Newark Eagles Team History - Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

Newark Eagles


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Record:
390 - 326 - 12 (.545)

1 Negro League World Series Championship
1 League Championship

Top Hitter


Lennie
Pearson

Top Pitcher


Leon
Day

Leaders

Homeruns

# Player Years HR
1
Lennie Pearson
1937-1948
51
2
Mule Suttles
1936-1944
40
3
Monte Irvin
1938-1948
40
4
Johnny Davis
1940-1948
28
5
Ed Stone
1935-1943
27
6
Larry Doby
1942-1947
21
7
Willie Wells
1936-1945
13
8
Bob Harvey
1943-1948
9
9
Bus Clarkson
1940-1942
8
10
Fran Matthews
1938-1945
6

Games Started

# Player Years GS
1
Max Manning
1939-1948
84
2
Leniel Hooker
1940-1948
82
3
Leon Day
1935-1946
72
4
Jimmy Hill
1938-1945
52
5
Rufus Lewis
1946-1948
36
6
Terris McDuffie
1935-1945
28
7
Fred Hobgood
1941-1944
23
8
Bob Evans
1936-1939
23
9
Will Jackman
1935-1936
14
10
Cotton Williams
1945-1948
14


Wins Above Replacement

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Hall of Famers:

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Throws:

#
Player
Years Pos
PA
IP
WAR
Off
Fld
Pit
Adj
1
1942-1946
2B
713
8.4
7.6
0.5
0.0
0.2
2
1938-1946
SS
676
7.5
7.6
-0.2
0.0
0.0
3
1936-1944
1B
586
1.2
5.5
5.9
-0.3
0.1
-0.2
4
1935-1946
CF
207
190.0
5.4
0.9
-0.1
4.6
0.0
5
1936-1945
SS
681
0.2
5.2
4.2
0.6
0.0
0.4
6
1935-1943
RF
699
4.4
4.5
0.3
0.0
-0.3
7
1937-1946
1B
652
2.0
4.4
4.5
0.1
-0.1
-0.1
8
1936-1944
3B
666
3.7
3.1
0.5
0.0
0.1
9
1940-1946
LF
565
30.0
3.5
4.4
-0.2
-0.6
-0.1
10
1935-1945
P
115
257.2
3.1
-0.9
0.0
3.9
-0.0
11
1939-1946
P
104
234.1
3.0
-0.9
0.0
3.9
0.0
12
1938-1945
P
105
212.2
2.6
-0.6
0.0
3.2
0.0
13
1940-1946
P
97
229.2
1.5
-1.3
0.0
2.8
0.0
14
1940-1946
3B
616
0.8
0.8
-0.0
0.0
0.0
15
1935-1946
C
570
-1.3
-1.7
0.2
0.0
0.2

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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