1944 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1944 Season


Negro National League II


1943 / 1945

Top Hitter


Buck
Leonard

Top Pitcher


Bill
Ricks

Leaders

Runs Batted In

# Player Team RBI
1
Marvin Williams
PS
50
2
Josh Gibson
HG
49
3
Dave Hoskins
HG
41
4
Buck Leonard
HG
39
5
Henry Spearman
PS
36
6
Jim West
PS
33
7
Gene Benson
PS
32
8
Jerry Benjamin
HG
31
9
Ed Stone
PS
31
10
Sam Bankhead
HG
28

K/BB

# Player Team SO/BB
1
Bill Byrd
BEG/PS
3.41
2
Tom Glover
BEG
3.38
3
Luis Tiant
NYC
2.75
4
Ray Brown
HG
2.17
5
Barney Brown
PS
2.10
6
Bill Ricks
PS
1.94
7
Henry Miller
PS
1.89
8
Dave Barnhill
NYC
1.89
9
Terris McDuffie
NBY/NE
1.84
10
Ule Mahoney
PS
1.73


Standings
Glossary

Negro National League II

vs NN2 vs Maj. Black Teams
# Team
W
L
T
W%
GB
W
L
T
W%
R/G RA/G Managers Ballpark
1
48
24
3
.667
-
65
30
3
.684
6.6
4.7
Candy Jim Taylor
Griffith Stadium (Washington, DC), Forbes Field (Pittsburgh, PA)
2
31
21
2
.596
7.0
48
27
2
.640
5.5
4.1
José María Fernández
Polo Grounds (New York, NY), Yankee Stadium (Bronx, NY) (Brooklyn, NY)
3
31
27
1
.534
10.0
38
29
1
.567
6.1
4.9
Goose Curry
Penmar Park (Philadelphia, PA)
4
34
38
0
.472
14.0
41
41
0
.500
5.2
4.7
Felton Snow
Bugle Field (Baltimore, MD)
5
27
36
0
.429
16.5
33
36
0
.478
5.0
5.8
Mule Suttles
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
6
7
32
0
.179
24.5
9
37
0
.196
3.2
7.1
Harry Williams
Yankee Stadium (Bronx, NY), Polo Grounds (New York, NY)
* = League Champion      1 = First Half Champion      2 = Second Half 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, 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