Tex Carleton
James Otto Carleton

Bats Both
Throws Right
Height 6'1.5
Weight 180

Born August 19, 1906
Comanche, TX
Died January 11, 1977
Fort Worth, TX

Pitching  

 Year Ag Tm    W   L  PCT.  SV   G  GS  CG SHO    IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO  HR  ERA  lgERA ERA+
+-----------+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+----+----+----+---+-----+-----+----+
 1932 25 MON  14   7  .667   0  31  31   3   1  206.0  154   65   61   99   77      2.67  3.20  120  
 1933 26 MON  11  13  .458   0  31  31   3   3  194.2  201  111   88   75  116  16  4.07  4.15  102  
 1934 27 MON  14   9  .609   0  31  31  12   0  249.1  261  112   95   52  106  16  3.43  4.54  132  
 1935 28 MON   2   8  .200   0  32  17   1   0  134.0  167   88   75   43   70  18  5.04  4.16   83  
 1936 29 MON  13   8  .619   0  29  29   5   0  180.1  210   98   79   66   70  11  3.94  4.32  110  

 1937 30 MON   6  11  .353   0  27  27   2   1  157.0  165  105   99   83   87  28  5.68  4.28   75  
 1940 33 MON  14   7  .667   0  29  29   2   0  183.2  237  111  105   62  131  26  5.15  4.26   83  
+-----------+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+----+----+----+---+-----+-----+----+
  7 Seasons   74  63  .540   0 210 195  28   5 1305.0 1395  690  602  480  657 115  4.15  4.12   99
+-----------+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+----+----+----+---+-----+-----+----+
 154 Gm  Avg  12  10  .540   0  34  31   4   1  209.1  224  111   97   77  105  22  4.15 
 Career High  14  13  .667   0  32  31  12   3  249.1  261  112  105   99  131  28  2.67            
+-----------+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+----+----+----+---+-----+-----+----+
 Year Ag Tm    W   L  PCT.  SV   G  GS  CG SHO    IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO  HR  ERA  lgERA ERA+

Postseason Pitching

 Year Tm  OPP WLser   W   L  PCT.  SV   G  GS  CG SHO    IP    H    R   ER   BB   SO  HR   ERA  
+------------------+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+-----+----+----+----+----+----+---+-----+
 1932 MON FRE   L     1   0 1.000   0   2   2   0   0  18.1    9    0    0    6   18   0  0.00
 1940 MON BRK   W     0   0  .000   0   2   0   0   0   3.1    3    0    0    4    1   0  0.00
+------------------+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+-----+----+----+----+----+----+---+-----+
               1-1    1   0 1.000   0   4   2   0   0  21.2   12    0    0   10   19   0  0.00
+------------------+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+-----+----+----+----+----+----+---+-----+

WLser shows whether the player's team Won or Lost the series.

Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards  

Stats are Year-Value-Rank

Wins
1934-14-8
1940-14-8

ERA
1932-2.67-10
1934-3.43-7

Strikeouts
1933-116-8
1934-106-10
1940-131-5

Complete Games
1934-12-6

Innings Pitched
1934-249.1-2

Walks
1932-99-6
1933-75-6
1937-83-8



Transactions

January 1, 1932: Drafted 1st round (7th overall) by Montgomery.
March 3, 1940: Signed as a Free Agent by Montgomery.


Biography

Carleton, a right-hander, won 100 games and lost 76 in the major leagues. He also pitched for the Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers.

In 1940, after a year in the minors with Milwaukee of the American Association, he returned to the Dodgers and pitched a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds. He finished that season, the last in a major league career that began in 1932, with a 6-6 won-lost record. He had his best success with the Cardinals and Cubs.

Carleton was born in Comanche, Tex., and moved to Fort Worth, where he attended Texas Christian University. He signed with the Cardinal organization in 1925 and played with the major league club from 1932 through 1934, when he helped it win the National League pennant.

Although he started one game and appeared in one other of the 1934 World Series against the Detroit Tigers, he was not credited with a victory. The Cardinals won the Series, four games to three.

Carleton was a Cardinal teammate of Dizzy Dean and his brother, Paul, in 1934. He looked enough like the Deans to have been considered their brother. Some Detroit fans mistook him for the colorful Dizzy during the Series.

In 1935 the Cardinal pitching trio was broken up, as Carleton was traded to Chicago. The Cubs won the National League pennant that year, with Carleton posting an 11-8 record. But they lost the Series to Detroit, and again Carleton was unable to win a game.

He and Dizzy Dean were each fined $25 by Ford Frick, then the National League president, for a fight in 1936. Carleton, in the Cubs dugout, was heckling Dean, who suddenly stopped pitching and rushed at him. They met at the baseline and scuffled briefly before being separated.

Carleton's best year in terms of percentage was 1937, when he was 16-8 with the Cubs. He later developed arm trouble, which became chronic, and was released. He spent 1939 with Milwaukee, leading the American Association with 147 strikeouts while posting an 11-9 record. The Dodgers purchased him and, at 33, he turned in the no-hitter in Cincinnati.

Among his other memorable games was a 16-inning scoreless duel with Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants while Carleton was a Cardinal. He was removed for a pinch-hitter after the 16th and Hubbell won the game with an 18-inning shutout.



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