League Batting Leaders

League Batting Leaders -- National League
Regular season -- as of 5/31/1961

Batting average			Homeruns			RBI

Cunningham	StL	.376	Davis,T	LAD	11	Robinson,Fr	Cin	33
Wills,M	LAD	.362	Coleman,G	Cin	10	Davis,T	LAD	33
Clemente	Pit	.361	McCovey	SF	9	Musial	StL	31
Moon	LAD	.355	Roseboro	LAD	9	Moon	LAD	30
Mathews,E	Mil	.342	Freese,Ge	Cin	9	Alou,F	SF	29
Cepeda	SF	.341	Altman	ChC	8	Mays	SF	29
Mays	SF	.327	Thomas,F	Mil	8	Freese,Ge	Cin	28
Groat	Pit	.326	Robinson,Fr	Cin	8	Boyer,K	StL	28
Alou,F	SF	.321	Cepeda	SF	8	Pagan	SF	26
Robinson,Fr	Cin	.317	Mays	SF	8	Cepeda	SF	26
Skinner	Pit	.313	6 tied with		7	Mathews,E	Mil	25
Freese,Ge	Cin	.308				Pinson	Cin	25


On-Base Percentage			Slugging Percentage			On-base plus slugging

Cunningham	StL	.497	Moon	LAD	.616	Moon	LAD	1.074
Moon	LAD	.458	Cepeda	SF	.594	Cunningham	StL	1.065
Mathews,E	Mil	.440	Mathews,E	Mil	.570	Mathews,E	Mil	1.010
Wills,M	LAD	.431	Cunningham	StL	.567	Cepeda	SF	.971
Santo	ChC	.425	Stuart	Pit	.565	Roseboro	LAD	.937
Clemente	Pit	.406	Robinson,Fr	Cin	.561	Santo	ChC	.935
Bailey,E	SF	.397	Freese,Ge	Cin	.553	Mays	SF	.927
Roseboro	LAD	.386	Roseboro	LAD	.551	Wills,M	LAD	.920
Skinner	Pit	.385	Mays	SF	.550	Clemente	Pit	.915
Hiller,C	SF	.383	Thomas,F	Mil	.531	Robinson,Fr	Cin	.915
Mays	SF	.378	Pinson	Cin	.515	Stuart	Pit	.912
Cepeda	SF	.377	Santo	ChC	.510	Freese,Ge	Cin	.910


Total Bases			Runs Created			Runs Created/27 outs

Cepeda	SF	101	Cunningham	StL	44.4	Cunningham	StL	13.3
Mays	SF	94	Moon	LAD	42.4	Moon	LAD	12.6
Robinson,Fr	Cin	92	Wills,M	LAD	41.5	Mathews,E	Mil	10.4
Davis,T	LAD	92	Mathews,E	Mil	39.0	Wills,M	LAD	9.4
Freese,Ge	Cin	88	Mays	SF	35.6	Roseboro	LAD	8.4
Pinson	Cin	86	Cepeda	SF	34.2	Santo	ChC	8.0
Moon	LAD	85	Santo	ChC	32.5	Clemente	Pit	7.9
Mathews,E	Mil	85	Davenport	SF	32.2	Mays	SF	7.9
Wills,M	LAD	85	Clemente	Pit	32.1	Cepeda	SF	7.4
Cunningham	StL	80	Robinson,Fr	Cin	30.7	Skinner	Pit	7.1
Boyer,K	StL	80	Roseboro	LAD	29.3	Bailey,E	SF	7.0
Clemente	Pit	79	Freese,Ge	Cin	28.4	Robinson,Fr	Cin	6.9


Hits			Doubles			Triples

Wills,M	LAD	63	Mays	SF	14	Pinson	Cin	6
Cepeda	SF	58	Aaron	Mil	12	Robinson,Fr	Cin	5
Groat	Pit	57	Freese,Ge	Cin	12	Moon	LAD	4
Clemente	Pit	56	Cepeda	SF	11	Clemente	Pit	4
Mays	SF	56	Moon	LAD	10	Cepeda	SF	4
Davis,T	LAD	55	Cardenas	Cin	9	Altman	ChC	3
Cunningham	StL	53	Hiller,C	SF	9	Davenport	SF	3
Alou,F	SF	52	Hoak	Pit	9	Smith,HR	StL	3
Robinson,Fr	Cin	52	Clemente	Pit	9	Williams,B	ChC	3
Mathews,E	Mil	51	5 tied with		8	Mathews,E	Mil	3
Moon	LAD	49				Boyer,K	StL	3
Freese,Ge	Cin	49				Wills,M	LAD	3


