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Ed Mierkowicz
	Edward Frank Mierkowicz
	(Butch,Mouse)

	Born: March 6, 1924 in Wyandotte, MI
	89 years old
	Bats: R	Throws: R	Ht: 6'4"	Wt: 205

Fielding Ratings(?)

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Notes:
- Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an Amateur Free Agent in 1944
- High School: Roosevelt (Wyandotte, MI)

Comparison

Left Fielders				All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time	Hall of Famers		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	HoF	Mil	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Stan Musial	1941 - 1963	LF	128.1	Pl	WW2	124.7	-9.3	0.0	-12.7
2	Ted Williams	1939 - 1960	LF	123.2	Pl	WW2/KOR	126.3	-13.3	0.0	-10.2
3	Joe Medwick	1932 - 1948	LF	55.5	Pl		51.0	-4.8	0.0	-9.3
4	Ralph Kiner	1946 - 1955	LF	49.4	Pl	WW2	54.3	-10.8	0.0	-5.9
5	Charlie Keller	1939 - 1952	LF	43.0		WW2	39.0	-0.8	0.0	-4.9
6	Augie Galan	1934 - 1949	LF	40.9			39.2	-3.9	0.0	-5.6
7	Sid Gordon	1941 - 1955	LF	38.3		WW2	38.8	-4.5	0.0	-4.0
8	Jeff Heath	1936 - 1949	LF	37.1			36.4	-5.5	0.0	-6.2
9	Gene Woodling	1943 - 1962	LF	32.7		WW2	33.7	-8.6	0.0	-7.5
10	Del Ennis	1946 - 1959	LF	31.2		WW2	36.6	-13.4	0.0	-8.0
11	Hank Sauer	1941 - 1959	LF	25.9		WW2	28.6	-8.1	0.0	-5.4
12	Danny Litwhiler	1940 - 1951	LF	19.3		WW2	17.7	-2.9	0.0	-4.5
13	Dale Mitchell	1946 - 1956	LF	19.1		WW2	17.5	-2.8	0.0	-4.4
14	Whitey Lockman	1945 - 1960	LF	17.6		WW2	17.6	-6.0	0.0	-6.0
15	Jim Russell	1942 - 1951	LF	17.0			16.2	-2.2	0.0	-3.0
16	Max West	1938 - 1948	LF	13.7		WW2	12.9	-2.7	0.0	-3.6
17	Dick Wakefield	1941 - 1952	LF	13.3		WW2	13.9	-3.6	0.0	-2.9
18	Peanuts Lowrey	1942 - 1955	LF	12.2		WW2	11.4	-1.8	0.0	-2.6
19	Bud Stewart	1941 - 1954	LF	5.3		WW2	5.3	-2.5	0.0	-2.5
20	Ralph Hodgin	1939 - 1948	LF	5.0		WW2	3.5	0.1	0.0	-1.4
21	Mike McCormick	1940 - 1951	LF	4.6		WW2	3.5	-0.9	0.0	-2.0
22	Pat Seerey	1943 - 1949	LF	4.3			5.2	-3.3	0.0	-2.4
23	Danny Gardella	1944 - 1950	LF	2.2			2.3	-0.7	0.0	-0.6
24	Gil Coan	1946 - 1956	LF	2.0			1.5	-2.8	0.0	-3.4
25	Luis Olmo	1943 - 1951	LF	1.8			4.8	-3.6	0.0	-0.7
26	Erv Dusak	1941 - 1952	LF	1.7		WW2	1.8	-0.8	0.1	-0.7
27	Steve Souchock	1946 - 1955	LF	1.7		WW2	2.2	-2.2	0.0	-1.7
28	Clyde Vollmer	1942 - 1954	LF	1.7		WW2	2.4	-2.6	0.0	-1.9
29	Russ Derry	1944 - 1949	LF	1.3			1.0	-0.2	0.0	-0.6
30	Clarence Maddern	1946 - 1951	LF	0.1		WW2	0.2	-0.4	0.0	-0.3
31	Cliff Aberson	1947 - 1949	LF	0.1		WW2	0.6	-0.7	0.0	-0.2
32	Jesse Levan	1947 - 1955	LF	0.0			-0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.0
33	Johnny Ostrowski	1943 - 1950	LF	-0.0			0.2	-0.7	0.0	-0.5
34	Ed Sauer	1943 - 1949	LF	-0.0			-0.0	-0.5	0.0	-0.5
35	Ben Guintini	1946 - 1950	LF	-0.2		WW2	-0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
36	Ed Mierkowicz	1945 - 1950	LF	-0.5			-0.5	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
37	Babe Martin	1944 - 1953	LF	-0.6		WW2	-1.1	0.1	0.0	-0.3
38	Jimmy Outlaw	1937 - 1949	LF	-0.8			0.3	-2.9	0.0	-1.8
39	Marv Rickert	1942 - 1950	LF	-0.9		WW2	-0.5	-1.8	0.0	-1.4
40	Steve Filipowicz	1944 - 1948	LF	-1.0		WW2	-0.6	-0.5	0.0	-0.2
41	Whitey Platt	1942 - 1949	LF	-2.3		WW2	-1.5	-1.9	0.0	-1.1

	Ed Mierkowicz	1945 - 1950	LF	-0.5			-0.5	-0.1	0.0	-0.1

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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James