Newark Eagles Team History - Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

Newark Eagles


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Record:
487 - 408 - 16 (.544)

1 Negro League World Series Championship
1 League Championship

Top Hitter


Lennie
Pearson

Top Pitcher


Leon
Day

Leaders

Runs Scored

# Player Years R
1
Lennie Pearson
1937-1948
334
2
Monte Irvin
1938-1948
216
3
Ed Stone
1935-1943
201
4
Johnny Davis
1940-1948
158
5
Willie Wells
1936-1945
155
6
Mule Suttles
1936-1944
146
7
Larry Doby
1942-1947
127
8
Jimmy Wilkes
1945-1948
114
9
Bob Harvey
1943-1948
113
10
Ray Dandridge
1936-1944
99

Wins

# Player Years W
1
Max Manning
1939-1948
56
2
Leon Day
1935-1946
49
3
Leniel Hooker
1940-1948
40
4
Jimmy Hill
1938-1945
30
5
Rufus Lewis
1946-1948
22
6
Terris McDuffie
1935-1945
16
7
Fred Hobgood
1941-1944
11
8
Bob Evans
1936-1939
10
9
Will Jackman
1935-1936
7
10
Cotton Williams
1943-1948
6


Teams
Year
Team Lg
Rank
W
L
T
W%
LG
WS
Manager
Ballpark
NN2
3
33
32
3
.508
William Bell
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
3
53
42
1
.558
Biz Mackey
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
1
56
23
3
.709
✔
✔
Biz Mackey
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
WS
1
4
3
0
.571
Biz Mackey
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
2
29
23
0
.558
Willie Wells, Biz Mackey
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
5
32
35
0
.478
Mule Suttles
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
3
26
32
0
.448
Mule Suttles
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
3
36
33
3
.522
Willie Wells
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
3
30
25
1
.545
Biz Mackey
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
3
26
22
1
.542
Dick Lundy, Biz Mackey
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
2
42
22
1
.656
Dick Lundy
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NLP
4
1
3
0
.250
Dick Lundy
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
5
24
30
0
.444
Abe Manley, Dick Lundy
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
2
36
21
2
.632
Tex Burnett, Dick Lundy
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
6
27
31
1
.466
William Bell, Abe Manley
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
NN2
5
32
31
0
.508
Ben Taylor, George Giles
Ebbets Field (Brooklyn, NY)
14
1
487
408
16
.544
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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