Newark Eagles Team History - Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

Newark Eagles


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Record:
390 - 327 - 12 (.544)

1 Negro League World Series Championship
1 League Championship

Top Hitter


Lennie
Pearson

Top Pitcher


Leon
Day

Leaders

Stolen Bases

# Player Years SB
1
Lennie Pearson
1937-1948
43
2
Monte Irvin
1938-1948
24
3
Larry Doby
1942-1947
19
4
Ed Stone
1935-1943
18
5
George Giles
1935-1935
12
6
Harry Williams
1935-1936
12
7
Murray Watkins
1942-1946
12
8
Johnny Davis
1940-1948
12
9
Fats Jenkins
1935-1935
11
10
Ray Dandridge
1936-1944
11

Wins

# Player Years W
1
Max Manning
1939-1948
55
2
Leon Day
1935-1946
45
3
Leniel Hooker
1940-1948
39
4
Jimmy Hill
1938-1945
30
5
Rufus Lewis
1946-1948
21
6
Terris McDuffie
1935-1945
16
7
Fred Hobgood
1941-1944
11
8
Bob Evans
1936-1939
9
9
Will Jackman
1935-1936
7
10
Cotton Williams
1945-1948
5


Wins Above Replacement

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Throws:

#
Player
Years Pos
PA
IP
WAR
Off
Fld
Pit
Adj
1
1942-1946
2B
713
8.9
7.7
0.5
0.0
0.6
2
1938-1946
SS
676
7.9
7.7
-0.2
0.0
0.3
3
1936-1945
SS
681
0.2
5.9
4.3
0.6
0.0
1.0
4
1935-1946
CF
207
190.0
5.6
1.4
-0.1
4.3
0.0
5
1936-1944
1B
586
1.2
5.2
6.0
-0.3
0.1
-0.6
6
1936-1944
3B
666
4.3
3.3
0.5
0.0
0.5
7
1937-1946
1B
652
2.0
4.2
4.7
0.1
-0.1
-0.5
8
1935-1943
RF
699
4.2
4.5
0.3
0.0
-0.6
9
1935-1945
P
115
257.2
4.0
-0.2
0.0
4.2
-0.0
10
1940-1946
LF
565
30.0
3.3
4.5
-0.2
-0.6
-0.4
11
1939-1946
P
104
234.1
3.1
-0.3
0.0
3.3
-0.0
12
1938-1945
P
105
212.2
2.9
-0.0
0.0
2.9
-0.0
13
1940-1946
P
97
229.2
1.9
-0.7
0.0
2.6
0.0
14
1940-1946
3B
616
1.0
0.9
-0.0
0.0
0.2
15
1935-1946
C
570
-1.0
-1.7
0.2
0.0
0.4

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All biographical data, copyright 2011-2018 Gary Ashwill.

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, 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