The Tools of Ignorance: Player Stats for Bob Lemon

Bob Lemon

Robert Granville Lemon
Born: 9/22/1920 in San Bernardino, CA USA      Died: 1/11/2000 in Long Beach, CA USA     Hall Of Fame: 1976
Weight: 180 lb.      Height: 6'0"
Bats: L                 Throws: R

Batting Pitching Fielding Salaries Achievements HoF Manager

Year	Age	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	IBB	HBP	SH	SF	DP	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1941	20	CLE	AL	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1		0	0		0	.250	.250	.250	.500
1942	21	CLE	AL	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3		0	0		0	.000	.000	.000	.000
1946	25	CLE	AL	55	89	9	16	3	0	1	4	0	1	7	18		0	3		0	.180	.240	.247	.487
1947	26	CLE	AL	47	56	11	18	4	3	2	5	0	0	6	9		0	2		0	.321	.387	.607	.994
1948	27	CLE	AL	52	119	20	34	9	0	5	21	0	0	8	23		0	2		0	.286	.331	.487	.818
1949	28	CLE	AL	46	108	17	29	6	2	7	19	0	0	10	20		0	5		1	.269	.331	.556	.886
1950	29	CLE	AL	72	136	21	37	9	1	6	26	0	0	13	25		1	3		0	.272	.340	.485	.825
1951	30	CLE	AL	56	102	11	21	4	1	3	13	0	0	9	22		0	1		1	.206	.270	.353	.623
1952	31	CLE	AL	54	124	14	28	5	0	2	9	0	0	4	21		0	6		2	.226	.250	.315	.565
1953	32	CLE	AL	51	112	12	26	9	1	2	17	2	0	7	20		0	6		1	.232	.277	.384	.661
1954	33	CLE	AL	40	98	11	21	4	1	2	10	0	0	6	24		0	8	1	1	.214	.257	.337	.594
1955	34	CLE	AL	49	78	11	19	0	0	1	9	0	0	13	16	0	0	6	2	1	.244	.344	.282	.626
1956	35	CLE	AL	43	93	8	18	0	0	5	12	0	0	9	21	0	1	7	0	1	.194	.272	.355	.627
1957	36	CLE	AL	25	46	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	1	.065	.065	.152	.217
1958	37	CLE	AL	15	13	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	.231	.286	.231	.516
15 Seasons				615	1183	148	274	54	9	37	147	2	1	93	241	0	2	49	3	9	.232	.288	.386	.674

Post Season

Year	Age	Team	Round	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	IBB	HBP	SH	SF	DP	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1948	27	CLE	WS	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
1954	33	CLE	WS	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.143	.000	.143
2 Post Seasons				5	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.071	.000	.071

Year	Age	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	IBB	WP	HBP	BK	BFP	GF	R
1946	25	CLE	AL	4	5	32	5	1	0	1	94	77	26	1	68	39	2.49		5	0	0	412	17	40
1947	26	CLE	AL	11	5	37	15	6	1	3	167.1	150	64	7	97	65	3.44		6	4	0	725	15	68
1948	27	CLE	AL	20	14	43	37	20	10	2	293.2	231	92	12	129	147	2.82		3	3	0	1214	2	104
1949	28	CLE	AL	22	10	37	33	22	2	1	279.2	211	93	19	137	138	2.99		1	6	0	1159	4	101
1950	29	CLE	AL	23	11	44	37	22	3	3	288	281	123	28	146	170	3.84		5	2	0	1254	5	144
1951	30	CLE	AL	17	14	42	34	17	1	2	263.1	244	103	19	124	132	3.52		4	2	1	1139	7	119
1952	31	CLE	AL	22	11	42	36	28	5	4	309.2	236	86	15	105	131	2.50		8	6	0	1252	6	104
1953	32	CLE	AL	21	15	41	36	23	5	1	286.2	283	107	16	110	98	3.36		9	11	0	1216	4	119
1954	33	CLE	AL	23	7	36	33	21	2	0	258.1	228	78	12	92	110	2.72		6	4	1	1077	1	95
1955	34	CLE	AL	18	10	35	31	5	0	2	211.1	218	91	17	74	100	3.88	3	8	5	0	909	3	103
1956	35	CLE	AL	20	14	39	35	21	2	3	255.1	230	86	23	89	94	3.03	2	4	6	0	1074	3	103
1957	36	CLE	AL	6	11	21	17	2	0	0	117.1	129	60	9	64	45	4.60	6	3	7	0	540	2	70
1958	37	CLE	AL	0	1	11	1	0	0	0	25.1	41	15	3	16	8	5.33	2	1	1	0	128	4	15
13 Seasons				207	128	460	350	188	31	22	2850	2559	1024	181	1251	1277	3.23	13	63	57	2	12099	73	1185

