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Chicago American Giants

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1439 - 1103 - 53 (.566)

2 Negro League World Series Championships
6 League Championships

Top Hitter

Cristóbal
Torriente

Top Pitcher

Willie
Foster

Leaders

Runs Scored

#	Player	Years	R
1	Jelly Gardner	1920-1930	454
2	Dave Malarcher	1920-1934	436
3	Bingo DeMoss	1913-1925	407
4	Jim Brown	1919-1937	389
5	Cristóbal Torriente	1919-1925	388
6	Pete Hill	1911-1918	285
7	Bobby Williams	1918-1928	262
8	Steel Arm Davis	1927-1935	262
9	Jesse Barber	1911-1919	254
10	Alex Radcliff	1927-1944	212

Wins

#	Player	Years	W
1	Willie Foster	1923-1937	119
2	Dick Whitworth	1915-1924	53
3	Tom Williams	1917-1924	53
4	George Harney	1923-1931	52
5	Tom Johnson	1914-1921	51
6	Willie Powell	1925-1933	46
7	Dave Brown	1919-1922	45
8	Willie Cornelius	1933-1946	45
9	Frank Wickware	1911-1920	34
10	Webster McDonald	1925-1929	31

Wins Above Replacement

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League:

#	Player	Years	Pos	PA	IP		WAR	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Willie Foster	1923-1937	P	691	1624.1		31.9	0.0	0.0	31.9	0.0
2	Cristóbal Torriente	1919-1925	CF	2029	116.2		29.1	27.3	3.4	0.0	-1.6
3	Jelly Gardner	1920-1930	RF	2780			18.6	14.7	6.3	0.0	-2.4
4	Pete Hill	1911-1918	CF	1585			18.5	16.0	3.7	0.0	-1.2
5	Dave Malarcher	1920-1934	3B	2864	2.0		17.9	11.4	4.1	0.1	2.2
6	Bingo DeMoss	1913-1925	2B	2381			17.4	7.9	8.4	0.0	1.1
7	Pythias Russ	1926-1929	SS	1203			13.9	10.9	1.4	0.0	1.6
8	Steel Arm Davis	1927-1935	RF	1742	12.2		13.8	16.9	-1.0	-0.2	-2.0
9	John Henry Lloyd	1914-1917	SS	801			12.4	8.1	2.8	0.0	1.5
10	Turkey Stearnes	1932-1938	CF	913			12.0	12.0	0.3	0.0	-0.3
11	Alex Radcliff	1927-1944	3B	1561	1.2		9.8	8.6	0.8	-0.4	0.8
12	Jim Brown	1919-1937	C	2807	0.2		9.8	11.5	-1.6	0.0	-0.2
13	Bill Francis	1914-1925	3B	1294			8.1	3.6	3.2	0.0	1.3
14	Dave Brown	1919-1922	P	211	501.0		8.1	-1.0	0.0	9.1	0.0
15	Willie Powell	1925-1933	P	253	615.0		7.9	-0.5	0.0	8.4	0.0
16	Tom Williams	1917-1924	P	235	635.1		7.8	-0.9	0.0	8.7	0.0
17	Jimmie Lyons	1921-1932	LF	881			7.7	4.8	3.8	0.0	-0.9
18	John Hines	1924-1934	RF	1451			7.5	7.1	0.6	0.0	-0.3
19	Jesse Barber	1911-1919	RF	1661			7.3	10.8	-2.6	0.0	-0.8
20	Bruce Petway	1911-1918	C	965			7.2	1.3	4.6	0.0	1.3
21	Juan Padrón	1916-1925	P	176	443.1		7.1	-0.6	0.0	7.7	0.0
