1932 Chicago White Sox season

The 1932 Chicago White Sox season was the White Sox's 32nd season in the major leagues, and their 33rd season overall. They finished with a record of 49–102, good enough for seventh place in the American League, 56.5 games behind the first place New York Yankees. The 1932 season was their second worst ever.

Offseason

September 30, 1931: Carey Selph was drafted by the White Sox from the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1931 rule 5 draft.

Regular season

Notable transactions

April 27, 1932: Bruce Campbell and Bump Hadley were traded by the White Sox to the St. Louis Browns for Red Kress.
September 9, 1932: Chad Kimsey was purchased by the White Sox from the St. Louis Browns.
September 11, 1932: The White Sox traded players to be named later to the St. Louis Cardinals for Evar Swanson. The White Sox completed the deal by sending Carey Selph and Jack Rothrock to the Cardinals on November 2.
September 28, 1932: Al Simmons was purchased by the White Sox from the Philadelphia Athletics.

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Frank Grube	93	277	78	.282	0	31
1B	Lu Blue	112	373	93	.249	0	43
2B	Jackie Hayes	117	475	122	.257	2	54
SS	Luke Appling	139	489	134	.274	3	63
3B		116	396	112	.283	0	51
OF	Bob Seeds	116	434	126	.290	2	45
OF	Bob Fothergill	116	346	102	.295	7	50
OF	Liz Funk	122	440	114	.259	2	40

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
	135	515	147	.285	9	57
	93	307	97	.316	1	45
Charlie Berry	72	226	69	.305	4	31
Johnny Hodapp	68	176	40	.227	3	20
	39	64	12	.188	0	6
Charlie English	24	63	20	.317	1	8
	14	52	16	.308	0	8
Johnny Watwood	13	49	15	.306	0	0
Bill Norman	13	48	11	.229	0	2
Bill Cissell	12	43	11	.256	1	5
Smead Jolley	12	42	15	.357	0	7
Lew Fonseca	18	37	5	.135	0	6
Hal Anderson	9	32	8	.250	0	2
	7	18	4	.222	0	2
Fabian Kowalik	6	13	5	.385	0	2
Bennie Tate	4	10	1	.100	0	0
Mel Simons	7	5	0	.000	0	0
Greg Mulleavy	1	3	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Ted Lyons	33	230.2	10	15	3.28	58
	30	200.1	10	15	4.22	64
Milt Gaston	28	166.2	7	17	4.00	44
Vic Frazier	29	146.0	3	13	6.23	33
	4	20.1	0	2	8.41	7

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Paul Gregory	33	117.2	5	3	4.51	39
	19	64.2	2	6	6.82	13
Pete Daglia	12	50.0	2	4	5.76	16
Tommy Thomas	12	43.2	3	3	6.18	11
	12	41.1	0	5	4.57	11
Phil Gallivan	13	33.1	1	3	7.56	12
	6	24.2	1	1	6.93	1
	3	18.2	1	1	3.86	13
Fabian Kowalik	2	10.1	0	1	6.97	2
Art Smith	3	7.0	0	1	11.57	1

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Red Faber	42	2	11	5	3.74	26
Hal McKain	8	0	0	0	11.12	7
Art Evans	7	0	0	0	3.00	6
	7	1	1	2	2.45	6
	4	0	0	0	15.63	2
Clarence Fieber	3	1	0	0	1.69	1
	3	0	0	0	5.06	1
Archie Wise	2	0	0	0	4.91	2
Jim Moore	1	0	0	0	0.00	2
Lew Fonseca	1	0	0	0	0.00	0
Bob Poser	1	0	0	0	27.00	1