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Dave Danforth
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Birthdate: 3/7/1890
Died: 9/19/1970
Height / Weight: 6' 0" / 167 lbs.
Place of Birth: Granger, TX, USA
Bats / Throws: L / L

Baseball Historian Biography

1925 Informal full-length portrait of baseball pitcher Dave Danforth, of the American League's St. Louis Browns, following through after throwing a baseball, standing on the field at Comiskey Park, which was located at 324 West 35th Street and bounded by West 34th Street, South Shield's Avenue (formerly Portland Avenue), and South Wentworth Avenue in the Armour Square community area of Chicago, Illinois. Text on a scoreboard sign in the background reads, in part: Peach. SDN-065306, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago Historical Society.


Pitching Statistics
Year Team G GS W L SV CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WP HBP BK ERA
1911 PHA (AL) 14 2 4 1 1 1 0 33.2 29 18 14 1 17 0 21 0 3 0 3.74
1912 PHA (AL) 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 20.1 26 14 9 0 12 0 8 0 0 0 3.98
1916 CHW (AL) 28 8 6 5 2 1 0 93.2 87 43 34 1 37 0 49 1 3 3 3.27
1917 CHW (AL) 50 9 11 6 9 1 1 173.0 155 56 51 1 74 0 79 2 3 1 2.65
1918 CHW (AL) 39 11 6 15 2 5 0 139.0 148 73 53 1 40 0 48 1 5 0 3.43
1919 CHW (AL) 15 1 1 2 1 0 0 41.2 58 44 36 1 20 0 17 0 1 0 7.78
1922 SLB (AL) 20 10 5 2 1 3 0 79.2 93 37 29 1 38 0 48 0 1 4 3.28
1923 SLB (AL) 38 26 16 14 1 16 0 226.1 221 111 99 4 87 0 96 2 12 3 3.94
1924 SLB (AL) 41 27 15 12 4 11 1 219.2 246 126 110 16 69 0 65 1 3 1 4.51
1925 SLB (AL) 38 15 7 9 2 5 0 159.0 172 96 77 19 61 0 53 1 3 1 4.36
10 years   286 109 71 66 23 43 2 1186.0 1235 618 512 45 455 0 484 8 34 13 3.89
Batting Statistics
Year Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS IBB HBP SH SF AVG OBP SLG
1911 PHA (AL) 14 6 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .167 .286 SLG
1912 PHA (AL) 3 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .250 SLG
1916 CHW (AL) 28 23 3 2 0 0 0 0 4 12 0 0 0 0 2 0 .87 .222 SLG
1917 CHW (AL) 50 46 3 6 2 1 0 5 6 19 1 0 0 0 5 0 .130 .231 SLG
1918 CHW (AL) 39 42 3 6 0 0 0 0 2 11 0 0 0 1 2 0 .143 .200 SLG
1919 CHW (AL) 15 9 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 .111 .273 SLG
1922 SLB (AL) 20 23 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 .87 .125 SLG
1923 SLB (AL) 38 71 5 15 5 1 0 11 9 7 0 0 0 1 8 0 .211 .309 SLG
1924 SLB (AL) 41 76 3 13 3 2 0 9 4 15 1 0 0 0 6 0 .171 .213 SLG
1925 SLB (AL) 38 46 3 8 0 0 0 2 4 8 0 0 0 1 5 0 .174 .255 SLG
10 years   286 350 23 56 11 4 0 27 33 80 2 0 0 3 30 0 .160 .238 .SLG



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