Runs			Walks			Intentional Walks

Cunningham	StL	39	Santo	ChC	31	Burgess	Pit	7
Mays	SF	35	Cunningham	StL	29	Freese,Ge	Cin	5
Wills,M	LAD	35	Mathews,E	Mil	26	Roseboro	LAD	4
Cepeda	SF	33	Moon	LAD	25	Mazeroski	Pit	4
Moon	LAD	32	Roseboro	LAD	24	Clemente	Pit	4
Alou,F	SF	31	Wills,M	LAD	22	Neal	LAD	3
Davis,T	LAD	31	Spencer,D	LAD	21	Bertell	ChC	3
Mathews,E	Mil	30	Bouchee	ChC	19	Musial	StL	3
Pinson	Cin	28	Hoak	Pit	19	Smith,HR	StL	3
Virdon	Pit	27	Gilliam	LAD	18	White,B	StL	3
Clemente	Pit	27	Virdon	Pit	18	6 tied with		2
2 tied with		26	3 tied with		17


Hit By Pitch			Strikeouts			Stolen bases

Cunningham	StL	6	Herrera	Phi	32	Wills,M	LAD	26-7
Bailey,E	SF	4	Adcock	Mil	32	Davis,W	LAD	7-2
Sadowski,B	Phi	3	Boyer,K	StL	31	Alou,F	SF	6-0
Davis,W	LAD	3	Cepeda	SF	31	Robinson,Fr	Cin	5-0
11 tied with		2	Stuart	Pit	28	Mays	SF	5-1
			Thomas,F	Mil	28	Davis,T	LAD	5-3
			Callison	Phi	27	Clemente	Pit	4-0
			Mays	SF	26	Javier	StL	4-0
			Post	Cin	25	Zimmer	ChC	4-0
			Mathews,E	Mil	25	Taylor,T	Phi	4-2
			3 tied with		24	5 tied with		3



Games			Plate Appearances			At Bats

Davis,T	LAD	46	Davis,T	LAD	198	Davis,T	LAD	184
Wills,M	LAD	44	Wills,M	LAD	197	Groat	Pit	175
Alou,F	SF	42	Mays	SF	188	Wills,M	LAD	174
Cepeda	SF	42	Boyer,K	StL	183	Mays	SF	171
Freese,Ge	Cin	42	Cepeda	SF	183	Cepeda	SF	170
Mays	SF	42	Groat	Pit	182	Pinson	Cin	167
Pinson	Cin	42	Banks	ChC	180	Banks	ChC	165
Robinson,Fr	Cin	42	Bolling	Mil	179	Boyer,K	StL	165
5 tied with		41	Pinson	Cin	179	Robinson,Fr	Cin	164
			Santo	ChC	179	Alou,F	SF	162
			Cunningham	StL	178	Bolling	Mil	160
			3 tied with		175	2 tied with		159


Sacrifice Bunts			Sacrifice Flies			Extra-Base Hits

Bolling	Mil	10	Clemente	Pit	5	Cepeda	SF	23
Friend	Pit	7	Mazeroski	Pit	4	Mays	SF	22
Zimmer	ChC	7	Smith,B	Phi	3	Freese,Ge	Cin	21
Craig	LAD	6	Smith,HR	StL	3	Moon	LAD	20
Sanford	SF	5	Hoak	Pit	3	Aaron	Mil	19
Green,D	Phi	4	Davis,T	LAD	3	Robinson,Fr	Cin	19
Mahaffey	Phi	4	14 tied with		2	Pinson	Cin	18
Blasingame,D	Cin	4				Thomas,F	Mil	17
McMillan	Mil	4				Mathews,E	Mil	17
9 tied with		3				6 tied with		16




Ground ball DP			Strikeout rate			Walk rate

Spencer,D	LAD	13	Stuart	Pit	.220	Santo	ChC	.173
Larker	LAD	10	Herrera	Phi	.218	Cunningham	StL	.163
Hoak	Pit	10	Adcock	Mil	.211	Roseboro	LAD	.157
Zimmer	ChC	9	Thomas,F	Mil	.201	Moon	LAD	.151
Freese,Ge	Cin	8	Boyer,K	StL	.169	Mathews,E	Mil	.149
Bolling	Mil	8	Cepeda	SF	.169	Hoak	Pit	.121
Cepeda	SF	8	Williams,B	ChC	.163	Spencer,D	LAD	.121
Stuart	Pit	7	Callison	Phi	.163	Hiller,C	SF	.119
Robinson,Fr	Cin	7	McCovey	SF	.156	McMillan	Mil	.118
Banks	ChC	7	McMillan	Mil	.146	Wills,M	LAD	.112
Boyer,K	StL	7	Mathews,E	Mil	.143	Bailey,E	SF	.110
Davis,T	LAD	7	Coleman,G	Cin	.143	Virdon	Pit	.109