22	John Beckwith	1922-1923	1B	563			6.5	5.8	0.8	0.0	0.0
23	Ted Trent	1934-1939	P	142	401.1		6.4	-1.0	0.0	7.4	0.0
24	Willie Wells	1929-1935	SS	610			6.3	3.9	1.5	0.0	0.9
25	Gentry Jessup	1941-1945	P	129	307.1		6.3	-0.1	0.0	6.4	0.0
26	Willie Cornelius	1933-1945	P	377	823.1		6.0	1.0	-0.2	5.3	0.0
27	Webster McDonald	1925-1929	P	174	403.1		6.0	-0.1	0.0	6.1	0.0
28	George Harney	1923-1931	P	340	799.1		5.7	0.3	-0.2	5.6	0.0
29	Bill Lindsay	1911-1914	CF	328	306.2		5.4	0.8	0.2	4.7	-0.2
30	Oscar Charleston	1919-1930	CF	204	9.0		5.2	3.7	1.3	0.3	-0.1
31	George Dixon	1917-1925	C	823			5.1	3.6	0.4	0.0	1.1
32	Nat Rogers	1927-1944	RF	689			4.6	5.5	-0.1	0.0	-0.8
33	Sandy Thompson	1926-1932	LF	1411			4.2	5.4	0.5	0.0	-1.7
34	Ed Rile	1922-1929	P	173	375.1		3.9	-0.1	-0.1	4.2	0.0
35	Dick Redding	1917-1917	P	60	153.2		3.9	0.3	0.0	3.6	0.0
36	Mule Suttles	1929-1935	1B	564	1.0		3.9	4.2	0.2	0.0	-0.5
37	Rube Curry	1926-1927	P	139	271.1		3.6	-0.3	-0.1	4.0	0.0
38	Bobby Williams	1918-1928	SS	2132			3.6	-0.6	0.6	0.0	3.6
39	Sanford Jackson	1926-1936	CF	1549			3.4	0.1	2.6	0.0	0.7
40	Johnny Smith	1943-1945	RF	297	17.2		3.3	1.3	1.6	0.8	-0.3
41	Bill Pierce	1911-1913	1B	353			3.1	2.2	1.0	0.0	0.0
42	Leroy Grant	1911-1924	1B	1796			3.0	5.6	-0.6	0.0	-2.0
43	Ed Young	1938-1943	1B	488			3.0	3.5	-0.2	0.0	-0.4
44	Dick Whitworth	1915-1924	P	268	655.2		2.8	0.3	0.0	2.5	0.0
45	George Sweatt	1926-1927	CF	766			2.8	3.2	0.0	0.0	-0.5
46	Andrew Payne	1911-1913	RF	335			2.7	1.4	1.8	0.0	-0.4
47	Frank Duncan	1911-1918	LF	1372			2.7	7.1	-2.6	0.0	-1.8
48	Bill McCall	1925-1925	P	49	119.0		2.5	-0.2	0.0	2.7	0.0
49	Hurley McNair	1915-1915	RF	247	9.1		2.5	1.9	1.0	0.0	-0.4
50	Larry Brown	1927-1935	C	524			2.5	2.2	-0.2	0.0	0.5
51	Judy Gans	1914-1920	LF	876	134.2		2.5	1.5	1.1	0.9	-1.1
52	Ralph Wyatt	1941-1945	SS	397			2.4	1.2	0.6	0.0	0.6
53	Jack Marshall	1931-1938	2B	946			2.3	2.2	-0.3	0.0	0.5
54	Lloyd Davenport	1943-1944	CF	241	5.0		2.2	1.5	0.7	0.1	0.0
55	Jesse Douglas	1944-1945	2B	219			2.2	2.2	-0.3	0.0	0.2
56	Yellow Horse Morris	1929-1930	P	73	169.1		2.1	0.3	0.0	1.8	0.0
57	Ted Bond	1937-1940	3B	278			2.0	1.2	0.7	0.0	0.1
58	James Bray	1925-1931	C	231			2.0	1.8	0.0	0.0	0.3
59	Rube Foster	1911-1917	P	231	377.1		2.0	1.0	0.3	0.7	0.0
60	Charles Dougherty	1911-1914	P	116	234.0		1.9	0.3	-0.2	1.8	0.0
61	Art Pennington	1941-1945	LF	488			1.8	3.1	-1.1	0.0	-0.1
62	Fred Hutchinson	1911-1915	SS	359			1.8	0.6	0.6	0.0	0.6
