Oral Hildebrand

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Full Name: Oral Clyde Hildebrand	Primary Position: P
Height/Weight: 6' 3"/175	First Game: September 8, 1931
Birthdate: April 7, 1907	Final Game: July 28, 1940
Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana	MLB Experience: 10 years
Died: September 8, 1977
Deathplace: Southport, Indiana
Bat/Throw: Right/Right

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Born on April 7, 1907 in Indianapolis, Indiana, Oral Hildebrand (Oral Clyde Hildebrand) played for the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and New York Yankees over the course of his 10 year career. Hildebrand broke into the bigs on September 8, 1931 with the Cleveland Indians, and put up a 3.69 ERA in 129.1 innings pitched in 1932, his rookie year.

Most people believe that Oral Hildebrand's best season was 1933, when he posted a 3.76 ERA, won 16 games and struck out 90 batters.

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[edit] Pitching Stats

Year	Team		G	GS	W	L	ERA	K	R	ER	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	HR	BB	IB	WP	HBP
1931	CLE	A	5	2	2	1	4.39	6	16	13	2	0	0	26.2	25	0	13	0	1	3
1932	CLE	A	27	15	8	6	3.69	49	69	53	7	0	0	129.1	124	7	62	0	1	0
1933	CLE	A	36	31	16	11	3.76	90	110	92	15	6	0	220.1	205	8	88	0	5	1
1934	CLE	A	33	28	11	9	4.50	72	112	99	10	1	1	198	225	14	99	0	4	3
1935	CLE	A	34	20	9	8	3.94	49	85	75	8	0	5	171.1	171	12	63	0	1	3
1936	CLE	A	36	21	10	11	4.90	65	107	95	9	0	4	174.2	197	10	83	0	2	4
1937	STL	A	30	27	8	17	5.14	75	127	115	12	1	1	201.1	228	18	87	0	4	3
1938	STL	A	23	23	8	10	5.69	66	104	103	10	0	0	163	194	18	73	0	1	3
1939	NY	A	21	15	10	4	3.06	50	44	43	7	1	2	126.2	102	11	41	0	2	1
1940	NY	A	13	0	1	1	1.86	5	7	4	0	0	0	19.1	19	1	14	0	0	1
Total			258	182	83	78	4.35	527	781	692	80	9	13	1430.2	1490	99	623	0	21	22

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year	Team		POS	G	GS	INN	PO	A	ERR	DP	TP	PB	SB	CS	PkO	AVG
1931	CLE	A	P	5	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
1932	CLE	A	P	27	0	0	9	13	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	.957
1933	CLE	A	P	36	0	0	11	43	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	.964
1934	CLE	A	P	33	0	0	5	44	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
1935	CLE	A	P	34	0	0	6	35	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	.953
1936	CLE	A	P	36	0	0	4	26	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
1937	STL	A	P	30	0	0	5	36	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	.953
1938	STL	A	P	23	0	0	5	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.950
1939	NY	A	P	21	0	0	5	18	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.958
1940	NY	A	P	13	0	0	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.800
Total			P	258	0	0	52	236	10	11	0	0	0	0	0	.966

[edit] Batting Stats

Year	Team		G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	2B	3B	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SB	IBB	GDP
1931	CLE	A	5	11	0	2	0	0	.182	.182	.182	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
1932	CLE	A	27	48	1	7	0	3	.146	.163	.167	1	0	1	5	0	3	0	0	0
1933	CLE	A	36	84	4	16	0	10	.190	.200	.238	0	2	1	7	0	0	0	0	0
1934	CLE	A	33	76	5	13	0	8	.171	.203	.211	3	0	3	5	0	4	0	0	0
1935	CLE	A	34	55	9	9	0	4	.164	.193	.218	1	1	2	7	0	6	0	0	0
1936	CLE	A	36	63	7	12	0	8	.190	.261	.222	2	0	6	7	0	2	0	0	0
1937	STL	A	30	70	9	14	0	7	.200	.222	.243	3	0	2	2	0	9	0	0	0
1938	STL	A	24	59	3	15	0	5	.254	.279	.288	2	0	2	6	0	4	0	0	0
1939	NY	A	21	44	5	8	0	5	.182	.200	.205	1	0	1	5	0	3	0	0	2
1940	NY	A	13	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total			259	513	43	96	0	50	.187	.215	.224	13	3	18	47	0	31	0	0	2

[edit] Transactions

Traded by Indianapolis (American Association) to Cleveland Indians in exchange for Les Barnhart, Zeke Bonura and Ed Montague (November 29, 1930).
Traded by Cleveland Indians with Bill Knickerbocker and Joe Vosmik to St. Louis Browns in exchange for Ivy Andrews, Lyn Lary and Moose Solters (January 17, 1937).
Traded by St. Louis Browns with Buster Mills to New York Yankees in exchange for Joe Glenn and Myril Hoag (October 26, 1938).

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