Game-winning RBI			Current Hitting Streak			Longest Hitting Streak

Coleman,G	Cin	6	Flood	StL	10	White,B	StL	18
Howard,F	LAD	5	Mathews,E	Mil	9	Cunningham	StL	16
Clemente	Pit	5	Wills,M	LAD	9	Davenport	SF	14
Robinson,Fr	Cin	5	Boyer,K	StL	8	Mays	SF	13
Roseboro	LAD	4	Cardenas	Cin	6	Moon	LAD	13
Cunningham	StL	4	Landrum,D	StL	6	Clemente	Pit	12
Mathews,E	Mil	4	Kindall	ChC	5	Santo	ChC	12
Aaron	Mil	4	6 tied with		4	Flood	StL	10
Boyer,K	StL	4				Groat	Pit	10
14 tied with		3				Hiller,C	SF	10
						Javier	StL	10
						Mazeroski	Pit	10


Plate appearances vs LHP			Atbats vs LHP			Hits vs LHP

Robinson,Fr	Cin	69	Robinson,Fr	Cin	66	Freese,Ge	Cin	25
Pinson	Cin	68	Pinson	Cin	62	Mathews,E	Mil	24
Freese,Ge	Cin	64	Freese,Ge	Cin	60	Robinson,Fr	Cin	22
Post	Cin	62	Post	Cin	58	Groat	Pit	20
Coleman,G	Cin	59	Groat	Pit	57	Davenport	SF	19
Groat	Pit	59	Coleman,G	Cin	54	Davis,T	LAD	18
Clemente	Pit	58	Aaron	Mil	52	Cepeda	SF	18
Mathews,E	Mil	58	Clemente	Pit	52	Stuart	Pit	18
Zimmer	ChC	57	Banks	ChC	51	Clemente	Pit	17
Boyer,K	StL	56	Mathews,E	Mil	51	Pinson	Cin	17
Cunningham	StL	56	5 tied with		50	Pagan	SF	16
2 tied with		55				8 tied with		14


Batting average vs LHP			On-base percentage vs LHP			Slugging percentage vs LHP

Davenport	SF	.475	Mathews,E	Mil	.534	Herrera	Phi	.833
Mathews,E	Mil	.471	Davenport	SF	.523	Mathews,E	Mil	.824
Freese,Ge	Cin	.417	Freese,Ge	Cin	.453	Freese,Ge	Cin	.783
Davis,T	LAD	.400	Herrera	Phi	.450	Davenport	SF	.750
Pagan	SF	.400	Davis,T	LAD	.449	Stuart	Pit	.720
Herrera	Phi	.389	Pagan	SF	.442	White,B	StL	.667
Cepeda	SF	.360	Cunningham	StL	.436	Cepeda	SF	.660
Stuart	Pit	.360	Santo	ChC	.426	Davis,T	LAD	.622
Groat	Pit	.351	Stuart	Pit	.418	Robinson,Fr	Cin	.621
Robinson,Fr	Cin	.333	White,B	StL	.408	Groat	Pit	.579
Clemente	Pit	.327	Clemente	Pit	.379	Santo	ChC	.545
Kuenn	SF	.326	Groat	Pit	.373	Thomas,F	Mil	.532


On-base plus slugging vs LHP			Total bases vs LHP			Extra base hits vs LHP

Mathews,E	Mil	1.358	Freese,Ge	Cin	47	Freese,Ge	Cin	14
Herrera	Phi	1.283	Mathews,E	Mil	42	Stuart	Pit	10
Davenport	SF	1.273	Robinson,Fr	Cin	41	Robinson,Fr	Cin	10
Freese,Ge	Cin	1.236	Stuart	Pit	36	Herrera	Phi	8
Stuart	Pit	1.138	Cepeda	SF	33	White,B	StL	8
White,B	StL	1.075	Groat	Pit	33	Groat	Pit	8
Davis,T	LAD	1.071	Pinson	Cin	32	Pinson	Cin	8
Cepeda	SF	1.033	Herrera	Phi	30	Davenport	SF	7
Santo	ChC	.971	Davenport	SF	30	Cepeda	SF	7
Robinson,Fr	Cin	.969	James,C	StL	28	Mathews,E	Mil	7
Groat	Pit	.952	White,B	StL	28	4 tied with		6
Pagan	SF	.917	Davis,T	LAD	28


