Ben Flowers

Full Name: Bennett Flowers	Primary Position: P
Height/Weight: 6' 4"/195	First Game: September 29, 1951
Birthdate: June 15, 1927	Final Game: September 21, 1956
Birthplace: Wilson, North Carolina	MLB Experience: 4 years
Bat/Throw: Right/Right

Rate this Player

1.75

(12 votes)

1 Biography
2 Statistics
3 Transactions
4 Trivia
5 Video Gallery
6 Picture Gallery
7 See Also
8 Categories

[edit] Biography

Born on June 15, 1927 in Wilson, North Carolina, Ben Flowers (Bennett Flowers) played for the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Phillies over the course of his 4 year career. Flowers broke into the bigs on September 29, 1951 with the Boston Red Sox, and put up a 3.86 ERA in 79.1 innings pitched in 1953, his rookie year.

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Pitching Stats

Year	Team		G	GS	W	L	ERA	K	R	ER	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	HR	BB	IB	WP	HBP
1951	BOS	A	1	0	0	0	.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	0	0	0
1953	BOS	A	32	6	1	4	3.86	36	39	34	1	1	3	79.1	87	6	24	0	2	1
1955	STL	N	4	4	1	0	3.62	19	12	11	0	0	0	27.1	27	1	12	0	0	0
1955	DET	A	4	0	0	0	6.00	2	4	4	0	0	0	6	5	1	2	0	0	0
1955	Total		8	4	1	0	4.05	21	16	15	0	0	0	33.1	32	2	14	0	0	0
1956	STL	N	3	3	1	1	6.94	5	9	9	0	0	0	11.2	15	1	5	1	0	0
1956	PHI	N	32	0	0	2	5.71	22	29	26	0	0	0	41	54	9	10	1	2	1
1956	TOT	N	35	3	1	3	5.98	27	38	35	0	0	0	52.2	69	10	15	2	2	1
Total	NL		39	7	2	3	5.18	46	50	46	0	0	0	80	96	11	27	2	2	1
Total	AL		37	6	1	4	3.87	40	43	38	1	1	3	88.1	94	7	27	0	2	1
Total			76	13	3	7	4.49	86	93	84	1	1	3	168.1	190	18	54	2	4	2

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year	Team		POS	G	PO	A	ERR	DP	AVG
1951	BOS	A	P	1	0	0	0	0	.000
1953	BOS	A	P	32	4	15	1	2	.950
1955	STL	N	P	4	1	3	1	0	.800
1955	DET	A	P	4	1	2	1	1	.750
1955	Total		P	8	2	5	2	1	.778
1956	STL	N	P	3	2	2	0	0	1.000
1956	PHI	N	P	32	0	11	1	1	.917
1956	TOT	N	P	35	2	13	1	1	.938
Total			P	76	8	33	4	4	.911

[edit] Batting Stats

Year	Team		G	AB	H	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	2B	BB	SO	SH	GDP
1951	BOS	A	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0	0
1953	BOS	A	32	19	3	1	.158	.158	.263	2	0	8	1	1
1955	STL	N	4	10	1	0	.100	.100	.100	0	0	4	0	1
1955	DET	A	4	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0	0
1955	Total		8	11	1	0	.091	.091	.091	0	0	5	0	1
1956	STL	N	3	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
1956	PHI	N	32	2	0	0	.000	.333	.000	0	1	1	0	0
1956	TOT	N	35	5	0	0	.000	.167	.000	0	1	1	0	0
Total	NL		39	15	1	0	.067	.125	.067	0	1	5	0	1
Total	AL		37	21	3	1	.143	.143	.238	2	0	10	1	1
Total			76	36	4	1	.111	.135	.167	2	1	15	1	2

[edit] Transactions

Signed as an amateur free agent by Boston Red Sox (1945).
Selected by Detroit Tigers from Boston Red Sox in the Rule 5 major league draft (November 22, 1954).
Traded by Detroit Tigers to St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Bobby Tiefenauer (September 8, 1955).
Traded by St. Louis Cardinals with Harvey Haddix and Stu Miller to Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for Murry Dickson and Herm Wehmeier (May 11, 1956).
Sold by Philadelphia Phillies to Kansas City Athletics (October 15, 1956).
Returned to Philadelphia Phillies (@April 1, 1957).
Traded by Philadelphia Phillies to Brooklyn Dodgers (April 8, 1957) completing trade in which Philadelphia Phillies traded Ron Negray, Tim Harkness, Elmer Valo, Mel Geho, $75000 and a player to be named later to Brooklyn Dodgers in exchange for Chico Fernandez (April 5, 1957).

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Video Gallery

Add Videos

[edit] Picture Gallery

Add Pictures

[edit] See Also

[edit] Categories

Retrieved from "http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Ben_Flowers"

This page was last modified 18:47, 7 November 2007. Content is available under the GFDL.