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1917 Register Pitching Leaders

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Rk	Name	Age	Tm	Lg	Lev	W	L	W-L%	ERA	RA9	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WP	BF	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	Dick Redding	27	CAG,ROY	BLK,FLHL	Non,Wtr	14	6	.700	1.00	1.53	25	19	16	5	3	171.0	103	29	19	0	51	120	2	0	655	0.901	5.4	0.0	2.7	6.3	2.35
2	Tom Williams	20	CAG,ROY	BLK,FLHL	Non,Wtr	14	3	.824	1.35	1.94	20	17	14	3	2	153.0	95	33	23	2	36	70	5	0	589	0.856	5.6	0.1	2.1	4.1	1.94
3	Joe Williams	31	NLG,BRE	BLK,FLHL	Non,Wtr	12	4	.750	1.89	2.67	18	14	12	3	0	138.0	118	41	29	0	38	98	3	0	565	1.130	7.7	0.0	2.5	6.4	2.58
4	String Bean Williams	44	ABC,BRG	BLK	Non	12	8	.600	2.61	3.85	21	15	14	2	0	152.0	132	65	44	2	49	85	1	1	620	1.191	7.8	0.1	2.9	5.0	1.73
5	Juan Padrón	24	CSW,BRE	BLK,FLHL	Non,Wtr	9	11	.450	1.77	2.63	27	21	16	2	1	188.0	142	55	37	2	47	104	6	1	762	1.005	6.8	0.1	2.3	5.0	2.21
6	Dick Whitworth	21	CAG,ROY	BLK,FLHL	Non,Wtr	8	4	.667	1.72	2.74	16	11	8	1	0	115.0	79	35	22	0	37	58	1	0	459	1.009	6.2	0.0	2.9	4.5	1.57
7	Bill Gatewood	35	ABC,SLG	BLK	Non	7	9	.438	3.78	5.34	21	15	11	3	1	126.1	138	75	53	1	36	65	4	2	555	1.377	9.8	0.1	2.6	4.6	1.81
8	Tom Johnson	28	CAG	BLK	Non	7	3	.700	2.57	3.12	13	12	8	3	0	98.0	83	34	28	1	34	38	1	0	402	1.194	7.6	0.1	3.1	3.5	1.12
9	Evelio Calderín	21	CSE	BLK	Non	6	6	.500	3.84	4.70	13	13	10	2	0	105.1	108	55	45	6	42	50	5	0	469	1.424	9.2	0.5	3.6	4.3	1.19
10	Lefty Harvey	27	BRG	BLK	Non	6	5	.545	4.13	6.05	13	12	8	0	0	93.2	99	63	43	0	51	62	6	1	436	1.601	9.5	0.0	4.9	6.0	1.22
11	José Junco	27	CSW	BLK	Non	6	9	.400	2.03	2.82	16	15	13	0	0	124.1	109	39	28	1	29	19	0	0	505	1.110	7.9	0.1	2.1	1.4	0.66
12	Gifford McDonald	26	BAG,NLG	BLK	Non	5	5	.500	4.10	5.35	12	12	9	0	0	79.0	90	47	36	0	27	45	1	0	356	1.481	10.3	0.0	3.1	5.1	1.67
13	Frank Wickware	29	CAG,ROY,JBC,COG	BLK,FLHL	Non,Wtr	5	4	.556	2.32	3.36	12	10	7	2	0	77.2	64	29	20	0	31	36	2	0	335	1.223	7.4	0.0	3.6	4.2	1.16
14	Jim Jeffries	24	ABC	BLK	Non	4	3	.571	2.49	3.12	15	11	5	1	0	86.2	66	30	24	1	30	40	4	1	358	1.108	6.9	0.1	3.1	4.2	1.33
15	Shang Johnson	19	BAG,HIL	BLK	Non	4	6	.400	2.95	4.83	14	11	8	1	0	100.2	97	54	33	1	37	64	0	0	435	1.331	8.7	0.1	3.3	5.7	1.73
