1939 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1939 Season


East-West All Star Games


1938 / 1940

Top Hitter


Neil
Robinson

Top Pitcher


Leon
Day

Leaders

Slugging %

# Player Team SLG
1
Neil Robinson
WES
1.286
2
Wild Bill Wright
EAS
.667
3
Dan Wilson
WES
.625
4
Josh Gibson
EAS
.600
5
Willie Wells
EAS
.429
6
Buck Leonard
EAS
.286
7
Alex Radcliff
WES
.250
8
Sammy Hughes
EAS
.200
9
Ted Strong
WES
.167
10
Pat Patterson
EAS
.111

ERA+

# Player Team ERA+
1
Bill Byrd
EAS
259
2
Jimmy Johnson
WES
189
3
Theolic Smith
WES
155
4
Hilton Smith
WES
77
5
Terris McDuffie
EAS
74
6
Leon Day
EAS
0
7
Ted Radcliffe
WES
0


Standings
Glossary

East-West All Star Games

vs All Teams
# Team
W
L
T
W%
GB
R/G RA/G Managers Ballpark
1
1
1
0
.500
-
6.0
3.0
George Scales
Yankee Stadium (New York, NY)
2
1
1
0
.500
-
3.0
6.0
George Mitchell, Oscar Charleston
Comiskey Park (Chicago, IL)



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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, 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