Andy Seminick Andrew Wasil Seminick Bats Right Throws Right Height 5'11 Weight 187 Born September 12, 1920 Pierce, WV Died February 22, 2004 Melbourne, FL (Cancer)

Batting  

 Year Ag Tm     G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS    BA  lgBA   SLG lgSLG   TB 
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1946 25 HAR  113  420  103  12   4   9   37   42   28  105   3   0   3   0  .245  .268  .357  .395  150  
 1947 26 HAR  153  540  114  17   1  13   59   48   49  164   6   1   2   1  .211  .281  .319  .422  172  
 1948 27 HAR   77  225   39   3   1   9   20   31   31   33   0   0   4   2  .173  .273  .316  .404   71  
 1949 28 HAR  114  221   49   8   3  15   40   37   34   53   2   0   0   0  .222  .274  .489  .406  108  
 1950 29 STL  136  414  108  17   0  30   87   77   73   89   9  10   0   0  .261  .272  .519  .406  215  

 1952 31 STL   81  205   54  10   0   7   31   34   27   32   2   3   1   1  .263  .262  .415  .392   85  
 1953 32 STL  153  533  114  10   0  14   59   50   46  132   6   8   0   0  .214  .281  .311  .427  166  
 1954 33 STL  100  307   50  10   2   2   30   28   36   67   2   0   0   0  .163  .262  .228  .390   70  
 1955 34 STL  154  556  125  10   3  20   62   65   26  148  10   2   0   1  .225  .264  .362  .442  201  
 1956 35 STL    5    5    2   0   0   2    2    2    0    1   0   0   0   0  .400  .263 1.600  .413    8  
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 10 Seasons  1086 3426  758  97  14 121  427  414  350  824  40  24  10   5  .221  .272  .364  .413 1246                                                                                             
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 4 Yrs.  HAR  457 1406  305  40   9  46  156  158  142  355  11   1   9   3  .217  .275  .356  .408  501    
 6 Yrs.  STL  629 2020  453  57   5  75  271  256  208  469  29  23   1   2  .224  .269  .369  .416  745 
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 154 Gm  Avg  154  486  107  14   2  17   61   59   50  117   6   3   1   1  .221  ----  .364  ----  177 
 Career High  153  540  114  17   4  30   87   77   73  164   9  10   4   2  .261  ----  .519  ----  215                                                                                              
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 Year Ag Tm     G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS    BA  lgBA   SLG lgSLG   TB 

Postseason Batting

 Year Tm  Opp WLser  G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS    BA   SLG   TB 
+------------------+--+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+----+
 1950 STL HAR   L    5   17    2   0   0   0    2    0    3    3   0   1   0   0  .118  .118    4
+------------------+--+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+----+
               0-1   5   17    2   0   0   0    2    0    3    3   0   1   0   0  .118  .118    4
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WLser shows whether the player's team Won or Lost the series.

Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards  

Stats are Year-Value-Rank

Home Runs 1950-30-6

Transactions January 1, 1943: Drafted 2nd round (11th overall) by Harlem. January 1, 1950: Traded with Dave Koslo and Cass Michaels by Harlem to St Louis for their first round pick in 1951 draft.

Biography When the Phillies won the 1950 National League pennant, their first title in 35 years, they did it with a largely youthful team, as their nickname suggested. But Seminick, their No. 1 catcher, was in his eighth season, a hard-nosed player guiding a pitching staff that featured the future Hall of Famer Robin Roberts, the outstanding left-hander Curt Simmons and the ace reliever Jim Konstanty. "I took charge and moved our fielders around, and the pitchers listened to me," Seminick told Danny Peary in "We Played the Game." "If you had to pick a guy in the clubhouse who was our leader that year, it was Andy," Roberts told The Philadelphia Inquirer after Seminick's death. In 1950, Seminick hit .288 with 24 homers and 68 runs batted in a lineup that included infielders Eddie Waitkus, Mike Goliat, Granny Hamner and Willie Jones, and outfielders Del Ennis, the Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn and Dick Sisler. The manager was Eddie Sawyer. A native of Pierce, W.Va., Seminick grew up in Muse, Pa., the youngest of seven children, and spent three years as a coal miner before signing with the Phillies' system in 1940. Seminick played for the Phillies from 1943 to 1951, then was traded to the Cincinnati Reds, but returned to Philadelphia during the 1955 season. He retired after the 1957 season with a career batting average of .243 and with 164 home runs, but remained a member of the Phillies' organization, as a coach, a minor league manager and a scout. He was active until last year, tutoring the Phillies' minor league catchers during spring and fall instructional sessions. While working with young catchers during the spring of 2002 at the Phillies' complex in Clearwater, Fla., Seminick — the former coal miner who was sometimes a meatcutter and bulldozer operator in the off-season — reflected on the current generation of young ballplayers. "They think they've got it made already," he told The St. Petersburg Times. "They got to realize that nothing comes easy, especially in baseball." In addition to Andy Jr., of Melbourne, Seminick is survived by two sisters, Helen Moscheck, of Detroit, and Mary Torsky, of Cedarville, Mich., and a granddaughter. His wife, Augusta, died in 1991. Seminick displayed his toughness late in the 1950 season. In a game against the visiting New York Giants on Aug. 12, he was angered by an arm-waving display from second baseman Eddie Stanky that was aimed at distracting him while he was at bat. While running the basepaths, Seminick knocked Giants third baseman Hank Thompson unconscious with a jolt. Later in the game, after Stanky was ejected, Seminick barreled into Bill Rigney, his replacement, in a play at second base, touching off a brawl. In the season's final week, the Giants' Monte Irvin slid into Seminick with a game-winning run, severely injuring Seminick's left ankle. But he remained in the lineup during the pennant-clinching series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Seminick was lifted for a pinch-runner on the final Sunday at Ebbets Field, so it was his replacement, Stan Lopata, who put the tag on the Dodgers' Cal Abrams when he was thrown out at the plate by Ashburn in the ninth inning on a long-remembered play. Sisler hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning, giving the Phillies a pennant-winning 4-1 victory. Despite his injury, Seminick, aided by numerous novocaine shots, played in all four games of the World Series, in which the Yankees swept the Phillies. When the series was over, an examination showed that he had a separated bone in his ankle. Afterward, the stoic Seminick told The Associated Press, "I thought it was just a sprain." Source: New York Times