1946 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1946 Season


Negro National League II


1945 / 1947

Top Hitter


Tommy
Butts

Top Pitcher


Leon
Day

Leaders

Runs Batted In

# Player Team RBI
1
Lennie Pearson
NE
61
2
Monte Irvin
NE
54
3
Larry Doby
NE
52
4
Josh Gibson
HG
52
5
Doc Dennis
PS
50
6
Johnny Davis
NE
47
7
Buck Leonard
HG
44
8
Gene Benson
PS
38
9
Willie Wells
BEG/NBY
37
10
Bus Clarkson
PS
34

ERA

# Player Team ERA
1
Rufus Lewis
NE
1.97
2
Leon Day
NE
2.39
3
Luis Tiant
NYC
2.57
4
Wilmer Fields
HG
2.63
5
Barney Brown
PS
2.70
6
Max Manning
NE
2.84
7
Leniel Hooker
NE
3.05
8
Barney Morris
NYC
3.47
9
Bill Barnes
BEG
3.61
10
Henry McHenry
PS
3.65


Standings
Glossary

Negro National League II

vs NN2 vs All Teams
# Team
W
L
T
W%
GB
W
L
T
W%
R/G RA/G Managers Ballpark
1
50
20
2
.714
-
56
23
3
.709
6.6
4.4
Biz Mackey
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
2
34
31
2
.523
13.5
35
35
2
.500
4.6
4.9
José María Fernández
Polo Grounds (New York, NY), Yankee Stadium (Bronx, NY) (Queens, NY)
3
36
33
3
.522
13.5
45
37
3
.549
6.3
5.0
Vic Harris
Griffith Stadium (Washington, DC), Forbes Field (Pittsburgh, PA)
4
37
34
3
.521
13.5
41
34
3
.547
5.0
4.6
Felton Snow
Bugle Field (Baltimore, MD)
5
29
34
2
.460
17.5
31
35
4
.470
5.1
5.0
Goose Curry
44th & Parkside (Philadelphia, PA), Shibe Park (Philadelphia, PA)
6
12
46
0
.207
32.0
18
50
0
.265
3.1
6.8
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 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