16	José Suárez	26	CSE	BLK	Non	4	4	.500	3.94	5.34	8	7	7	1	0	64.0	70	38	28	2	34	26	2	0	318	1.625	9.8	0.3	4.8	3.7	0.76
17	Doc Sykes	25	HIL,NLG,PAS	BLK	Non	4	4	.500	3.68	4.64	10	8	6	0	0	66.0	67	34	27	0	20	27	0	0	282	1.318	9.1	0.0	2.7	3.7	1.35
18	Bernardo Baró	21	CSW	BLK	Non	3	5	.375	3.36	4.43	8	8	8	0	0	67.0	64	33	25	0	25	14	3	0	285	1.328	8.6	0.0	3.4	1.9	0.56
19	Phil Cockrell	22	BRE,NLG	FLHL,BLK	Wtr,Non	3	1	.750	1.54	3.34	7	4	2	1	0	35.0	29	13	6	0	8	21	1	0	144	1.057	7.5	0.0	2.1	5.4	2.63
20	John Donaldson	26	ALL	BLK	Non	3	4	.429	1.95	3.00	8	7	7	0	1	60.0	41	20	13	0	13	45	2	0	238	0.900	6.2	0.0	2.0	6.8	3.46
21	Dicta Johnson	30	ABC	BLK	Non	3	4	.429	2.83	3.81	14	9	4	1	0	82.2	67	35	26	2	31	33	1	0	337	1.185	7.3	0.2	3.4	3.6	1.06
22	Roy Roberts	23	BAG	BLK	Non	3	5	.375	3.36	4.58	8	6	5	0	0	59.0	47	30	22	0	25	28	1	0	241	1.220	7.2	0.0	3.8	4.3	1.12
23	George Branham	25	JBC	BLK	Non	2	1	.667	4.64	5.06	3	3	2	0	0	21.1	22	12	11	0	12	8	0	0	96	1.594	9.3	0.0	5.1	3.4	0.67
24	Dizzy Dismukes	27	ABC	BLK	Non	2	5	.286	3.10	3.57	7	7	6	0	0	58.0	43	23	20	1	17	27	4	0	235	1.034	6.7	0.2	2.6	4.2	1.59
25	Rube Foster	37	CAG	BLK	Non	2	1	.667	3.33	3.67	3	3	3	0	0	27.0	21	11	10	0	11	11	0	0	111	1.185	7.0	0.0	3.7	3.7	1.00
26	Ad Lankford	35	PHG,BRG,PRC	BLK	Non	2	1	.667	4.21	5.26	4	3	3	0	1	25.2	31	15	12	0	9	13	0	0	116	1.558	10.9	0.0	3.2	4.6	1.44
27	Leon	--	CSE	BLK	Non	2	2	.500	2.45	3.27	5	4	3	0	0	33.0	28	12	9	0	12	13	1	0	138	1.212	7.6	0.0	3.3	3.5	1.08
28	Henry McLaughlin	30	JBC,NLG	BLK	Non	2	2	.500	1.42	2.56	4	3	3	1	0	31.2	25	9	5	0	16	14	0	0	135	1.295	7.1	0.0	4.5	4.0	0.88
29	Eustaquio Pedroso	30	CSW	BLK	Non	2	3	.400	3.25	3.86	7	5	4	0	0	44.1	55	19	16	1	15	17	1	0	193	1.579	11.2	0.2	3.0	3.5	1.13
30	Lee Wade	31	NLG	BLK	Non	2	3	.400	3.72	5.70	6	5	4	1	0	36.1	43	23	15	0	17	12	2	0	178	1.651	10.7	0.0	4.2	3.0	0.71
31	F. Banks	--	NLG	BLK	Non	1	0	1.000	4.50	5.32	5	2	1	1	0	22.0	25	13	11	0	5	14	0	0	95	1.364	10.2	0.0	2.0	5.7	2.80
32	George Britt	21	CAG,ABC	BLK	Non	1	1	.500	1.15	3.45	2	2	1	0	0	15.2	13	6	2	0	6	8	3	0	70	1.213	7.5	0.0	3.4	4.6	1.33
33	Bill Chouneau	28	CIU	BLK	Non	1	0	1.000	3.00	4.00	1	1	1	0	0	9.0	12	4	3	0	2	4	0	0	44	1.556	12.0	0.0	2.0	4.0	2.00
34	George Dandy	26	NLG	BLK	Non	1	2	.333	3.60	5.85	3	3	2	0	0	20.0	19	13	8	0	9	7	1	0	86	1.400	8.6	0.0	4.1	3.2	0.78
