The St. Louis Browns

Baltimore Orioles

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 season was a season in American baseball

Baseball

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. It involved the Browns finishing 8th in the American League

American League

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 with a record of 43 wins and 111 losses.

Regular season

The Browns lost a franchise record 111 games, and finished 64.5 games out of first place.

Browns pitching struggled tremendously. The pitchers allowed 739 walks, which was over 100 walks more than the next worse team. The team had an earned run average

Earned run average

In baseball statistics, earned run average is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of innings pitched and multiplying by nine...

 of 6.01. The next time that a team would have an ERA over 6.00 was the Detroit Tigers

1996 Detroit Tigers season

The Detroit Tigers had a record of 53-109 for the third worst winning percentage in team history. With a number of capable batters , the team scored a respectable 783 runs. However, the 1996 Tigers lacked pitching and allowed their opponents to score 1,103 runs...

 in . The 1996 Tigers had an ERA of 6.38.

Notable transactions

• May 13, 1939: Red Kress
  Red Kress
  Ralph "Red" Kress was a shortstop and coach in Major League Baseball. From through , he played for the St. Louis Browns , Chicago White Sox , Washington Senators , Detroit Tigers and New York Giants . Kress batted and threw right-handed...
  
  , Beau Bell
  Beau Bell
  Roy Chester Bell , born in Bellville, Texas, was an outfielder for the St. Louis Browns , Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians .He was named to the 1937 American League All-Star Team....
  
  , Bobo Newsom
  Bobo Newsom
  Louis Norman Newsom was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. Also known as "Buck", Newsom played for a number of teams from 1929 through 1953...
  
  , and Jim Walkup
  Jim Walkup (right-handed pitcher)
  James Elton Walkup , was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from - for the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns.He was born in Havana, Arkansas and died in Danville, Arkansas....
  
   were traded by the St. Louis Browns to the Detroit Tigers
  Detroit Tigers
  The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
  
   for Vern Kennedy
  Vern Kennedy
  Lloyd Vernon Kennedy was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1934 through 1945, he played for the Chicago White Sox , Detroit Tigers , St. Louis Browns , Washington Senators , Cleveland Indians , Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds...
  
  , Bob Harris
  Bob Harris (baseball)
  Robert Arthur Harris was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1938 to 1942. He was the first Wyoming-born player in Major League history....
  
  , George Gill
  George Gill
  George Lloyd Gill was a professional baseball pitcher. He played three seasons in Major League Baseball, for the Detroit Tigers from 1937–39 and for the St. Louis Browns in 1939....
  
  , Roxie Lawson
  Roxie Lawson
  Alfred Voyle "Roxie" Lawson was a Major League Baseball player.After attending Iowa Wesleyan College, Roxie Lawson played nine Major League seasons as a right-handed pitcher with the Cleveland Indians , Detroit Tigers , and St. Louis Browns...
  
  , Chet Laabs
  Chet Laabs
  Chester Peter Laabs was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Detroit Tigers , St. Louis Browns and Philadelphia Athletics...
  
  , and Mark Christman
  Mark Christman
  Marquette Joseph Christman was an American professional baseball player. He had a nine-year career in Major League Baseball, primarily as a third baseman and shortstop, for the Detroit Tigers , St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators...
  
  .

Roster

1939 St. Louis Browns
Roster
Pitchers		Catchers Infielders		Outfielders Other batters		valign="top" | Manager

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
2B		126	468	120	.256	5	58
OF		95	317	95	.300	10	62

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
	118	332	96	.289	5	50
	79	222	48	.216	0	20
	42	145	35	.241	0	15
	30	86	26	.302	1	7
	13	43	12	.279	0	8
	11	32	7	.219	1	5

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	40	211.2	9	16	5.83	68
	33	191.2	9	17	5.73	55
	6	45.2	3	1	4.73	28
	2	19	1	1	3.32	8

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	41	156.2	6	13	5.34	61
	36	150.2	3	7	5.32	43
	34	144.1	4	11	6.55	103
	28	126	3	12	5.71	48
	27	95	1	12	7.11	24
	12	47.2	2	5	7.74	14
	5	14	0	1	6.43	2
	4	10	0	1	3.60	8
	4	9.1	0	2	9.64	8

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	26	1	3	1	5.86	9
	17	1	2	0	5.49	11
	6	0	2	0	7.11	5
	1	0	1	0	0.00	0

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Springfield, Lafayette