During major league baseball's - 'era of the pitcher,' the Chicago White Sox took a back seat to no other team. With manager Eddie Stanky at the helm, the Sox posted the lowest American League team earned run average (2.45) in almost 50 years. Not since the 'dead ball era' Washington Senators compiled a resounding 2.14 ERA in 1918 had any AL team posted such a low team era. Led by pitching legend Walter Johnson, the Senators finished the 1918 season at 72-56, in 3rd place, four games back of first place. The Chicago White Sox ended with a solid 89-73 record in '67, in 4th place, 3 games out of first. However, the Sox batted a merger .225 as a team, and hit just 87 home runs. Left-handed hitting, third baseman Pete Ward led the club with 18 homers and led in RBIs with 62. No starter batted over .245 for the entire year - outfielders Ken Berry and Don Buford each hit .241, to tie for the lead on the Sox team in '67. Batting Stats: Chicago White Sox 1967 Pete Ward .233 BA, 18Hr, 62 RBIs in 146 Games... Tommie Agee .234, 14Hr, 52 RBIs in 158G... Ken Berry .241, 7Hr, 41 RBIs in 147G... Don Buford .241, 4Hr, 32 RBIs in 156G... Ron Hansen .233, 8Hr, 51 RBIs in 157G... Tommy McCraw .236, 11Hr, 45 RBIs in 125G... Jerry McNertney .228, 3Hr, 13 RBIs in 56G... Walt Williams .240, 3Hr, 15 RBIs in 104G Ken Boyer .261, 4Hr, 21 RBIs in 57G... Wayne Causey .226, 1Hr, 28 RBIs in 124G... JC Martin .234, 4Hr, 22 RBIs in 101G... Sandy Alomar .200, 0 RBIs in 12G... Buddy Bradford .100, 0Hr, 1 RBI in 24G... Marv Staehle .111, 0Hr, 1 RBI in 32G... Bill Voss .091, 0 RBI in 13G... Smoky Burgess .133, 2Hr, 11 RBIs in 77G... Ed Herman .667, 0Hr, 1 RBI in 2G Duane Josephson .238, 1Hr, 9 RBIs in 62G... Dick Kenworthy .227, 4Hr, 11 RBIs in 50G... Jim King .120, 0Hr, 2 RBIs in 23G... Bill Skowron .000, 0hr, 1 RBI in 8G... Rich Morales .000, 0 RBI in 8G... Cotton Nash .000, 0 RBI in 3G... Jimmy Stewart .167, 0Hr, 1 RBI in 24G... Ed Stroud .296, 0Hr, 3 RBIs in 20G... Al Weis .245, 0Hr, 4 RBIs in 50G... Rocky Colavito .221, 3Hr, 29 RBIs in 60G ============================================================= Pitching Summary: Joe Horlen 19-7, 2.06 ERA in 35 Games... Gary Peters 16-11, 2.28 ERA in 38G... Tommy John 10-13, 2.47 ERA in 31G... Wilbur Wood 4-2, 2.45 ERA in 51G... Bruce Howard 3-10, 3.43 ERA in 30G... John Buzhardt 3-9, 3.96 ERA in 28G... Jim O'Toole 4-3, 2.82 ERA in 15G... Hoyt Wilhelm 8-3, 1.31 ERA in 49G Don McMahon 5-0, 1.67 ERA in 52G... Bob Locker 7-5, 2.09 ERA in 77G... Steve Jones 2-2, 4.21 ERA in 11G... Fred Klages 4-4, 3.83 ERA in 11G... Jack Lamabe 1-0, 1.80 ERA in 3G... Cisco Carlos 2-0, 0.86 ERA in 8G... Dennis Higgins 1-2, 5.84 ERA in 9G... Aurellio Monteagudo 0-1, 20.25 ERA in 1G. baseballhistorian.com - Archives - Baseball History For more news of 1985 or whatever year you're looking for, simply type in 1985 into our 'Search' located on the lower left-side of our Home Page. For complete stats of all baseball players, please see Players section on the upper left-side of our home page For loads of fun reading, type in Yankees, Cardinals, Pirates, Red Sox, Cubs or all other teams in our Search on the lower left-side of our home page |