35	Sell Hall	29	CAG	BLK	Non	1	0	1.000	0.00	1.29	1	1	0	0	0	7.0	5	1	0	0	4	3	0	0	29	1.286	6.4	0.0	5.1	3.9	0.75
36	Harding	--	ALL	BLK	Non	1	0	1.000	3.24	4.32	1	1	0	0	0	8.1	12	4	3	0	0	3	2	0	37	1.440	13.0	0.0	0.0	3.2
37	John Landers	24	ABC	BLK	Non	1	0	1.000	0.00	1.50	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	23	0.833	6.0	0.0	1.5	0.0	0.00
38	Jimmie Lyons	27	ALL,JBC,ABC,SLG	BLK	Non	1	0	1.000	0.73	0.73	2	0	0	0	0	12.1	3	1	1	0	6	5	0	0	46	0.730	2.2	0.0	4.4	3.6	0.83
39	Lem McDougal	22	ABC	BLK	Non	1	2	.333	3.38	4.60	6	4	2	0	0	29.1	29	15	11	1	13	18	1	1	134	1.432	8.9	0.3	4.0	5.5	1.38
40	Julio Rojo	23	CSE	BLK	Non	1	1	.500	6.62	7.64	3	2	2	1	0	17.2	22	15	13	0	10	9	0	0	82	1.811	11.2	0.0	5.1	4.6	0.90
41	Walter Ball	38	COG	BLK	Non	0	3	.000	4.40	5.28	4	3	3	0	0	30.2	37	18	15	2	18	15	0	0	148	1.793	10.9	0.6	5.3	4.4	0.83
42	Charlie Bradford	27	PHG	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	0.00	21.60	1	1	0	0	0	5.0	12	12	0	1	3	7	0	0	29	3.000	21.6	1.8	5.4	12.6	2.33
43	Maywood Brown	20	BRG	BLK	Non	0	2	.000	10.38	10.90	3	3	3	0	0	17.1	26	21	20	1	17	13	2	0	95	2.481	13.5	0.5	8.8	6.8	0.76
44	Eddie Buell	22	TAS	BLK	Non	0	2	.000	11.91	16.68	2	2	1	0	0	11.1	23	21	15	0	5	3	3	2	67	2.471	18.3	0.0	4.0	2.4	0.60
45	Edgar Burch	23	ALL	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	16.62	18.69	1	1	0	0	0	4.1	10	9	8	0	4	1	0	0	27	3.231	20.8	0.0	8.3	2.1	0.25
46	Tatica Campos	25	CSW	BLK	Non	0	2	.000	3.94	5.06	2	2	2	0	0	16.0	13	9	7	0	5	4	0	0	68	1.125	7.3	0.0	2.8	2.3	0.80
47	Oscar Charleston	20	ABC	BLK	Non	0	0		1.65	2.76	3	1	0	0	0	16.1	6	5	3	0	9	7	0	0	66	0.918	3.3	0.0	5.0	3.9	0.78
48	Bill Drake	22	ALL	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	11.00	14.00	1	1	1	0	0	9.0	16	14	11	1	7	2	0	0	49	2.556	16.0	1.0	7.0	2.0	0.29
49	John Ford	22	HIL	BLK	Non	0	0		6.14	7.36	1	1	0	0	0	7.1	8	6	5	0	2	4	0	0	32	1.364	9.8	0.0	2.5	4.9	2.00
50	Emerson Gray	22	BRG	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	4.50	5.63	1	1	1	0	0	8.0	10	5	4	0	2	3	0	0	34	1.500	11.3	0.0	2.3	3.4	1.50
51	O.T. Hendricks	23	TAS	BLK	Non	0	3	.000	4.32	7.20	4	3	3	0	0	25.0	30	20	12	0	10	6	6	1	112	1.600	10.8	0.0	3.6	2.2	0.60
52	Josh	--	NLG	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	9.00	12.00	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	7	4	3	0	2	0	0	0	17	3.000	21.0	0.0	6.0	0.0	0.00