Doubles vs LHP			Triples vs LHP			Homeruns vs LHP

Freese,Ge	Cin	10	Robinson,Fr	Cin	5	Mathews,E	Mil	5
Davenport	SF	5	Wills,M	LAD	3	James,C	StL	4
Hoak	Pit	5	Smith,HR	StL	3	Herrera	Phi	4
Stuart	Pit	5	Pinson	Cin	3	Freese,Ge	Cin	4
Groat	Pit	5	Amalfitano	SF	2	Flood	StL	3
Herrera	Phi	4	Cepeda	SF	2	Howard,F	LAD	3
White,B	StL	4	Stuart	Pit	2	White,B	StL	3
Mays	SF	4	19 tied with		1	Cepeda	SF	3
Clemente	Pit	4				Stuart	Pit	3
7 tied with		3				Coleman,G	Cin	3
						16 tied with		2



Runs batted in vs LHP			Walks vs LHP			Strikeouts vs LHP

Mathews,E	Mil	15	Cunningham	StL	14	Mathews,E	Mil	18
Freese,Ge	Cin	12	Santo	ChC	10	Coleman,G	Cin	17
Robinson,Fr	Cin	12	Spencer,D	LAD	9	Williams,B	ChC	14
James,C	StL	11	Ashburn	ChC	7	Callison	Phi	14
Howard,F	LAD	10	Amaro	Phi	7	Cepeda	SF	13
White,B	StL	10	Williams,B	ChC	7	Post	Cin	13
Alou,F	SF	9	White,B	StL	7	Moon	LAD	11
Pinson	Cin	9	Hoak	Pit	7	Thomas,F	Mil	11
5 tied with		8	Boyer,K	StL	7	Stuart	Pit	11
			Mathews,E	Mil	7	Altman	ChC	10
			4 tied with		6	Bailey,E	SF	10
						Boyer,K	StL	10


Hit by pitch vs LHP			Sacrifice bunts vs LHP			Sacrifice flies vs LHP

Cunningham	StL	3	Green,D	Phi	2	Bouchee	ChC	2
Bailey,E	SF	2	Sanford	SF	2	Smith,B	Phi	2
Kasko	Cin	2	Craig	LAD	2	Alou,F	SF	2
Coleman,G	Cin	2	Friend	Pit	2	23 tied with		1
Chacon	Cin	1	Nottebart	Mil	2
Davis,W	LAD	1	Callison	Phi	2
Roach,M	ChC	1	Amalfitano	SF	2
Zimmerman	Cin	1	Bolling	Mil	2
DeMerit	Mil	1	Zimmer	ChC	2
Moon	LAD	1	26 tied with		1
Bolling	Mil	1



Plate appearances vs RHP			Atbats vs RHP			Hits vs RHP

Wills,M	LAD	155	Davis,T	LAD	139	Wills,M	LAD	49
Davis,T	LAD	149	Wills,M	LAD	132	Cunningham	StL	46
Davis,W	LAD	138	Davis,W	LAD	123	Mays	SF	43
Mays	SF	135	Mays	SF	121	Alou,F	SF	42
Cepeda	SF	132	Cepeda	SF	120	Cepeda	SF	40
Roseboro	LAD	132	Groat	Pit	118	Clemente	Pit	39
Boyer,K	StL	127	Boyer,K	StL	116	Moon	LAD	38
Hiller,C	SF	127	Alou,F	SF	115	Groat	Pit	37
Moon	LAD	127	Banks	ChC	114	Davis,T	LAD	37
Bolling	Mil	126	Bolling	Mil	113	Hiller,C	SF	35
3 tied with		125	Hiller,C	SF	110	Boyer,K	StL	35
			Spencer,D	LAD	109	Skinner	Pit	34


Batting average vs RHP			On-base percentage vs RHP			Slugging percentage vs RHP

Cunningham	StL	.442	Cunningham	StL	.525	Moon	LAD	.663
Clemente	Pit	.379	Moon	LAD	.480	Cunningham	StL	.615
Wills,M	LAD	.371	Wills,M	LAD	.458	Mays	SF	.612
Skinner	Pit	.370	Skinner	Pit	.448	Musial	StL	.608
Moon	LAD	.365	Bailey,E	SF	.430	Roseboro	LAD	.593
Alou,F	SF	.365	Santo	ChC	.424	Coleman,G	Cin	.582
Mays	SF	.355	Clemente	Pit	.419	Cepeda	SF	.567
Cepeda	SF	.333	Alou,F	SF	.416	Clemente	Pit	.544
Bailey,E	SF	.329	Roseboro	LAD	.409	Skinner	Pit	.543
Musial	StL	.329	Mays	SF	.407	McCovey	SF	.542
Hiller,C	SF	.318	Bouchee	ChC	.402	Boyer,K	StL	.534
Hoak	Pit	.315	Gonzalez	Phi	.398	Thomas,F	Mil	.530


