1942 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1942 Season


Negro National League II


1941 / 1943

Top Hitter


Bus
Clarkson

Top Pitcher


Leon
Day

Leaders

Slugging %

# Player Team SLG
1
Lennie Pearson
NE/HG
.601
2
Bus Clarkson
MULT
.593
3
Josh Gibson
HG
.580
4
Bill Hoskins
BEG
.472
5
Ed Stone
NE/HG
.453
6
Wild Bill Wright
BEG
.441
7
Leon Day
NE/HG
.439
8
Willie Wells
NE
.436
9
Henry Spearman
BEG/PS
.429
10
Charlie Parks
NE
.413


Standings
Glossary

Negro National League II

vs NN2 vs Maj. Black Teams
# Team
W
L
T
W%
GB
W
L
T
W%
R/G RA/G Managers Ballpark
1
47
19
3
.712
-
64
23
3
.736
6.0
4.0
Vic Harris
Griffith Stadium (Washington, DC), Forbes Field (Pittsburgh, PA)
2
36
26
0
.581
9.0
38
29
0
.567
4.8
4.3
Felton Snow
Bugle Field (Baltimore, MD)
3
28
30
3
.483
15.0
36
33
3
.522
5.3
4.6
Willie Wells
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
4
26
30
2
.464
16.0
29
33
2
.468
5.4
5.8
Goose Curry
Penmar Park (Philadelphia, PA)
5
10
25
1
.286
21.5
14
28
2
.333
3.5
6.1
Tex Burnett
Yankee Stadium (Bronx, NY)
6
9
27
1
.250
23.0
13
30
1
.302
3.3
5.0
José María Fernández
Yankee Stadium (Bronx, NY)
* = League Champion      
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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