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Seasons
Glossary
Year Top Team Leagues Top Position Player
WAR
Top Pitcher
WAR
NAL / ALC / NN2 / NLC / WS
Jim Gilliam
4.8
Jim LaMarque
3.7
NAL / NN2 / WS
Henry Kimbro
4.2
Max Manning
3.7
NAL / NN2 / WS
Larry Doby
3.5
Barney Brown
4.4
NAL / NN2 / WS / NvM
Roy Campanella
2.8
Roy Welmaker
4.6
NAL / NN2 / WS / IND
Buck Leonard
3.1
Satchel Paige
4.6
NAL / ALC / NN2 / WS / IND
Josh Gibson
7.1
Johnny Wright
8.1
NAL / NN2 / WS / IND
Bus Clarkson
3.1
Roy Partlow
4.0
NAL / NN2
Buck Leonard
3.5
Hilton Smith
3.9
NAL / NN2
Buck Leonard
2.6
Ray Brown
7.5
** = Negro League World Series Champion       * = League Champion      

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Playing statistics for 1887-1922 and 1926-1938, as well as all Cuban League games (1902-1928) and Negro League vs. Major League games (1887-1944), copyright 2011-2018 Gary Ashwill.

Playing statistics for 1923 (except Negro League vs. Major League games), copyright 2011-2018 Patrick Rock.

Playing statistics for 1933 and 1943, copyright 2013-2018 Scott Simkus.

Playing statistics for 1924-1925, 1939-1942, and 1944-1946 Negro Leagues (not including Cuban League and Negro League vs. Major League games), copyright 2011-2018 Larry Lester, Wayne Stivers, Gary Ashwill.


Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry

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