{"id":26694,"date":"2013-12-11T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=26694"},"modified":"2013-12-11T10:37:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:37:31","slug":"negro-leagues-db-update-1927-28-cuban-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/11\/negro-leagues-db-update-1927-28-cuban-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Negro Leagues DB Update: 1927-28 Cuban League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine a last-place team with no fewer than three future Hall of Famers on its roster, all in their prime.  That’s the story of the Cuba Baseball Club<\/a> of the 1927\/28 Cuban Winter League<\/a>, which we’ve added to the DB.  Despite the efforts of Oscar Charleston<\/strong><\/a> (.350\/.481\/.567, a league-leading 32 walks in 34 games), Willie Foster<\/strong><\/a> (6-8, 3.17), and Judy Johnson<\/strong><\/a> (.333\/.375\/.439), the Cuba team finished deep in the cellar with a 12-21-1 record.<\/p>\n

Almendares<\/a> (17-15-1) put up more of a fight. Player-manager Adolfo Luque<\/strong><\/a> (6-4, a league-best 2.64 ERA) led an otherwise ordinary staff, but los Azules were able to send some decent hitters to the plate, including Dick Lundy<\/strong><\/a> (.346\/.365\/.496), Oliver Marcell<\/strong><\/a> (.339\/.398\/.424), and Chaney White<\/strong><\/a> (.367\/.398\/.422), all from the two-time Eastern Colored League champion Bacharach Giants.<\/p>\n

Still, they couldn’t quite match the champion Habana Leones<\/a> (20-13), led by MVP Martín Dihigo<\/strong><\/a>, who pitched (4-2, 3.10) and played outfield and first base while hitting .389\/.453\/.588 with a league-leading 14 doubles.   Left fielder Jud Wilson<\/strong><\/a> (.431\/.535\/.724) was far and away the league’s best hitter.  And Dihigo, along with Oscar Levis<\/strong><\/a> (7-2, 3.14) and Cliff Bell<\/strong><\/a> (6-2, 3.14), gave los Rojos a solid trio of pitchers.<\/p>\n

In the works for the DB: the 1935 & 1936 Negro leagues,  the 1926 Eastern Colored League, the 1923\/24 Cuban League, the Mexican League, the East-West All-Star Games, and more.<\/p>\n

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An unlucky trio: Willie Foster, Oscar Charleston, and Judy Johnson, the first two in their Cuba Baseball Club uniforms.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine a last-place team with no fewer than three future Hall of Famers on its roster, all in their prime.  That’s the story of the Cuba Baseball Club of the 1927\/28 Cuban Winter League, which we’ve added to the DB.  Despite the efforts of Oscar Charleston (.350\/.481\/.567, a league-leading 32 walks in 34 games), Willie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-negro-lgs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}