Post Season

Year	Age	Team	Round	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	IBB	WP	HBP	BK	BFP	GF	R
1948	27	CLE	WS	2	0	2	2	1	0	0	16.1	16	3	0	7	6	1.65	0	0	0	1	67	0	4
1954	33	CLE	WS	0	2	2	2	1	0	0	13.1	16	10	1	8	11	6.75	2	1	0	0	64	0	11
2 Post Seasons				2	2	4	4	2	0	0	29.2	32	13	1	15	17	3.94	2	1	0	1	131	0	15

Year	Age	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	PB	FP

1941	20	CLE	AL	3B	1		0	1	1	0	0		1.000

1942	21	CLE	AL	3B	1		0	0	1	1	0		0.500

1946	25	CLE	AL	OF	12		0	33	2	1	2		0.972
1946	25	CLE	AL	P	32		0	13	28	1	5		0.976

1947	26	CLE	AL	OF	2		0	1	0	0	0		1.000
1947	26	CLE	AL	P	37		0	12	46	1	4		0.983

1948	27	CLE	AL	P	43		0	23	86	4	8		0.965

1949	28	CLE	AL	P	37		0	34	71	4	5		0.963

1950	29	CLE	AL	P	44		0	22	66	4	6		0.957

1951	30	CLE	AL	P	42		0	21	60	2	5		0.976

1952	31	CLE	AL	P	42		0	32	79	2	7		0.982

1953	32	CLE	AL	P	41		0	31	74	3	15		0.972

1954	33	CLE	AL	P	36	33	258.1	22	57	3	8		0.963

1955	34	CLE	AL	P	35	31	211.1	16	43	1	3		0.983

1956	35	CLE	AL	P	39	35	255.2	24	61	6	6		0.934

1957	36	CLE	AL	P	21	17	117.1	12	31	0	5		1.000

1958	37	CLE	AL	P	11	1	25.1	1	7	0	1		1.000
15 Seasons					476	117	868	298	713	33	80		0.968

Post Season

Year	Age	Team	Round	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	PB	FP

1948	27	CLE	WS	P	2	2	16.1	3	9	0	1		1.000

1954	33	CLE	WS	P	2	2	13.1	2	2	0	0		1.000
2 Post Seasons					4	4	29.2	5	11	0	1		1.000

Year	Age	Team	League	Salary
No Salary Records Found

Year	Age	League	Award
1948	27	AL	TSN Pitcher of the Year
1948	27	AL	Baseball Magazine All-Star - P1
1948	27	ML	TSN All-Star - P
1948	27	ML	Baseball Magazine All-Star - P1
1950	29	ML	TSN All-Star - P
1950	29	AL	Baseball Magazine All-Star - P2
1950	29	AL	TSN Pitcher of the Year
1954	33	AL	TSN Pitcher of the Year
1954	33	ML	TSN All-Star - P

Year	Age	Voters	Ballots	Required	Votes	Pct.	Inducted	Category
1964	43	Run Off	201		3.0	0.01493	N	Player
1964	43	BBWAA	201	151	24.0	0.11940	N	Player
1966	45	BBWAA	302	227	21.0	0.06954	N	Player
1967	46	BBWAA	292	219	35.0	0.11986	N	Player
1967	46	Run Off	306		7.0	0.02288	N	Player
1968	47	BBWAA	283	213	47.0	0.16608	N	Player
1969	48	BBWAA	340	255	56.0	0.16471	N	Player
1970	49	BBWAA	300	225	75.0	0.25000	N	Player
1971	50	BBWAA	360	270	90.0	0.25000	N	Player
1972	51	BBWAA	396	297	117.0	0.29545	N	Player
1973	52	BBWAA	380	285	177.0	0.46579	N	Player
1974	53	BBWAA	365	274	190.0	0.52055	N	Player
1975	54	BBWAA	362	272	233.0	0.64365	N	Player
1976	55	BBWAA	388	291	305.0	0.78608	Y	Player

Year	Age	Team	Lg	Div	#	G	W	L	Pct.	Div Rank	Ply/Mgr
1970	49	Kansas City Royals	AL	W	2	110	46	64	0.418	4	N
1971	50	Kansas City Royals	AL	W	1	161	85	76	0.528	2	N
1972	51	Kansas City Royals	AL	W	1	154	76	78	0.494	4	N
1977	56	Chicago White Sox	AL	W	1	162	90	72	0.556	3	N
1978	57	New York Yankees	AL	E	3	68	48	20	0.706	1	N
1978	57	Chicago White Sox	AL	W	1	74	34	40	0.459	5	N
1979	58	New York Yankees	AL	E	1	65	34	31	0.523	4	N
1981	60	New York Yankees	AL	E	2	25	11	14	0.440	4	N
1982	61	New York Yankees	AL	E	1	14	6	8	0.429	5	N
9 Seasons						833	430	403	0.516	3.778