1946 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1946 Season


Negro National League II


1945 / 1947

Top Hitter


Tommy
Butts

Top Pitcher


Leon
Day

Leaders

Runs Scored

# Player Team R
1
Henry Kimbro
BEG
61
2
Larry Doby
NE
59
3
Lennie Pearson
NE
53
4
Monte Irvin
NE
52
5
Pat Patterson
NE
49
6
Frank Austin
PS
47
7
Tommy Butts
BEG
42
8
Johnny Davis
NE
42
9
Gene Benson
PS
40
10
Jerry Benjamin
HG
38


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
50
22
2
.694
-
56
25
3
.691
6.5
4.4
Biz Mackey
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
2
38
34
3
.528
12.0
43
35
3
.551
5.2
4.7
Felton Snow
Bugle Field (Baltimore, MD)
3
39
35
3
.527
12.0
52
39
4
.571
6.1
4.9
Vic Harris
Griffith Stadium (Washington, DC), Forbes Field (Pittsburgh, PA)
4
37
31
2
.544
11.0
37
37
2
.500
4.8
5.0
José María Fernández
Polo Grounds (New York, NY), Yankee Stadium (Bronx, NY) (Queens, NY)
5
31
36
2
.463
16.5
33
38
4
.465
5.0
4.8
Goose Curry
44th & Parkside (Philadelphia, PA), Shibe Park (Philadelphia, PA)
6
11
48
0
.186
32.5
17
52
0
.246
3.0
6.9
Marvin Barker
Yankee Stadium (Bronx, NY), Polo Grounds (New York, NY) (Queens, 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