1926 Brooklyn Robins season

1926 Brooklyn Robins
Spring training photo of the team
League	National League
Ballpark	Ebbets Field
City	Brooklyn, New York
Owners	Stephen McKeever, Brooklyn Trust Company
President	Wilbert Robinson
Managers	Wilbert Robinson

The 1926 Brooklyn Robins season was the 18th and final season for long–time team star Zack Wheat.

Offseason

• October 6, 1925: Zack Taylor, Jimmy Johnston and Eddie Brown were traded by the Robins to the Boston Braves for Jesse Barnes, Mickey O'Neil and Gus Felix.
• January 1926: Chick Fewster was purchased by the Robins from the Cleveland Indians.

Regular season

Season standings

National League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
St. Louis Cardinals	89	65	0.578	—	47–30	42–35
Cincinnati Reds	87	67	0.565	2	53–23	34–44
Pittsburgh Pirates	84	69	0.549	4½	49–28	35–41
Chicago Cubs	82	72	0.532	7	49–28	33–44
New York Giants	74	77	0.490	13½	43–33	31–44
Brooklyn Robins	71	82	0.464	17½	38–38	33–44
Boston Braves	66	86	0.434	22	43–34	23–52
Philadelphia Phillies	58	93	0.384	29½	33–42	25–51

Record vs. opponents

1926 National League record Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team	BOS	BR	CHC	CIN	NYG	PHI	PIT	STL
Boston	—	6–15	12–10	12–10–1	12–10	7–15	10–11	7–15
Brooklyn	15–6	—	14–8	4–18	9–13	13–9	9–13–2	7–15
Chicago	10–12	8–14	—	13–9–1	14–8	16–6	10–12	11–11
Cincinnati	10–12–1	18–4	9–13–1	—	7–15	16–6–1	13–9	14–8
New York	10–12	13–9	8–14	15–7	—	12–7	6–16	10–12
Philadelphia	15–7	9–13	6–16	6–16–1	7–12	—	8–14	7–15
Pittsburgh	11–10	13–9–2	12–10	9–13	16–6	14–8	—	9–13–2
St. Louis	15–7	15–7	11–11	8–14	12–10	15–7	13–9–2	—

Game log

Legend
	Dodgers win
	Dodgers loss
	Postponement
Bold	Dodgers team member

1926 Game Log
April (13–13) # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 1 April 13 New Yorks Giants 3–0 Petty 45,000 2 April 14 New Yorks Giants 5–9 Ring 3 April 16 New Yorks Giants 2–3 Scott 4 April 17 Phillies 3–15 Mitchell 10,000 5 April 18 Phillies 2–1 Petty 25,000 6 April 19 Phillies McGraw 2,000 7 April 22 New Yorks Giants 26,000 8 April 23 New Yorks Giants 7,000 9 April 24 New Yorks Giants 2–1 10 April 25 New Yorks Giants 8–6 20,000 11 April 27 6–5 12 April 28 5–4 13 April 28 3–1 14 April 30 8–4
May (12–16) # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 15 May 1 Phillies 16 May 2 Boston Braves 17 May 3 Boston Braves 18 May 4 Boston Braves 19 May 6

Notable transactions

• June 15, 1926: Sam Bohne was purchased by the Robins from the Cincinnati Reds.

Player stats

Batting

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
C	Mickey O'Neil	75	201	42	.209	0	20
1B	Babe Herman	137	496	158	.319	11	81
2B	Chick Fewster	105	337	82	.243	2	24
3B	William Marriott	109	360	96	.267	3	42
SS	Johnny Butler	147	501	135	.269	1	68
OF	Zack Wheat	111	411	119	.290	5	35
OF	Dick Cox	124	398	118	.296	1	45
OF	Gus Felix	134	432	121	.280	3	53

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
Merwin Jacobson	110	288	71	.247	0	23
Jack Fournier	87	243	69	.284	11	48
Rabbit Maranville	78	234	55	.235	0	24
Charlie Hargreaves	85	208	52	.250	2	23
Sam Bohne	47	125	25	.200	1	11
Hank DeBerry	48	115	33	.287	0	13
Jerry Standaert	66	113	39	.345	0	14
Max Carey	27	100	26	.260	0	7
Whitey Witt	63	85	22	.259	0	3
Moose Clabaugh	11	14	1	.071	0	1
Snooks Dowd	2	8	0	.000	0	0
Milt Stock	3	8	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

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
Jesse Petty	38	275.2	17	17	2.84	101
Burleigh Grimes	30	225.1	12	13	3.71	64
Dazzy Vance	24	169.0	9	10	3.89	140
Jesse Barnes	31	158.0	10	11	5.24	29

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
Doug McWeeny	42	216.1	11	13	3.04	96
Bob McGraw	33	174.1	9	13	4.59	49

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
Rube Ehrhardt	44	2	5	4	3.90	25
George Boehler	10	1	0	0	4.41	10
Leon Williams	8	0	0	0	5.40	3
Dutch Stryker	2	0	0	0	27.00	0
Ray Moss	1	0	0	0	9.00	0

External links

• Baseball-Reference season page
• Baseball Almanac season page

• 1926 Brooklyn Robins uniform
• Brooklyn Dodgers reference site
• Acme Dodgers page Archived September 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
• Retrosheet