Johnny Marcum

Full Name: John Alfred Marcum	Primary Position: P
Height/Weight: 5' 11"/197	First Game: September 7, 1933
Birthdate: September 9, 1909	Final Game: September 30, 1939
Birthplace: Campbellsburg, Kentucky	MLB Experience: 7 years
Died: September 10, 1984
Deathplace: Louisville, Kentucky
Bat/Throw: Left/Right

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Born on September 9, 1909 in Campbellsburg, Kentucky, Johnny Marcum (John Alfred Marcum) played for the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox over the course of his 7 year career. Marcum broke into the bigs on September 7, 1933 with the Philadelphia Athletics, and put up a 4.50 ERA in 232 innings pitched in 1934, his rookie year.

Most people believe that Johnny Marcum's best season was 1935, when he posted a 4.08 ERA, won 17 games and struck out 99 batters.

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Year	Team		G	GS	W	L	ERA	K	R	ER	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	HR	BB	WP	HBP
1933	PHI	A	5	5	3	2	1.95	14	12	8	4	2	0	37	28	0	20	1	0
1934	PHI	A	37	31	14	11	4.50	92	131	116	17	2	0	232	257	13	88	1	4
1935	PHI	A	39	27	17	12	4.08	99	125	110	19	2	3	242.2	256	9	83	2	2
1936	BOS	A	31	23	8	13	4.81	57	100	93	9	1	1	174	194	14	52	3	0
1937	BOS	A	37	23	13	11	4.85	59	104	99	9	1	3	183.2	230	17	47	2	2
1938	BOS	A	15	11	5	6	4.09	25	49	42	7	0	0	92.1	113	11	25	1	0
1939	STL	A	12	6	2	5	7.74	14	43	41	2	0	0	47.2	66	12	10	0	1
1939	CHI	A	19	6	3	3	6.00	32	66	60	2	0	0	90	125	15	19	2	0
1939	TOT	A	31	12	5	8	6.60	46	109	101	4	0	0	137.2	191	27	29	2	1
Total			195	132	65	63	4.66	392	630	569	69	8	7	1099.1	1269	91	344	12	9

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year	Team		POS	G	PO	A	ERR	DP	AVG
1933	PHI	A	P	5	5	8	0	0	1.000
1934	PHI	A	P	37	14	42	3	2	.949
1935	PHI	A	P	39	11	32	5	1	.896
1936	BOS	A	P	31	7	31	2	3	.950
1937	BOS	A	P	37	13	38	1	1	.981
1938	BOS	A	P	15	3	15	0	0	1.000
1939	STL	A	P	12	4	5	0	1	1.000
1939	CHI	A	P	19	4	12	1	1	.941
1939	TOT	A	P	31	8	17	1	2	.962
Total			P	195	61	183	12	9	.953

[edit] Batting Stats

Year	Team		G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	2B	3B	BB	SO	SH	GDP
1933	PHI	A	5	12	2	2	0	0	.167	.286	.167	0	0	2	1	0	0
1934	PHI	A	58	112	10	30	1	13	.268	.287	.330	4	0	3	5	2	0
1935	PHI	A	64	119	13	37	2	17	.311	.359	.395	2	1	9	5	4	0
1936	BOS	A	48	88	6	18	2	7	.205	.231	.307	3	0	3	5	3	0
1937	BOS	A	51	86	12	23	0	13	.267	.323	.360	8	0	7	4	2	0
1938	BOS	A	19	37	3	5	0	3	.135	.256	.135	0	0	6	9	0	0
1939	STL	A	16	22	3	10	0	5	.455	.478	.500	1	0	1	2	0	1
1939	CHI	A	38	57	7	16	0	12	.281	.339	.281	0	0	5	1	0	0
1939	TOT	A	54	79	10	26	0	17	.329	.376	.342	1	0	6	3	0	1
Total			299	533	56	141	5	70	.265	.311	.330	18	1	36	32	11	1

[edit] Transactions

Traded by Philadelphia Athletics with Jimmie Foxx to Boston Red Sox in exchange for Gordon Rhodes, George Savino and $150000 (December 10, 1935).
Traded by Boston Red Sox with $20000 to Buffalo (International) in exchange for Bill Harris (August 2, 1938).
Traded by Boston Red Sox to St. Louis Browns in exchange for Tom Carey (December 6, 1938).
Traded by St. Louis Browns to Chicago White Sox in exchange for John Whitehead (June 2, 1939).
Sold by Chicago White Sox to St. Louis Browns (December 15, 1939).

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