1923 San Francisco Seals season

American baseball team season

Pacific Coast League team season

1923 San Francisco Seals

League| Pacific Coast League
Ballpark| Recreation Park
City| San Francisco
Record| 124–77 (.617)
League place| 1st
Managers| Dots Miller, Babe Ellison

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The 1923 San Francisco Seals season was the 21st season in the history of the San Francisco Seals baseball team. The 1923 team won the Pacific Coast League (PCL) pennant with a 124–77 record.

Dots Miller began the season as the team's manager. However, he developed tuberculosis and resigned his position in July to seek treatment at a sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York.[1] He died there in September 1923.[2]

When Miller resigned as manager, first baseman Babe Ellison became a player-manager. He compiled a .358 batting average and led the team with 23 home runs, 67 doubles, and a .564 slugging percentage.[3][4]

Right fielder Paul Waner, playing his first season of professional baseball at age 20, led the 1923 Seals with a .369 batting average.[3][4] Waner later played 15 years for the Pittsburgh Pirates and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1952.

Pitcher Harry Courtney led the PCL with a .766 winning percentage (19 wins, six losses) and ranked second in the league with a 2.80 earned run average (ERA).[5] In addition, three other San Francisco pitchers (Red Shea, Bob Geary, and Doug McWeeny) won at least 20 games each.[6][3]

## Players

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### Batting

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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  | RBI

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OF | Paul Waner | 112 | 325 | 120 | .369 | 3 | .514
1B | Babe Ellison | 192 | 757 | 271 | .358 | 23 | .564
LF | Joe Kelly | 107 | 443 | 154 | .348 | 5 | .481
OF | Tim Hendryx | 133 | 475 | 161 | .339 | 6 | .463
RF | Gene Valla | 194 | 829 | 277 | .334 | 1 | .429
3B | Eddie Mulligan | 155 | 620 | 204 | .329 | 9 | .434
2B | Pete Kilduff | 161 | 622 | 204 | .328 | 10 | .477
OF | Pete Compton | 134 | 527 | 171 | .324 | 7 | .454
C | Sam Agnew | 110 | 369 | 115 | .312 | 13 | .491
SS | Hal Rhyne | 168 | 611 | 181 | .296 | 5 | .376
C | Archie Yelle | 106 | 356 | 100 | .281 | 2 | .365

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### Pitching

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

Player  | G  | IP  | W  | L  | PCT  | ERA

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Red Shea | 44 | 291 | 21 | 10 | .677 | 3.62
Bob Geary | 42 | 262 | 21 | 11 | .656 | 3.64
Doug McWeeny | 48 | 253 | 20 | 12 | .625 | 3.91
Harry Courtney | 36 | 251 | 19 | 6 | .760 | 2.80
Shovel Hodge | 49 | 256 | 18 | 15 | .545 | 3.48
Jim Scott | 28 | 173 | 11 | 9 | .550 | 4.06
Ollie Mitchell | 41 | 204 | 10 | 9 | .526 | 3.40

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## References

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1. ^ "White Plague Drives Jack Miller To Sanitarium". The Sacramento Bee. July 24, 1923. p. 15 - via Newspapers.com.
2. ^ "Jack (Dots) Miller, Former Manager of Seals, Passes Away at Saranac Lake, N.Y." Oakland Tribune. September 6, 1923. p. 18 - via Newspapers.com.
3. ^ a b c d e "1923 San Francisco Seals". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
4. ^ a b c "Pacific Coast League Batting Averages". The San Francisco Examiner. October 16, 1923. p. 30 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "Harry Courtney, Lanky Seal Southpaw, Tops Pacific Coast Pitcher". Salt Lake Telegram. December 8, 1923. p. 4 - via Newspapers.com.
6. ^ "Pacific Coast Baseball League 1923 Pitching Record". Salt Lake Telegram. December 8, 1923. p. 4 - via Newspapers.com.

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