63	Horace Jenkins	1914-1915	LF	238	108.1		1.7	1.0	0.6	0.4	-0.2
64	Leroy Sutton	1942-1944	P	42	102.1		1.7	0.0	0.0	1.7	0.0
65	Cool Turner	1930-1932	SS	201			1.6	1.2	0.0	0.0	0.4
66	John Bissant	1939-1945	LF	424			1.6	1.9	0.1	0.0	-0.4
67	Steel Arm Johnny Taylor	1913-1913	P	11	32.2		1.6	-0.1	0.0	1.6	0.0
68	Rap Dixon	1930-1930	CF	130			1.5	1.4	0.1	0.0	-0.1
69	Charley Williams	1926-1931	2B	1678			1.4	0.4	-0.7	0.0	1.7
70	Mitchell Murray	1928-1930	C	302			1.4	0.8	0.3	0.0	0.3
71	José María Fernández	1930-1930	C	114			1.3	1.2	0.0	0.0	0.1
72	Bill Monroe	1911-1914	2B	608			1.2	0.5	0.7	0.0	0.0
73	Ted Radcliffe	1929-1943	C	120	27.2		1.2	0.2	0.2	0.7	0.1
74	Candy Jim Taylor	1912-1942	3B	342			1.2	1.2	-0.3	0.0	0.3
75	L. Davis	1924-1924	RF	96			1.2	1.0	0.3	0.0	-0.1
76	Sam Crawford	1913-1931	P	55	144.2		1.2	-0.2	0.0	1.4	0.0
77	Subby Byas	1932-1942	C	461			1.1	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.1
78	Joe Strong	1923-1923	P	13	32.1		1.1	0.0	0.0	1.2	0.0
79	Herman Dunlap	1936-1938	CF	329			1.1	1.1	0.2	0.0	-0.2
80	Pete Booker	1913-1914	C	155			1.0	0.0	0.8	0.0	0.2
81	Ernie Smith	1938-1942	LF	245			1.0	0.7	0.3	0.0	-0.1
82	Willie Ferrell	1941-1943	P	66	72.1		0.9	-0.2	0.0	1.2	0.0
83	Frank Duncan	1937-1940	C	73			0.9	0.8	0.1	0.0	0.1
84	Frank Wickware	1911-1920	P	252	628.1		0.9	-0.2	0.1	1.1	0.0
85	Rainey Bibbs	1938-1944	2B	115			0.9	0.2	0.6	0.0	0.1
86	Luther McDonald	1930-1935	P	85	203.1		0.9	-0.1	0.0	1.0	0.0
87	Robert Poindexter	1926-1929	P	27	72.0		0.8	-0.1	0.0	1.0	0.0
88	Lee Wade	1914-1914	P	42	103.0		0.8	0.1	0.0	0.8	0.0
89	Lefty Bowe	1939-1940	P	34	89.1		0.8	-0.3	0.0	1.0	0.0
90	Willie Simms	1937-1940	CF	315			0.6	1.5	-0.8	0.0	-0.1
91	Eddie Miller	1924-1930	SS	586	406.0		0.6	-0.4	0.0	0.6	0.4
92	Harry Bauchman	1915-1916	2B	421			0.6	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.0
93	Ben Taylor	1913-1914	1B	95			0.6	0.6	0.0	0.0	-0.1
94	Cool Papa Bell	1929-1942	CF	153			0.6	0.7	0.0	0.0	-0.1
95	Joe Hewitt	1924-1924	2B	142			0.6	0.7	-0.2	0.0	0.1
96	George Minor	1944-1944	CF	41			0.5	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.0
97	Bill Gatewood	1912-1915	P	143	265.0		0.5	0.1	-0.1	0.5	0.0
98	Bill Charter	1943-1945	1B	93			0.5	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0
99	Steel Arm Tyler	1926-1926	P	27	35.1		0.5	-0.2	-0.2	0.9	0.0
100	K. B. Ivory	1936-1937	1B	18	9.0		0.5	-0.1	0.0	0.6	0.0

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