1948 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1948 Season


Negro American League


1947 / 1949

Top Hitter


Willard
Brown

Top Pitcher


Jim
LaMarque

Leaders

On Base %

# Player Team OBP
1
Artie Wilson
BBB
.507
2
Ed Steele
BBB
.480
3
Willard Brown
KCM
.476
4
Piper Davis
BBB
.439
5
Hank Thompson
KCM
.437
6
Sam Hairston
IC
.429
7
Johnie Scott
KCM
.402
8
Tom Cooper
KCM
.396
9
Joe Scott
BBB
.379
10
Earl Taborn
KCM
.372

ERA

# Player Team ERA
1
Ford Smith
KCM
2.43
2
Jimmie Newberry
BBB
2.55
3
Bill Powell
BBB
2.79
4
Jim LaMarque
KCM
2.97
5
Vibert Clarke
CBE
3.47
6
Jim Cohen
IC
3.47
7
Gene Richardson
KCM
3.89
8
Hilton Smith
KCM
3.96
9
Luis Cabrera
IC
4.09
10
Alonzo Perry
BBB
4.31


Standings
Glossary

Negro American League

vs NAL vs All Teams
# Team
W
L
T
W%
GB
W
L
T
W%
R/G RA/G Managers Ballpark
1
46
21
1
.687
3.0
51
27
1
.654
6.0
4.7
Piper Davis
Rickwood Field (Birmingham, AL)
2
61
30
2
.670
-
63
32
2
.663
6.8
4.8
Buck O'Neil
Blues Stadium (Kansas City, MO)
3
41
35
2
.539
12.5
42
38
3
.525
5.5
5.1
Alonzo Boone
League Park (Cleveland, OH)
4
32
50
3
.390
24.5
37
67
5
.356
4.5
5.9
Ramiro Ramírez, Buster Haywood
Victory Field (Indianapolis, IN)
5
27
47
0
.365
25.5
27
50
1
.351
4.5
5.5
Quincy Trouppe
Comiskey Park (Chicago, IL)
6
28
52
2
.350
27.5
29
53
2
.354
4.7
6.8
Larry Brown
Martin Park (Memphis, TN)
* = 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