53	Palmer Kelley	--	CIU	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	2.25	4.50	1	1	1	0	0	8.0	5	4	2	0	3	3	0	0	33	1.000	5.6	0.0	3.4	3.4	1.00
54	Dave Malarcher	22	ABC	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	3.38	4.50	1	1	1	0	0	8.0	10	4	3	0	0	6	0	0	34	1.250	11.3	0.0	0.0	6.8
55	José Méndez	32	ALL	BLK	Non	0	0		20.25	27.00	1	1	0	0	0	1.1	5	4	3	0	2	1	0	0	11	5.250	33.8	0.0	13.5	6.8	0.50
56	Miller	--	ALL	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	9.90	10.80	2	1	1	0	0	10.0	14	12	11	0	11	4	2	0	57	2.500	12.6	0.0	9.9	3.6	0.36
57	Louis Miller	--	BAG,BRG	BLK	Non	0	0		6.75	9.45	1	0	0	0	0	6.2	9	7	5	0	2	2	0	0	30	1.650	12.2	0.0	2.7	2.7	1.00
58	Charles Murphy	--	NLG,BAG,PHG	BLK	Non	0	4	.000	9.26	10.80	5	4	2	0	0	35.0	47	42	36	0	18	14	2	4	180	1.857	12.1	0.0	4.6	3.6	0.78
59	Robert Prior	25	SLG	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	13.50	20.25	1	1	0	0	0	1.1	2	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	6	1.500	13.5	0.0	0.0	6.8
60	William Ross	23	TAS	BLK	Non	0	2	.000	4.58	6.86	3	2	1	0	0	19.2	20	15	10	0	9	11	2	2	90	1.475	9.2	0.0	4.1	5.0	1.22
61	Red Smith	--	BRG,BAG	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	10.29	11.57	2	1	0	0	0	7.0	10	9	8	0	3	4	0	0	35	1.857	12.9	0.0	3.9	5.1	1.33
62	William Tate	--	PHG	BLK	Non	0	0		6.75	11.25	2	0	0	0	0	4.0	6	5	3	0	1	1	0	1	20	1.750	13.5	0.0	2.3	2.3	1.00
63	Ben Taylor	28	ABC	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	2.87	4.60	2	1	1	0	0	15.2	13	8	5	0	6	6	0	0	66	1.213	7.5	0.0	3.4	3.4	1.00
64	Jules Thomas	30	NLG	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	13.50	20.25	1	1	0	0	0	1.1	3	3	2	0	2	0	0	0	9	3.750	20.3	0.0	13.5	0.0	0.00
65	Cristóbal Torriente	23	ALL	BLK	Non	0	0		7.71	9.64	1	0	0	0	0	4.2	7	5	4	0	3	1	0	0	24	2.143	13.5	0.0	5.8	1.9	0.33
66	Webb	--	NLG	BLK	Non	0	0		9.00	11.25	1	1	0	0	0	4.0	7	5	4	0	3	0	0	0	22	2.500	15.8	0.0	6.8	0.0	0.00
67	Doc Wiley	30	NLG	BLK	Non	0	0		2.35	3.52	1	0	0	0	0	7.2	4	3	2	0	2	4	0	0	29	0.783	4.7	0.0	2.3	4.7	2.00
68	Robert Yendes	19	ALL	BLK	Non	0	1	.000	8.38	9.31	2	2	1	0	0	9.2	10	10	9	0	8	5	1	1	46	1.862	9.3	0.0	7.4	4.7	0.63

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