0	0	7.36	2

Awards and records

Al Rosen, American League MVP

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Fargo-Moorhead, Daytona Beach, Green Bay

On May 6, 1953, the Fargo-Moorhead Twins defeated Sioux Falls in their Opening Day game by a score of 12–3. A record crowd of 10,123 fans came to Barnett Field. In the game, Roger Maris got his first professional baseball hit. That season, Twins player Frank Gravino would hit 52 home runs. The Twins would host the Northern League All-Star game and defeat the Northern League All-Stars by a score of 8–4. The Twins finished with a record of 86–39 (improving from their record of 44–80 in 1952 Roger Maris was selected as the 1953 Northern League Rookie of the Year.

Notes

References

1953 Cleveland Indians season at Baseball Reference

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/a/averiea02.shtml Earl Averill, Jr.] at ''Baseball-Reference''
''Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures'', 2008 Edition, p. 152, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, {{ISBN. 978-0-451-22363-0
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lawrebr01.shtml Brooks Lawrence] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boonera01.shtml Ray Boone] at ''Baseball-Reference''
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition''. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007
''Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero'', p. 54, Tom Clavin and Danny Peary, Touchstone Books, Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010, {{ISBN. 978-1-4165-8928-0
''Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero'', p. 55
''Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero'', p. 56
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