On-base plus slugging vs RHP			Total bases vs RHP			Extra base hits vs RHP

Moon	LAD	1.144	Mays	SF	74	Moon	LAD	17
Cunningham	StL	1.140	Moon	LAD	69	Mays	SF	17
Mays	SF	1.019	Cepeda	SF	68	Cepeda	SF	16
Roseboro	LAD	1.002	Cunningham	StL	64	Aaron	Mil	15
Musial	StL	.994	Roseboro	LAD	64	Roseboro	LAD	15
Skinner	Pit	.991	Davis,T	LAD	64	Coleman,G	Cin	13
Clemente	Pit	.962	Boyer,K	StL	62	Boyer,K	StL	13
Coleman,G	Cin	.949	Wills,M	LAD	62	McCovey	SF	12
Cepeda	SF	.945	Alou,F	SF	60	Altman	ChC	11
Alou,F	SF	.938	McCovey	SF	58	Thomas,F	Mil	11
Wills,M	LAD	.928	Coleman,G	Cin	57	Gonzalez	Phi	11
Santo	ChC	.919	Clemente	Pit	56	Hiller,C	SF	11


Doubles vs RHP			Triples vs RHP			Homeruns vs RHP

Aaron	Mil	10	Moon	LAD	4	McCovey	SF	9
Mays	SF	10	Davenport	SF	3	Davis,T	LAD	9
Hiller,C	SF	9	Clemente	Pit	3	Roseboro	LAD	8
Cepeda	SF	9	Pinson	Cin	3	Altman	ChC	7
Moon	LAD	8	9 tied with		2	Coleman,G	Cin	7
Cardenas	Cin	7				Mays	SF	7
Gonzalez	Phi	7				Musial	StL	6
Davis,W	LAD	7				Thomas,F	Mil	6
Skinner	Pit	6				Robinson,Fr	Cin	6
Coleman,G	Cin	6				Boyer,K	StL	6
Mathews,E	Mil	6				6 tied with		5
9 tied with		5


Runs batted in vs RHP			Walks vs RHP			Strikeouts vs RHP

Musial	StL	29	Moon	LAD	22	Adcock	Mil	27
Davis,T	LAD	27	Roseboro	LAD	22	Herrera	Phi	24
Mays	SF	26	Wills,M	LAD	22	Boyer,K	StL	21
Moon	LAD	25	Santo	ChC	21	Davis,T	LAD	19
McCovey	SF	23	Mathews,E	Mil	19	Spencer,D	LAD	18
Boyer,K	StL	23	Bouchee	ChC	17	Cepeda	SF	18
Robinson,Fr	Cin	21	Virdon	Pit	17	Stuart	Pit	17
Alou,F	SF	20	Burgess	Pit	15	Thomas,F	Mil	17
Williams,B	ChC	19	Cunningham	StL	15	Mays	SF	17
Adcock	Mil	19	Gonzalez	Phi	14	Robinson,Fr	Cin	16
4 tied with		18	Hiller,C	SF	14	Banks	ChC	16
			2 tied with		13	Bolling	Mil	16


Hit by pitch vs RHP			Sacrifice bunts vs RHP			Sacrifice flies vs RHP

Sadowski,B	Phi	3	Bolling	Mil	8	Clemente	Pit	4
Cunningham	StL	3	Friend	Pit	5	Mazeroski	Pit	3
Kindall	ChC	2	Zimmer	ChC	5	Davis,T	LAD	3
Haller	SF	2	Craig	LAD	4	11 tied with		2
Dalrymple	Phi	2	Blasingame,D	Cin	4
Bailey,E	SF	2	Sanford	SF	3
Robinson,Fr	Cin	2	Mahaffey	Phi	3
Herrera	Phi	2	Schmidt,B	Cin	3
Aaron	Mil	2	McMillan	Mil	3
Cepeda	SF	2	Groat	Pit	3
Davis,W	LAD	2	15 tied with		2
30 tied with		1

League Batting Leaders -- National LeagueRegular season -- as of 5/31/1961

League Batting Leaders -- National League
Regular season -- as of 5/31/1961