1909 San Francisco Seals season

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[1]

1909 San Francisco Seals
1909 San Francisco Seals
Minor league affiliations
Location
Results
Record132–80
League place1st
Other information
Manager(s)Dan Long
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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.[2] 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.[1]

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).[3][1] Browning later played for the Detroit Tigers and performed as part of a vaudeville quartet.

Clarence "Cack" Henley finished second with a 31–10 record and a 1.56 ERA.[3][1] 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.[4][5]

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.[1] Melchior continued to play on the West Coast until 1915 but never played in the major leagues.[6]

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.[3] Miller later played five years in the major leagues.[7]

Third baseman Rollie Zeider compiled a .289 batting average and led the PCL with 93 stolen bases and 141 runs scored.[1] Zeider later played nine seasons in the major leagues.[8]

Left fielder Ping Bodie, a San Francisco native, led the team with 10 home runs.[3] He hit 30 home runs for the Seals in 1910 and later played nine seasons in the majors.[9]

1909 PCL standings
TeamWLPct.GB
San Francisco Seals13280.622--
Portland Beavers11287.56313.5
Los Angeles Angels11897.54915.5
Sacramento Sacts97107.47531.0
Oakland Oaks88125.41344.5
Vernon Tigers80131.37951.0

[1]

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
OFHenry Melchior195692206.2985386
3B, 2B, OFRollie Zeider189705204.2892374
OF, PPing Bodie157543135.24910.401
3BHoward Mundorff10232085.2660.328
CClaude Berry166577141.2441.289
1BTom Tennant188692159.2302.289
OFJim Lewis9730369.2280.231
SSHarry McArdle207690136.1970.252
C, 1B, OFNick Williams11434577.2230.275
2BKid Mohler184607117.1931.247

[3][1]

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 Browning54432.03216.6672.00
Clarence "Cack" Henley46386.23110.7561.56
Ralph Willis34281.2219.7002.01
Pat Eastley41326.01916.5432.13
Ed Griffin26200.11210.5452.52
Joe Corbett1291.047.3642.67

[3][1]

References
  1. Bill Weiss; Marshall Wright. "Top 100 Teams: 71. 1909 San Francisco Seals". Minor League Baseball. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  2. "PCL top 10". Los Angeles Times. March 30, 2003. p. D9 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "1909 San Francisco Seals Stats". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  4. P.J. Dragseth (2013). The 1957 San Francisco Seals: End of an Era in the Pacific Coast League. McFarland. pp. 13–14. ISBN 078646545X.
  5. Herman F. Budde (June 9, 1909). Fans Set Baseball Mad Seeing Wiggs and Henley Pitch 24-Inning Game: Seals Triumph in Record-Breaking Battle. Oakland Tribune. p. 11.
  6. "Henry Melchoir". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  7. "Doc Miller". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  8. "Rollie Zeider". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  9. "Ping Bodie". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
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