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Don Mueller

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Full Name: Donald Frederick Mueller Primary Position: OF,RF
Height/Weight: 6' 0"/185 First Game: August 2, 1948
Birthdate: April 14, 1927 Final Game: May 2, 1959
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri MLB Experience: 11 years
Bat/Throw: Left/Right
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Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Statistics
    • 2.1 Batting Stats
    • 2.2 Fielding Stats
  • 3 Transactions
  • 4 Trivia
  • 5 Video Gallery
  • 6 Picture Gallery
  • 7 See Also
  • 8 Categories

[edit] Biography

Don Mueller (Donald Frederick Mueller) was born on April 14, 1927 in St. Louis, Missouri. He made his Major League debut on August 2, 1948 for the New York Giants. In 1950, his rookie year, he hit .291 with 7 home runs and 84 RBI. Mueller played for the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox over the course of his 11 year career.

Most people believe that Don Mueller's best season was 1954, when he hit for a .342 average and knocked in 71 runs.

Mueller batted over .300 for three consecutive seasons (1953-55) and led the National League in hits (212) in 1954. Mueller, who batted lefthanded and threw righthanded, never hit more than 16 home runs in a season, but was called "Mandrake the Magician" in tribute to his hitting skills. His lifetime batting average was .296.

Mueller played a central, but painful, role in the famous October 3, 1951 playoff game that won the NL pennant for the Giants. With New York trailing the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4–1, in the ninth inning, Mueller singled Alvin Dark to third base. With one out, Whitey Lockman doubled to score Dark, but Mueller broke his ankle sliding into third. He was carried from the field, and missed both Bobby Thomson's game-winning home run that followed Lockman's hit and the 1951 World Series. But in 1954 - when he finished second to teammate Willie Mays in the NL batting race – Mueller batted .389 in the 1954 Fall Classic to help lead the Giants to a four-game sweep of the Cleveland Indians.

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[edit] Batting Stats

Year Team G AB R H HR RBI AVG OBP SLG 2B 3B BB SO HBP SH SB IBB GDP
1948 NY N 36 81 12 29 1 9 .358 .358 .469 4 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 3
1949 NY N 51 56 5 13 0 1 .232 .295 .304 4 0 5 6 0 0 0 0 7
1950 NY N 132 525 60 153 7 84 .291 .309 .383 15 6 10 26 3 1 1 0 9
1951 NY N 122 469 58 130 16 69 .277 .307 .431 10 7 19 13 1 4 1 0 4
1952 NY N 126 456 61 128 12 49 .281 .333 .421 14 7 34 24 2 4 2 0 8
1953 NY N 131 480 56 160 6 60 .333 .360 .404 12 2 19 13 1 2 2 0 7
1954 NY N 153 619 90 212 4 71 .342 .363 .444 35 8 22 17 2 7 2 4 19
1955 NY N 147 605 67 185 8 83 .306 .326 .393 21 4 19 12 3 5 1 4 13
1956 NY N 138 453 38 122 5 41 .269 .290 .333 12 1 15 7 0 2 0 2 18
1957 NY N 135 450 45 116 6 37 .258 .280 .318 7 1 13 16 1 1 2 3 7
1958 CHI A 70 166 7 42 0 16 .253 .298 .283 5 0 11 9 0 2 0 3 2
1959 CHI A 4 4 0 2 0 0 .500 .500 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total NL 1171 4194 492 1248 65 504 .298 .323 .394 134 37 156 137 13 27 11 13 95
Total AL 74 170 7 44 0 16 .259 .302 .288 5 0 11 9 0 2 0 3 2
Total 1245 4364 499 1292 65 520 .296 .322 .390 139 37 167 146 13 29 11 16 97

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year Team POS G GS INN PO A ERR DP TP PB SB CS PkO AVG
1948 NY N OF 22 0 0 33 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .973
1949 NY N OF 6 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1950 NY N OF 125 0 0 205 7 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 .986
1951 NY N OF 115 0 0 233 5 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 .983
1952 NY N OF 120 0 0 221 8 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 .987
1953 NY N OF 122 0 0 203 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 .972
1954 NY N OF 153 152 1364 263 14 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 .979
1954 NY N RF 153 152 1364 260 14 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 .979
1955 NY N OF 146 0 0 239 5 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 .976
1956 NY N OF 117 0 0 180 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 .989
1957 NY N OF 115 100 917.1 174 13 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 .989
1957 NY N RF 115 100 917.1 165 10 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 .989
1958 CHI A OF 43 37 325 57 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .968
1958 CHI A RF 43 37 325 57 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .968
Total OF 1084 289 2606.1 1816 69 35 20 0 0 0 0 0 .982
Total RF 311 289 2606.1 482 27 10 9 0 0 0 0 0 .981

[edit] Transactions

  • Signed as an amateur free agent by New York Giants (1944).
  • Sold by San Francisco Giants to Chicago White Sox (March 21, 1958).
  • Released by Chicago White Sox (May 15, 1959).

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