1909 San Francisco Seals season

San Francisco Seals 1909 1909 San Francisco Seals.jpg 1909 San Francisco Seals 300px 132–80 Pacific Coast League Recreation Park San Francisco 1st Dan Long The 1909 San Francisco Seals season was the seventh season in the history of the San Francisco Seals baseball team. The 1909 team won the Pacific Coast League (PCL) pennant with a 132–80 record. Dan Long was the team's manager The 1925 Seals were selected in 2003 by a panel of minor league experts as the tenth best team in the PCL's 100-year history.PCL top 10 Los Angeles Times March 30, 2003 D9 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44737497/pcl_top_10/ Newspapers.com The team was also ranked No. 71 by baseball historians Bill Weiss and Marshall Wright in their ranking of the 100 best teams in Minor League Baseball history.Top 100 Teams: 71. 1909 San Francisco Seals Minor League Baseball February 17, 2020 Bill Weiss Marshall Wright http://www.milb.com/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=71 Pitchers The pitching staff included two 30-game winners. Frank Browning led the PCL and all of Minor League Baseball with 32 wins and a 2.00 earned run average (ERA). Browning later played for the Detroit Tigers and performed as part of a vaudeville quartet. Cack Henley finished second with a 31–10 record and a 1.56 ERA. On June 8, 1909, Henley pitched a 24-inning, complete-game shutout at Freeman's Park in Oakland. Jimmy Wiggs pitched 23 scoreless innings for Oakland and lost on an unearned run in the 24th inning.The 1957 San Francisco Seals: End of an Era in the Pacific Coast League P.J. Dragseth McFarland 2013 978-0786465453 13–14Fans Set Baseball Mad Seeing Wiggs and Henley Pitch 24-Inning Game: Seals Triumph in Record-Breaking Battle Oakland Tribune Herman F. Budde June 9, 1909 11 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45164026/fans_set_baseball_mad_seeing_wiggs_and/ Position players Right fielder Henry Melchior appeared in 195 games for the Seals, tallied 47 extra base hits and 27 stolen bases, and led the PCL with a .298 batting average. Melchior continued to play on the West Coast until 1915 but never played in the major leagues.Henry Melchoir Sports Reference LLC Baseball-Reference.com February 18, 2020 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=melchi001hen Outfielder Doc Miller compiled a .347 batting average for the Seals but did not have enough at bats (he had 219) to qualify for the batting title. Miller later played five years in the major leagues.Doc Miller Sports Reference LLC Baseball-Reference.com February 18, 2020 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=miller004roy Third baseman Rollie Zeider compiled a .289 batting average and led the PCL with 93 stolen bases and 141 runs scored. Zeider later played nine seasons in the major leagues.Rollie Zeider Sports Reference LLC Baseball-Reference.com February 18, 2020 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=zeider001rol Left fielder Ping Bodie, a San Francisco native, led the team with 10 home runs.1909 San Francisco Seals Stats Sports Reference LLC Baseball-Reference.com February 17, 2020 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=83869062 He hit 30 home runs for the Seals in 1910 and later played nine seasons in the majors.Ping Bodie Sports Reference LLC Baseball-Reference.com February 18, 2020 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=bodie-002fra 1909 PCL standings Team W L Pct. GB San Francisco Seals 132 80 .622 -- Portland Beavers 112 87 .563 13.5 Los Angeles Angels 118 97 .549 15.5 Sacramento Sacts 97 107 .475 31.0 Oakland Oaks 88 125 .413 44.5 Vernon Tigers 80 131 .379 51.0 Statistics Batting Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; SLG = Slugging percentage Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR SLG OF Henry Melchior 195 692 206 .298 5 386 3B, 2B, OF Rollie Zeider 189 705 204 .289 2 374 OF, P Ping Bodie 157 543 135 .249 10 .401 3B Howard Mundorff 102 320 85 .266 0 .328 C Claude Berry 166 577 141 .244 1 .289 1B Tom Tennant 188 692 159 .230 2 .289 OF Jim Lewis 97 303 69 .228 0 .231 SS Harry McArdle 207 690 136 .197 0 .252 C, 1B, OF Nick Williams 114 345 77 .223 0 .275 2B Kid Mohler 184 607 117 .193 1 .247 Pitching Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; PCT = Win percentage; ERA = Earned run average Player G IP W L PCT ERA Frank Browning 54 432.0 32 16 .667 2.00 Cack Henley 46 386.2 31 10 .756 1.56 Ralph Willis 34 281.2 21 9 .700 2.01 Pat Eastley 41 326.0 19 16 .543 2.13 Ed Griffin 26 200.1 12 10 .545 2.52 Joe Corbett 12 91.0 4 7 .364 2.67 References Category:1909 in sports in California Category:Pacific Coast League seasons